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David Wright *might* be available to DH when the Mets play in Baltimore in a few weeks. I fully expect to hear of a "setback" as soon as he starts minor league games next Monday. e: quote:Anthony DiComo e2: Also I will never get sick of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk0uDUyrZ0g davecrazy fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Aug 1, 2015 |
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Woah. Lucchino out as Red Sox CEO.quote:@BostonGlobe: Breaking: Larry Lucchino out as Red Sox CEO, @Dan_shaughnessy reports
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some people reporting he's "out" and some people are reporting he's "leaving"
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Well, the ownership of the Sox had to do something; whether or not it was the right thing remains to be seen. Lucchino always came across as a confrontational rear end in a top hat in what I had read about him. Not sure if that's entirely true or if it's just Shaugnessey & Co. grinding their axes again. Also Travis Shaw is alright. E: I mean, Lucchino was the guy who came up with the whole "Evil Empire" bullshit a decade or so ago. MrChips fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Aug 2, 2015 |
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Somebody gotta fall on that sword
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Bill what are you implying http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/31/the-benches-cleared-in-fridays-giants-rangers-game/ (it's racism instead of Bumgarner just being a whiny pissbaby)
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N: Rizzo has now Rizzbombed in four consecutive games. V: 
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Mike_V posted:Jesus Christ Matt Moore has been awful since coming back from TJ. Is he gonna find his stuff? He's getting sent down apparently. Pitching Prospects.
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cya lucchino. if only he could take dan shaugnessy with him into a big awful pit of gravel or something
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Reformed Pissboy posted:cya lucchino. if only he could take dan shaugnessy with him into a big awful pit of gravel or something Speaking of Shaugnessy, does anyone have the link to Andino killing the Red Sox to the tune of Sweet Caroline? I want to send it to my friend from Boston on the anniversary this year.
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MrChips posted:Well, the ownership of the Sox had to do something; whether or not it was the right thing remains to be seen. Lucchino always came across as a confrontational rear end in a top hat in what I had read about him. Not sure if that's entirely true or if it's just Shaugnessey & Co. grinding their axes again. Haven't the Red Sox used Shaughnessy as their hatchet man for the last like 15 years? Tomorrow he'll be breaking a story that Lucchino was railing hookers in the team conference room or something.
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The hatchet job will be that Lucchino didn't share Cheringtons vision and had tied the GMs hands and had forced some signing or another (Pablo!) and that's why he's gone.
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N: The Mets have won their 1st two games against the Nats and now are a single game out of 1st place in the NL East with the last game of the series tomorrow night. V:  Lucas Duda is scorching hot right now, he has 8 HR in his last 7 games or something silly like that and the Nats IBB'd Cespedes to face him due to MATCHUPS and he promptly crushed an RBI double for the go-ahead score. Cespedes trade already paying dividends and it's been one game.
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Timby posted:Haven't the Red Sox used Shaughnessy as their hatchet man for the last like 15 years? Tomorrow he'll be breaking a story that Lucchino was railing hookers in the team conference room or something. Shaughnessy is as much of a loose cannon as he is an ally from the perspective of the front office/ownership. In one of his books, Reversing the Curse(that I had the misfortune of being given for Christmas one year), he does a huge hatchet job on Lucchino, essentially saying that he was the sole reason why Theo left the FO in the first place (which is highly debatable and very likely wrong - sure Lucchino was trying to play GM towards the end but at the same time Theo achieved what he wanted and felt that the stress of the job wasn't worth the reward). Basically what I'm saying is that Shaughnessy is a bad person who uses his admittedly decent writing skills to advance his own moron agenda. I personally can't stand reading his columns, and I'm certainly not alone in that opinion among Red Sox fans.
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So I brought up replays in the last thread and then wasn't online before the thread closed. Yes, of course the replays are conducted in NYC...by umpires. Who know what was called on the field and thus can avoid showing up their fellow umpires by not overturning the call. Why do they know what the call was? Just either make a call or say 'too close to call' and let the unknown call stand, letting them know what the call on the field was is just stupid. For this season less than 50% of replays have led to an overturned call. This may seem like a pretty good percentage, but given that teams almost never challenge until they have viewed a replay and determined that the call was wrong, it seems pretty ridiculous to me. My personal basis for this was that the Tigers have had an astonishing 7 out of 19 challenges work out, and at least 15 or 16 of those challenges were clearly the wrong call. It seems pretty evident to me from the games I've seen this year that if the call is even remotely close it will not be overturned. Even to a more extreme example than the NFL's replay rules. It's better than nothing, but it's still a lovely broken system. If a player beats a throw to a base, they're safe. It shouldn't matter if they were called out on the field and it was 'really close'. But that's how it's being called this year. It just seems like a rule that could really use some improvements. At the very least just spell it out that something is only going to be overturned if it's an incredibly egregious call, and then we won't waste so much time on pointless challenges.
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N: Dodgers currently paying $85.75MM to eight players who aren't on their team anymore.quote:Hector Olivera, 3B (Atlanta Braves) | $28 million V: I think the Olivera contract is the most startling because that was a signing made most recently by the front office and is now gone.
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Rand alPaul posted:N: Dodgers currently paying $85.75MM to eight players who aren't on their team anymore. Thats more than the Astros entire payroll
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Marquis de Pyro posted:For this season less than 50% of replays have led to an overturned call. This may seem like a pretty good percentage, but given that teams almost never challenge until they have viewed a replay and determined that the call was wrong, it seems pretty ridiculous to me. My personal basis for this was that the Tigers have had an astonishing 7 out of 19 challenges work out, and at least 15 or 16 of those challenges were clearly the wrong call. It is not true that managers only challenge when they are sure that the call is wrong. Managers often challenge when the game is getting late and the play is close, because they soon won't be able to challenge so why not. Managers also challenge often when a run is at stake, because a run in a tight game is so important, that challenging on the off chance that the call is overturned is definitely worth it even if the evidence doesn't suggest that the call will be changed. The only real problem that I can see with instant replay is that the camera angles are often not very useful. When the threshold is indisputable evidence to overturn a call, there very often simply aren't camera angles to prove it. While what we see may suggest that the call should be overturned, that's not enough. But outside of having an extra dozen or two camera bays in stadiums, there really is no fix to this. And even if you had more cameras, the very nature of baseball, and sport in general, often leads to cameras being blocked, bodies being in the way etc. I also can't think of any egregious calls from Jays games this year where I was outraged that a call wasn't overturned. There's been several calls that I thought should probably be overturned that weren't, but again that was pretty much always because the camera angles stunk, and while the views suggested one thing, suggestion isn't enough.
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Marquis de Pyro posted:Why do they know what the call was?
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Is there a good reason baseball should work differently? Because he thinks his team is getting screwed
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MassaShowtime posted:The hatchet job will be that Lucchino didn't share Cheringtons vision and had tied the GMs hands and had forced some signing or another (Pablo!) and that's why he's gone. Luchinno is 70, and had already been taking a less active role with the Red Sox. He's been spending most of his time recently working on the acquisition of the PawSox and trying to con Providence into building them a new stadium. I'll be surprised if there are any hatchet jobs done on a co-owner of the team.
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presented without comment so you can enjoy it fully http://www.gfycat.com/TotalAmazingHyracotherium
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IcePhoenix posted:presented without comment so you can enjoy it fully That should be paired with him striking out Ryan on a high fastball at 85 MPH to end the inning.
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IcePhoenix posted:presented without comment so you can enjoy it fully That whole AB was pretty great.
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Anyone have any idea what was going on at the beginning of the first inning in the Mariners game? Lloyd was asking the umps about something, and they checked something on the monitor and then started the bottom half of the inning. I was watching in a bar w/o sound and haven't been able to find anything on Twitter. Anyone catch that? E: Nevermind, apparently it was some issue with the dugout video feed. Boring. BallerBallerDillz fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Aug 2, 2015 |
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IcePhoenix posted:presented without comment so you can enjoy it fully LaLob Lives
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The big problem with replay is the existence of the Coach Challenge in the first place, why the gently caress are we gating the ability to get calls right behind some arbitrary gamesmanship by the teams? I don't want to see bad calls standing because the team already used up their challenge, and I don't want to see good calls getting challenged because "well, we may as well hope it gets overturned." Just have someone loving watching the replay and calling the umps on the field if they need to take another look at it, gently caress, this is so simple.
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Mornacale posted:The big problem with replay is the existence of the Coach Challenge in the first place, why the gently caress are we gating the ability to get calls right behind some arbitrary gamesmanship by the teams? I don't want to see bad calls standing because the team already used up their challenge, and I don't want to see good calls getting challenged because "well, we may as well hope it gets overturned." Just have someone loving watching the replay and calling the umps on the field if they need to take another look at it, gently caress, this is so simple. Baseball is already slow blah blah blah pace of play blah blah blah human element blah blah blah.
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I bet it would be faster to just review the plays that need it than to have to take 2 minutes for every OF assist at home because one team has their fingers crossed about a blocking-the-plate technicality
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IcePhoenix posted:presented without comment so you can enjoy it fully Someone please forward this to Alfredo Simon so he can see how to throw a proper loving eephus.
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So how/why did Cespedes wear out his welcome in Boston anyways?
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davecrazy posted:So how/why did Cespedes wear out his welcome in Boston anyways? If you believe the rumors it's because he wasn't willing to move to right field. Really though, the boring no drama answer is that he was the most sensible of the billion outfielders they had on the roster to trade for pitching. His contract says you can't place a qualifying offer on him after his contract expires, so if you don't think you're willing to pay what he wants ship him out and get something in return. Plus, for one reason or another he had the highest trade value of all the guys they were willing to move.
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Mornacale posted:The big problem with replay is the existence of the Coach Challenge in the first place, why the gently caress are we gating the ability to get calls right behind some arbitrary gamesmanship by the teams? I don't want to see bad calls standing because the team already used up their challenge, and I don't want to see good calls getting challenged because "well, we may as well hope it gets overturned." Just have someone loving watching the replay and calling the umps on the field if they need to take another look at it, gently caress, this is so simple. This is basically what happens though. The RULES of replay are dumb as hell, but thats not how they're actually applied. Have you EVER seen an umpire say "no I will not review this because you already lost your challenge?" I haven't. Umps are reviewing anything that needs review regardless of previous success/failure, and other than that Giants game with plate blocking at the very start of last season I cannot think of a single egregious example of replay outcomes being dumb and bad.
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howe_sam posted:If you believe the rumors it's because he wasn't willing to move to right field. Really though, the boring no drama answer is that he was the most sensible of the billion outfielders they had on the roster to trade for pitching. His contract says you can't place a qualifying offer on him after his contract expires, so if you don't think you're willing to pay what he wants ship him out and get something in return. Plus, for one reason or another he had the highest trade value of all the guys they were willing to move. I know there's also dumb rumors that he's clubhouse cancer that's why he gets traded so often now
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