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Post by gerry on Aug 3, 2024 16:00:04 GMT -5
Hi Neighbor! Have a Gansett
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Post by cba82 on Aug 3, 2024 16:04:32 GMT -5
Does anybody else miss Saturday afternoon baseball? Like it was great to have on when doing stuff around the house. Joe Garagiola & Tony Kubek: "Fastball. Strike three and he's out!" "That right there was some good old fashioned country hardball." Yeah, miss those guys. Not to mention This Week in Baseball (TWIB).
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Post by threeifbaerga on Aug 3, 2024 16:05:50 GMT -5
Hi Neighbor! Have a Gansett
I work for a distributor that sells Gansett... Love that stuff.
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Post by julyanmorley on Aug 3, 2024 16:16:20 GMT -5
Cora says TON is sick
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Post by tjb21 on Aug 3, 2024 16:18:18 GMT -5
And likely unavailable tomorrow too. Dang.
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Post by asm18 on Aug 3, 2024 16:27:45 GMT -5
Cora giving journalists fun things to write about on Trevor Story:
“I saw Trevor taking soft toss on Wednesday, and I was impressed. The swing looks normal. Now it’s about building up. I don’t know what’s next with him. But don’t be surprised if – he’s doing soft toss now – he starts taking BP and starts building up. I don’t know. I’m excited about where we’re at, to be honest with you, excited for him, because from that day in Anaheim until we talked in Colorado ... I was like he’ll play next year. Now the conversations are changing. It seems like if everything goes well, there’s a chance, a slim chance, that he can contribute."
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Post by blizzards39 on Aug 3, 2024 17:18:41 GMT -5
Interesting lineup. 6 RH bats. And the defence looks good this way.
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Post by scottysmalls on Aug 3, 2024 17:41:54 GMT -5
Per Pete Abe Cora basically said Casas lied about the pain he was feeling in the swing, kinda weird vibes on this
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Aug 3, 2024 17:44:07 GMT -5
This much-ado-about-nothing controversy is going to become RibGate, isn't it?
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Post by 07redsox on Aug 3, 2024 17:50:11 GMT -5
Per Pete Abe Cora basically said Casas lied about the pain he was feeling in the swing, kinda weird vibes on this All of these comments are interesting considering I read an article last week about this topic; before Casas even made comments. The article basically said exactly what Casas ended up saying, that he would feel it a lot when making contact, but not from the swing itself. It also said that this was normal and that as long as he can play through the pain there was no reason he couldn’t play. If that’s true, I’m not sure why Cora would be saying that they wouldn’t let him play if it was happening.
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Post by bg23 on Aug 3, 2024 17:51:13 GMT -5
Casas loves to stoke the fire
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Post by cdj on Aug 3, 2024 17:59:58 GMT -5
Per Pete Abe Cora basically said Casas lied about the pain he was feeling in the swing, kinda weird vibes on this I don’t think what Cora is saying is necessarily true. From all accounts the injury is going to be a pain-management thing at this point. If it hurts a bunch but Casas can play through it why wouldn’t the org let him play?
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Post by rico6 on Aug 3, 2024 18:00:48 GMT -5
The Schaefer s*&ts. Shuddering. Not all the oldies are goodies. Schaefer... Is the....One Beer to Have when you're Having More than One!" That's the commercial I remember the most from the old Sox broadcasts. Also, I believe it was an ad on the Sox yearbook in the 60's or 70's. Thanks for posting the jingle.
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Post by rico6 on Aug 3, 2024 18:04:20 GMT -5
Does anybody else miss Saturday afternoon baseball? Like it was great to have on when doing stuff around the house. I do miss the Game of the Week. I learned a lot about baseball from just listening to Garagiola and Kubek. Unlike today's NESN broadcasts filled with infomercials.
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Post by cheers on Aug 3, 2024 18:18:06 GMT -5
Connor Wong appears much better at getting to stuff at 1B???
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Post by wildsox on Aug 3, 2024 18:18:32 GMT -5
How about that from Wong!
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Aug 3, 2024 18:24:27 GMT -5
I would have given Devers an error and Wong's play was one of the best I've ever seen from a first baseman.
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Post by notstarboard on Aug 3, 2024 18:24:37 GMT -5
How about that from Wong! That AB however... At least per gamecast, he just took three pitches right down the middle, two of which were 90-91 mph fastballs, from a LHP?
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Post by scottysmalls on Aug 3, 2024 18:25:17 GMT -5
I don’t have solid reasoning for this but in my head Refsnyder’s Wins above WAR is extremely high
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Post by wildsox on Aug 3, 2024 18:26:09 GMT -5
That's gone at Fenway for Jansen
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Post by finaliz3d on Aug 3, 2024 18:26:47 GMT -5
i was so certain that was gone, damn.
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Post by benogliviesbrother on Aug 3, 2024 18:28:39 GMT -5
I'm blacked out from the TV this weekend so I'm stuck listening on the radio and this is back to back nights the announcer went into his screaming IT IS HIGH IT IS DEEP only to finish with "it is caught." Is this a regular thing with this guy? How annoying.
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Post by wildsox on Aug 3, 2024 18:28:56 GMT -5
This ump is generous for both pitchers so far
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Post by finaliz3d on Aug 3, 2024 18:30:44 GMT -5
This ump is generous for both pitchers so far atleast he's consistently bad lol.
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Post by asm18 on Aug 3, 2024 18:32:21 GMT -5
Whoever Houck’s barber is can they have him give haircuts to the rest of the pitching staff
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