vadertime said:Nice writeup by Brian Macpherson about former C Dusty Brown returning to action after a two year absence.
Why does Google like to hire Ivy league types? They let the admissions committee do a prescreening for them.Rudy Pemberton said:Rich Hill is evidently now on the Yankees.
Why do the Yankees have such a hard on for anyone who has played for the Red Sox?
Lose Remerswaal said:Ask him if he can get Jose to do a chat here.
crystalline said:
You might be more likely to get Nathans. Now works for a law firm in Portland:
http://www.nhdlaw.com/attorneys/johnathan-g-nathans
Lose Remerswaal said:
Lose Remerswaal said:He had had a nice progression in Games Played
2009 32
2010 55
2011 88
2012 97
2013 154
until this year.
Who is she?mauidano said:Wow! Pat Neshek gets an autographed Babe Ruth baseball for giving John Lackey his number 41. Nice! Neshek with the negotiating skills of Scott Boras.
http://deadspin.com/john-lackey-traded-a-babe-ruth-autographed-ball-for-his-1624541442
Plympton91 said:Someone is 6-10 with 3 HR in his last 2 games.
I checked JBJs AAA stats and it's not him either.kieckeredinthehead said:
Not sure what site you're looking at? Manny went 2-5 his last two games (and has been on the 7 day DL, so weird timing to post now).
Plympton91 said:Someone is 6-10 with 3 HR in his last 2 games.
4 less than that with Fenway right field fence rather than the short porch for his home games going by my rough calculations.E5 Yaz said:
Yup, and he's a $22M .287 hitter with 13 home runs.
So his batting average is basically JBJs slugging, which also happens to be about equal to JBJs on base percentage? I've noticed that many of y'all are big on comparing Rusnay Castillo to Ellsbury, without mentioning that the Castillo contract was mostly a reaction to the abject failure of JBJ to hit major league pitching. Cognitive dissonance I guess.E5 Yaz said:
Yup, and he's a $22M .287 hitter with 13 home runs.
Plympton91 said:I've noticed that many of y'all are big on comparing Rusnay Castillo to Ellsbury, without mentioning that the Castillo contract was mostly a reaction to the abject failure of JBJ to hit major league pitching.
Plympton91 said:Yeah, it's just so off topic to mention a hot streak by a former Red Sox centerfielder in the "Following former Sox thread." My apologies for interfering with the narrative. Ellsbury bad; JBJ awesome! Got it.
If there's a side in this debate that needs a binky, it's the side that insisted that JBJ was ready to be an everyday player on a pennant contender. Talk about being dead wrong in public.
DanoooME said:Jonathan Papelbon with his 100th save as a Phillie tonight, showing a blazing 90 MPH fastball. His splitter had good movement though.
And he now has 319 saves, 17th all time.
Plympton91 said:Yeah, it's just so off topic to mention a hot streak by a former Red Sox centerfielder in the "Following former Sox thread." My apologies for interfering with the narrative. Ellsbury bad; JBJ awesome! Got it.
If there's a side in this debate that needs a binky, it's the side that insisted that JBJ was ready to be an everyday player on a pennant contender. Talk about being dead wrong in public.
You hit the nail on the head with perception. The idea that I wanted the Red Sox to sign Ellsbury out of some irrational attitude toward his true worth is belied by the history of my posts on the issue. I listed several fairly conservative WAR-based projections that showed the Yankees offer to be fair value rather than an overpay, I showed how even if it was an overpay the Red Sox had enough cost controlled talent to not have it hamstring them, and I made the case that in the near term they had no outfield depth. On that last point, thankfully I was only right in regard to 2014, as they've rectified the situation for 2015, though they did so in part by gutting their pitching staff and at the mere cost of one of the worst and least enjoyable seasons of the past 2 decades.rodderick said:
Jesus christ on a pogo stick dude, just let it fucking rest. By now you should know how people here perceive you in regards to the whole Ellsbury/JBJ stuff, so when you come here to talk about Ellsbury's hot streak and sing his praises, you should either expect the negative reaction and take in stride or reevaluate how you come off on the subject. Being snarky, playing the victim and patting yourself on the back while calling half the board delusional isn't helping.