S5Dewey
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IMO Tito set it up wonderfully for the Guardians. Yeah, he's put a lot of faith in Kubler but at the same time he's put the Sox in a position where they have to win 3 of 4. That's what I don't like about the 5 game format. If you lose the first one you're essentially screwed. I know the Sox can do that, the question is whether they will.
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I thought Tito did an excellent job of managing. Of course having a lead helped too. It made me wish we had him back in Boston - but OTOH I never wanted him to leave.
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Managers, players, umpires are usually quite thick-skinned when it comes to (ignorant) fans. My guess is that this wasn't the first time the "fan" had heckled Farrell and Farrell had had enough. I say good for JF!
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Is there any way we can get Porcillo's hat back for him?
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These announcers make me long for OB & whomever. These guys are about as exciting as a glass of lukewarm water.
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I had to chuckle. AB didn't even think about swinging at that 3-0 pitch. I guess he learned his lesson last week. :-) Then he reaps the benefits by getting a pitch he can handle!
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Gotta win this one. The loser has to win 3 out of 4.
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Nope. They're not! HANLEY!
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Oh sweet God. Are they going to squander this?
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I don't see a spot for him to start.
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Nobody would ever say that the Yankees aren't opportunistic.
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As a Sox fan I'm somewhat proud that "my" team has shied away from the known PED abusers and wife-beaters. And I hope they keep doing it.
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If that's so - and I'm not doubting it - it should put to rest any thoughts of JBJ being traded over the winter.
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I'm in- for a one year deal if we can get it, but at his age I'd shy away from a longer contract than that. I don't see any team giving him anything that's guaranteed for more than a year given the fact that he's 40+ and nobody can figure out why his pitches don't get hit. But I'd take a one-year gamble on him @ say, $9M, which is what he's getting this year.
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And in 2013 we traded away the runner-up ROY SS for a starting pitcher in the twilight of his career. Since we won the WS that year everyone seems to be happy enough with that. Pomeranz came in and filled a spot that had to be filled, and it helped get us to the playoffs. He also is under team control for the next two years. If the Sox win the WS this year this trade will look better and if Espinoza doesn't turn out to be the next coming of Pedro it'll look better still. The jury is still out on this trade. Let's give it a while and see how it looks in a couple of years.
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2016 Non-Red Sox Postseason Gamethread
S5Dewey replied to Youk Of The Nation's topic in Other Baseball
I still don't understand what Schowalter was doing anyway. Why isn't the logical move to use UB to walk EE and then bring in Britton to pitch to Bautista? It sets up the force at home plate and the O's pitchers only have to face one of those two. Whatever, I guess. IMO if John Farrell had done what Schowalter did the fans would be screaming for his head on a platter. -
Yeah. And it's going to be less when they start taking more pitches.
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That "childish love of the game plays really well when one plays like Manny does. However, I'd venture a guess that urinating inside the Monster and high-fiving fans after a catch wouldn't be as popular if, say, Melvin Upton did it.
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I see that as being somewhat situational. I'd rather be playing the most games in Fenway every time. We have the LF wall which is a good target for our hitters and they're accustomed to using it. In addition, and maybe even a bigger factor is that our outfielders are accustomed to the overall shape of the outfield, which is quirky at best. Something we have that most teams don't have is two CF's roaming around out there, which is something you need in Fenway. The more games played there the better I like it.
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Ok. Thanks. I didn't know there was a rat involved.
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Here's the way it came down as I understand it: the only "punishment" handed out was a one month suspension of the GM. That's not punishing the team, it's punishing the manager, and it does nothing to undo the wrong perpetrated on the Red Sox. What the Sox did in the International signings was what teams have been doing for years - they signed the players to a 'wink-wink' agreement for certain amounts of money, then gave the total amount of the signings to an 'agent' who distributed the money differently, giving more than was allowed to the higher rated players. They "laundered" the money through the agent. No doubt that if they knew about it before the money was distributed - and I believe they did - it was unscrupulous, but it's been a common practice. I agree that it was done to make an example of 'someone', but it sticks in my craw that they chose to make an example of the Sox in that situation and essentially let the Padres go free in another equally unscrupulous situation that involved Boston.
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It would seem that MLB should somehow penalize the Padres for trading 'damaged goods'. By not intervening MLB has made the trade market into a "Let the buyer beware" bazaar (not to be confused with 'bizarre', which is what this situation is). I fail to understand how MLB can penalize the Sox for doing what everyone else does in the International market and then turn a blind eye to a team's blatantly disregarding MLB rules about reporting treatment for players.
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Because we're between the regular season and the playoffs, speculation on the roster, lineups, and rotation has been beaten to death, and there's nothing else to talk about?
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This is one of the things I like about baseball. It's not size-dependent. Even an average size person can play and be one of the better players on his team or in the league. IOW, Size doesn't matter.
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IMO there is no "upset" in this matchup regardless of who wins. The Guardians finished one game ahead of the Sox over a 162 game season. One game is 6/10 of 1% of the schedule - hardly a significant amount. For everything except determining HFA it's statistically a dead heat. It now comes down to who performs and who doesn't. Speaking to the issue of #Koji 4 Kloser, it's going to be an interesting choice for JF to be making. The temptation is there to go with the guy who was signed to be The Closer, but The Closer hasn't been the best reliever on the team recently. If this guy blows one game in a five game series.... that's A LOT. Whatever JF decides to do he'll be second-guessed forever if it doesn't work.
