Jake

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 11:13 PM) It's funny how baseball is so much different from every other team sport. It's pretty apparent the Sox are dead, in a funk, whatever, entering the homestretch. But in no way can Robin address this with a pep talk or team meeting or speech before or after games (unlike football, basketball where coaches talk all the time). It would be seen as a sign of panic or of weakness. So he like all managers has to act the same as he does every other day during the season and just hope the bad Sox turn into the good Sox again. The marathon nature of baseball season dictates Robin saying nothing, just making out the lineup cards day after day. It's because pep talks don't do s***. This is a game in which the manager has to look and see whether bad play is happening because of something controllable or mere chance. When the best players only succeed 30% of the time (at the plate), a long streak of failures is well within the realm of possibility on a "normal" day. A slight downturn in production (like from 4 runs a game to 3 runs a game, which usually constitutes the difference between a winning run and a losing run) is bound to happen fairly often just by chance. You can't treat it like a football coach would because in football most players execute at an extremely high rate by nature of the game. You can't out-motivate chance. Having heads up asses and being in a statistically likely bad stretch look remarkably similar. Managers have to discern which is occurring and strong reactions usually wind up with a manager getting bad about things that are bound to happen, statistically. Robin can focus on the mistakes like the fielding, baserunning ones and just hope the offensive issues are going to be self-correcting. Obviously Manto is always going to be working hard to keep players going, so you can't say that he needs to suddenly change his style.

QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 12:45 PM) How the heck do you try to win 60-65% of the white vote without being divisive and or racist? I hope Mr Genius wasn't being serious with that post. It's more that certain messages appeal to that demographic. You don't say "hey white people, policy policy policy!" You just say "policy policy policy" and realize that it won't appeal to most minorities. "policy policy policy" being whatever you think is a message that appeals to whites opposed to non-whites QUOTE (MexSoxFan#1 @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 12:53 PM) The reason minorities vote Democrat is because they are seen as more inclusive and more helpful to the working class. Latinos are more culturally conservative (family oriented, church goers) but they vote for theireconomic interests, simple as that. The GOP could nominate Rubio next time but Latinos won't vote for him if his policies don't help working class citizens. Not to mention Rubio would just be seen as a Cuban, a demographic that already votes Republican and makes up about 30% of Hispanics in the USA

We've sure been doing a lot of traveling lately. We could probably benefit from being able to prioritize getting some extra work in instead of just trying to get the guys rested.

How could such a horrible team ever have a better record than the Angels?

lol!

Gotta swing the bats, boys

f*** seeing eye singles

That 91mph heater moved SO much

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 09:57 PM) Pujols is a Sox killer. We should pick him up ala Mark Teahen

Alejandro f***ed that big time

Hope we're pitching around him

Walk Pujols!

QUOTE (Jake @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 09:53 PM) Jake has thrown some fastballs with wicked movement tonight The second one to Trout not one of them

Jake has thrown some fastballs with wicked movement tonight

QUOTE (RZZZA @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 09:45 PM) God damn, Beckham has been looking good at the plate I'll have his babies

Good! Bad baserunning makes up for Alexei's poor finish on that DP

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 05:25 PM) Im sure Cowley is busy writing his defense of Ozzie as this is going on. "Beinfest didnt give Ozzie a team to compete. He didnt have a chance" It's somewhat true. They DID give out a ton of bad money.

ruh roh!

lol, they should really keep hammering after Romney's tax returns. I'd just make commercial after commercial about it, along with the quote from his own father saying that if someone won't show them, they have something to hide

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 21, 2012 -> 01:49 PM) Lol, that's great. I still can't believe the "artist" wants her money. She wants her "cut" to go to a particular charity

In the world in which we always beat the teams that are worse than us, we probably also lose all the games against teams that are better than us.

When do they demolish Kaufmann?

Lucky ass hit there. Oh well, not going to blame relief pitching for this

QUOTE (Baron @ Sep 20, 2012 -> 09:52 PM) Who gives a **** what they think? They lost credibility when they chose the Royals

Matty Ice, let's go!!!