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  1. JoeBrady
    If we know anything about human nature, it is that positive reinforcement does wonderful things for your ego. And rightfully so.
  2. JoeBrady
    The fans always know more than the doctors. That's Rule #1 in social media.
  3. JoeBrady
    You going to ante decent+ prospects to try for a minor upgrade at DH?
  4. JoeBrady
    With all due respect, who are you going to believe? One of the best doctors in the world, or a Red Sox fan? I think Breslow should take a poll of RS fans on Talksox to decide whether or not he requires an operation. IRT messaging, better to not even pay attention.
  5. JoeBrady
    That's always the first question, not the second. The reason all 30 teams look to acquire players is that they have no good choices. If Philly, for example, had a good RH OF, they wouldn't be looking for a good RH OF.
  6. JoeBrady
    I think the 'discomfort' is the medical opinion. Same with Crochet throwing or Suarez running. If you feel discomfort, you stop.
  7. JoeBrady
    If such a wager were available, I'd make a modest wager that Duran's OPS v righties the rest of the season, would be above league average.
  8. JoeBrady
    While I do think we need another bat, a Yoshi/Romy platoon and a Duran/JJ platoon, while not elegant, has a chance of success.
  9. JoeBrady
    Those relief performances by Weissert, Watson and Moran are appreciated. We had the lead, but we still needed to hold it. Not using Chapman, Whitlock, Slaten and Guerrero make them available for 2 of the 3 games in some sort of mix and match setup.
  10. JoeBrady
    I looked at that, but his bat speed is up from last year. My suspicion is that his lower hard hit percentile is related to swinging at too many pitches that he can't make hard contact with. Same with Story. You cannot make hard contact with pitches low & outside, or eye-high.
  11. JoeBrady
    That's why I go to movies. Clint Eastwood asks 4 gunmen whether or not they are going to apologize to his mule, then pulls aside his pancho to show he's serious. Pure escapism.
  12. JoeBrady
    I will concede some of that. Auditors use to spend a lot more time looking at accounts and transaction to see whether or not they made intuitive sense. Before I retired, I'd get a 120-page checklist from the auditors, and then the engagement would be over. My favorite Q was 'Are you aware of any fraud'. I really felt like answering 'yeah, the dude next door just embezzled $100M. Why do you ask?'.
  13. JoeBrady
    That can be said about every player that ever played.
  14. JoeBrady
    I've heard that about half our players this year. I'll admit that Duran is a special case, but do you need a list of all the players that we needed to DFA this year? That said, I'd have no problem with a straight platoon of Duran/JJ until the TDL.
  15. JoeBrady
    Yup. The .548 comes with a .192 BABIP. If you believe in reverting to historical numbers, then he should produce better numbers in the future.
  16. JoeBrady
    Just for fun, if we could sustain our July offensive numbers, would you trade for some of these players?
  17. JoeBrady
    It is un-fracking believable.
  18. JoeBrady
    Perhaps a better question might be, 'is the current offense sustainable?'. Over the past 28 days, we are 9th in OPS. The BABIP is actually slightly below MLB average, so nothing unusual there. If we have a #9 offense, we should be competitive.
  19. JoeBrady
    Along time ago, when Boggs was in one of his rare slumps, a friend of mine, who understood real BB, said it was because he wasn't making pitchers afraid to pitch to him. A pitcher always has to have some fear that you will go deep. Similar, but different, with Duran. The pitcher has to become afraid that Duran will take a walk and steal 2nd. Otherwise, they will never give him a pitch to drive.
  20. JoeBrady
    For all the concern last year about the offense, we lost to the EE because Bello and Early aren't really a playoff rotation #2/3. And a key error and baserunning mistake. But this is a rotation capable of making serious noise.
  21. JoeBrady
    I need to re-watch it. The director had some well-known actors give like a narrative for 20 seconds. It was genius. And some of the lessons in the book have been around forever.
  22. JoeBrady
    Against lefties, we can play Yoshida in LF and DH Romy. Not ideal, but it can be done. And it won't be obvious to anyone, but Duran's production has inched up marginally. 7 walks in 12 games. Even overall, if his BABIP was at his career levels, then his OPS would be as well.
  23. JoeBrady
    That's what I hated about the Gonzo trade. We already had a real good 1B in Youkilis. Don't fix what ain't broke.
  24. JoeBrady
    I'd like to think I am well-read, but I cannot read books of fiction, knowing that none of the stuff I am reading actually happened. I blame some of that on what was crammed down our throats as kids. Just to blame my favorite boogeyman, how someone can consider The Old Man and the Sea even a book, let alone 'great literature', is beyond me. OTOH, I went to B&N with my wife, and I had The Big Short half-finished before we left the store. The movie is highly recommended as well.
  25. JoeBrady
    I never understood that. I started my career with manual books, and a statistical typist was needed for financial statements. Every time something better came along, I went all-in. I can no longer keep up, but the idea that someone wouldn't use all the data available is something I have a problem processing.
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