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  1. tomdeplonty

    Following Former Red Sox 2016

    This crossed the Facebook feed today - Darnell McDonald is the "mental skills coordinator" for the Cubs... http://www.yogajournal.com/livebeyoga/meet-darnell-mcdonald-mental-skills-coordinator-for-the-chicago-cubs/
  2. tomdeplonty

    How Good Are The Sox Now?

    I It is bad methodology to predict how someone might perform in an upcoming series: that's the whole point. Tiny samples are not predictive. There's also practically no way to talk about "lately" without cherry-picking.
  3. tomdeplonty

    FIRE JOHN FARRELL (v.2)

    You're saying the pitching would not have sucked so much except for - bad moves made by Farrell? That doesn't make a lot of sense.
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    Steven Wright- ace up the sleeve... Amiright?!?!?

    Fielders (other than the catcher) are supposed to be in fair territory when a pitch is made.
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    Major SOSH Upgrade, November 2015

    Also not able to see Other Crap.
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    Yankee elimination day

    wrong thread
  7. tomdeplonty

    Mookie Betts

      Indisputably the right answer.
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    SOSH regresses to the mean. Or does it?

    Easiest for me: statistical "regress" = "to perform more normally" (neither unusually poorly, or well)
  9. tomdeplonty

    Farrell is the manager in 2016

      Hey, firing the guy with cancer would have had its upsides. It certainly would have drawn some attention away from the way they messed up the whole Orsillo thing.
  10. tomdeplonty

    Farrell is the manager in 2016

    Gawd, I hope I have these numbers right:   50/64 (.438) under Farrell (through August 13) 28/16 (.636) under Lovullo (since August 14)   Conventional wisdom seems to say that only a small amount of the difference could be attributed to the managerial change, and we can point to a lot of other...
  11. tomdeplonty

    Protecting the Shields -- The Nick Cafardo Thread

    Cafardo calling out anyone, for being lazy, is intrinsically hilarious.
  12. tomdeplonty

    Papelbon Done for the Season

      Didn't that happen very shortly before Manny got shipped out of town?   EDIT: the fight was in early June, 2008. Manny was traded at deadline that season.
  13. tomdeplonty

    Report: This is Don Orsillo's last season

      It comes off more like a calculated insult than a real offer.   Interesting to read that the Padres knew Don would be cut loose before Don did...and gratifying that they're going to help him get back and forth to see his kids. He'll land on his feet. But if NESN weren't the only place to see...
  14. tomdeplonty

    Baseball thoughts without threads

    Why do they get hurt? It's the thing about splitters hurting the elbow?
  15. tomdeplonty

    Farrell is the manager in 2016

    Just guessing. Lovullo and the players who will make up the core of next season's team seem to have a good chemistry. Why mess with it? So Lovullo will become the manager. Farrell will be promoted to the front office - where by all accounts he was headed at some point in his career anyway. He...
  16. tomdeplonty

    Sox offseason starting pitching target

      Agreeing completely and to put it another way: if you already know the team needs starting pitching to be competitive, it is just dumb to wait to obtain it when it is scarce and more expensive than when it is more plentiful and can be had cheaper in the offseason. And not only does this...
  17. tomdeplonty

    Sox offseason starting pitching target

    EDIT nm same point made better up thread 
  18. tomdeplonty

    Essay on the 2004 Red Sox and Leaving Boston

    I really enjoyed this. Wonderful writing.
  19. tomdeplonty

    Rod Serling Ships Pedroia to Cleveland

    The piece is funny and pitch-perfect. I needed the laugh this morning, so thanks.
  20. tomdeplonty

    Protecting the Shields -- The Nick Cafardo Thread

    But they're losing, so presumably they should be playing in their funeral suits, wearing appropriately somber expressions at all times.
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