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Nice defense for Houston there in the seventh inning. "A ground ball? These days??? Who knows how to field a ground ball?"
Yes, but also, a lot of soft hits accumulating to a lot of damage.
Nice defense for Houston there in the seventh inning. "A ground ball? These days??? Who knows how to field a ground ball?"
Dodgers had nice uni's but only when imprinted with Brooklyn.....gotta hate thd Yankees regardless if what they wear.Wow, I'm confused, the Yankees and Dodgers are in the World Series this year?
An outstanding 7th game. I was rooting for the Nats -- my long-lost Expos, alas -- but I felt bad for Grienke. That's gotta hurt.
In my youth there were two sporting seasons....baseball season and the season waiting for baseball season. The day pitchers and catchers reported to spring training was always a big day. Both Spring and Baseball were within sight. Time to oil the glove and bone the bats.It always takes a bit of adjusting to there being no baseball - no scores or standings to check, no boxscores to look over, no games to look forward to, no, well, baseball. I follow football somewhat (and less than I do baseball), but it has nowhere near the day-to-day engagement of baseball.
So -- the scandals. The Red Sox did the right thing by cutting Cora loose -- but I want to know what the Front Office knew and when did they know it? The difference between the 2018 and 2019 seasons suggests to me that more was afoot than just lousy pitching and injuries. If John Henry & Company knew about this last year and sat on it, hoping everything would blow over, then they deserve the full weight of discipline, as in the Cox-Steinbrenner-Schott treatment, and they deserve it right now. But I don't think Manfred has the guts to do that.
And player access to video gear during games has to stop, period. If you must have replays, put them in the press box, and assign an extra umpire to be up there with the monitor. No more equipment anywhere near the dugouts or playing field.
So -- the scandals. The Red Sox did the right thing by cutting Cora loose -- but I want to know what the Front Office knew and when did they know it? The difference between the 2018 and 2019 seasons suggests to me that more was afoot than just lousy pitching and injuries. If John Henry & Company knew about this last year and sat on it, hoping everything would blow over, then they deserve the full weight of discipline, as in the Cox-Steinbrenner-Schott treatment, and they deserve it right now. But I don't think Manfred has the guts to do that.
And player access to video gear during games has to stop, period. If you must have replays, put them in the press box, and assign an extra umpire to be up there with the monitor. No more equipment anywhere near the dugouts or playing field.
My first thought yesterday after reading of the Astros firing....is this the end for Hinch and now Cora? Or will they serve a compensatory time in purgatory and eventually be rehabilitated? Or as Jim Morrison sang...."this is the end!"
I think 2018 was enough of an outlier for the Red Sox -- compared to recent seasons -- that it needs to be looked at very closely. And if it turns out there was cheating going on, the franchise needs to have the book thrown at it, and I say this as a lifelong fan, from a family whose fandom goes back to the very beginning of the team. A championship won thru this kind of chicanery is no championship at all.
Am I following you, are you saying that you think something dirty was going on in the Red Sox championship season?
I hate to see lives ruined, but also, if we don't have severe penalties for severe crimes, then we'll just have more severe crimes. From what I've read in the past two days (and I want to emphasize, it's based on nothing more than that), Cora should be out of baseball period as he was a very active participant in it - not just looking the other way and avoiding hearing things - he planed parts of it out and helped in the execution.
My guess, he'll be back.
I agree completely and believe (or at least hope) I'd say the same if it was true of the Yankees. IMO, one of the things that is broken today is that we don't promote / strive for / put as a top goal honesty and integrity. Of course, we'll never achieve it, but we don't even robustly promote it, say, the way were promote charity.
I've noted before, that some (not all) of the younger kids I hired over the past ten or so years do great charity work, but I wouldn't trust them in a situation calling for true integrity. When I was a kid, integrity at home, in school and when I started work was highly emphasized; whereas, charity was promoted as a good thing to do, but not at the same level.
I did not guess for a second that the Red Sox cheated (and don't know that they did), but all 2019 season long, I remember thinking - how could they be playing so mediocrely when they have, basically, the same team that dominated the year before.
I did not guess for a second that the Red Sox cheated (and don't know that they did), but all 2019 season long, I remember thinking - how could they be playing so mediocrely when they have, basically, the same team that dominated the year before.
Hasn't cheating been a part of the game for a very long time? Should Gaylord Perry's records now be expunged as he was a serial slobberer of the baseball? I am not sure we can look back on baseball and declare there was a golden age of integrity and honour to the game. In many ways the game used to be much more brutal than today's gentile version. The game is filled with hard men who would bend the rules, knock you down, open up your calf with a metal cleat, tag you in the mouth with a baseball, separate your shoulder at home plate with a takeout slide, emery boards, Vaseline, slippery elm, signals from the runner at second base were all part of the game in bygone years and to me were a wonderful part of the allure of the game. Every era deserves to have their rogues and outliers...….adds character and provides great anecdotes.I agree completely and believe (or at least hope) I'd say the same if it was true of the Yankees. IMO, one of the things that is broken today is that we don't promote / strive for / put as a top goal honesty and integrity. Of course, we'll never achieve it, but we don't even robustly promote it, say, the way were promote charity.
I've noted before, that some (not all) of the younger kids I hired over the past ten or so years do great charity work, but I wouldn't trust them in a situation calling for true integrity. When I was a kid, integrity at home, in school and when I started work was highly emphasized; whereas, charity was promoted as a good thing to do, but not at the same level.
I did not guess for a second that the Red Sox cheated (and don't know that they did), but all 2019 season long, I remember thinking - how could they be playing so mediocrely when they have, basically, the same team that dominated the year before.