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  1. S5Dewey
    Beni is the man!!
  2. S5Dewey
    If that had been Machado running to first base he'd have stepped on Moreland's hand. And then said, Who, me??
  3. S5Dewey
    And BTW, I like these extra inning games a lot better when they're played in Fenway.
  4. S5Dewey
    C'mon Jackie... get one out of that place.
  5. S5Dewey
    Ehhhh....I think you're being unduly tough on Farrell for this one. IMO there's something to be said for using your head in situations and I don't want Farrell burning through his good relievers in a game that's probably going to be a loss anyway. Once in a while doing what Farrell did tonight will come back and bite you on the ass but on the whole I have no issue with it.
  6. S5Dewey
    I'm not sure I'd want that 550 in a contract though.
  7. S5Dewey
    I want to say right now that Boy, I hate this Orioles team, almost as much as I hate the Yankees. I'd probably hate the O's more were it not for the tradition of Yankee hating. I hate that f***in Showalter just for being a general douche and I hate f***ing cheap-shot Machado even more. I'll be a lot older than I am now before I believe his slide into Pedey wasn't intentional.... and how many games has not having Pedey cost us????
  8. S5Dewey
    It's pretty hard not to agree with that, especially given where Price is now, but the timing was the important thing there. The Sox picked up Price at a time when they were desperate for a #1 and Price had them over a barrel. I'm fairly confident that had DD known Sale was going to be available he'd have done things differently. I'd still rather have Sale than Quintana or Gray. I'd take Quintana AND Gray over Sale but when we picked up Sale we had no idea those two would be available.
  9. S5Dewey
    I hope having Hanley PH works out better than I think it's going to,
  10. S5Dewey
    Maybe someone has already said this - I got here late - but having that extra catcher (Swihart) gives the team the luxury of giving Vaz the day off behind the plate and still keeping his bat in the order.
  11. S5Dewey
    Sale's becoming available was probably the best thing that could have happened to the Sox. I still have trouble believing it even happened. I still don't know how a team justifies trading away a Chris Sale.
  12. S5Dewey
    When do these guys learn not to run on JBJ's arm?
  13. S5Dewey
    It seems like those two paragraphs are somewhat in conflict with each other. I've been of the opinion for some time that while we may have traded away too much at one time, at the same time those trades have gotten us to where we are. IMO without any one of Kimbrel, Pom, or Sale we'd be looking UP at the Yankees and struggling for a playoff berth. Yes, the farm system would be stronger, but they don't give out awards for having the best farm system. Would we have been better off if the Sox hadn't traded some of those prospects and not gotten Kimbrel, Pom, or Sale and instead held onto the prospects so we could trade them away next year?? With no guarantee of what will happen then? I like where we are now and I'm willing to worry about 2021 in 2021.
  14. S5Dewey
    IIRC he had to be on the 40 man roster by Sept. 1 to qualify for the playoffs, but I don't think that would preclude him from joining the team now. My question is what has he been doing since Sept. 1 since both the Sea Dogs and the Pawsox have completed their schedules.
  15. S5Dewey
    Here's that statement from another perspective: Some have hinted at knowing more, because they've become more familiar with the statistics than the rest of us. It's not all about statistics nor is it all about the human element. It's about both and giving more than lip service to acknowledging that some things in baseball can't be statistically quantified, just as some things can. The 'trick' is in knowing which can be statistically quantified and which can't - something nobody knows for sure.
  16. S5Dewey
    Right you are, Sir! Every out, whether it's offensively or defensively, is 1/3 of an inning, and getting or giving away an 'extra' 1/3 of an inning is HUGE.
  17. S5Dewey
    So do we assume that since essentially everyone on the team has been playing well during the streak that they'll all regress to their norms exactly when the streak ends, and therefore go back to .600 baseball?
  18. S5Dewey
    Now c'mon. Has anyone really said that? IIRC most of us are saying that there's room for both stats and game experience, and discounting either of them offhand is a mistake.
  19. S5Dewey
    Watching it on television my first reaction was that it was a boneheaded thing to be even trying to do in spite of the fact that he was safe, but after watching it on the replay when I could see the whole field I changed my mind. Beni had a huge running lead and he really only had to go about 60' to be safe. Anytime a player tries to steal a base it's a gamble but that one was a smart gamble. It's the dumb ones that bother me.
  20. S5Dewey
    I'm wondering why some of these stat folks aren't asking how long Cleveland can keep doing this before the law of baseball averages catches up with them. They're currently .958 over their past 24 games. Are they really that good? I doubt it, over a long stretch. If they're not really that good then statistically they're due for a significant losing streak. Me? I'm hoping they keep winning because the longer this .900+ streak continues the longer it's going to be until the inevitable(?) slump comes. The later it comes the better chance of that very good team being eliminated and therefore the better the chance of the Sox winning the AL. Of course if they are that good and they prove the statistics wrong nothing matters because nobody is going to beat them anyway.
  21. S5Dewey
    Boston needs for Cleveland to go into a tailspin for a few games to allow Houston to get a stranglehold on the best record.
  22. S5Dewey
    And it's as least as much prospects as money now. And MLB recognizes it. Since MLB is now putting tighter reins on the draft, teams like the Sox and the Yankees are now buying up "International spending money" from other teams in an effort to sign international players. MLB will recognize that and take steps to stop that too. Parity is on the way. It's going to be interesting to see what the owners can do to circumvent MLB's parity movement. Or maybe this will be an ongoing 'war', with moves and counter-moves into the future.
  23. S5Dewey
    That's the bad news. The good news is that the Sox have the talent to challenge for the division championship for the next few years so they don't currently need that farm system. During those few years, who knows what MLB will do? MLB is becoming more and more committed to building "parity" in baseball and negating the advantage the big spenders have, even without the help of the MLBPA if necessary. The Red Sox may be the first team to be crowded out of the running by the free spenders of baseball but MLB now has another weapon to use to create that parity - the draft. Don't think they won't use it, and when they do the Yankees and the Dodgers may become just another victim of MLB's parity movement.
  24. S5Dewey
    That comment may have been taken a bit too literally. My point was that there are those fans who believe in "a trophy for everyone' for kids and they then allow that attitude to somehow absolve professional players of any responsibility for their mistakes. Why can't we just step up and say, "That ball he threw to the middle of the plate and got hit for the grand slam homer in the 3rd inning probably cost the team the game"? The player knows it. Deep down the fans know it. Why is it so verboten to speak of it? It's all a part of the attitude that "if it's everyone's fault it's nobody's fault" mentality that I find it hard to subscribe to.
  25. S5Dewey
    That's one of the biggest pieces of hogwash ever perpetrated on an athlete. Of course one play can change the outcome of a game. It may be true in the global sense but try telling that to a player who makes an error allowing the tieing and winning runs to score in the bottom of the 9th. This is something we tell kids in Little League so we don't damage their psyche, something I wholly support BTW. But at some point in everyone's career they recognize that everything they do has the potential to cause the team to lose so they focus a little more, try a little harder. It's called "Motivation". "One play doesn't change the outcome of a game" works well for little kids. It's all a part of building their confidence. But giving professional athletes a pass on bad plays because someone else made a bad play only perpetrates the bad plays. Fortunately the players see it. It's the "a trophy for everyone" fans who don't.
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