S5Dewey

Because if you think it's unfair and remain quiet about it you're perpetuating the status-quo. Nothing gets changed unless someone complains about it. Do you think women got the right to vote after no one complained about their not being able to vote ? Do you think slavery was abolished after no one complained about it? Those are extreme examples but it happens every day in real life that things get changed because people complained about the status quo and other people picked up the cause until the change was made.

Partly true. There are two Jackos posting here. One is rational and contributes a lot of useful information to the site. The other one is an outright Yankees troll who seizes every opportunity to point out anything derogatory, negative, or otherwise questionable about the Red Sox. He just posts enough good stuff to get a pass on the trolling stuff.

I'm with you here, Kimmi. In reading the article from the link I see very few people defending the surgeries who don't have some kind of a vested interest in their position.

I'm neither a doctor or a lawyer but this looks pretty straight-forward to me. Syndergaard's surgery falls into the category of being prohibited.

But if the economy has collapsed and Mookie signs here for 6/90 then ticket prices will go down..... won't they?

If you don't want to go to the games you might want to head over to the fields in the morning during the few weeks before the games start. You can watch the drills and workouts as well as see many prospects, all for free!

To answer your question, probably not, but I don't think that's even in the cards now. The Sox have already made provisions for crediting any unplayed games toward the cost of next year's tickets.

The roboumps will be programmed to respond differently to G. Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television". Certain words will require an immediate ejection while other "tamer" words will have to be repeated within a certain number of seconds to force the roboump to make the ejection.

Do they ever lose sight of the ball? As someone who was a guest announcer on a NESN broadcast explained it, umpires are trained to set up over the shoulder of the catcher nearest the batter. When they do that they are looking almost straight down on that edge of the plate so they can see if the inside fastball covers the plate. Here's what they can't see: They can't see whether a curve ball catches a front corner of the inside of the plate because they're not looking straight down at it. It's 2-3 feet in front of them and the ball is 18" or more off the ground so they're forced to make a judgement as to whether the ball crossed the plate. They can't see anything on the outside of the plate - even a fastball for the same reason - they're looking at it at an angle rather than straight down. Given all the guesswork involved IMO the umpires usually do a pretty good job. I just wish they would do better.

Apropos absolutely nothing, the Sox have unveiled a new logo for COVID-19 reminding all of us to keep a distance from one another. https://twitter.com/hashtag/NewSociallyDistantProfilePic?src=hashtag_click

Phew! Thanks, Bell. This means that I can stop searching my posts over and over looking for my error!

"I know that I’m going to get criticized for taking care of these kinds of guys, but it’s essential to their livelihoods," Dr. Neal ElAttrache told the San Francisco Chronicle' Um..yeah. What a bunch of spin. There's a difference between hospital care being "essential to the livelihoods" of someone who's already a multi-millionaire and essential to *living* of those who are sick. I'm not sure who the bigger culprit is here. Is it the team for insisting that the surgery happen ASAP? Is it the athlete? Or is is the doctor for trying to justify it? This is one of those situations when the good Dr. should have kept his mouth shut rather than trying to justify something that isn't justifiable.

This brings up something I've wondered about at times - the demographics of posters here. I'll start the ball rolling, others can chip in if they wish with as much or little info as they choose. I'm 72, male, retired, and live in Maine. Sox fan all my life.

You and Carlos Gonzalez, who said of the situation “If Chris Sale wants to pitch shirtless, we play without shirts.” Exactly. It's a cycle. Teams need leaders. Leaders get to be leaders by standing up for the team. When the team sees who will stand up for them he becomes the leader and the team follows him because he stands up for them. The best boss I ever had was like that. He was tough and fair but we also knew that if our backs were against the wall he'd do everything he could for us - and we would for him.

That's about the worst look possible.

Good to have you back again DGale.

I don't think they're misleading at all. IMO the fans expect perfection from the umpires and the K-Zone demonstrates the umpire's imperfection - but that's on the fans and not the umpires. I find the K-Zone to be a two-edges sword in that while I want to know if a pitch is actually a ball or a strike at the same time I don't want to use that knowledge to discredit the umpire. At the same time there are some umpires whom I believe would be removed from their jobs for failure to meet reasonable standards if they were employed in the real world.

It's been my experience that the most recent incident is almost never the driving factor in showing discontent. IMO cutting up the uni's was the culmination of other things in the clubhouse and from above, many that we don't know about. The one that comes to mind immediately was the issue with LaRouche and his kid in the clubhouse but there were probably others too. An isolated incident seldom provokes a reaction like Sale had. I have no personal knowledge of the situation but if that's so then while what Sale did may have been childish and petulant at the same time he's the kind of guy I want on my team. It just could be that he made a statement and stood up for his teammates in doing it.

Ahhhh yes. This is the way opinions get changed, by spewing something starting with the word "if". Suddenly the "if" becomes "possibly", then it elevates to "probably" as it gets more discussion, and ends up as a certainty. Here's the first thing that should be asked: WAS he supposed to pitch that day? If so your position may have have some credibility. If not it automatically has none.

Me too.

This sounds like you're making a case for Sale to be our closer. That in itself may be a laudable goal but in order for a closer to be valuable the team has to be able to put him in a position to close it out. I don't see our team and current pitching staff being able to do that. IMO we NEED for him to come back as a starter. Unless he can do that he has little value to the team and it'll be another albatross contract.

Nobody tells her how they end, ok?🙂

Should we be asking how YOU learned about this??

From Tuesday's game... I've long been a Brian Johnson fan but I'm coming to the realization that he's not going to get the job done. Giving up 2 runs in the first inning and the best pitch being an 84 mph curve isn't going to cut it in MLB. However, considering the shape of our pitching staff he still may stick with the team to be used on days when we don't want to use an 'opener'. The Sox squandered a bases-loaded nobody out situation in the second with three balls hit into the air. Ugh. Here's an oddity: Devers had four consecutive chances over the first two innings to turn a 5-6-3 double play. The team was successful in two of them. Going into yesterday's game JBJ had gotten a hit in each of the last 5 games for a .417 avg. IIRC he failed to get a hit on Tuesday, but his first out was a fly ball deep down the left field line. Yes, I said left field. Going to left field doesn't always work but it works better than what he's been doing! Barnes looked strong garnering 3 K's in his only inning. Cards hitters looked overmatched against him. Robinson Leyer came in to pitch the 9th and left fans wondering who this guy is and why they haven't heard of him before. He's got good stuff but needs to be able to control it. If he can improve his minor league K/BB rate he's a guy who could help the team. The Sox continue to insist that they've sold out every ST game played at jetBlue. As I sit in my seat behind home plate and look around the park I'm amazed at how many people are wearing t-shirts made to look like empty seats.

Does a player under contract to a team have the right to refuse medical treatment for a condition that was incurred in playing the sport that would allow ownership the potential to recover their investment in the player? That would be an interesting court case.