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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 27, 2022 10:47:27 GMT -5
I don't know what to say, other than: talk radio is not reality. Everyone would do better to not listen to it.This is true on every level!
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 26, 2022 19:11:36 GMT -5
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 21, 2022 10:36:49 GMT -5
Head up to Lowell and wait for the others.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jul 17, 2022 13:57:19 GMT -5
If you can trade Sale and Eovaldi and Wacha and start next season with Pivetta, Crawford, Winckowski, Bello, Mata, Groome and maybe draft Rocker you have a staff without a true ace but with potential to develop several serviceable starters and that doesn't include Whitlock and Houck either of who add to the depth. What happens with the hitters depends on what happens with Xander and Devers (who they should now have the $$$ to sign), but since the pitchers probably won't be enough to get you home next year anyway you can bring up Casas and wait on Rafaela and perhaps who the trades yielded for a season while still being more entertaining than this season.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 24, 2022 11:14:31 GMT -5
I guess they are guarding the land from being taken by the government. I think you meant the "palefaces", government was only part of the problem.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 21, 2022 6:42:04 GMT -5
Another nice start for Lobo. His DSL season so far: 13IP, 8H, 1ER, 2BB, 18K Will we need another 'Hungry Like the Wolf' thread? You Took the Words RIght Out of My Mouth
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 20, 2022 15:37:51 GMT -5
LOL, Freddy you know this site is heavily populated by Boomers, right? I see him as a billigerent teen acting out.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 13, 2022 10:42:04 GMT -5
FYMT(BB)GE
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 13, 2022 10:33:46 GMT -5
I'm assumimg soxinnj was going for the alliteration effect and not making a reference to the lack of classlessness of Catholics in general, though perhpas ND baseball in particular at least as compared to this iteration of the Vols.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 13, 2022 10:22:31 GMT -5
Need a thrid ss to emerge to recreate the ARod, Jeter, Nomar triumverate (and Nomah was better til the wrist injury).
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 5, 2022 12:51:10 GMT -5
Scheduled for open heart surgery in the morning, how about a real easy tape to tape win tonight so my heart doesn't get too riled up. I would like to be around for one more dynasty please, city of champions!! 2-1/2 years past mine (quintuple cavage - didn't even know they did those) and my best advice is get off the opiods post surgery ASAP, they gave me weird hallucinations and fever dreams. Do the walking as much as you can and try to get into a rehap with a good kitchen facility (hospital food lives up to it's rep). Good luck and welcome to the zipper club.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Jun 3, 2022 10:56:24 GMT -5
Could go with Jeopardy James Holzhauer's "All in"
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Mar 24, 2022 18:25:01 GMT -5
Man you guys cursed poor Fitzgerald in record time
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Mar 9, 2022 19:03:54 GMT -5
I never thought I'd say "I like Lou Merloni's analogy on this" in this thread, but... I like Lou Merloni's analogy on this. It's about what the players' "labor" is worth. Just a thought point. And before anyone replies with "they're playing a game," the value is from revenues, franchise values, etc. Remove the 1200 union players from MLB and they're screwed. Replace the 30 owners with 30 other rich people and nothing changes. Your house isn’t worth that much $300k if you can’t find a buyer to pay $300k. And players aren’t going to find $300k yet alone $100k as a whole if they don’t take this offer. That’s the other side of the coin I guess you haven't actually sold a house in a market other than this one where things sell at or above offer in 24 hours. But usually it takes a while to find a buyer and caving to some clown who lowballs you because he "moved more than you" just implies a lack of patience or understanding.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Dec 10, 2021 16:33:00 GMT -5
Is this the starting / bench infield in ‘23? C - ? / ? 1B - Casas / Dalbec 2B - Arroyo / Arauz 3B - Devers / Dalbec SS - Downs / Arauz Nick Yorke says "Hello and WT....?"
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Dec 9, 2021 8:20:37 GMT -5
Better to underpromise and overdeliver than the reverse.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Oct 6, 2021 13:42:52 GMT -5
Not sure it was fair of Boone to imply the rest of the division has backed up to the MFY. To paraphrase Richard Fariña: he's been down so long it looks like up to him. Sadly, I remember him and Turn Your Money Green whne it was new (but on the upside I got to enjoy the '67 Sox and still have the scorecard I kept from Game 2 (row 10 behind home plate) when Lonberg one hit the Cards.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Oct 6, 2021 11:22:29 GMT -5
Not sure it was fair of Boone to imply the rest of the division has backed up to the MFY.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 24, 2021 13:17:09 GMT -5
So it's fair to say Jeter is a HOFer no matter where he would have played. Buuuuut, how many of his 5!? Gold Gloves does he win if he'd been in say, Milwaukee?
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 9, 2021 12:10:48 GMT -5
I know that WAR is a complex calculation and it's a team game so no one person gets all the credit.....but, if ever there was a one WAR game Hunter Renfoe just had it (of course he didn't pitch the first 8 innings but yesterday he might have lol).
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Sept 1, 2021 14:51:54 GMT -5
So has there been anything definitive said about why Newton was released rather than stick around as the backup? I have many theories, but I just wanted some clarity. (haha, clarity from Belichick) Yeah, I think New England probably wanted him as a backup/wildcat threat. Especially considering Mac’s frame. Signing Malcom Perry indicates to me that they want to have a running qb available to them. Or he’s just a gritty navy guy… If only they had some history of success with 5'10" quarterbacks who were converted to wide receiver.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 26, 2021 7:49:26 GMT -5
3K’s in 1.5 games for Yorke. There will be an adjustment period. 30% K rate !!! .400/.800/1.200!!! Nevermind. LOL adjustment period ovah. (Chances are we are both.....premature.)
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 24, 2021 8:02:21 GMT -5
After reading some of that old thread ( Guidas hope you're composing that apology letter and preparing for the new avatar that Oregon Norm threatened you with (pg. 7)) isn't it perfectly Karmic that the last we read of Nick Yorke in action is that he is intentionally walked to load the bases so Blaze Jordan, the guy drafted next because of the money left due to the Yorke selection, blasts a grand slam?! Lots of crow indeed lololol!
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 20, 2021 8:05:41 GMT -5
I suggest you all go and take a look at the win forcast for this team that we all made back in last winter. Practically no one had them contending and many did not expet a .500 season. For four months the team overperformed playing well above their pythag while winning a lot of close games late. The pitching was never much above average except for the bullpen and now the law of averages seem to have caught up with them. Even at their best they in reality didn't look like they were superior to Houston, Tampa, LAD or SF. Bloom decided not to sacrfice the plan for the moment's shiny oblect which now seems to have been a mirage (though I haven't given up onthem yet). He added a solid bat and the IL has returned them a solid and perhaps ace arm, if that's not enough too bad...2013 doesn't happen very often and you should never count on it.
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Post by maxwellsdemon on Aug 15, 2021 13:26:17 GMT -5
So the Sox are 15th in mlb for men LOB with 14.24 per game (this is about 1.5 fewer than last year btw). You know who's best? Cleveland at 12.93. Worst? Dodgers at 15.94. www.teamrankings.com/mlb/stat/left-on-base-per-gameJust seems to be one of those things that stand out in one's mind - probably because it's soo aggrivatinga
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