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Post by manfred on Sept 4, 2023 15:37:25 GMT -5
It is strange how much more the Sox looked like a playoff team when they were playing the worst team in baseball.
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Post by Guidas on Sept 4, 2023 15:38:21 GMT -5
Living in NC and SC basically since the 1990s (with a few multi-year stints in LA and CT), I've been told that anything "south of Fairfax County, VA is "The South." Wake County in NC sure does feel like a suburb of NYC or LA lately, and especially since 2020 with the all the Covid/tax refugees. Same in the Asheville, and increasingly Hendersonville, area. Asheville, I get - always an outlier and a magnet for Northerners. Hendersonville is sad for me to hear. Henderson County so perfectly typifies the friendly warmth and hearty individualism of the "Mountain South" for as long as I could remember. |
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 4, 2023 15:40:01 GMT -5
Same in the Asheville, and increasingly Hendersonville, area. Asheville, I get - always an outlier and a magnet for Northerners. Hendersonville is sad for me to hear. Henderson County so perfectly typifies the friendly warmth and hearty individualism of the "Mountain South" for as long as I could remember. We love it here just as it is - great hiking, great restaurants, nice people, loads of breweries and coffee shops. Perfect for a former Rhode Islander! 😀 |
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Post by kevfc89 on Sept 4, 2023 15:40:12 GMT -5
Pure hindsight, but Civale was the guy to get at the deadline.
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Post by Guidas on Sept 4, 2023 15:41:20 GMT -5
Asheville, I get - always an outlier and a magnet for Northerners. Hendersonville is sad for me to hear. Henderson County so perfectly typifies the friendly warmth and hearty individualism of the "Mountain South" for as long as I could remember. We love it here just as it is - great hiking, great restaurants, nice people, loads of breweries and coffee shops. Perfect for a former Rhode Islander! 😀 Shhhh! Don't let people know! |
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Post by manfred on Sept 4, 2023 15:41:36 GMT -5
Can’t blame ump. Swing at will, gents.
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Post by ephus on Sept 4, 2023 15:41:46 GMT -5
Why does every other team we play have dudes that paint and our pitchers are just slabbing putty?
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Post by manfred on Sept 4, 2023 15:42:27 GMT -5
Why does every other team we play have dudes that paint and our pitchers are just slabbing putty? Our pitchers never face our hitters? |
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 4, 2023 15:42:46 GMT -5
We love it here just as it is - great hiking, great restaurants, nice people, loads of breweries and coffee shops. Perfect for a former Rhode Islander! 😀 Shhhh! Don't let people know! We moved here in Jan 2020. House value already doubled. It's insane. Our daughters will be the beneficiaries of that madness someday |
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Post by ephus on Sept 4, 2023 15:43:41 GMT -5
Why does every other team we play have dudes that paint and our pitchers are just slabbing putty? Our pitchers never face our hitters? Damnit. This is accurate. |
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Post by trapperdan on Sept 4, 2023 15:46:49 GMT -5
Daytime Bello at the Trop = eight earned runs on an xBA of .135. Maximal bad juju.
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Post by ephus on Sept 4, 2023 15:48:40 GMT -5
Do you think there will ever be a time at Fenway when they play Harry Belafonte over the PA and the crowd cries “Baaaay-O!” and there is merriment?
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Post by incandenza on Sept 4, 2023 15:51:27 GMT -5
Pure hindsight, but Civale was the guy to get at the deadline. To get him the Rays gave up Kyle Manzardo, who fangraphs has ranked as the #29 prospect in baseball. MLB.com has him #60. Who would you have given up to beat that offer? |
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Post by manfred on Sept 4, 2023 15:52:47 GMT -5
Hey… Story K’d! What are the odds?
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Post by soxfanatic on Sept 4, 2023 15:53:17 GMT -5
Perfect game watch?
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Post by soxfanatic on Sept 4, 2023 15:53:46 GMT -5
Hey… Story K’d! What are the odds? When he's off he is pretty much Yu Chang. |
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 4, 2023 15:55:18 GMT -5
Our offense is definitely laboring ( groan)
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Post by Guidas on Sept 4, 2023 15:55:37 GMT -5
Man, a lot of people here crapped on the Civale pick-up at the deadline.
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Post by kevfc89 on Sept 4, 2023 15:56:25 GMT -5
Pure hindsight, but Civale was the guy to get at the deadline. To get him the Rays gave up Kyle Manzardo, who fangraphs has ranked as the #29 prospect in baseball. MLB.com has him #60. Who would you have given up to beat that offer? It's a fair point that I wouldn't want to give up a Mayer for him, but I also wonder why Manzardo is ranked that high as a 23 year old first baseman with league average AAA offensive production. These things tend to work out in the Rays favor--I suspect Manzardo won't amount to much and the Rays get a number 3-ish cheap starter for the next three years. |
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Post by cdj on Sept 4, 2023 16:01:16 GMT -5
We’re totally getting perfected on
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Post by oldfaithful2019 on Sept 4, 2023 16:02:50 GMT -5
To get him the Rays gave up Kyle Manzardo, who fangraphs has ranked as the #29 prospect in baseball. MLB.com has him #60. Who would you have given up to beat that offer? It's a fair point that I wouldn't want to give up a Mayer for him, but I also wonder why Manzardo is ranked that high as a 23 year old first baseman with league average AAA offensive production. These things tend to work out in the Rays favor--I suspect Manzardo won't amount to much and the Rays get a number 3-ish cheap starter for the next three years. I would not have done Mayer for Civale either, but this does highlight the fact that the price to obtain impact pitching through trade this off season will hurt. |
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Post by manfred on Sept 4, 2023 16:03:33 GMT -5
It's a fair point that I wouldn't want to give up a Mayer for him, but I also wonder why Manzardo is ranked that high as a 23 year old first baseman with league average AAA offensive production. These things tend to work out in the Rays favor--I suspect Manzardo won't amount to much and the Rays get a number 3-ish cheap starter for the next three years. I would not have done Mayer for Civale either, but this does highlight the fact that the price to obtain impact pitching through trade this off season will hurt. Also returns me to what we could have gotten for Paxton. |
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Post by oldfaithful2019 on Sept 4, 2023 16:11:37 GMT -5
Hey ! We have a pulse !!!!
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Post by ephus on Sept 4, 2023 16:12:12 GMT -5
Next year Casas sends that last pitch oppo for a 3-rum bomb. And there will be no No No today! No shutout either. Let’s go!
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Post by soxfansince67 on Sept 4, 2023 16:23:06 GMT -5
Cy-vale.
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