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You carry the Owen mid-field logo of OU as your Avatar - but you don't know the call-response of BOOMER-_________? LMAO - if you say so.

Hey Caulfield - I've BOOMERED you twice now - with no response. What's the problem?

Geeze - we're not hitting.

Pollock making me look pretty bad.

Kind of early to be lumping all these guys into one package. Pollock isn't performing at anything like his (later career) potential, but there is no good reason for him not to get in a groove and be a solid contributor. The guy can hit and still play the field competently. Bringing him over might not become the success one would like, but the trade was not a bad deal. BOOMER!

What was that? 8 pitches and Pollock goes after 6 of them out of the zone. I was thinking this guy was a solid plus when we got him. But maybe it's just the cold weather...

He's at least as good a blocker and has a better arm than Grandal. Having him there at least lessens the odds that Grandal gets injured.

Balta has a pretty good handle on this in that streaming services are working up biz plans and looking for ways to edge into the sports market as sports orgs are themselves looking for the right angle to take on the streaming platforms. A work in progress from all POVs. The problem lies in how viewers are taking being put in a 'man-in-the-middle' position on a frequent basis. I'm not too crazy about having to jump around looking for a game I want to see. If MLB were to enable a decent variety of games to be made readily available on a regular basis, this wouldn't be so inconvenient. Right now the entire field is in flux - a little stability would be appreciated by most.

And at this point, we don't really know how good or bad a First Baseman he is. He'll probably be OK, but it's still an unknown.

It's as if MLB considers streaming the 'writing on the wall', the future of tele-coverage . Meanwhile Netflix is not all that far from being in freefall and streaming subscriptions are well down across the board. Obviously, streaming is here to stay, just not so dominant a format as some have tried to promote. With viewership constantly having to search for their games and then having to decide whether or not to subscribe to a given service would seem to be a limiting factor re: eyeballs on the screen. The notion of subscribing to one service and then having multiple games carried exclusively on another venue is not my idea of an equitable situation. In short, it looks like the fans are the ones getting errrrr shorted on all this. I wonder how far the owners think they can push the fanbase before the fans start to push back? Bread and circuses. Beer and ballgames.

Don't both Sox suck so far this year? Going 1-2 in Bahstawn wouldn't look especially bad, just not what we need.

Someone with the numbers can shed light on Bummer's performance. Last year he was pretty much mediocre in the first half, but improved in the second half. His sinker doesn't appear to the have control and bite that he has shown in the past.

30+ pitch second inning. The rest were very good.

Isn't Hendricks doing what Keuchel is supposed to be doing?

By Gameday - all five pitches to Pollock were out of the zone.

Pitches through three - Hendricks 29 Gio 62.

Gio at 31 pitches this inning. The Cubs are getting at least a piece of everything in the zone.

Robert is starting - why not yesterday?

Somebody put up a Wednesday game thread already.

He signed a multi-year deal with ESPN in 2021 and will do a variety of stuff. IMO Berman has been a pretty good all-around sports announcer, just not a first class baseball play-by-play guy. His Sunday night NFL recaps with Tom Jackson were the best of their kind for awhile. Barely needed to even watch the games.

BTW Caulfield - BOOMER!

I don't disagree. But disabling/impairing injuries have almost become precedent with many young high-end talents across the league. As it stands, Luis and Buxton are in pretty much the same boat.

I wonder if its occurred to TLR to PH AV. I mean, he's a HoF guy with NL background so one would think...

Comparing Robert and Buxton is valid at this point While both appear to be capable of flying in 'rarified air', neither has been off the ground long enough to see all those talents become realized. i.e. we're still, in great part, looking at potential with both of them. Trout is a very different animal. If his career were to somehow end today (NOOOOOOOOO!!!!), he is a first ballot Hof'er. Potential - fully realized.

"This is a simple game -you throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains." -Bull Durham. This team could have used a lot more rain-outs in April.