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Post by benzinger on Jun 11, 2022 11:42:24 GMT -5
I like the idea of Houck as closer. Last night was interesting. no hard contact, but on the edge of wildness. He has pretty enigmatic stuff. As of now, doesn't seem to fit starter. Want to use him more than a 2-4 inning guy 1-3 time a week. Can he close ? Sometimes, I feel as though there isn't a defined role for what he has to offer. It is maximum swing and miss stuff and an absolute riot to watch, but can he harness command ? In between pitches he looks he is just chillin', but you wonder..... Really looking forward to see it this is gonna be his thing, if they keep throwing him out there. Hate to be that guy, but unless policies change or he decides to get vaxxed, Tanner can't close let alone pitch in Canada. Same goes for Sale. Those could turn into crucial games in the end, we'll see. Maybe Canada relaxes its policy. I used to think this was a possibility, but Canada is not going to relax ANYTHING regarding COVID. They’ve gone full authoritarian up there instead. They could go the other way and mandate booster shots and it wouldn’t surprise me. The Sox had better prepare to not have Houck available in Toronto at all. I’d mention Sale, but he’s a bit of a mythical creature himself. It’s hard to predict what he will contribute this year.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 11, 2022 11:43:04 GMT -5
Hate to be that guy, but unless policies change or he decides to get vaxxed, Tanner can't close let alone pitch in Canada. Same goes for Sale. Those could turn into crucial games in the end, we'll see. Maybe Canada relaxes its policy. All true but they have to plan around it. Same for Judge and the MFYs. At least for pitchers you can plan to pitch them the game before Canada and then they just get three days rest, which is not unusual. It would only be really bad if Houck was a lights-out closer by then. It's worse for an MVP candidate like Judge although with him you take the built-in three days of rest because he's so injury prone.
End of this month in the middle of a three-city trip, so I guess they just go straight to Chicago from Cleveland. I wonder if the team makes them go home to Boston or to Ft. Myers to work out.
The killer is going to be the penultimate series of the season, 9/30 - 10/2. They're likely to really need those games, especially against TOR. One relatively easy fix (again, if Houck doesn't establish himself as the closer) is to piggyback the two of them the day before that series.
Judge (and all other Yankees) got vaccinated before their first trip to Toronto in May. Pretty sure all the Rays are too, so the Red Sox are the only divisional rival shooting themselves in the foot at this point.
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Post by blizzards39 on Jun 11, 2022 11:50:27 GMT -5
All true but they have to plan around it. Same for Judge and the MFYs. At least for pitchers you can plan to pitch them the game before Canada and then they just get three days rest, which is not unusual. It would only be really bad if Houck was a lights-out closer by then. It's worse for an MVP candidate like Judge although with him you take the built-in three days of rest because he's so injury prone.
End of this month in the middle of a three-city trip, so I guess they just go straight to Chicago from Cleveland. I wonder if the team makes them go home to Boston or to Ft. Myers to work out.
The killer is going to be the penultimate series of the season, 9/30 - 10/2. They're likely to really need those games, especially against TOR. One relatively easy fix (again, if Houck doesn't establish himself as the closer) is to piggyback the two of them the day before that series.
Judge (and all other Yankees) got vaccinated before their first trip to Toronto in May. Pretty sure all the Rays are too, so the Red Sox are the only divisional rival shooting themselves in the foot at this point. You can’t blame anybody for not getting vaxed. Personal choice. Let’s hope it dosnt cost us. That said Cora knows ahead of time, so try and use these guys acordingly.
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Post by incandenza on Jun 11, 2022 12:10:10 GMT -5
Judge (and all other Yankees) got vaccinated before their first trip to Toronto in May. Pretty sure all the Rays are too, so the Red Sox are the only divisional rival shooting themselves in the foot at this point. You can’t blame anybody for not getting vaxed. Personal choice. Let’s hope it dosnt cost us. That said Cora knows ahead of time, so try and use these guys acordingly. It's true that they are indeed making a "personal choice" to not do everything they can to help the team win, but I'm not sure why I should be less annoyed about it for that.
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Post by freddysthefuture2003 on Jun 11, 2022 12:44:37 GMT -5
Judge (and all other Yankees) got vaccinated before their first trip to Toronto in May. Pretty sure all the Rays are too, so the Red Sox are the only divisional rival shooting themselves in the foot at this point. You can’t blame anybody for not getting vaxed. Personal choice. Let’s hope it dosnt cost us. That said Cora knows ahead of time, so try and use these guys acordingly. The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots
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Post by incandenza on Jun 11, 2022 13:11:53 GMT -5
Red Sox are 8-2 in their last 10 and have actually LOST ground on the Yankees. Crazy. For that matter, they're 21-9 since May 10th, and they've only gained 3 games on the Rays, 1.5 games on the Jays, and have fallen a further game behind the Yankees.
But their playoff odds have gone from 22% to 55%.
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Post by GyIantosca on Jun 11, 2022 13:42:12 GMT -5
You have to give up on the MFYS. All they have to do is get a ticket to the postseason. I think it’s going to be even more fun to knock off the MFYS after all this work they put in and having a monster season to get there asses kicked in the playoffs.
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Post by taiwansox on Jun 11, 2022 14:04:35 GMT -5
You have to give up on the MFYS. All they have to do is get a ticket to the postseason. I think it’s going to be even more fun to knock off the MFYS after all this work they put in and having a monster season to get there asses kicked in the playoffs. Reverse 1978 let’s do it Arauz will be called up after his DFA to hit a 300ft Yankee Stadium homer to win the one game playoff
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Post by benzinger on Jun 11, 2022 15:00:28 GMT -5
You have to give up on the MFYS. All they have to do is get a ticket to the postseason. I think it’s going to be even more fun to knock off the MFYS after all this work they put in and having a monster season to get there asses kicked in the playoffs. Reverse 1978 let’s do it Arauz will be called up after his DFA to hit a 300ft Yankee Stadium homer to win the one game playoff Duran is the sparkplug they need in the lineup. We’ve seen the difference Franchy has made. Duran should make even more of a difference(at least, on paper).
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Post by benzinger on Jun 11, 2022 15:05:09 GMT -5
You have to give up on the MFYS. All they have to do is get a ticket to the postseason. I think it’s going to be even more fun to knock off the MFYS after all this work they put in and having a monster season to get there asses kicked in the playoffs. Are the Yankees this good?? It seems like they are basically the same team that middled their way through the season last year. Their pitching has been insane. I don’t imagine they can keep THAT up, but they are just laying waste to the rest of the league this year. That was not expected.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Jun 11, 2022 15:35:37 GMT -5
You have to give up on the MFYS. All they have to do is get a ticket to the postseason. I think it’s going to be even more fun to knock off the MFYS after all this work they put in and having a monster season to get there asses kicked in the playoffs. Are the Yankees this good?? It seems like they are basically the same team that middled their way through the season last year. Their pitching has been insane. I don’t imagine they can keep THAT up, but they are just laying waste to the rest of the league this year. That was not expected. They're going to have a long losing streak at some point and come back to the pack. Peaking in May/June is great if the season ends in May and the playoffs start in June. The only thing the Sox can do is improve in any way they can every day and play the teams on their schedule the rest of the way. A lot of those games are going to be against MFY, TOR, TB. Win those games and everything will take care of itself.
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Post by kjkramer on Jun 11, 2022 15:38:36 GMT -5
You can’t blame anybody for not getting vaxed. Personal choice. Let’s hope it dosnt cost us. That said Cora knows ahead of time, so try and use these guys acordingly. The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots It is selfish of you for trying to call for a person to be vaxxed that has ZERO reason to get vaxxed.... ZERO benefit and lots of adverse risk if you are paying attention. No one that is healthy under 50 should EVER get vaxxed. Zero reason. It does not prevent you from getting covid, doesnt prevent you from spreading it, and has no influence on how sick you will get from Covid. There are a LOT of adverse effects from it though. Covid is now just another minir respiratory illness like the common cold and the flu. It will be here the rest of our lives and everyone will get it many many many times the rest of your lives. The normal influenza is way more deadly at this point. No athletes should have ever gotten the vax. Makes ZERO sense for an elite 20-40 year old athlete to get it. Wow. It is a personal choice. If you are vaxxed and the vax works... why does it matter what other people do? Lol
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Post by freddysthefuture2003 on Jun 11, 2022 15:42:00 GMT -5
The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots It is selfish of you for trying to call for a person to be vaxxed that has ZERO reason to get vaxxed.... ZERO benefit and lots of adverse risk if you are paying attention. No one that is healthy under 50 should EVER get vaxxed. Zero reason. It does not prevent you from getting covid, doesnt prevent you from spreading it, and has no influence on how sick you will get from Covid. There are a LOT of adverse effects from it though. Covid is now just another minir respiratory illness like the common cold and the flu. It will be here the rest of our lives and everyone will get it many many many times the rest of your lives. The normal influenza is way more deadly at this point. No athletes should have ever gotten the vax. Makes ZERO sense for an elite 20-40 year old athlete to get it. Wow. It is a personal choice. If you are vaxxed and the vax works... why does it matter what other people do? Lol No chance I'm reading all that from a guy with a with a Trump quote in the signature. I bet ERod would've loved a vax if it was available prior to getting myocarditis
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Post by Canseco on Jun 11, 2022 15:45:41 GMT -5
The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots It is selfish of you for trying to call for a person to be vaxxed that has ZERO reason to get vaxxed.... ZERO benefit and lots of adverse risk if you are paying attention. No one that is healthy under 50 should EVER get vaxxed. Zero reason. It does not prevent you from getting covid, doesnt prevent you from spreading it, and has no influence on how sick you will get from Covid. There are a LOT of adverse effects from it though. Covid is now just another minir respiratory illness like the common cold and the flu. It will be here the rest of our lives and everyone will get it many many many times the rest of your lives. The normal influenza is way more deadly at this point. No athletes should have ever gotten the vax. Makes ZERO sense for an elite 20-40 year old athlete to get it. Wow. It is a personal choice. If you are vaxxed and the vax works... why does it matter what other people do? Lol
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Post by billw on Jun 11, 2022 15:45:46 GMT -5
i am with you--the world is flat and the moon landing was faked
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Post by jimoh on Jun 11, 2022 15:49:58 GMT -5
The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots It is selfish of you for trying to call for a person to be vaxxed [ CRAPPY INACCURATE BABBLE] Wow. It is a personal choice. If you are vaxxed and the vax works... why does it matter what other people do? Lol This kind of nonsense needs to be removed from this list, regardless of what side it is on
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Post by DesignatedForAssignment on Jun 11, 2022 16:04:35 GMT -5
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Post by incandenza on Jun 11, 2022 16:32:45 GMT -5
The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots It is selfish of you for trying to call for a person to be vaxxed that has ZERO reason to get vaxxed.... [After 2.5 years of a global pandemic leading the news every single day]: Okay, so the way infection works is that you get it from other people, and...
No, sorry, never mind. I'll just say that if Canada passed a law that said you were only allowed into the country if you wore a floppy pink cowboy hat, I would be very annoyed at any Red Sox players who refused to wear a floppy pink cowboy hat.
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Post by kingofthetrill on Jun 11, 2022 18:20:18 GMT -5
i am with you--the world is flat and the moon landing was faked So you're one of those people that believes in the moon.......
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Post by cdj on Jun 11, 2022 18:48:05 GMT -5
Story Devers Martinez Bogaerts Verdugo Vazquez Cordero Dalbec JBJ
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Post by benzinger on Jun 11, 2022 19:11:33 GMT -5
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Post by Guidas on Jun 11, 2022 19:39:43 GMT -5
You can’t blame anybody for not getting vaxed. Personal choice. Let’s hope it dosnt cost us. That said Cora knows ahead of time, so try and use these guys acordingly. The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots What if a player had covid already? The produced natural immunity is stronger than a vaccine. Or what if a player’s physician recommends not taking it because of a pre-existing condition?
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Post by Foulke_In_Athol on Jun 11, 2022 19:57:33 GMT -5
The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots It is selfish of you for trying to call for a person to be vaxxed that has ZERO reason to get vaxxed.... ZERO benefit and lots of adverse risk if you are paying attention. No one that is healthy under 50 should EVER get vaxxed. Zero reason. It does not prevent you from getting covid, doesnt prevent you from spreading it, and has no influence on how sick you will get from Covid. There are a LOT of adverse effects from it though. Covid is now just another minir respiratory illness like the common cold and the flu. It will be here the rest of our lives and everyone will get it many many many times the rest of your lives. The normal influenza is way more deadly at this point. No athletes should have ever gotten the vax. Makes ZERO sense for an elite 20-40 year old athlete to get it. Wow. It is a personal choice. If you are vaxxed and the vax works... why does it matter what other people do? Lol Come work with me one day in respiratory therapy, no wait I couldn't put up with someone so utterly misinformed and spreading dangerous partisan nonsense for a day. How about the next time you change the sputum basin on a pediatric respirator, that's keeping a toddler with COVID alive you call me. The COVID vaccine is one of if not THE safest and most successful vaccine ever made... It's why all the 1st responders who will probably be saving you someday soon are mandated to have it and nearly 100% do.
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Post by kingofthetrill on Jun 11, 2022 20:04:21 GMT -5
The hell i can't. It's a personal choice of mine to call those individuals selfish idiots What if a player had covid already? The produced natural immunity is stronger than a vaccine. Or what if a player’s physician recommends not taking it because of a pre-existing condition? I don't want to continue and prolong a conversation that's enjoyable as reading divorce papers from my ex-wife but I don't think this is actually true. And if there's a modicum of truth to it, it's certainly not irrefutable scientific fact.
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Post by pasadenasox on Jun 11, 2022 20:15:03 GMT -5
If you had been previously wondering how the gameday threads could possibly become worse, well, now you know...
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