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Post by geostorm on Feb 26, 2019 19:20:44 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Dec 19, 2018 18:07:44 GMT -5
It’s just my OCD, but is there any way a moderator can switch “resigned” to “re-signed” in the thread title? Maybe it's my OCD, but I found it interesting, this request for a subject line thread edit, when the thread seemed to veer off course from the "subject" matter, about 2 pages or so earlier.
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Post by geostorm on Dec 7, 2018 9:20:35 GMT -5
more a bit of "brain candy"/fun, than anything of depth...
"Fandom Legacy: Boston Red Sox fans are not “loveable losers”. They are not a “woe is me” fan base. On the contrary, they hated losing for 86 years. They booed Bill Buckner every chance they had, they eviscerated Grady Little for leaving in Pedro Martinez and they have buried Mike Torres for decades after giving up his infamous home run to Bucky ‘bleeping’ Dent
They wallowed in their misery after trading the greatest player in baseball history, Babe Ruth, aka the Original Sin of Baseball. They were stuck in purgatory and hated every second of it. But did they stop going to games? Did they give up on their team after trading away Jeff Bagwell and Sparky Lyle? Did they walk out on their team after blowing four World Series?
No. They continued to sell out games. Now that winning ways have returned to Fenway, fans line the streets of the city to celebrate where they’ve come, what they’ve endured and how sweet it is to love the Red Sox.
This Year in Fandom: For the fourth time this century, Red Sox fans watched a World Series-winning team. The journey to October featured a handful of great moments, from Joe Kelly sitting in the bleachers during games, to the LGTBQ nights that celebrated Pride. Fenway was an inclusive community that went beyond just rooting for a baseball team. It was taking your mother to a World Series game and sharing that memory, like Sports Illustrated’s Charlotte Wilder did, or bringing your kids to games and passing on the heirloom of fandom. Not everything about Boston sports is perfect, but true Red Sox fans rose above that and once again showed us why they’re among the best fans in the world."
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Post by geostorm on Nov 27, 2018 8:17:54 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Oct 29, 2018 18:24:59 GMT -5
The joy for me of watching this team is not the rote, mechanistic exercise of projecting how sustainable the performance was. There is certainly analytical value in that, and plenty of time in the offseason to start thinking about how 2018 informs 2019 and beyond (and yes, it's impossible to resist slipping into it now and then, even on the day after a World Series win). No, Joe Kelly will not sustain his Super Saiyan form, Alex Cora's Midas touch will wear off, Eovaldi and Price won't be able to sustain awe-inspiring performances on short rest through sheer power of will. But for a few nights in October, they did all that, and it was awesome. I vote for this to be narrated at the beginning of the 2018 WS DVD. Wish I could like it 100 times. I'm pretty damn concerned about next year's World Series hangover, because you know there is a price to pay for these pitchers who threw way too much this season. But the memories of 2018 will help me get by no matter what happens. I'll still be smiling. I'm sure the players wouldn't have it any other way. I'm so proud of our team. I'm even more glad that we don't have to do the mental gymnastics of having to root for someone like Manny Machado because he was on our team. I love all of our guys, every one of them. When you do get around to this, appreciate thoughts/analysis regarding whether the SP/Rover model was at least in part sustainable, this year, and perhaps difficult to replicate, but for Sale and Price having thrown well below their respective norms, in "pitch count" for the year, coming into the playoffs?
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Post by geostorm on Oct 29, 2018 18:15:49 GMT -5
The last narrative that's completely gone is the Jon Lester versus Price narrative. "I wish we could have resigned Lester instead." David Price decided to sign here. Jon Lester decided to walk away, even when the Sox upped their offer and made it a fair one like Lester said when he originally wanted to resign here (135-140 million in free agency offered by the Sox). David Price is now legend in Boston like Lester was. Actually, isn't "the last narrative that's completely gone", is that the Red Sox can't win a World Series, without Papi, finally, FINALLY accomplishing that on the 100th anniversary of the "last one"?!
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 22:44:15 GMT -5
Cheers of "Thank you, David", ringing in the air, there...
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 22:43:20 GMT -5
Pedro on MLB Network, panel, now, Sox fans fired up there...
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 22:40:16 GMT -5
Pearce MVP
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 22:37:56 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 22:02:02 GMT -5
Red Sox vs. Dodgers 2018 World Series Gameday Thread 10 hours ago voiceofreason and telson13 like this
Post by geostorm on 10 hours ago 14 hours ago telson13 said:
"Is anyone else having difficulty reconciling Price’s playoff history with the fact that he’s going to win MVP tonight with a 7 2 0 0 0 10 line?"
Hard not to root for him to check all the boxes, on his Roll the Trolls, tour - 1) Win a game in the playoffs (v a team with same name as your dog); then 2) Win a game in the playoffs; in cold weather; then 3) Win clinching game, in WS... ...to have a chance to do that, and then clinch a Championship going up v SP who your FA deal was comped to (e.g. "he got Kershaw money"), what are the chances of something like that would even happen, though?... ...I mean, those are the types of things that happen only in Hollywood... ...right?... Read more: forum.soxprospects.com/user/1389/recent#ixzz5VHkvTzoU
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 15:42:31 GMT -5
"Boston Sports Info @bostonsportsinf 2h2 hours ago
Joe Kelly has the 10th best career post season ERA for a relief pitcher in MLB history (min 20 IP - 80 qualify)
24.1 IP - 1.11 ERA - 0.90 WHIP 4 BB - 19 K
4 BB???
Had to fend off anti-Joe Kelly people all year like mosquitoes in the Amazon
Where did you all go?"
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 13:18:33 GMT -5
If there is a chance to lock this down, tonight, AND to tuck one up and in, on this guy, before the last pitch, please
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 11:06:47 GMT -5
Is anyone else having difficulty reconciling Price’s playoff history with the fact that he’s going to win MVP tonight with a 7 2 0 0 0 10 line? Hard not to root for him to check all the boxes, on his Roll the Trolls, tour -
1) Win a game in the playoffs (v a team with same name as your dog); then
2) Win a game in the playoffs; in cold weather; then
3) Win clinching game, in WS...
...to have a chance to do that, and then clinch a Championship going up v SP who your FA deal was comped to (e.g. "he got Kershaw money"), what are the chances of something like that would even happen, though?...
...I mean, those are the types of things that happen only in Hollywood...
...right?...
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Post by geostorm on Oct 28, 2018 0:29:47 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Oct 27, 2018 23:46:03 GMT -5
yup...that Sale is okay, and will go Bame 6, but will have Sale at the ready, in Game 5
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Post by geostorm on Oct 24, 2018 23:38:39 GMT -5
So. I am very pleased. And I have basically forsworn questioning any of Cora's decisions since the Nunez homer.But. Color me confused. 1) Using Eovaldi in this game either limits his innings in game 4 or knocks him out of starting entirely. 2) It has basically knocked him out of starting a potential game 7, though maybe he'd be available for a few innings. I had been thinking it was big for us if he was going to be our game 7 starter. Eric thinks E-Rod'll get a start, which, okay, but that seems like a weird jump from his newly established LOOGY/mop-up role, and sure seems like a downgrade from Eovaldi starting. (Unless he's replacing Porcello, which I wouldn't have minded anyway, but then that would be irrelevant to the Eovaldi decision in any event.) Whatever the machinations are, the big picture is that by using Eovaldi tonight, it seems like you've taken away at least several innings from him later in the series. With a 2-run lead, I just don't see how the upgrade from Barnes to Eovaldi could have been worth that cost. unwinding, while watching some postgame segments, and reading through the thread, and paused at this line right here, as I was reflecting on this team's 2018 playoff run, and how the Sox, having already dispatched highly regarded NYY and Astros, are now up 2-0 on the "Dodgers" ...and this scene popped into my head - -
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Post by geostorm on Oct 24, 2018 22:41:30 GMT -5
(on MLB, before they transitioned to Roberts post game presser)
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Post by geostorm on Oct 24, 2018 22:40:17 GMT -5
Evoldi himself just told Heidi Watney, he thinks he's got Game 4
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Post by geostorm on Oct 24, 2018 7:42:52 GMT -5
Aren't people on the west coast used to working 6-2 or 7-3 because they have to deal with the east coast? lol, said like an easterner... I know this was some good natured "easterner" kidding...
...on a "real" note - I've worked as a "virtual", in benefits management (qualified pension plans), in Eastern time zone, for near 20 years, and we've associates all over the country, that have to do just that - working one of 8-4/8:30-4:30/9-5 EST. For a time, we had a couple of virtual associates in Taiwan, and they had to do same!
I appreciate that I'm also allowed to travel, and not burn vacation time, by being able to work, while on the road, though I'm more limited, working off my laptop and cell phone, instead of my at home two monitors w/ fully functional phone bank...
...recent years, its allowed me to travel to SF; Glendale, AZ; Cypress, TX, able to spend time with Fam/friends, and attend Red Sox road games - most recently - back and forth to Cypress for this ALCS, catching game 4, down there, which made me feel better about my not being able to my Game 6 Game 7 ALCS - and for multiple Patriots regular season and last 2 SB games, working as Jimed represented.
Thrilled & appreciative I've the accommodation to be able to do things like that, catch up with fam/friends, and not burn vacation time, and the associates I've chatted with from different times zones, that have to do that, as their norm, are happy to do so, for the trade off of no commute, and that most of them work in areas where they realize CoL savings, to boot, relative to working out of the relatively high CoL on the northeast.
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Post by geostorm on Oct 23, 2018 23:02:04 GMT -5
go get 'em...one more strike
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Post by geostorm on Oct 23, 2018 23:00:36 GMT -5
whoa...if "this" Kimbrel, is the World Series Kimbrel...
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Post by geostorm on Oct 20, 2018 12:44:06 GMT -5
www.mlb.com/news/afl-players-likely-to-make-next-years-top-100/c-298099314?tid=151437456Among AFL position players, White Sox outfielder Luis Alexander Basabe should make the biggest move into the Top 100 in 2019. And speaking of the switch-hitting center fielder with 20-20 potential . . . Seven outfielders rank among the top 14 prospects on MLB Pipeline's White Sox Top 30: Eloy Jimenez, Luis Robert, Blake Rutherford, Basabe, Micker Adolfo, Steele Walker and Luis Gonzalez. Jimenez, the system's top prospect and No. 3 on our Top 100, is a lock to man one of the corners, likely left field. He should arrive early in 2019 and settle into the third spot in Chicago's lineup for years.
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Post by geostorm on Oct 19, 2018 11:41:09 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Oct 19, 2018 8:01:16 GMT -5
Some thoughts ...
1a) I missed Pedro identifying Kimbrel's mechanical flaw because I keep on forgetting to set up the post-game separately from the game on my DVR. Nevertheless, I was 100% certain that Cora felt that a mechanical problem had been identified and fixed, or else he wouldn't have used him.
1b) In a weird way, the four-pitch walk to Gurriel was a good sign. Kimbrel lost his mechanics and was missing the zone by a mile. He collected himself and found the mechanics again; his next four pitches were called strikes, and two pitches later the game was over. That makes me more confident that he can sustain correct mechanics than if he hadn't lost them and corrected them.
2) People forget that CV is a mini-JBJ: capable of long stretches where he's helpless and decent ones where he's actually quite a good hitter for his position. While .227 / .261 / .409 is on the surface unimpressive, he's looked rather better than that, and CV getting into one of his good streaks renders the pinch-hit-for-the-catcher-twice strategy unnecessary. You can wait till the late innings and do it once.
3) People were correctly psyched about Steven Wright as a post-season relief force. We didn't have him and you saw what happened anyway.
4) Looking forward to Rafi wreaking some more Deverstation on opposing pitchers. He apparently needs 3 more RBI to break the record for post-season RBIs by a player 21 or younger.
Added the link. Best line: "The near-biblical redemption of David Price is a better local sports story than the redemption of John Lackey in 2013. Shoot, it’s a probably better tale than “The Shawshank Redemption.” "
Which, interestingly, was on during this Game!
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