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Spring Training Gameday Thread
gerry
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Post by gerry on Apr 3, 2016 2:49:20 GMT -5
Ramirez Do you have a mental disorder that prevents you from spelling it right or is it the most bizarre and subtle troll job in internet history? C'mon Lary, its Remiraz Ramirez. C'mon Lary, its Remiraz. Someone corrected my post, which was meant as part of this continuing, angst filled joke, which is pretty cool. |
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Apr 3, 2016 2:52:11 GMT -5
This really upsets me, second person to pick on my college and degree on this board. Just so you know I graduated with a 3.7 GPA with a degree in economics(3.9 GPA in major). I have a bad case of dyslexia. As a result I'm not a good speller or at writing in general. So yea I will mess up then and than all the time. If you wanted to bring it up you could have just simply pointed it out with bringing my UMass degree into it. Oh yea by the way I currently work in banking as a loss MIT specialist that oversees a 12.8 billion mortgage portfolio. I might not be a good writer but I am a wiz with numbers. This is a sports chat board, not a college paper! Where do you have a degree from?? What's your GPA? What do you do for a living? I prefaced my sentence with "as a UMass grad". I graduated in '74 and was one of the first two students selected for a new program called "Bachelors Degree with Individual Concentration" where you have no fixed curriculum instead, you have a faculty adviser to help plan your path. (I don't know if they still have a BDIC program or not). As it turned out, 60 of my 120 undergraduate credits were at the Masters or PHD level and I summered at MIT and Harvard working on the World Economics Model which is pretty much the landmark sim. I had full boat scholarships for post grad studies at both MIT and Harvard but was hired away by the Department of Defense where I worked for 20 years before going into the private sector then retiring. LOL, I didn't receive a single paycheck from directly from DOD. Interestingly, for those that know history, the person that originally talked to DOD about me was Archibald Cox who was acting Dean of Harvard Law School at the time. I was interviewed and hired by Melvin Laird but, he was no longer the Secretary of Defense at the time. That was Eliot Richardson. Cox and Richardson's paths would cross again. Sorry about your dyslexia but I don't see how that relates to the use of the words then and than. See I took that that differently. I took as a UMass grad to mean myself. If you don't understand how dyslexia relates look it up. In general ; problems reading, writing, spelling and speaking. In my case I see words and sentences backwards, before i see them forwards. It's one of those things you can't really fully understand until your in my shoes. What seems simple to you is something i will struggle with for my entire life. Don't be sorry about my dyslexia, it's what makes me so good at math and with numbers. I will say this though, this is a sports chat board, for chatting about sports, not fixing people's spelling and grammar. That's for teachers and parents. If my use of then and than bugs you that much you don't have to read my posts and/or respond to them. |
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Post by umassgrad2005 on Apr 3, 2016 2:54:29 GMT -5
C'mon Lary, its Remiraz Ramirez. C'mon Lary, its Remiraz. Someone corrected my post, which was meant as part of this continuing, angst filled joke, which is pretty cool. Don't you mean kool? |
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Post by bookiemetts on Apr 3, 2016 9:41:14 GMT -5
With the end of spring training games, here is a video I've compiled of all the highlights from the "regular" players for the upcoming season. I figured it would be nice to put them all in one video to avoid MLB's website. Some events are missing just because I wasn't able to get the source video and I cut out some because they were boring. If you want to see the back-to-back homerun swings you can skip to 14:56.  Edit: Looks like the MLB blocked my video in some countries due to copyright content  |
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radiohix
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Post by radiohix on Apr 3, 2016 10:14:05 GMT -5
With the end of spring training games, here is a video I've compiled of all the highlights from the "regular" players for the upcoming season. I figured it would be nice to put them all in one video to avoid MLB's website. Some events are missing just because I wasn't able to get the source video and I cut out some because they were boring. If you want to see the back-to-back homerun swings you can skip to 14:56. As always, your work is highly appreciatted Bookie! |
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Post by jimed14 on Apr 3, 2016 10:18:25 GMT -5
Awesome video, thanks. The one thing I noticed that I hadn't seen mentioned is that Koji threw a fastball that was at 89. That's better than most of last year when he was at 86-87.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Apr 3, 2016 10:38:57 GMT -5
Me too. I was thinking disaster when the move was announced. Maybe, I'll be wrong about Fatso too. Which, I posted from the day he signed. I think JBJ and Swihart are the keys to this team. Two crucial positions. Not sure what we get offensively from JBJ and even more important. Defense from Swihart. If by Swihart, you mean Vazquez, that's a reasonable assessment. After all, as far as we can tell he was literally nine times as good as Swihart in their respective rookie seasons(6.3 bWAR versus 0.7, both per 125 games and including pitch-framing). They've been hyping Swihart, but if you listen carefully, they're also talking like they expect Vazquez to be the regular catcher (although Speier and, of all people, Shaughnessy are the only Globe writers who get this: Cafarado and Abraham, who of course do the bulk of the day-to-day reporting, haven't seemed to notice). Vazquez can spend an unlimited amount of time rehabbing in XST, but if it's more than 10 days, the extra days come off his Pawtucket rehab length, up to a maximum of 10. He then gets 20 days rehabbing (potentially reduced to as little as 10), and can be optioned for up to 20 days without burning an option. Unless something goes wrong with the rehab, he's likely back within 50 days max. And Swihart goes down. I'm worried about Vazquez's arm and rehab. Will his arm hold up all year? Does he change his receiving style to protect his arm? Not sure we have the same player. Post-surgery |
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