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I never said that though. That was some other kid. Bunting is not that hard is my point. If a superior player such as Grandal could be assed during his development to learn it, the sox have no excuse. If they can’t bunt they shouldn’t be bunting. I can’t remember the last Sox developed player who was competent at bunting, unless it was Ozzie

Yet Grandal is a competent bunter

What you talking bout, Farm

Maybe it’s better left undone. Don’t do this to me. I’d go all night with this probably?

I figuratively guarantee you a competent organization would have guys like Eloy and Robert turned around before you could shake a tail feather

Give them a break. They don’t know the Sox like we do?

“Never say never.” Uh oh, a clash of verisimilitudes. Now I don’t know what to think. Maybe I’ll rely on discernment instead, although the downside there is you’d have to actually use your brain

If only human behavior were that black and white

Arrogant people usually have coping mechanisms that shield them from things like embarrassment and shame, otherwise they wouldn’t be arrogant in the first place.

I don’t see how they’d be better off letting contracts expire. Something is better than nothing

I’m not a pro gambler or anything though, so my advice comes with grains of salt

Yeah it’s just a bad idea, I tells ya. it’s better to target bets involving teams with outsized fan bases because they will get disproportionate amount of bets in their favor, resulting in more favorable lines to bet against them. Teams like Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs, Red Sox, Lakers, etc. You’ll see lines at +150 that maybe realistically should be +125 but since the volume of betting is on the other side, they can afford to be more favorable since they will be taking in on all those losers and paying out a fraction of it. Find the bets where the underdog has a favorable pitching matchup but its not really reflected in the line due to betting volumes

Another rule of thumb, which I got from Norm MacDonald: never bet on a sport in which the ball is not round

My rule of thumb is to never place a bet involving a team that I root for. Gambling requires rational thinking and fandom by nature is irrational

Well like you said we are stuck with JR, so sticking with known failure of Hahn/KW/Getz or complete tear down under direction of new GM selected by JR, I still would go with the latter

All he would have to do is pick the one right guy to make those decisions for him though. Not saying its going to happen but its not like its some sort of impossibility

Agree 100%. This entire sequence has me convinced the most important quality of a manager is the ability to foster the spirit of the team, outweighing any other consideration. Of course this is entirely unquantifiable, but fact is sometimes bad calls go right and vice versa. regardless, going through three managers in the midst of the supposed window is clearly dysfunctional. I think the guys were unhappy about Renteria yet wanted to give TLR a chance, but the entire Yermin fiasco turned them against him. No way Renteria would havd treated any of them with that kind of disrespect, they knew it and it was all downhill from there. So then they brought in some corporate-speak pollyanna and that ain’t the ticket either. Who ever sat through a corporate meeting listening to some mid level management lingo and left feeling inspired. I’d want to see someone living and dying on it, not some platitude spewing company man. But to be fair, Grifol was put in a bad position. Which of course is the front office’s fault.

Even the misery of Sox fans is just a viral marketing opportunity for the likes of miller lite. What a world we’re living in

I’m glad to hear he cleared up his divinity status. I’ve often wondered

False. The shear force is still acting on the molecules of the object whether the force is sufficient to break it or not. There is always shear force as a result of torsion regardless, the last I checked the spine is not a solid object. Twisting results in parallel motion of the various objects of the spine which by definition is shear force.

Well your argument is essentially that something that results in shear force does not have the same impact as shear force. If that seems reasonable to you that is your business I guess

Maybe this will help. I’m guessing you didn’t study much physics in your field, but either way you are just plain wrong: “A moment that causes twisting is called a twisting or torsional moment. Torsion produces shear stresses inside the material. A beam in torsion will fail in shear; the twisting action causes the molecules to be slid apart sideways (for example, a pole with a sign hanging off one side).”

Torsion results in shear force that is just a plain fact, as the graphic I posted demonstrates. Not even up for debate. If you are twisting your back, then the surfaces are sliding against each other in a parallel motion which is the definition of shear force