Awesome description of every Cafardo column.JGray38 said:Otherwise know as "mass debation"
Awesome description of every Cafardo column.JGray38 said:Otherwise know as "mass debation"
Will the Red Sox dig in and insist that Betts stay put? If they’re digging in that Bogaerts isn’t going anywhere, or that Henry Owens isn’t going anywhere, any of these type deals may not get done.
I’ve always said that to acquire great players, it usually has to hurt — you have to part with a player you’re fond of.
What do I mean by yes? What do I mean by no?But it’s April. Some scouts don’t even submit reports on minor and major leaguers this month. It can fool you, good or bad.
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When you ask about the rotation, Red Sox management might as well play Shane Victorino’s walk-up song — “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.” Not saying it won’t. Not saying it will, because April is April. Position players and pitchers either jump out of spring training and embrace it, or they stub their toes.
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You need to have a crystal ball to see how this is going to go down the road.
But it’s April. Some scouts don’t even submit reports on minor and major leaguers this month. It can fool you, good or bad.
When you ask about the rotation, Red Sox management might as well play Shane Victorino’s walk-up song — “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.” Not saying it won’t. Not saying it will, because April is April. Position players and pitchers either jump out of spring training and embrace it, or they stub their toes.
You need to have a crystal ball to see how this is going to go down the road.
E5 Yaz said:
The only thing that surprising about this snippet is that he didn't make it all one sentence
Shane Victorino’s walk-up song — “Everything’s Gonna Be Alright.”
"Why, yes, of course. Mr. October. I loved him."CoffeeNerdness said:
Not a big reggae guy, eh Nick?
Lose Remerswaal said:Nick have anything today about how the sox need Hamels? 6 innings last night vs. Washington. 5 hits, 5 ER, 4 BB, 7K, 2 homeruns against him.
Lose Remerswaal said:Nick have anything today about how the sox need Hamels? 6 innings last night vs. Washington. 5 hits, 5 ER, 4 BB, 7K, 2 homeruns against him.
When Clay Buchholz pitched that great game against the Phillies in the opener, the Twidiots were out in full force. Still want Cole Hamels?
Ah, yes, I do.
Do you think statistics are going to change anything?Lose Remerswaal said:Nick have anything today about how the sox need Hamels? 6 innings last night vs. Washington. 5 hits, 5 ER, 4 BB, 7K, 2 homeruns against him.
Still don't know how they did it, but the Fenway grounds crew managed to eliminate the 2.5 tons of black sand used to melt the snow...
So how do they clean up two tons of black sand from the field when they're done? "We have evergreen turf growth blankets on the grass under the snow so we will back pack blow the black sand on the covers into piles and clean up the sand. If the covers weren't under the snow we would let the sand go into the grass and rake or back pack blow any sand laying on top of the grass into the grass and it would be fine" [groundkeeper David R.] Mellor answered on Instagram.
The Giants have won three of the last five championships, while the Red Sox have sandwiched a championship around two last-place finishes.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
I don't think that the bolded is correct, am I wrong? Shouldn't it be, "The Red Sox have sandwiched two last-place finishes around a championship."? Because I don't see how one season can be sandwiched around two different seasons.
The sentence just doesn't make sense to me but I am so hyper critical of Cafardo, I could be wrong here.
Lose Remerswaal said:Well, the championship is the meat in the sandwich, so I can see it the other way . . . but it's awkward and not professional writing
So the net of it is, Nick could greatly improve his sportswriting if he composed a food madlib as his template.John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
Right. But he said that the Championship was "sandwiched" around two last place finishes. Bologna is not sandwiched around bread, the bread is sandwiched around the bologna.
Did he at least try to tie in their home record from last year (34-47), or is he strictly going off the 3-3 record?Smiling Joe Hesketh said:Did anyone catch Nick moaning about the disappearance of the Sox' Fenway home field advantage, because the Sox are 3-3 at home this year?
He's trying to be this stupid, yes?
Red(s)HawksFan said:Did he at least try to tie in their home record from last year (34-47), or is he strictly going off the 3-3 record?
Lose Remerswaal said:Well, the championship is the meat in the sandwich, so I can see it the other way . . . but it's awkward and not professional writing
During the Red Sox’ worst-to-first-to-worst pendulum, the Orioles have sandwiched a pair of first-place finishes around a solid showing (but no postseason joy) in 2013.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:Bryan Price gets a mulligan from Cafardo. I wonder if Manny would have gotten a mulligan?
If and when they’re together next season, will Vazquez get more playing time over Swihart or vice versa?
“Time does a number on you,” said Napoli, who had to stop catching because of a degenerative hip condition.
Buchholz yelled as he walked off the mound. He had been given a 4-0 lead and left trailing, 5-4. Terrible. Embarrassing.
As the ace, you’re supposed to take that 4-0 lead and run with it, allow your offense to extend it. Cruise control, baby.
Haha, this is the perfect imagery.Cafardo's been mailing it in for so long, he won't even notice when the company is closed down, he'll just keep turning in his half-assed columns to nobody.MuzzyField said:Cafardo is the dead horse not worth beating or reading. He'll still be writing for the Globe when it no longer exists.
YES. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT THOSE THINGS WERE POSSIBLE, NICK."I guess after five successful, amazing years... I should have foreseen he would have a drug relapse and have two bad seasons with the Angels. My bad. I guess my ESP isn't working too well."
"I guess after five successful, amazing years... I should have foreseen he would have a drug relapse and have two bad seasons with the Angels. My bad. I guess my ESP isn't working too well."