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Surprise! Surprise! It’s on! https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/06/mlb-annnounces-2020-season.html
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I have not been to Fenway since Mookie's career started, but how is he treated by fans? I know most fans absolutely LOVE him, but anyone ever hear or hear about epithets in his direction? I was wondering in light of the news about Torii hunter and Adam Jones, and what we all knew about Carl Crawford and what someone (you?) said about Jim Rice on another thread. Anyone ever hear fans saying anything derogatory about Betts? If anything like that ever happened to Betts, it obviously would make him coming back a pure fantasy, season or not...
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And the players voted against the proposal. Looking more and more like no abbreviated season...
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One bad thing about no season - it guarantees Mookie does not return. Mookie gets his year of service time and becomes a free agent regardless of actual play. But with no season, the Sox cannot reset, which kills any chance to bring Mookie back And then there’s the Dodgers, unlikely to let Mookie walk without ever donning a uniform. Although signing him could have ramifications on their ability to retain a couple of their own stars...
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There is no way they can guarantee that. An outbreak within a single clubhouse could easily end the season prematurely...
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Even if a season starts, how likely is it to end?
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Outside of maybe agriculture and medicine, doesn’t that apply to everything? The human race survived for a couple million years before they figured out how to take advantage of the fact that round things roll. Let’s not pretend arts and athletics are the only luxuries we have...
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That description seems more fitting for football/rugby...
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Ah but golfers do wear better pants than cricketeers..,
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I can explain cricket so you’ll understand. A team consists of several very well dressed players headlined by one called a “bowler”. The bowler is like a pitcher Before he bowls/pitches, quickly change the channel and watch baseball. Or any sport not played by people wearing sweaters...
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Well, he’s already dead inside...
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That’s because matches take days!!!! It’s the only sport where - and I am not making this up - the players break for tea!
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MISL (Major indoor soccer league) basically played in a hockey rink with a smaller net. The walls were in play and the pace was much much faster than NASL and FIFA leagues. The league disbanded in 1992. Boston did not have a team...
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That’s the basic strategy before high school...
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I was trying to find some players who played both sports. While Bogaerts is an avid soccer player and Derek Jeter was apparently a high school soccer star, I’m actually very surprised not many players played both sports at college level or higher. (There’s probably a glut of people who played both and went professional in neither.) Preliminary research shows the only two MLB players who were also notable soccer players were Damaso Garcia and former Sox outfielder Curtis Pride. Also noteworthy, Ryan Braun has claimed he could have played professional soccer...
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And crazy good eyesight
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Actually, they probably can for some activities. I bet most soccer players cannot throw a baseball their hardest (or, 90% of their hardest) 100+ times without having problems. Even swinging a bat your hardest 50 times is surprisingly grueling, but players do it in BP all the time...
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It might have been a bad deal, but the owners would all be billionaires with or without baseball. I do side with the players more often than not, but at some point that fact does become inevitable...
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I actually find myself siding with the players over the owners on this issue, but at some point the players really do need to acknowledge that they need the owners more than the owners need them...
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The big hold up is over 10 games...
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I was a strong runner then. I did over 1.25 miles in 6 minutes. And honestly, no one was pushing me...
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Our soccer coach made us do a 6 minute run one year. Most of the team did get at least one mile in that time...
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“Only four guys made the team that year...”
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Soccer can be physical, but it is sometimes a surpringly slow-paced game in other countries. A big part of the reason is it’s like baseball in that any player taken out of the game cannot go back in. I played high school soccer, and we did not have that rule. So as a result, the game was much faster paced. (Also our skill level was such that a European-style controlled attack was above our level by a few miles..)
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Oh yeah. I guess they are free agents and not draft picks. This small draft class has confused me a bit...
