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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 8, 2023 23:40:40 GMT -5
MRPs_Missives Sox sent two nothing minor league pitchers to the Cards for Tyler O’Neil. Two GGs, speed and one decent power year (2021). Hoping he is just an extra piece and not an “answer” to lack of right handed power. It’d be nice if he has a good year, but he’s had injury and attitude problems. I’ll give him a mulligan on the attitude thing, but he strikes out a bit and needs to stay on the field. Cards must have been dying to dump the guy if they took two nobodies for him. Maybe this gives Raphaella more time to improve his hitting in Worcester.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Dec 9, 2023 0:17:11 GMT -5
MRPs_Missives Sox sent two nothing minor league pitchers to the Cards for Tyler O’Neil. Two GGs, speed and one decent power year (2021). Hoping he is just an extra piece and not an “answer” to lack of right handed power. It’d be nice if he has a good year, but he’s had injury and attitude problems. I’ll give him a mulligan on the attitude thing, but he strikes out a bit and needs to stay on the field. Cards must have been dying to dump the guy if they took two nobodies for him. Maybe this gives Raphaella more time to improve his hitting in Worcester. Buys time for Raph, lets Yoshida DH, insurance if Abreu doesn't pan out, defensive replacement late in games for Yoshida when he plays OF. RH bat against tough lefties if you want to sit 1 or 2 of those lefty OF guys (Refsnyder the other RH OF option), and if he returns to form and is healthy he was an All Star and finished 8th in MVP voting in '21 the last season he was healthy. Not a bad pick up for a defense and RH bat needy team for a pair of nobodies. If he doesn't pan out, he's only $5-6 million in his last year of arbitration eligibility and you can non-tender him an move on. If he regains form, he's only 28 and can be resigned. All in all I think it was a good move, gives them flexibility and is the right kind of risk/reward move filling needs and costing next to nothing. -M As for the attitude, he clashed with a manager when he got called out at home, the manager didn't think he was hustling and called him out in the press without ever talking to him directly about it before he did. No issue with managers calling out guys AFTER they talk to the player, but saying it to the press without talking to the player first was a dick move by the manager and would piss any player off.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Dec 9, 2023 16:18:51 GMT -5
Shohei Ohtani signing a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers today. It's the largest contract in MLB history.
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 9, 2023 16:35:10 GMT -5
Shohei Ohtani signing a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers today. It's the largest contract in MLB history. -M Just heard that. I have to say, I figured Dodgers would be his choice. That whole Blue Jay thing may have been a negotiating tactic. Would have enjoyed watching him, I guess, but not the damage he might have wreaked on the Sox in 13 or whatever games a year.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Dec 22, 2023 15:30:13 GMT -5
Japanese pitching sensation Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed a 12 year $325 million dollar contract to come to America and pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers. After signing Yamamota and Ohtani, and extending Tyler Glasgow, whom they traded for, the Dodgers committed to spending over $1 billion dollars in new contracts this offseason.
-M
PS At least he didn't sign with the Yankees.
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Post by driver1980 on Jan 2, 2024 12:33:21 GMT -5
I like this photo:
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 2, 2024 12:44:24 GMT -5
A favorite football photo from that very game, IIRC. Jim Kanicki, Browns' RDT, a portrait in mud. Photo by Malcolm Emmons.
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Post by berkley on Jan 10, 2024 13:12:04 GMT -5
A favorite football photo from that very game, IIRC. Jim Kanicki, Browns' RDT, a portrait in mud. Photo by Malcolm Emmons.
Are any of the old NFL games from the 1950s, 60s, and early 70s available to view in full now? Or is it much the same as other sports and no one bothered keeping the tapes or whatever?
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 10, 2024 13:19:24 GMT -5
berkley, I just randomly googled youtube + 1965 NFL championship game and there were a bunch of highlight films available, though I saw no full game films. I'd be surprised if NFL Films doesn't have copies of at least a few of the old games.
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Post by berkley on Jan 10, 2024 17:00:49 GMT -5
berkley , I just randomly googled youtube + 1965 NFL championship game and there were a bunch of highlight films available, though I saw no full game films. I'd be surprised if NFL Films doesn't have copies of at least a few of the old games.
Thanks. I'm not the biggest fan but it would be interesting to see one or two complete with commentary, etc.
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Post by berkley on Jan 23, 2024 21:53:07 GMT -5
I've been taking a break from rugby watching since the World Cup but with the Six Nations coming up soon I find myself getting back in the mood, so today I watched La Rochelle vs Leicester, a European Champions Cup match from a week ago. La Rochelle have become probably my favourite European or Northern Hemisphere club the last few years, as I like a lot of their individual players - e.g. Danty, Kerr-Barlow, Botia, Antonio. I find them more interesting to watch than Toulon (edit: Toulouse), the other French club with a lot of internationals.
Apparently they haven't been doing too well in the Top 14 so far this year but you'd never have known it from this game: they ended up blowing Leicester off the pitch after a fairly competitive first half, even scoring a try while two men down. On the down side, for them and for France, Danty, Antonio, and hooker Bougarit (who had been having a great game) went down with injuries, with the latter's looking like it could be serious.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 23, 2024 23:38:43 GMT -5
Elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame today...Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer. They join manager Jim Leyland, who was selected by the Contemporary Baseball Committee, as this years inductees.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 23, 2024 23:46:28 GMT -5
Elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame today...Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer. They join manager Jim Leyland, who was selected by the Contemporary Baseball Committee, as this years inductees. -M And the Hall of the Good and Very Good adds three more to its ranks.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 24, 2024 0:06:47 GMT -5
Elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame today...Adrian Beltre, Todd Helton, and Joe Mauer. They join manager Jim Leyland, who was selected by the Contemporary Baseball Committee, as this years inductees. -M And the Hall of the Good and Very Good adds three more to its ranks. My standard for 3rd baseman is Brooks Robinson. Beltre was better than Brooks in every offensive category and had 5 gold gloves (not a patch on Robinson's 16, but Robinson also played when there were fewer teams and fewer options for post-season awards. He is every bit a Hall of Famer, and had a higher percentage of votes on his 1st ballot than all but 3 third baseman already in the hall (George Brett, Chipper Jones & Mike Schmidt). If he's diluting the quality of the Hall, I'll eat my hat. His only knock is number al All Star appearances, but he played in an era where other 3rd baseman like Alex Rodriguez were getting steroid-inflated and New York based voting nods for the ASG. Mauer is the only catcher to win 3 batting titles, not even other HOF catchers achieved that, and his numbers before injuries are comparable to any other HOF catcher, and he was a 3x Gold Glove winner (and 5 time Silver Slugger). Helton, I wasn't high on, but his ballpark independent stats put him solidly middle of the pack with HOF 1st baseman overall. And the directive to voters and mission statement of the HoF is not to have the HOF be the elite of the elite of the game, but to represent the best players of their time (all 3 were that) for a game that continues to be an ongoing concern, not a relic of the past. To honor the past yes, but to honor the game in its entirety as well, not to be paralyzed by past. -M
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 24, 2024 8:20:46 GMT -5
And the Hall of the Good and Very Good adds three more to its ranks. My standard for 3rd baseman is Brooks Robinson. Beltre was better than Brooks in every offensive category and had 5 gold gloves (not a patch on Robinson's 16, but Robinson also played when there were fewer teams and fewer options for post-season awards. He is every bit a Hall of Famer, and had a higher percentage of votes on his 1st ballot than all but 3 third baseman already in the hall (George Brett, Chipper Jones & Mike Schmidt). If he's diluting the quality of the Hall, I'll eat my hat. His only knock is number al All Star appearances, but he played in an era where other 3rd baseman like Alex Rodriguez were getting steroid-inflated and New York based voting nods for the ASG. Mauer is the only catcher to win 3 batting titles, not even other HOF catchers achieved that, and his numbers before injuries are comparable to any other HOF catcher, and he was a 3x Gold Glove winner (and 5 time Silver Slugger). Helton, I wasn't high on, but his ballpark independent stats put him solidly middle of the pack with HOF 1st baseman overall. And the directive to voters and mission statement of the HoF is not to have the HOF be the elite of the elite of the game, but to represent the best players of their time (all 3 were that) for a game that continues to be an ongoing concern, not a relic of the past. To honor the past yes, but to honor the game in its entirety as well, not to be paralyzed by past. -M My standard for third basemen is Mike Schmidt. While I like Beltre and I wish the Sox had signed him after that pillow contract year, that was never going to happen. Of the three, I'd favor him, but he was never a dominant player of his era. Look how many more ABs and PAs Beltre had and what he did with them compared to Schmidt. Funny. The stat mavens (not meaning you) dismiss batting average as having any importance until someone they want to put into the Hall wins a couple. Nice work by Mauer, but batting titles do not a Hall of Famer make all by themselves. And though he won them as a catcher -- notable, of course -- the guy didn't pick up a catcher's mitt for the last five years of his career and only caught more than 100 games in five of his ten seasons as a catcher. Like Mauer, Helton had one helluva year... one, and made a rep off it. And each played with just one team. Another "qualification" voters seem to love. And none of these guys ever tore up a post-season or was a dominating player in his league, let alone in the majors at his position. They're good, and in the case of Beltre, very good, and you'd love to have them playing on your team, but for me, not Hall of Famers.
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