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My goal for Carson this appearance. Finish the game and lower your ERA to under 5.50

Oh come now a person can put his own spin on a cliche. Besides maybe best to not say natives ? Who knows.

That was in the old days as I just explained to u . Go look at the 1920's glove and u will understand why using 2 hands was a thing. We are afterall only 2 generations removed from those days ( our grandfathers) the ball really never pops out anymore unless u are diving or hitting a wall and you can't use 2 hands while diving very much.

Catching with 2 hands is a throwback to the days when gloves were not the huge baskets they are today. If you are near 60 years old then your father was taught by his father who watched in the days when the gloves made you catch with two hands. Your father passed it on to you, The only time you really should get both hands together is when you attempt to throw a runner out and catch it while moving in . With the throwing hand close to the glove as to make the transfer quicker from glove to throwing hand.

Brandon Guyer might be on the hot seat if Booker is promoted. Would be shocked if Rutherford is sent gown a level after so little time. Depends on how long the rehab is before they start appearing in games.

It was a HBP

I know you didn't mean any ill will. I am not so thin skinned. I just wanted to make sure u know there are a lot of oldies but goodies hanging around here. Just be careful I might blast some rock music your way on my "quadraphonic blaupunkt" (baseball movie reference alert)

Hey there are a few of us over 40 crowd (way over ) that say celebrate whenever you want. Life is too short. Be happy in the moment, any moment. Celebrate life. A really good hitter fails 7 of 10 times so live it up when you succeed while you can.

Kind of odd though that he pitched a tiny bit in the AZL but yet wasn't ready to start the season. Just being extra careful I suppose but not sure we will ever see 100 MPH out of him again.

Time for the bats to rise from the dead. We need a miracle.

You are right .I am wrong. It was the 1at game he was 1/2 with a walk and the second game he got lifted after the HBP.

Relax . He still has little experience . It's a long season .Another month in A+ won't hurt. The best prospect on the planet has over 1000 minor league AB's ( Vlad Guerrero Jr.). Robert has 329. Moving him means moving other pieces to accommodate him. He still has a lot to learn. Baseball isn't as easy as he is making it look right now. No sense grinding him down . He's on fire now but long seasons do wear a guy down who is not used to it yet no matter how good a physical specimen he is. Let's see if he can stay healthy for 6 months while playing nearly every day. If he does there's a decent chance he can start next year with the Sox but I would imagine with so little experience that he will struggle at some point in AA or AAA and he will need to adjust and we will need to stay patience just like with Moncada.

1 for 2 with a walk and stolen base in game 2 so appears OK.

Ha I want to say something here but nooo.

Fry looking good.

How hard did Fry throw last year is 93 94 normal for him ?

Me likey 5 run innings

Go ALonso !

Yay Ho Say !

Way to go Leury !

Exactly right field out and pitchers hand out for those uninformed meant we had no 1st baseman so a groundball fielded would be thrown to the pitcher for the out if he caught it before the runner reached 1st. Batter catches was always tough . I actually forget how we handled the catching most of the time. Usually a little brother who was too young to play with us.

Well we were both on the South Side but I was at 72nd and Wood street and the blacktop baseball was either played at St. Justin and when we out grew that the local public school blacktop was much bigger, Raster Elementary. I worked for a few years in Mt Greenwood at 103rd and Western, 2 jobs sometimes right in a buildings close together, The White Hen Pantry and The Chicago Tribune Telephone Soliciting office. That was around when I was 18.19 and 20. Running bases was called "pickle" in a lot of places because it was basically trying to get out of being in a rundown . Early in HS family moved to Oak Lawn and although a bit older would still play fast pitch when the opportunity arose. I would often hitchhike from Quigley South (79th and Western) to 103rd street then up 103rd street past Cicero Ave into Oak Lawn . You Alma Mater Brother Rice could be seen from 103rd Street and I played basketball too once in a while at St Xavier College.

When I was a kid in the inner city in Chicago and baseball was popular we didn't play on baseball fields . We would use a rubber ball and play on the blacktop in school yards. If we played on grass at all in was in a nearby park . Yes parks back then had baseball diamonds but they were also used for football and the parks also had basketball courts. Really in baseball all you need is a bat and ball Don't even really need a mitt if you use a rubber ball though we did all have mitts. Ever play what we use to call "fast pitch" ? Just use a piece of chalk or even a piece or rock to draw a strike zone on a wall and play one on one baseball that way with a rubber ball. Throw a pitch and if the hitter swings and misses or takes the pitch it bounces right back to the pitcher. If the hitter makes contact we had designated boundaries for fair or foul balls and areas that hits became extra base hits by how far you hit it on the fly. We also would play wiffle ball on street corners using manhole covers as bases. You could also play catch any time any where. or the version of playing catch with a runner which we called "running bases" . Hell Field of Dreams emphasized how baseball passed from one generation to the next just by playing catch with your Dad. And yes I did play catch with my Dad too. To get really good of course you played Little League and then onto high school and college ball. But seems to reason that a lot of fields where you can play football could also be used for baseball. We also played in vacant lots . With kids, if there's a will there's a way. but with it's decline in popularity there was no longer the will to play baseball.

I don't wonder why .Football and basketball are more popular . Back in the 1960's MLB had great African American players, then football and basketball took all the great athletes away from baseball.

So did Crash Davis