Tito no but Papi should hit the bricks now.
Don't worry about Rumples, he'll be fine, he just needs a little montreal lovin' like we all do right now.
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Tito no but Papi should hit the bricks now.
Don't worry about Rumples, he'll be fine, he just needs a little montreal lovin' like we all do right now.
For all intensive porpoises (these being very intense cetaceans related to whales and dolphins,) Wakefield's age is really beginning to show but on the bright side our boy Hermida jacked another one.
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Hello SK,
Are you sure? I thought it was supposed to be...intense purpleasses. Oh well.
I was driving home today and caught the 4th inning of the Sox game. It's never going to turn out well when Castiglione says, "Wakefield's knuckler is all over the place today". The strange thing is the Sox are actually threatening to threaten to make it close in the 8th. I knew it would get get better soon: from disaster to just sucky. I really think I need a confidence boost from the Sabermetrics Guru...Ohhhhhmmmmmmmmmm.
Cheers,
Merlot
Are you sure? I thought it was supposed to be...intense purpleasses. Oh well.
I was driving home today and caught the 4th inning of the Sox game. It's never going to turn out well when Castiglione says, "Wakefield's knuckler is all over the place today". The strange thing is the Sox are actually threatening to threaten to make it close in the 8th. I knew it would get get better soon: from disaster to just sucky. I really think I need a confidence boost from the Sabermetrics Guru...Ohhhhhmmmmmmmmmm.
Cheers,
Merlot
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Hello SK,
Are you sure? I thought it was supposed to be...intensile purpleasses. Oh well.
I was driving home today and caught the 4th inning of the Sox game. It's never going to turn out well when Castiglione says, "Wakefield's knuckler is all over the place today". The strange thing is the Sox are actually threatening to threaten to make it close in the 8th. I knew it would get get better soon: from disaster to just sucky. I really think I need a confidence boost from the Sabermetrics Guru...Ohhhhhmmmmmmmmmm.
Cheers,
Merlot
Ouch!!!, thats cold Merlot, you can be real nasty when you want to be, I don't that rumples is ever going to come out of his hole now.
ROFL! either way you wanna word it is fine with me and to make light of it just shows thats really all you have these days in reference to the way the red sox have been playing, but its ok i totally understand where your coming from, it is hard to watch your beloved team start off this way, so i can understand your ways right now ... silly, but understandable
you are such a good friend to be so concerned about rumps. im sure he's just trying to find a stat to explain the lackluster start to the season by the sox is all. dont worry, still alot of baseball to be played red sox fans, chin up boys!
for all Intensive Purposes sox fans, you will most likely be battling for a playoff spot like always (that was for you Kman, hihi)
for all Intensive Purposes sox fans, you will most likely be battling for a playoff spot like always
(that was for you Kman, hihi)
Hello SK,
Well, the photo has nothing to do with Rumples just to be clear. But I was firmly informed Sabermetrics was the best system for predicting how a team would do...of course maybe that would be over a 324 game season...lol. Anyway, I'm sure there is a numerical explanation Rumples can provide that makes perfect sense to all of us...UH HUH! Hey Rumples...Yodel lay hee hoooo,
Don't mind me. If one can't laugh at how things are starting this year one could end up falling off a very high roof.
"Lackluster"! Are you kidding. We're dreaming of being that good at the moment...lol
OMG!!! Sympathy and support from Igs. DAMN! Now that really hurts. Just evil.
Cheerio,
Merlot
Ouch!!!, thats cold Merlot, you can be real nasty when you want to be, I don't that rumples is ever going to come out of his hole now.
Well, the photo has nothing to do with Rumples just to be clear. But I was firmly informed Sabermetrics was the best system for predicting how a team would do...of course maybe that would be over a 324 game season...lol. Anyway, I'm sure there is a numerical explanation Rumples can provide that makes perfect sense to all of us...UH HUH! Hey Rumples...Yodel lay hee hoooo,
Don't mind me. If one can't laugh at how things are starting this year one could end up falling off a very high roof.
you are such a good friend to be so concerned about rumps. im sure he's just trying to find a stat to explain the lackluster start to the season by the sox is all. dont worry, still alot of baseball to be played red sox fans, chin up boys!
for all Intensive Purposes sox fans, you will most likely be battling for a playoff spot like always
"Lackluster"! Are you kidding. We're dreaming of being that good at the moment...lol
OMG!!! Sympathy and support from Igs. DAMN! Now that really hurts. Just evil.
Cheerio,
Merlot
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DAMN!
Oh I can't handle this. Now he's actually developing a sense of humor too. Where the fuck did I put that bottle of Jack D.
Right back at ya,
Merlot
Oh I can't handle this. Now he's actually developing a sense of humor too. Where the fuck did I put that bottle of Jack D.
Right back at ya,
Merlot
I watched the Red Sox game last night. Good news is they won, the bad news is the Rangers stole a franchise record 9 bases by the 5th inning and Big Papi had 2 strikeouts and a pop up on a fastball down the middle before Lowell pinch hit for him. Papi looks to me exactly like Dave Justice and Chili Davis looked at the very end of their careers with the Yankees. When word gets out on the streets of baseball that you can't hit anyone's good cheese, that is all you are gonaa get. I would think the plug is going to be pulled on him very soon.
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MLB power rankings, look where the Red Sox are ranked, sad.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/powerRankings
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/powerRankings
I'm shocked that a team can actually steal 9 bases against a MLB team!!!! Shocked i say!!!!
I'm also surprised that Mike Lowell is still with the Red Sox. Wasn't he supposed to be playing somewhere else this season? That's another player whose best years are behind him & whose career is at its tail-end. As for Papi, sadly, his time to hang up his cleats is near.
What the Red Sox need right now is a Jason Varitek type to take hold of the team & lead it out of this impasse. But i'm looking at some of the changes they've made & they've regressed instead of getting better. Marco Scutaro is no improvement at the shortstop position. His bat is decent, but he makes too many errors. The Jays are much better at the shortstop position with Gonzalez in the lineup instead of him. Victor Martinez's catching days were coming to an end when he was with the Tribe. Jason Bay should have been re-signed at any cost & Tim Wakefield pitches like he's 60 years old. Is he? As for Papelbon, he's a one-pitch closer & eventually hitters catch up to those types. His fastball will also get slower as he gets older. He doesn't scare anyone anymore. John Lackey? I never liked him. Playing for a powerhouse like the Angels made him look better than he is. Where's Dice-K? I guess it doesn't matter. Another pitcher who's become useless. Beckett? He's the ace of the staff, but has proven to be inconsistent at times. Ellesbury? Injury-prone. He's the Mike Van Ryn (NHL hockey player who's always injured) of MLB. I do like the Beltre signing & they still have an all-star at the 2nd base position.
How about those Blue Jays??
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Ump stumps for Robbie Alomar
Everyone knows about Robbie Alomar losing his temper as a member of the Baltimore Orioles and spitting at John Hirschbeck at the SkyDome on Sept. 27, 1996.
Not every Hall of Fame voter knows about what happened a few years later when Alomar joined the Cleveland Indians and Hirschbeck began a their friendship.
"When he signed with the Indians (in 1999) I was working second one night at Jacobs Field, I reached out, just: 'Hi how you doing? How's your family?' " Hirschbeck said while seated in the umpires' room at Rogers Centre.
(It was the first time the two had spoken since April 22, 1997. That night in Baltimore, the first game involving both men since the incident, Alomar stopped by at the start of the game, shook Hirschbeck's hand and apologized.)
The two began talking again that night in Cleveland.
They haven't stopped.
They talked Jan 6, moments after Alomar missed being elected, by eight votes, to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Alomar was named on 397 of 539 ballots (73.7%) by Baseball Writers' Association of America voters with 10 years experience. To be elected, a player must receive 75%.
They talked because that's what one friend does when another is down in the dumps.
"I told him he'll get in next January," Hirschbeck said. "If I'm not angry, why should writers be? Why give him a slap on the wrist? Why should anyone hold it against him when I don't?"
Hirschbeck and his family live in Poland, Ohio. After Alomar's three-year deal with the Orioles ended, he joined his brother Sandy Alomar with the Cleveland Indians. Hirschbeck researched Alomar, talking to Jack Efta, who ran the Jacobs Field umps' room.
"I told this story so many times," Hirschbeck said. "I asked Jack and he said Robbie was one of the two nicest people he'd ever met in the game."
Because Hirschbeck has told the story so many times he pauses, even raises an eyebrow for effect.
"I asked Jack: 'Who is the other?' Jack said: 'You.' "
Does Hirschbeck, now in his 27th year, think Alomar belongs in Cooperstown?
"I've never seen a better second baseman, he could do so many things," said the third base ump for the Royals-Blue Jays game on Tuesday. "I had Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, but mind you that was near the end of his career.
"If what happened that day between Robbie and I at home plate is the worst that he ever does in his life, he'll have lived a pretty good life," Hirschbeck said.
Hirschbeck's son, John Drew, died from adrenoleukodystrophy, a rare nerve disorder, before the spitting incident. Michael Hirschbeck, another son who also has the unfair disease and had a bone-marrow transplant, served as the Indians bat boy and would high five Alomar routinely after he scored a run. Michael is now 23.
Alomar donated $50,000 to ALD research. Both Alomar brothers were willing participants when it came to charity auctions in the Ohio area, according to Hirschbeck.
The second baseman always has said his best seasons were his three years in Cleveland (a career-high 120 RBIs in 1999 and 100 two years later), but if he was ever elected he would like to go into Coopers town wearing a Jays cap because three times the Jays reached post-season, winning the World Series in 1992 and 1993 during his five years here.
With Hirschbeck's endorsement, next year will be Alomar's year.
Everyone knows about Robbie Alomar losing his temper as a member of the Baltimore Orioles and spitting at John Hirschbeck at the SkyDome on Sept. 27, 1996.
Not every Hall of Fame voter knows about what happened a few years later when Alomar joined the Cleveland Indians and Hirschbeck began a their friendship.
"When he signed with the Indians (in 1999) I was working second one night at Jacobs Field, I reached out, just: 'Hi how you doing? How's your family?' " Hirschbeck said while seated in the umpires' room at Rogers Centre.
(It was the first time the two had spoken since April 22, 1997. That night in Baltimore, the first game involving both men since the incident, Alomar stopped by at the start of the game, shook Hirschbeck's hand and apologized.)
The two began talking again that night in Cleveland.
They haven't stopped.
They talked Jan 6, moments after Alomar missed being elected, by eight votes, to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Alomar was named on 397 of 539 ballots (73.7%) by Baseball Writers' Association of America voters with 10 years experience. To be elected, a player must receive 75%.
They talked because that's what one friend does when another is down in the dumps.
"I told him he'll get in next January," Hirschbeck said. "If I'm not angry, why should writers be? Why give him a slap on the wrist? Why should anyone hold it against him when I don't?"
Hirschbeck and his family live in Poland, Ohio. After Alomar's three-year deal with the Orioles ended, he joined his brother Sandy Alomar with the Cleveland Indians. Hirschbeck researched Alomar, talking to Jack Efta, who ran the Jacobs Field umps' room.
"I told this story so many times," Hirschbeck said. "I asked Jack and he said Robbie was one of the two nicest people he'd ever met in the game."
Because Hirschbeck has told the story so many times he pauses, even raises an eyebrow for effect.
"I asked Jack: 'Who is the other?' Jack said: 'You.' "
Does Hirschbeck, now in his 27th year, think Alomar belongs in Cooperstown?
"I've never seen a better second baseman, he could do so many things," said the third base ump for the Royals-Blue Jays game on Tuesday. "I had Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, but mind you that was near the end of his career.
"If what happened that day between Robbie and I at home plate is the worst that he ever does in his life, he'll have lived a pretty good life," Hirschbeck said.
Hirschbeck's son, John Drew, died from adrenoleukodystrophy, a rare nerve disorder, before the spitting incident. Michael Hirschbeck, another son who also has the unfair disease and had a bone-marrow transplant, served as the Indians bat boy and would high five Alomar routinely after he scored a run. Michael is now 23.
Alomar donated $50,000 to ALD research. Both Alomar brothers were willing participants when it came to charity auctions in the Ohio area, according to Hirschbeck.
The second baseman always has said his best seasons were his three years in Cleveland (a career-high 120 RBIs in 1999 and 100 two years later), but if he was ever elected he would like to go into Coopers town wearing a Jays cap because three times the Jays reached post-season, winning the World Series in 1992 and 1993 during his five years here.
With Hirschbeck's endorsement, next year will be Alomar's year.
Alomar
Alomar had a very ignominious end to his career, as he signed with the Mets and then his numbers and his defensive play tapered off very dramatically, though he was still at an age when he should have been productive. Many Mets fans are still sour with the memories of being burned by the signings of Alomar and Mo Vaughn and Bobby Bonilla. The New York media at that time was rife with rumors that Alomar had an illness that was effecting his play, and he was reportedly sued by a woman for transmitting AIDS to her.
His rapid decline as a player after a HOF type earlier career remains somewhat suspicious.
Alomar had a very ignominious end to his career, as he signed with the Mets and then his numbers and his defensive play tapered off very dramatically, though he was still at an age when he should have been productive. Many Mets fans are still sour with the memories of being burned by the signings of Alomar and Mo Vaughn and Bobby Bonilla. The New York media at that time was rife with rumors that Alomar had an illness that was effecting his play, and he was reportedly sued by a woman for transmitting AIDS to her.
His rapid decline as a player after a HOF type earlier career remains somewhat suspicious.
Hello?!? Wakefield was pitching...knuckleballer for cris sake...
That said, the Sox do have an issue...but to use this game to blow the problem up...comon' Beav...
Has Wakefield allowed 9 stolen bases in any of his prior starts? 9 stolen bases is kind of a lot to give up in 5 innings.....for any kind of pitcher. I was just wondering when Rumplesforeskin was stroking his hard on about how good the Red Sox defense was going to be, whether holding runners on and throwing runners out was counted as part of the team's defense. Do you consider those categories to be part of a team's defense, or not?
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