OT: 2016 Red Sox/MLB Regular Season V - "And down the stretch they come!"

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

So it's over after 8?

The Sox are due for a theft. Let's get this one.

Against Britton? lol.

 

[Johnnyduke]

Nice AB hanley

 

[Fossy21]

Predictable after the first game

 

[Mr Cartmenez]

Their W-L record is laughable considering the run differential. The O's are miles behind yet only 1 GB. That's not only a managerial thing, but Farrell's teams never outperform their X W-L record, it's the opposite to be exact.

If Gausman's second half is legit, the O's might actually be a huge threat. Tillman, Gausman and Bundy is not that bad.

 

[Fenway]

Their W-L record is laughable considering the run differential. The O's are miles behind yet only 1 GB. That's not only a managerial thing, but Farrell's teams never outperform their X W-L record, it's the opposite to be exact.

If Gausman's second half is legit, the O's might actually be a huge threat. Tillman, Gausman and Bundy is not that bad.

Everybody wrote Baltimore off

 

[Fenway]

CHB's column hit me like a ton a bricks. I'm getting up there in years.......

Baseball WAS dead in Boston in the mid 60's. The Fenway home opener in 1967 drew
an ANNOUNCED crowd of 8.324

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1967/B04120BOS1967.htm

To show you how times have changed in 50 years - in 1967 the highest paid employee of the team was the radio/TV announcer Ken Coleman and he would joke later that by 1986 he was one of the lowest paid persons on the team plane.

The commercial Nike ran a few minutes after the Sox won in 2004 I will never forget.

I balled like a baby when I saw it as that was my family.



DAN SHAUGHNESSY
This AL East race brings old-timers back to 1967

Indulge the old folks for just one day and hear me out. There is a reason your father, or uncle, or neighbor speaks of the 1967 pennant race with such fondness.

Let’s start with the sad acknowledgment that a fan has to be pretty old in order to remember Yaz and Lonnie and the Impossible Dream season that took the boring 1950s/’60s Red Sox from black-and-white to color (as in “The Wizard of Oz’’).

It dawns on me that a 2016 fan talking about the 1967 season would be the equivalent of a 1967 geezer telling the young’uns about the 1918 World Series. We are talking about an event that happened 49 years ago.

Too bad. It was great then and it is still great today. And it would not kill you to look and learn.

 

[4ORRBRUIN]

What mistakes has Belichick's players bailed him out of contract wise?

All teams in each league work under the same rules. And there are very few teams I'd trade situations with if I'm the Celtics, Patriots or Red Sox. Not the case for the Bruins. That says all you need to know. It's not harder to be an NHL GM. You're still competing with other NHL GMs operating under the same rules.

Okay sure thing Oh and I forgot to add having a playing gifted to you (KG) by a former teammate and one of your best friend in life. Thats great GMing by trader Dan.

I see you lumped all the teams together as far as trading places with .. Good work making my point .

Back to the red sox.

 

[Fenway]

CHB's column today inspired me to upload this to You Tube.

If you were alive in 1967 and living near Boston there is a good chance this album was in your Christmas stocking.

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[CDJ]

SD GM Preller got suspended 30 days for the Pomeranz deal

They hid medical info in a secret database to gain the upper hand in trades.


Per a lot of baseball Twitter and local guys like MacPherson

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

SD GM Preller got suspended 30 days for the Pomeranz deal

They hid medical info in a secret database to gain the upper hand in trades.


Per a lot of baseball Twitter and local guys like MacPherson

Here's the link: http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-suspends-padres-gm-a-j-preller-after-investigation-into-drew-pomeranz-trade/

 

[Chevalier du Clavier]

Buster Olney:

Padres officials instructed their organization‘s athletic trainers to maintain two distinct files of medical information on their players – one for industry consumption [as they were required to] and the other for the team’s internal use.

One source defined the distinction in this way: If a player was treated for a sore hamstring or shoulder without being placed on the disabled list, that sort of information was to be kept in-house, for use within the organization only.

The suspension might not be the end of it.

 

[UNB Bruins Fan]

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere and I highly doubt it would happen, but I wonder if there is any possibility at all that they can re-do the deal.

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

Make the Padres take Sandoval

 

[Johnnyduke]

30 day suspension doesn't seem harsh enough

 

[Fenway]

I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere and I highly doubt it would happen, but I wonder if there is any possibility at all that they can re-do the deal.

MLB says they consider the matter closed....there has to be more to this

http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...suspended-30-days-drew-pomeranz-investigation

Major League Baseball suspended San Diego Padres general manager A.J. Preller for 30 days without pay after an investigation into the trade of pitcher Drew Pomeranz to the Boston Red Sox.

MLB was looking at the Padres' handling of medical information of players it was trading. The league's investigators interviewed officials from both teams and then submitted their findings to commissioner Rob Manfred.

MLB, which announced the suspension Thursday, said it considers the matter closed.

 

[chizzler]

There is definately more to this. League squashy it before it explodes, (see NFL).

 

[Johnnyduke]

Already annoyed

 

[EverettMike]

Sox got walloped for the international signings.

This gets 30 days for the GM but no punishment for the actual team? They won't actually suffer in anyway?

Okay then. I had a feeling that the Sox punishment had something to do with trying to get Warner the job over Manford, this makes me think I was right.

 

[24giovanni]

The Sox need a number 3 Starter and a LH power hitter in the off season.

 

[Johnnyduke]

Tough comparing sports but pats lost a first round pick for spygate. First round pick very valuable in football. They were bagged for doing something that I believe was legal for a long time and ultimately not THAT important. Deserved to be punished but this secret database from the padres is a worse crime if you ask me. And the punishment is a 30 day suspension for the gm? That's not even a slap on the wrist.

 

[Johnnyduke]

Erod brought his good stuff tonight

 

[Fenway]

I am having flashbacks to 1978 right now

https://youtu.be/gNX7hp4zmsI?t=666

 

[UNB Bruins Fan]

Way to give your team a chance, Rodriguez....

This Yankees team annoys me...how are they even above .500 let alone challenging for the division?? Starlin friggin' Castro is their cleanup hitter! Gotta give Girardi a ton of credit...he obviously is doing something right. I would take him over Farrell every day of the week.

 

[Johnnyduke]

Game is already over

 

[Pia8988]

The penalty seems extremely weak on Preller. Especially with a past suspension in his history.