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Post by philsbosoxfan on Mar 31, 2023 17:18:47 GMT -5
Seating behind the batter sure is steep. Were they running out of room on that side ? Not quite sure where you mean, but having run all over the park, the only steep spots are the couple of rows in right field over the scoreboard, the "Worcester Wall" seats. It looks steep on the TV. I can't remember watching a game at Polar last year, I prefer watching lower levels where players are more into the development stage. After they startup I probably wont' watch another AAA game.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Mar 31, 2023 17:20:35 GMT -5
Thinking about it, WooSox defense is going to challenge pitching all year long.
Portland and Greenville should be fun for that aspect.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Mar 31, 2023 18:29:04 GMT -5
A bit off topic but WooSox advertisements look 'major league'.
For whatever reason, MLB doesn't show ads overseas. I have no idea why they are missing the international advertisements but they do. We only see baseball zen commercials run over and over and over.
Way of topic but a few years ago, I saw an AD for Donelan's Supermarket so, A Donelan's story. In 1968-9, they had only two stores, the original in Littleton and one in Acton. During that time I was in Vietnam and had a general schedule of five days in the field ('boonies') followed by two days in a base camp. When you go into the boonies, you had to carry ('hump') everything you will need for five days. It's not feasible to hump more than a canteen of water, instead, you brought iodine pills to add to locally obtained water to kill the bacteria. Unfortunately, our area (AO) was mostly swamps. You spent five days in water up to your waist. Swamp water is brown and tastes like mud so I asked my mom to send me some root beer Kool-aid to at least make it seem normal. My mom shopped at Donelan's and when she told that to John Donelan, he shipped enough root beer Kool-Aid to supply all six (long story on why six not five for those that know Army organizations) LRRP (long range reconnaissance patrol) units for the rest of the time that the 1st Infantry Division was in Vietnam.
Moral of the story, shop at Donelan's.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Mar 31, 2023 23:44:08 GMT -5
Politi pitched tonight lol welcome back!! Guess I must’ve missed the news no one else claimed him.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 1, 2023 0:06:29 GMT -5
Politi pitched tonight lol welcome back!! Guess I must’ve missed the news no one else claimed him. Returned from Baltimore on the 28th. On draft day, who had Politi as the first one back ? For me, I thought he'd be the only one that might stick. As far as I know, Ward's velocity hasn't returned.
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Post by johnsilver52 on Apr 1, 2023 6:48:09 GMT -5
How did Whitlock look? Looks like a decent line, though seems that he gave up a few hard-hit balls and baseball-savant is saying his velo really dipped in the 4th. I thought he looked good, most of the singles were on the ground. Few hard hit balls in the air. I didn't pick up on a velocity drop. Thought both Whitlock and Shugart looked good. Other motley cllection of relievers brought in over the winter who pitched in the game had issues tho. Shugart, looking at just the linescore looked iffy, but 2 50 hoppers thru the infield and sitting 95 looked like the lone bright spot among relievers yesterday. Game was on Nesn and rebroadcast again at 11am today, 11/1 anyone not have milb tv.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 1, 2023 9:00:32 GMT -5
LOL, if I ever knew about Jacques, I don't remember. Minor league Rule 5 pick
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Post by mobaz on Apr 2, 2023 7:26:30 GMT -5
A bit off topic but WooSox advertisements look 'major league'. For whatever reason, MLB doesn't show ads overseas. I have no idea why they are missing the international advertisements but they do. We only see baseball zen commercials run over and over and over. In US we only get Baseball Zen or MLB house "I love this game" type clips 90% of the time. Guessing that changes when more move away from bankrupt local cable.
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Post by bentossaurus on Apr 2, 2023 10:03:47 GMT -5
Europe here (UK and Portugal), and after 2 games I'm already fed up of hearing Carlos Peña talk about the Cooperstown show. Also Baseball Zen.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 2, 2023 18:09:15 GMT -5
It's amazing that MLB isn't running basic paid commercials. I thought it was only the non-Japanese Asian market.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Apr 3, 2023 10:36:14 GMT -5
It's amazing that MLB isn't running basic paid commercials. I thought it was only the non-Japanese Asian market. I'm sure there's a rights issue.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Apr 3, 2023 14:35:53 GMT -5
It's amazing that MLB isn't running basic paid commercials. I thought it was only the non-Japanese Asian market. I'm sure there's a rights issue. Seems like a giant waste, they should work something out. I noticed that they are running You-Tube style ADs now in the video highlights. ADD: Last year NESN always missed the first pitch of an inning. They seem to have solved that this year.
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