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  1. dgalehouse
    The Mets have a new owner. Look for them to be big time players in the free agent market.
  2. dgalehouse
    Yeah. But she is much nicer than that Hinch tramp. And she got a date.
  3. dgalehouse
    I think that should not be allowed. Let the players and coaches do their homework instead of playing video games , cribbage or social media. No more cheat notes.
  4. dgalehouse
    And Cora is that pretty girl sitting alone at the bar. Why not ask her to dance?
  5. dgalehouse
    If I have the kind of dough to comfortably afford a new Lamborghini, I am not going to a used car lot and haggle price for a fourth hand Chevy that will most likely be a clunker. I will buy the Lamborghini and enjoy every minute of driving it.
  6. dgalehouse
    Yeah. If we are looking to trim the budget, let's look around. Do we really need a mascot , much less two of them?
  7. dgalehouse
    I just can't see where signing Sale and Eovaldi ( which J.H. obviously was okay with ) prevented the Sox signing Mookie. Did J.H. wake up one day and say " That's it , I've reached my limit. Now we can't sign Mookie?" That makes no sense. But we can't blame John Henry because we love him so much. We can't blame Mookie either. We surely can't blame Chaim Bloom . So , let's blame Dombrowski . It's all his fault. He broke John's bank while John was sleeping.
  8. dgalehouse
    Every time a contract extension was mentioned , Mookie's response was that he was going to see what free agency had to offer. The mistake some here made was thinking we could trade and then re-sign him. ( And several folks advocated for that ) That was not going to happen. The very real possibility is that he simply preferred L.A. So , we have to be satisfied with what we got back in the trade . There is no other choice. I do think that blaming Dombrowski is ridiculous.
  9. dgalehouse
    Now , we are going to spin it that not signing Mookie was Dombrowski's fault too ?
  10. dgalehouse
    Yup. See post #20 in this thread. That game is actually my earliest ( extremely fuzzy ) memory of being disappointed in the Red Sox. We didn't have a TV , so I listened to the game on the radio. It was the beginning of many unhappy big games to come , until 2004 happened. You might say that Denny Galehouse was my original ham and egger.
  11. dgalehouse
    It is fair to say that Cash pushed the wrong buttons this time . And it did not work out as he hoped it would. But he was really just following the formula that had worked for him all year. It did not work this time. We know that the Monday morning quarterbacks always call the correct play. The second guessers are never wrong. If Cash had stayed with Snell , and Snell gave it up , they would be saying, " Why didn't he know that Snell would have trouble the third time through? Why didn't he trust the bullpen that has served him so well all year"? And this debate would essentially be the same thing. In the end , the manager makes the call on pitching changes. We know whether or not it was the right call after we see the outcome.
  12. dgalehouse
    Yeah. You can only go to the well just so often. These bullpen guys can wear down too. But Cash stayed with what worked for him all year. It didn't work this time. As someone pointed out , you won't win many games when you score just one run.
  13. dgalehouse
    We take you back now to Fenway Park 1948 , when Red Sox skipper, Joe McCarthy , elected to go with the rather mediocre journeyman , Denny Galehouse , rather than ace Mel Parnell in a one game playoff with the Cleveland Guardians. The results were predictably disastrous. Analytics did not exist back then , but stupidity sure did.
  14. dgalehouse
    Old school , baseball sense , gut feeling , tobacco spitting, beer drinking , no nonsense managing vs. New school , data driven, analytics loving , nerd consulting, geek web site studying , five hour energy, sabermetrics managing. The debate rages on . It should sustain us through the long , cold winter and the " not so " hot stove league.
  15. dgalehouse
    Cash has his own system of managing . No doubt about that . It has certainly worked well for him. Unfortunately , last night it did not work so well . Pitching changes , or lack of same , are the biggest second guessing situation for all managers. In the end , it was the Dodger's year. They were the best team right from opening day.
  16. dgalehouse
    Rule number one : If you have too many ham and eggers on your team , you are going to run into problems. It does not matter if one ham and egger is slightly better than another ham and egger. He is still a ham and egger.
  17. dgalehouse
    The best team won. Plain and simple. It was the Dodger's year. They were the best team from beginning to end. Happy for Dave Roberts. Now , they have the challenge of keeping the team together and staying on top. Won't be easy to do.
  18. dgalehouse
    I'm not making Mookie out to be a hero. But he is a great ballplayer who was looking to maximize his earnings. I can't fault him for that. We all should know by now that baseball is a business. Sometimes a cold business. We can't expect a player to have loyalty to an organization, a city or the fans. The organization has no loyalty to the player. They will trade him , non tender him , cut him or DFA him in a minute , with no regrets. And the fans will turn on a player at the first sign of decline in performance. Loyalty is a nice word. But it is rare in the business of baseball. Mookie is a Dodger. He is rich beyond his dreams. He is happy. Move on. Who knows, maybe someday Jeter Downs will make us happy. I doubt it , but maybe he will.
  19. dgalehouse
    Yes. Three more , and hopefully more to come. But none will ever match the one in 2004.
  20. dgalehouse
    It was on this date , October 27 , sixteen years ago today , that the infamous " Curse of the Bambino" was finally broken. Joe Castig said , " Stabbed by Foulke" . On TV , Joe Buck said , " Red Sox fans have longed to hear it , The Boston Red Sox are world champions." The World Series telecast signed off to the strains of Etta James, " At Last." Many Sox fans wept and said , " Now I can die in peace. " Happy sixteenth anniversary to the band of " Idiots " who pulled off the greatest comeback in sports history. A day to remember forever.
  21. dgalehouse
    I think the only ones who truly have total autonomy are the owners. " Total Autonomy " was the late George Steinbrenner 's middle name.
  22. dgalehouse
    It's gut check time for both clubs. Who will step up and be the hero? The Dodgers have the advantage in overall talent , but Gonsolin is kind of questionable in a game of this magnitude. And , who will Dave Roberts use to close a tight game tonight and/or tomorrow night? That is a big question mark.
  23. dgalehouse
    Yeah. I think that's true. With pitchers, it often comes down to diminished velocity , and whether they are able to compensate for it.
  24. dgalehouse
    It's okay to use age 31 as the onset of post prime , but there have been so many exceptions that you can't put too much stock in it. Everyone is different, and there are a lot of different factors and variables that go into the aging process. I don't know too much about it, but I think that Mookie is a guy that would still be very productive well into his thirties.
  25. dgalehouse
    Where does that self-important twit, Dombrowski, get the nerve, the gall, the unmitigated gall, to actually express interest in the Philly job ? Sure he assembled one of the all time great teams in Boston , and won a championship plus an unprecedented three straight A.L.East titles , but he traded away all of our prized prospects and ruined the team for years to come. Now , he wants to do likewise in Philadelphia. Why ,even if he should get lucky again and win a championship in Philly , it would only really be because of the previous guy. And he would decimate the entire organization and destroy their future. The twit.
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