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Post by tonyc on Sept 17, 2017 21:45:52 GMT -5
I go back to the later days of Tony C, but never have I learned so much as from the 10+ years reading and occasionally posting here. I grew up as an early day stat head, but the staff and posters are so far beyond me with all the modern stats. The scouting reports have taught me what to look for in pitchers. I love reading the game threads for camaraderie and to confirm my irritation with umpire strike zones. As a sox fan growing up in N.Y, and now here great to share with my own tribe! Often when I see Sox caps here in Colorado, or in my travels I tell them about this wonderful site, which is my favorite forum on the internet. I don't go to any others as the level of knowledge and the courtesy are pretty matchless! I thank all the hardworking staff as well as the great posters! Thanks.
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Post by tonyc on Sept 7, 2017 16:38:44 GMT -5
I only got maybe one look at him and am impressed. I liked the fastball velocity and his spotting it. I liked the changeup down. I believe he got away with a couple of changeups up in the zone which were missed because of the velocity differential- that could catch up with him. I did not see him throw any breaking pitches (am pleased to see the Bannister quote that it's improving) because without any, a hitter could sometimes guess changeup.
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Post by tonyc on Sept 1, 2017 21:02:15 GMT -5
Who would have thought when all of us, including myself, were puking at Fisters first performances that he may be in the playoff rotation if he keeps outpiching Erod and Price isn't ready.
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Post by tonyc on Aug 27, 2017 22:10:46 GMT -5
No doubt Pomeranz is much further along, however some similarities- 6'6" Lefthanders with repertoire focused on fastball/curve and took time to develope as starters. Ball would need to put on a bit more weight and get a tick or two added, plus sharpen secondaries. Not likely, but possible- I hope they keep him.
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Post by tonyc on Aug 27, 2017 21:45:27 GMT -5
Thanks for the report Sarasoxer. Alex Speir last reported Ball hasn't showed enough consistency to be protected. I'm hopeful his next (last?) start is real good, making three in a row so they can think about it. I still like the increasing velocity through the start, the breaking ball and remaining projection in his build. If he can work on the cutter or change the goal is to become a sort of Drew Pomeranz type.
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Post by tonyc on Aug 27, 2017 13:35:51 GMT -5
That's bases loaded, maybe the sox score multiple runs. I'm sick of umps on close calls. Early on there was talk of not only putting in a pitch clock, but electronic umpiring by the players union suggestion. I haven't heard it lately though and doubt it would happen. We need it yesterday, just as we need auto pilot driving for cars with all the lame drivers risking our lives.
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Post by tonyc on Aug 19, 2017 16:12:36 GMT -5
This is great! I live in Colorado and won't see it, but has anyone noticed if there is a sound speaker attached and if there are audio clips of him? I wrote and professionally recorded a song "Tony C" which can be accessed through my website JEFFTUNE.COM. I have a fantasy of trying to contact the Redsox- wonder who would be best to contact?, and seeing if they have interest in adding a song to the display. Also, if I were lucky enough to have them interested, wonder if it's appropriate to mention in the email that I paid professional session players and a recording studio to record it in the hopes I'd be paid some kind of fee as it was months of work!
I wrote, sang, and played the rhythm guitar. Hope you enjoy it!
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Post by tonyc on Aug 19, 2017 14:57:55 GMT -5
Prior to getting hurt Joe had quite a long streak without giving up runs, he needs more innings to get back. Anyone hear of scouting on Carson last night?
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Post by tonyc on Aug 17, 2017 16:21:24 GMT -5
Yeah, he'll pitch a few like this and get people hopeful then fall. I don't think the needle on his projection moves on a start like this until he can finally get 6 in a row. However, it shows that ceiling is still there. I originally liked the pick. I'm wondering a bit about Sam Travis..his stats need to catch up with the scouting.
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Post by tonyc on Aug 12, 2017 9:16:24 GMT -5
Great story Phil! I play guitar and can pretty much impersonate Brit voices like his, doing Aqualung, or Pink Floyd songs. Remember listening to Ian interviewed many years ago growing fish farms and being humble enough to say he "does not own them, but tends them" as a general principle denoting our temporary role on the planet. A songwriter friend explained some stupid rules which I forgot about if Tull was properly qualified, they'd instantly go into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. I'm still burned that Kiss got in instead of Yes a couple years ago, the latter whom finally made it in. As my friend does, I think today's music is truly garbage, I call it "auto-tuned vomit pop" and still listen to pretty much music from that era other than the occasional exception like Radiohead.
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Post by tonyc on Jul 31, 2017 16:57:31 GMT -5
Interesting trade! Some upside in all three prospects and risk, and with Gray as well. Would this site be screaming had we given up a similar array in their position? In the bigger picture, a stronger Yankee and Dodger team with Darvish puts more competition risk into Dombrowski's moves to shorten and strengthen our window into three years. This move could help the Yankees move through the postseason- or bite them, but in general, I'm thinking about the previous trade upgrading their bullpen, their great trades last year and drafts- they are formidable and doing it the right way, through acquisitions and drafts, not overpaying everyone hoping something sticks. I don't find them hateable like the old days..Judge is a good kid by all accounts and there are some negative reports about our own team. Realistically I also care more about my job (until Thursday night many healthcare jobs were nearly lost) than back in the day when I cared more about the Redsox than myself- back in 1980 when the Russians had invaded Afghanistan and rumors were rampant we'd attack back and start a draft, as a 22 year old I happily told my friends "JIm Rice is 27 and they can't take him! And I got a repsonse, yea but they can take us!"
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Post by tonyc on Jun 14, 2017 11:53:25 GMT -5
Telson thanks for the clarification and since you mentioned Herb Washington, worth repeating my memory of him. By his second step he was full speed, and was sliding into second as the catchers throw was still sailing over the mound, as my friend and I had our eyes popping out laughing! He had not played baseball since high school and took so much crap from other players for not being a "true" baseball player that his experiment as an exclusive pinch-runner was ended within another year or two. I still feel that if such an explosive runner had been given more time to learn pitchers movement tendencies the raw speed may have developed into prolific basestealing. Using that roster spot in today's game, though, with larger pitching staffs and more bench versatility required would be a difficult fit.
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Post by tonyc on May 30, 2017 22:29:45 GMT -5
Yes what a special moment to appreciate NL. I scoured you tube for plays with him, the way you can easily find Orr's, some of which I recall. Couldn't find any, but did find that he set up a foundation to help people with special needs in Quebec. Yes, I click on Kirk all day, even more than this site... great source for analysis, glad to hear from another passionate Bruins fan. Best goal I ever saw (just memory, never saw replay) was in 72-3 in playoffs against Rangers- Esposito was out so their fate was sealed. However, Orr went coast to coast and finished by pushing off a defenseman with one arm and roofing the puck with the other!
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Post by tonyc on May 30, 2017 22:07:02 GMT -5
Yes what a special moment to appreciate NL. I scoured you tube for plays with him, the way you can easily find Orr's, some of which I recall. Couldn't find any, but did find that he set up a foundation to help people with special needs in Quebec. Yes, I click on Kirk all day, even more than this site... great source for analysis, glad to hear from another passionate Bruins fan. Best goal I ever saw (just memory, never saw replay) was in 72-3 in playoffs against Rangers- Esposito was out so their fate was sealed. However, Orr went coast to coast and finished by pushing off a defenseman with one arm and roofing the puck with the other!
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Post by tonyc on May 30, 2017 18:21:45 GMT -5
Thanks Tex's- You were my first source for that story! This may be huge long term not only for his contributions, but hopefully saving the team getting someone who would cost assets and salary cap. With health, he might be so much fun to watch! I am still aching to this day about Norman Levielle. If you were to ask Harry Sinden or Ray Bourque, NL would probably be the most dynamic forward they've had in the last 40 years- a speed/shot combo in the Bobby Hull ballpark cut down at age 19 by a stroke early in the season when he was their leading scorer blowing past people with breakaways, and unleashing shots goalies couldn't see, and sending 200 lb opponents flying with body checks. If Bjork is half as good, which I suspect he will be, we're in for lots of exciting plays!
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Post by tonyc on Mar 19, 2017 12:49:49 GMT -5
Launch angle is a huge deal. Mo Vaughn was not projecting good power, until coach Mike Easler worked with him (a sliver lining to losing John Tudor to acquire Easler) and made him into their best power hitter of that era.
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Post by tonyc on Mar 16, 2017 19:00:40 GMT -5
While the two sports are apples and oranges, I find myself far more interested in the Bruins winning a championship in several years. They are where the sox were a year or two ago with a great crop of young players. That sport still has many players who bust a gut for each other and the team, with an action level, I believe that is matchless and a hard cap so that pretty much everyone has to build by the draft. I had to debate over renewing my Sox package, but to quote another Star Trek espisode, after nearly 50 years of following them; the Romulan commander said "fear not Centurian, I am too much a creature of habit."
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Post by tonyc on Mar 16, 2017 18:42:42 GMT -5
It's a bit oddball in our results oriented culture, but now that the sox have won- and I just prayed for one- if I had to choose between seeing them win one or more WS with Sale and co, vs being competitive with Kopech, Moncada and Espinosa, I think I'd pick the latter- just getting to see them grow and fantasize. And seeing the Norse God and Goddess girlfriend at the games. Sort of like when Spock in that wonderful episode where he fought for his mate said to the Vulcan winner: "you may find with time that wanting is better than having..it is not logical but often so."
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Post by tonyc on Mar 16, 2017 17:53:31 GMT -5
Good article on Kopech today. It's tempting to pull against guys traded away, but I'm pulling for him big time, even more after that read. Perhaps he becomes Clemens 2 and Moncada if he doesn't make contact becomes like Joe Morgan in Houston- speedy, draws walks, fields. Reading that article displayed his diligence to every aspect of physical health and development - and he'll obviously apply that to his delivery and learning pitches through his career. Reminds me of seeing Clemens during a game in the bullpen working on bouncing off the mound. If he remains healthy his ceiling is unlimited and he just may achieve his goals of HOF and 107mph. The beautiful girlfriend and his looks and interesting personae and all part of it.
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Post by tonyc on Feb 10, 2017 21:13:59 GMT -5
Prior to last season in a thread here for sleepers of 2016 he was mine. On the one hand I don't expect a good start by him, but with dd gutting the system he represents one of very few potential starting pitchers. Boy what a bonus if he straightens out his issues, and puts on size and velocity!
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Post by tonyc on Jan 25, 2017 22:20:35 GMT -5
Between the Yanks prospects, resources and free agent class in a few years I too have been thinking it's quite possible we'll be looking up at them. In 10 years will we be looking back and actually pleased that DD won a series or two in a small window before a 6 year Yankee powerhouse? Could that ultimately justify creating a great team with a 3 year window, as opposed to a very good one with a 7 year window? I suspect the answer will be no, as we've become such a here and now culture- how quickly did the afterglow of the 2013 World Series vanish in the face of a couple of poor finishes.
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Post by tonyc on Jan 19, 2017 10:57:27 GMT -5
I liked the clowning around with Orsillo. Jerry's hoarse laugh makes me crack up. Also, loved it when Speir did a sabermetric talk and Lyons said, "I have no idea what you talked about but it was great." Yes, enjoyed Ned Martin (and Bob Wilson) on a high screeching signal that I had to turn my radio round and round to receive from Brooklyn. Met a likeminded woman at a sports bar in NY who found a clear signal and just kept driving back and forth on the same 10 mile stretch to get the game.
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Post by tonyc on Jan 11, 2017 20:05:54 GMT -5
Telson sorry to hear about your calf, but thanks much for your well wishes! Soon after the real Tony C finally quit I took months of intensive trainings at the long since defunct Ken Keyes center, the author of Handbook to Higher Consciousness and Hundreth Monkey. He created a system to accept "unacceptable" events combining cognitive therapy and spiritual principles. I've been facilitating a small group for years and listen to affirmations daily. Of course I only connect on a deep level occasionally, and have the same difficulties accepting events everyone else does. However, during the blindness it was so obvious that any emotional trauma over that was just superimposing another issue on "WHAT IS", so even I was able to just surrender then. It sounds a bit like when Eckhart Tolle described his friend being locked in a noisy hot and dangerous Florida prison and finally just let go, reaching an epiphany. Or when he himself one night was suicidally depressed and just let go of everything and has since been living in a higher state.
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Post by tonyc on Jan 11, 2017 14:15:47 GMT -5
Given the injuries/issues Swihart and Vasquez had in 2016, that will compensate for any upside blip Leon had. I agree things seem solid. Pedro, thanks for the reminder. In May 2007 I had a retinal detachment occur twice, and perhaps only Telson knows the difficult recovery, not to mention facing blindness- you must stay face down, including during sleep at all times (so that a surgically placed bubble can rise upward and reattach it). This eventually worked and the one thing keeping me going during months of recovery was I had a special upside down reverse mirror/chair to enable watching TV- the 2007 Redsox were the cure! I can see how important baseball was to people during WW2. Post season I sat with some Cleveland fans when they were down 3 games to one- and facing multiple 19 game winners- and told them I thought Cleveland pretty much had it.
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Post by tonyc on Jan 9, 2017 11:17:47 GMT -5
Hey James, I sold my Strat-o matic cards decades ago, and I don't remember Hobson's fielding rating, but remember that he was the backup quarterback for Alabama and considered to have a very strong arm. Also, when he threw wretchedly during that '78 stretch run and was replaced by Jack Brohamer at third and shifted to DH, it was because his arm was so badly injured he couldn't fully bend it.
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