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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gotta wonder if Jeter is jealous the networks have refocused the infamous Jeter Cam on NY's rightfielder this week. Look, there he is again: Numba 99. Why even play the game, isn't it preordained who is going to domiNATE... Where's the Red Sox' antisocial media department when we need them to rag on the pundits?
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    REMDAWG! He had twice as many hits as any Yankee in that '78 game.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wasn't Game 7 of the ALCS in '04 a one-game winner-take-all? Why don't they show highlights of that one, over and over and over again?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nope, never drank the stuff after it made me ill one night -- though it was on tap at a college bar that I suspected didn't regularly clean the tap lines.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There are so many good jokes to make but I don't want to get political... instead, how about a fact: there is not one single kid in my son's entire elementary school that has been alive when the Yankees won a World Series. Many of his friends are Yankee fans who only know their team has lost its last game of the season, every year they've watched.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The leftfielder on my softball team pulled a muscle taking a case of beer out of his car. But it was worth it to his teammates.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm also inviting Mark Bellhorn, Orlando Cabrera, Curtis Leskanic, Brock Holt, Eduardo Nunez and Steve Pearce.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd quote Meatloaf, but he hired Phil Rizzuto to rap on one of his records. Ned Martin might note the board's loquacity today is but a mask of pre meditation.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    True -- anyone could act like they could hit... while they audition for Casey At The Bat.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Now I have a Springsteen song in my head. I think it goes: Someday we'll look back on this and it still won't be funny
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who would've thought a year ago that Connor Wong would make a Sox' postseason roster before Jeter Downs?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Sox must have specific match-ups in mind for Richards and Ottavino -- like certain righties with a man on base and two outs; if a reliever finishes an inning, he's not required to face three batters nor take the mound the next frame. Personally, I can't trust using either unless the game is deep into extra innings and we're out of arms.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shaw will be one PH vs. a righty. But who is the next bat off the bench? Arauz? Duran? I'd think the former would play D after the latter pinch ran for Arroyo (not saying his leg is still iffy, just that Duran is faster). Maybe Wong is here for extras in case they pinch run for Vazquez -- despite his SBs.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tampa doesn't just build by dealing established big leaguers. The Rays also takes risks like everyone else, like signing Charlie Morton, who turned out to be maybe the best free agent starting pitcher that year, and trading a minor league pitcher who was their first round pick for a guy with 20 big league at bats: Arozarena.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the two aces are on as expected, it will come down to the bullpens. The Yanks would be heavy favorites if the Sox again throw Richards, Ottavino, Hernandez. But Cora used five starters in Game 162, and the guy with better stuff than any of them is Houck (he got a loss in NY's sweep last week, but gave up zero hits). Houck could be the literal wild card. Re. the absences of DJ and JD; the batting champ didn't have a great year, but is still clutch, and a bigger loss to New York than the RBI champ who tripped over the bag jogging to RF. The underrated key to the game that favors the visitors is that Sanchez and his squatting skills are riding the pine. If Sanchez pinch hits late and has to go behind the plate in a close game, the home team is golden -- especially if it goes extra innings.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Topps Now just issued 10-card team sets for all the clubs still alive. The add for the Red Sox set says "Postseason 10 Card Team Set" Here is the link with a pic of the sample card of Bobby Dalbec -- it says Postseason right on his card! https://www.topps.com/cards-collectibles/topps-now/mlbtoppsnow/2021-boston-red-sox-topps-now-reg-postseason-10-card-team-set-autograph-edition.html?__cf_chl_jschl_tk__=pmd_fLsyAGmLxNzGSdRO2BSo_eQCkyZgi8a59KLAiyXQsrI-1633437577-0-gqNtZGzNArujcnBszQjR
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Back to the movies -- and probably another reason why there's not the same consternation for salaries in that industry -- if an actor gets injured (or even old), he or she just takes on more sedentary roles: sitting at desks, judging cooking competitions, endorsing products. Some former heroes even become villains. Pro athletes who get career-ending injuries sometimes become actors. But old actors can't hit a baseball (Kostner in his prime could make contact, but Billy Crystal was a lamb).
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've tried to make the same comparison but it simply doesn't resonate with baseball fans. The difference is that nearly everyone has played ball in some form since childhood -- Teeball, at recess, PE class, whiffleball in the backyard, or Little League on up. Fewer people have ever tried acting, and even those who nail their lines in a kids' play usually aren't celebrated with high fives and pile-ups on stage where the cast sprays carbonated beverages on each other. The main reason most don't ever question or debate wages of actors and actresses is that it's accepted that movie stars are rare and beautiful. The rest of us aren't. Mirrors don't lie. The beauty of baseball, though, is that even Humpty Dumpty can get a hit if he times a pitch. Most of us know we can't act, but all of us think we can hit.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Only if he can average that per season for a decade. Then he'd most likely be one of the most valuable players in baseball. Here are the players with more than Mookie's 50.0 bWAR from 2011 to 2021 (that's technically 11 years, but 2020 was like a third of a year): Mike Trout 76.1, Paul Goldschmidt 50.7. Here's the only other MLB player to average at least 4.4 WAR in the past 11 seasons: Joey Votto, 49.3 bWAR. Mookie, of course, earned his WAR totals in the past eight years.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wha -- you couldn't hear me yelling at your house, wherever it is on the planet, when that .229-hitting left-handed batter went deep off our lefty specialist? That was as loud as I could scream... until Soto looked at Pivetta's bender to end the series.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I wasn't defending Davis, just pointing out that as Saturday's winner, he was active and in action, and not injured -- unless he tripped over a base while celebrating or punched a wall in the clubhouse euphoria. (I've done some stupid things when I was mad, but few when I was too happy, Devin Williams... excluding things I may have said and still don't recall).
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ya, if the Yanks lose, their fans will say they were missing their best hitter, batting champion DJ. Meanwhile, the Red Sox will actually be missing their best hitter -- Iglesias, who hit .356 this month.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... a point I always raise -- and got hammered for by more than one poster -- when they defend the current budget to prove the Red Sox are big market spenders this year...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What happened to Davis? He got the win Saturday.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Betts has Hank Aaron wrists. Aaron stopped running at age 34 and just swung away. He had 31.6 more WAR from ages 35-42, averaging 4 WAR those last eight years. Mookie bowls every winter and is a good bet to maintain his wrist power throughout his career.
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