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Four ALCS Game Sevens and two rings in six years -- if you were a kid rooting for the Sox in that era, nothing will probably ever top it. I know a kid who became a Red Sox TV fan at age 6, attended his first Fenway game the next summer, and was a total diehard by age 8. The years were 2016, 2017, 2018: first, first, first/best ever. -
Get that Martian off my... barren craters.
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A Realistic View at 2021: Part I
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to moonslav59's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The long modern game doesn't make twinbills as attractive as they once were to attendees. In 2019, the Red Sox doubleheaders averaged between 6-7 hours in game-time, but I'm not sure how much gap was in between (if they were day-night separate admission). Last year's Bosox played two doubleheaders of 7 innings each in around 5 1/2 hours. The 1975 Red Sox played 13 doubleheaders that averaged around 5 hours total -- that's two games of at least nine innings each; unbelievable as it may seem to modern fans, the Sox swept the Yanks on July 27th of that year in exactly 4 hours, 30 minutes... for two games. A week later, Boston also swept Detroit in 4 hours, 49 minutes, but one game went 10 innings. Each team got to start off the extra frame with a hitter at the plate and a pitcher on the mound... -
The Cleveland Rock N Roll Artifacts aren't really cursed; they just played too long in a fog all those years in that ballpark built on an ocean.
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Some of those people even include "experts" like the editors of Sports Illustrated (back when fans read magazines), like when they put Cleveland's Cory Snyder on the cover of their 1987 Baseball Issue (along with Joe Carter). Hey, Snyder hit 33 HRs that year and played nine seasons; at least he turned out better than Super Joe Charboneau -- Rookie of the Year in 1980, out of the MLB forever two years later...
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... the ice cream table? They sound like Jen and Barry flavors. I think I'll have a Schoop of La Stella, please.
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... or with Chavis, if Dalbec is flipped for pitching. It's doubtful Chavis is part of a second base platoon this year.
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His most value just may be to allow the Sox to trade Dalbec (a better player) for pitching.
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Ha -- I actually looked up 2019, the last full season, to see what MLBers with less than 100 Ks we could target for some semblance of batting order balance. There weren't even enough players -- infielders or outfielders -- for a worthy post.
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They're already hurt every year now. As for Mookie, there were a few prognosticators here, and more in the media, fixated on the six-foot high benchmark for longevity. This idiot defers to superior hand-eye coordination (which most MLBers have), Hank Aaron wrists (which most don't have) and healthy lifestyles (subject to change, of course, but better pedigree = better bets).
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Who should the Sox have play CF on opening day?
5GoldGlovesOF,75 replied to mvp 78's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
No surprise Dombro is in on JBJ. With more teams driving up the price, Bloom and BOH have to be focusing elsewhere. Unless they're serious about just making Verdugo the centerfielder, I have to think Eddie Rosario may also be less of an option. -
... except the first one; he's only five feet, nine inches tall and weighs less than a bowling ball!
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The tangent of notin's post was physical size. I wasn't referring to the organization at all, just the pundits who told us all last winter how much physical size matters when considering the size of baseball contracts.
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Or how about Marcus Lynn Betts? That player who will never be worth a longterm contract because he's so short; you know, the guy who already has the most three-homer games in history and is just entering his prime...
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I guess adding this righty power bat rules out signing Marcell Ozuna, who made six times as much last year... ... hopefully, the $15 mil savings goes to the procurement of pitching.
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And they called him The Flea (averaged 40+ SBs per year '71-78). I vaguely remembered this... it was the '80s: https://thisgreatgame.com/baseball-lists-ten-unlikeliest-three-home-run-games/
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In '78 the Yankees and Red Sox were the two best teams in baseball. If they had a wild card back then, and best-of-seven playoffs, they would've had some wild ALCS... ...assuming Boston got by the KC Royals; those 70s Sox were terrible turf teams.
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... and traded Bronson Arroyo for Wily Mo Pena, because his right-handed power would knock down the Monster. Pena, career .303 OBP... Renfroe .290 OBP -- rut-row; but I have a dog named Hunter (his rescue name my family refused to change), who brings a lot of energy to the lineup...
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It won't be Springer, but this move probably means it won't be JBJ, either... especially if Bloom is talking up Verdirtdog playing center.
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Same deal that the Rangers gave Dahl, but he bats lefty. Renfroe was originally drafted by Boston in 2010 in the 31st round. Guy like that maybe doesn't even get a shot now with the minors consolidated...
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Massachusetts and Connecticut probably don't need to change their names -- as long as they're giving tribute and not mocking -- the Algonquian tribes who named the regions after "the great hill" and "long tidal river". But anything with a "New" in its name smacks of too much "manifest destiny". Sinatra should just change his lyrics now: "I'd like to be a part of it: the place where we get wood to make bows." (translation of Mannahata, courtesy of the Lenape peoples).
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I appreciate the Ghost's spontaneity. His passionate posts are more fun than those whose only positives are how positive they are that only they know what's best.
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Be nice to vegetables, too; the plants live... but if they're only seasonal, maybe they'll be reasonable. Especially if we combine them with people names; go Human Beans!
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If nothing's happening and you're on a forum called talksox, what else are you supposed to do: 1. try to initiate sox talk 2. complain about or disparage posters who try to initiate sox talk you disagree with 3. wax nostalgic
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But the buck starts there. Employees are just trying to do their jobs of improving the team, and whether the Sox' new baseball officer's hands are tied, or the old one is allowed to use up resources, finances begin and end with those who sign the checks. The pandemic is largely to blame for an industry-wide spending freeze -- or at least, abatement (unless you're the Dodgers). But that is also convenient to avoid accusations of collusion on the eve of a new CBA. As a fan, I'm glad Dombro is back in business. Hopefully he'll be the one to make some moves soon and set the hot stove dominoes in motion.
