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  1. illinoisredsox
    Baseball’s weird. Bob Uecker hit .429 against Sandy Koufax in over 50 ABs. He hit like .200 overall.
  2. illinoisredsox
    Carew couldn’t do it. Gwynn couldn’t do it. Brett couldn’t do. Arraez won’t either.
  3. illinoisredsox
    Per some here (not you), that’s a sure sign of lousy pitching. Three shots like Duvall’s is a sign of good pitching.
  4. illinoisredsox
    Duvall at least seems to be out of the miserable part of his slump. 3-4 hard hits balls the last couple games.
  5. illinoisredsox
    Exactly. Alcantra won the NL Cy Young last year; he’s had a rough year so far, but he still can be nasty.
  6. illinoisredsox
    This may be one of those 8 starts Mussina talked about where a pitcher has nothing.
  7. illinoisredsox
    Scott's irrelevant; he's not on the 40 man. DFAing him means nothing. Not sure why they obtained him to begin with, but that's a different discussion.
  8. illinoisredsox
    Devers has been in a slump since the beginning of last August. His slash for that timeframe is .244/.317/.444/.761 in 129 games. His career numbers are .279/.339/.509/.848 in 764 games, and those numbers are being dragged down by the last 5 months. He's had times in the past where he slumps trying to do to much, but this year especially, it looks like he's trying to hit an 8 run 500 foot homer every time up. I hope the plate discipline he showed this weekend will continue; it will be better for him and the club.
  9. illinoisredsox
    Looked to me like Sheets was about 45-60 feet from home as Casas caught the ball. I thought he had a shot, though it would have taken a virtually perfect throw and tag (so it probably would not have happened). White Sox tv crew said he may have had a shot as well. Reasonable people can disagree here. But you are correct. Casas’ real screwup was on Benintendi. That was a play I learned as a first time first baseman when I was a 12 year old Little Leaguer and further instilled through Babe Ruth, high school and Legion ball (well maybe not so much there; I didn’t play much at that point). A major leaguer should not be messing that up.
  10. illinoisredsox
    Geez, chill out. If you can cherry pick a 2 week stretch (which you did), don't be pissed off when someone else does the same thing.
  11. illinoisredsox
    Well, since I have to leave for a while, the answer to the trivia question of who was the last MLB player to not wear a helmet is the guy who backed up Pudge Fisk Bob Montgomery
  12. illinoisredsox
    Strike two call was criminal. Strike 3 was at least just off the edge.
  13. illinoisredsox
    He absolutely had a play at home. Was anyone telling him where to go with the ball? When I was a kid, the catcher would have that duty. Say nothing, the throw goes through. Cut two, cut three, cut four meant cut the ball of and throw to second, third or home respectively. Cut hold meant just cut the ball off. We didn’t use cut home because it sounded to much like hold.
  14. illinoisredsox
    Mostly the last couple innings once his pitch count got up over 60-65. Territory he hasn’t been in this year.
  15. illinoisredsox
    What are you talking about; there are lots of current Bosox players haunting this team.
  16. illinoisredsox
    More bad D. Casas screws up twice on that play. He had a play at the plate. He had Benintendi dead to rights if he throws to 3rd. He got neither.
  17. illinoisredsox
    Final hint: This player was a Red Sox back-up catcher
  18. illinoisredsox
    Especially since it clearly strike 3
  19. illinoisredsox
    Neither of those is correct, although the Hawk reference reminded me that this player did do some broadcasting.
  20. illinoisredsox
    Second hint: this player had connections to the Red Sox
  21. illinoisredsox
    incorrect Helping hint: MLB made helmets mandatory for all new players in 1971. Veterans were grandfathered in and were not required to, although most did.
  22. illinoisredsox
    Trivia question: Who was the last major league player to not wear a helmet? (No fair looking it up)
  23. illinoisredsox
    Got him in the hand, but your statement still stands.
  24. illinoisredsox
    At the very least, he needed to hit it hard somewhere. Maybe it gets caught, maybe it doesn’t, but those were the same swings we’ve seen for a couple years. He’s had ample opportunity to do something; he’s failed.
  25. illinoisredsox
    True; main difference is homers. White Sox have 35 over the last 4 weeks (20 over the last 2 weeks). Red Sox are at 23 and 13.
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