Mookie: Bowler, Golfer ... Moose Hunter??

E5 Yaz

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Rolling Stone with a fun profile with Mookie about his lover for all sports

That's the thing about Betts. He is as even-keeled as it gets. He's the bubble in a level. Remember how Morrison said nothing gets to Betts? The baseball coach also said he never saw anyone with more friends. According to Morrison, no matter where the Bobcats played, somebody always knew his star. And people who didn't wanted to.

"I'll never forget this. We were down in Gulf Shores, Alabama, during Mookie's junior year," Morrison says. "Hueytown, Alabama, was playing in the game behind us. I knew Hueytown had Jameis Winston. Jameis comes into our dugout and goes, 'I just want to meet this Markus Betts everybody is talking about.'

http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/bowling-with-mookie-betts-red-sox-star-is-on-a-roll-20160113?page=3
 
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E5 Yaz said:
Rolling Stone with a fun profile with Mookie about his lover for all sports

That's the thing about Betts. He is as even-keeled as it gets. He's the bubble in a level. Remember how Morrison said nothing gets to Betts? The baseball coach also said he never saw anyone with more friends. According to Morrison, no matter where the Bobcats played, somebody always knew his star. And people who didn't wanted to.

"I'll never forget this. We were down in Gulf Shores, Alabama, during Mookie's junior year," Morrison says. "Hueytown, Alabama, was playing in the game behind us. I knew Hueytown had Jameis Winston. Jameis comes into our dugout and goes, 'I just want to meet this Markus Betts everybody is talking about.'

http://www.rollingstone.com/sports/features/bowling-with-mookie-betts-red-sox-star-is-on-a-roll-20160113?page=3
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I don't think anyone ever confused Jameis for a Mensa member but still funny that they ran into each other. I just can't imagine him saying anything these days with out screaming "right in the pu**y!" Mookie is seriously becoming our version of Bo. Mookie knows Moose Hunting, Mookie knows bowling, Mookie knows baseball etc...
 
JimBoSox9

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Revenge is sweet.

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I'm like 20 rows up to the left of this picture. NEVER FORGET


Seriously, though, the more you read, the more it seems inexplicable that it took an mL breakout not all that long ago to get Betts on everyone's radar as a top-top potential guy. Are we still really that stuck on height?
 
timlinin8th

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JimBoSox9 said:
Seriously, though, the more you read, the more it seems inexplicable that it took an mL breakout not all that long ago to get Betts on everyone's radar as a top-top potential guy. Are we still really that stuck on height?
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Subconsciously, yeah probably. Bigger guys can tease scouts eyes and many teams are still stuck in the "looking for a five-tool player" mentality that they can miss a number of four-tool players. Never mind that a shorter guy has a smaller strike zone and can potentially learn to command it better.

Its a mindset that has definitely been changing for the last decade as more teams add metrics into their evaluations but there's still a number of players who can slip through, especially athletic ones who may have come into the game late and are still raw.
 
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timlinin8th said:
Subconsciously, yeah probably. Bigger guys can tease scouts eyes and many teams are still stuck in the "looking for a five-tool player" mentality that they can miss a number of four-tool players. Never mind that a shorter guy has a smaller strike zone and can potentially learn to command it better.

Its a mindset that has definitely been changing for the last decade as more teams add metrics into their evaluations but there's still a number of players who can slip through, especially athletic ones who may have come into the game late and are still raw.
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The Sox seem especially immune to this mistake. I'm pretty sure there was at least one occasion in 2014 where the entire infield was under 6' (some combo of Nava at first, Pedroia, Betts, Herrera, Weeks up the middle, Holt at third, plus Vazquez or Butler at C).
 
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