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  1. illinoisredsox
    Day of rest? You are aware Raffy got hit on the wrist in the 8th yesterday and is having X-rays taken. Let’s hope that today and maybe tomorrow are the only days he misses.
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    So far as I can tell, Mookie has never mentioned specific numbers. He very carefully said the Red Sox didn’t make that offer. If it was $295M for 10 years or $300M for 11 years, he would be telling the truth. I’m usually on the players side on these things, but I think Mookie is being coy here. He was determined to go to free agency and he did. I don’t think he was going to accept any offer before that happened.
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    Who would you put in? Seriously. Llovera? Edit - who would you have put in?
  4. illinoisredsox
    Those teams have come at the expense of rec ball and Little League though. When my sons were involved 20-25 years ago, every school in our town had a grade based team and sometimes 2. Those are gone. The local Little League had American and National charters with 6 teams each. The town next to used to have 3 Little Leagues. These are towns of 35000-45000 people. Now, our Little League is down to one charter. The neighboring town ended up having to merge with another league just to have enough kids for 4 teams between them. Other town’s Little Leagues are just gone period. Kids who want to play have to go travel ball or they just don’t play. For the kid who wants to do nothing else, travel teams are fine. The kid who just wants to play for fun has nothing. Seems to me that it’s a mixed bag.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Your d-money impression needs work. I don’t recall him using profanity.
  6. illinoisredsox
    Tune back out.
  7. illinoisredsox
    He only played in 20 games for Milwaukee this year; anyone can have a bad 20 games. He hit 23 homers for the Brew Crew in 2021 and followed that up with 16 last year. He’s never going yo be a high average hitter, but he’s better than the .150 whatever it was in Milwaukee this season.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Need some length out of Bello today. Pen is in tough shape today; Martin and Jansen aren’t available. Pivetta is ptobsbly slated for either the start or the bill man tomorrow.
  9. illinoisredsox
    I just watched it again. It really looked like Wong ran into the hitter on purpose. He never moved towards the ball. He never even looked at it. The hitter knew he had fouled it back and moved into fair territory. Wong went out and ran into him. In the NFL, Wong would have been flagged for either clipping or a block below the waist.
  10. illinoisredsox
    I saw that too. OTOH, if you’re going to mess up outs, better to take the under.
  11. illinoisredsox
    We seem to have a Tellarite among us. “Tellarites do not argue for a reason. They simply argue." (From the original Star Trek)
  12. illinoisredsox
    Unless Bloom is fired right after the season, I think Cora will be gone one way or the other. Either Bloom will fire him or Cora will resign. They are definitely not on the same page as far as the team is concerned.
  13. illinoisredsox
    Brasier is doing quite well for the Dodgers (1.11 ERA and 0.740 WHIP in 24 games and 24 innings in LA).
  14. illinoisredsox
    The home plate umpire sent him to bed without supper.
  15. illinoisredsox
    I agree. The max effort thing is a big deal. Guys back in the day didn't max out every pitch. Nolan Ryan could throw 103+, but he only did that when he needed to ramp it up, a few times a game. It wasn't every fastball he threw. Ditto most successful pitchers back then. Too much breaking stuff too early as well. A kid with the talent to make it to the majors doesn't need a breaking ball as a 12 year old, and he sure as heck doesn't need a slider as high schooler. Plus to try and throw that hard, kids develop all sorts of bad fundamentals. Ryan was a scientific miracle, but he also had flawless mechanics. You what happens to the guys who can actually hit those kids a bit? They are the guys who get drafted. This is a huge reason.
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    There were plenty of arm problems back then; we just didn't know about them. Guys just disappeared. We tend to remember the Gibsons, Marichals and Seavers who seemingly pitched forever. But as great as Koufax was, he was done at age 30 due to an arthritic elbow. When Bruce Suter had his arm go out at the end of his long career, people kept saying how sorry they were for him. He said one of the classiest things I've ever heard. He said something to the effect of don't feel sorry for me, I had 15 great years (or whatever it was). Feel sorry for the kid in A ball who blew his arm out and will never get a shot.
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    Both. Either Verdugo isn’t yelling loud enough when calling him off or Urias ain’t listening.
  18. illinoisredsox
    It goes against Verdugo, but Urias caused it by not getting out of the way.
  19. illinoisredsox
    Second time tonight Urias has caused a problem on a pop up to short right.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Definitely. Killer was Casas’ AB, a pop upmlike that on a 2 strike pitch is understandable. It’s not acceptable on a 0-0 pitch.
  21. illinoisredsox
    I have to say, the guy behind the plate has been very good tonight. Perhaps a couple of missed calls, but those were borderline; certainly nothing egregious like yesterday.
  22. illinoisredsox
    The thing is, he’s got good stuff, and for whatever reason, once he got to the set position tonight, his stuff got better.
  23. illinoisredsox
    They’ve scored most of their runs this whole trip on homers. That’s generally not sustainable.
  24. illinoisredsox
    This will be the last hitter he faces.
  25. illinoisredsox
    It will speed up once the pens are in, which should start in the bottom of this inning.
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