Karma is going to bite you for saying there is no karma regardless of what context you were using it in.
Red Sox/MLB 2023 Regular Season - 154-8 still possible - Adam Duvall suffered fractured wrist, no timetable set for his return
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GatorMike
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btw, San Diego backlogged its season opener to 6:40 PST (9:40 EST) Gates @ Petco Park open at 4:30 PST, for weather concerns
that's the Padres... remember, this thread is not always Sox Centric, BTW, 33RD season in broadcasting for Don Orsillo, 8th in SD, after stints in Pittsfield/Binghamton/Pawtucket/Boston
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KrejciMVP
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they should be. thats my expectation for this year
what about Brady winning the SB in Tampa?
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Looks like it's going to be 39 degrees for first pitch tomorrow.
Whoever has more players who played HS ball in the northeast will win this game
GatorMike
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Donnie Shulzhoffer
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Morris Wanchuk
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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Somehow, the summer seemed to slip by faster this time. Maybe it wasn't this summer, but all the summers that, in this my fortieth summer, slipped by so fast. There comes a time when every summer will have something of autumn about it. Whatever the reason, it seemed to me that I was investing more and more in baseball, making the game do more of the work that keeps time fat and slow and lazy. I was counting on the game's deep patterns, three strikes, three outs, three times three innings, and its deepest impulse, to go out and back, to leave and to return home, to set the order of the day and to organize the daylight. I wrote a few things this last summer, this summer that did not last, nothing grand but some things, and yet that work was just camouflage. The real activity was done with the radio--not the all-seeing, all-falsifying television--and was the playing of the game in the only place it will last, the enclosed green field of the mind. There, in that warm, bright place, what the old poet called Mutability does not so quickly come.
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Of course, there are those who learn after the first few times. They grow out of sports. And there are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown-up or up-to-date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.
-Bart Giamatti
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Somehow, the summer seemed to slip by faster this time. Maybe it wasn't this summer, but all the summers that, in this my fortieth summer, slipped by so fast. There comes a time when every summer will have something of autumn about it. Whatever the reason, it seemed to me that I was investing more and more in baseball, making the game do more of the work that keeps time fat and slow and lazy. I was counting on the game's deep patterns, three strikes, three outs, three times three innings, and its deepest impulse, to go out and back, to leave and to return home, to set the order of the day and to organize the daylight. I wrote a few things this last summer, this summer that did not last, nothing grand but some things, and yet that work was just camouflage. The real activity was done with the radio--not the all-seeing, all-falsifying television--and was the playing of the game in the only place it will last, the enclosed green field of the mind. There, in that warm, bright place, what the old poet called Mutability does not so quickly come.
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Of course, there are those who learn after the first few times. They grow out of sports. And there are others who were born with the wisdom to know that nothing lasts. These are the truly tough among us, the ones who can live without illusion, or without even the hope of illusion. I am not that grown-up or up-to-date. I am a simpler creature, tied to more primitive patterns and cycles. I need to think something lasts forever, and it might as well be that state of being that is a game; it might as well be that, in a green field, in the sun.
-Bart Giamatti
I have been saying for a long time now the season does not need to be 162 freakin games. You don't need to start playing baseball in March. Of course they will never shorten the season. But do we really need to open the season at Fenway and other similar climates? Figure something out.
KrejciMVP
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This has been the deadest run up to a Red Sox Opening Day I can remember. I mean there's no excitement, no anticipation, nothing.
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Usually opening day and the first game can at least generate some interest in me, but this year I can't bother. The ownership group has continually taken such a steaming shit on this roster and the fans that it's hard to get excited for will in all honesty, another sub par basement dwelling season. This is the f***ing Boston Red Sox and they've finished dead last more than they've made the playoffs. They are one of the flagship franchises in all of sports, and the owners are letting them suck, while soaking the fans for a top dollar value for tickets, parking, and concessions. It's a blatant cash grab and it's insulting. I don't expect them to win the World Series every year, but this is a team and a market where they should consistently make the playoffs and at the very least be in the hunt. Yet they're not. They're a travesty and instead of getting better in the off season, they've continually gotten worse. It's f***ing pathetic.
Just posted the same basic sentiment. This ownership group sucks and needs to GTFO. That's the only way things will change.
KrejciMVP
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take me back the days of big signings like Manny, Pedro and Curt Schilling and all the hype and excitement that followed. I also remember NY Boston being the biggest rivalry on the planet
Donnie Shulzhoffer
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Spot on sir. Apparently "Trust the Process" means rooting for the owners profit margin.
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