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Especially with a struggling team, you have to do everything in your power to preserve the game. He saved it for later ?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 04:05 PM) No, I'm saying that "the umps get to decide how fast the game needs to move on" to me translates to "your manager moved to f***ing slow and lost the game because of it". It's not a defense, it's an indictment. That's how I interpret it too.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 03:46 PM) Then the default in the 9th inning on a close play should be "get the challenge started". In the time they stood around NY should have been able to get things almost done anyway. Exactly, it's the same you see with Tennis players. As it gets later they get more risky with challenges because it doesn't matter, you can't use them after the match. They don't rollover.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 03:45 PM) But how many times have football players (even vet ones) finished a play and begged their coach to challenge whatever it was, and then you see the replay and they're so far off you wonder where the hell they just were? I don't think you can always trust what your players tell you. Challenges are just much less tactical or needed in baseball. and it's the NINTH inning, not the first.

Yeah, whatever, I'm fine with overreacting. I thought Robin was improving, but I don't particularly care about his career at all, so whatever. Replace him now. This team just doesn't know how to play baseball and that's his job.

Amen Alexei.

Only Dick Allen would take the side of it being acceptable for major league officials in charge of utilizing the league's instant review system to not have the full available information to make a call.

Nobody can tell me that was inconclusive.

So not only are sox advance scouts terrible, but the people that just need to watch tvs are terrible.

As soon as I realized our schedule I got very nervous about this season, rather than rising to the challenge, they are...not. Amazing how many hitters under .200 right now.

QUOTE (Tony82087 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 02:51 PM) i just uploaded the tag to Youtube. HE WAS OUT I have to say, after watching that, it can't get much clearer.

I'd prefer us to get hits.

baserunner aboard!

Clearly Dick Allen has not come across cardinals fans, who think that Rosenthal is the worst closer in game, holliday is "unclutch", matheny is worst manager, etc etc

Great at bat from Emilio.

pitchtracker has been interesting. Lots of obvious strikes balls, balls strikes. not borderline. Guessing it's off.

really love Beckham's glove on the corners, where we are soooo weak.

QUOTE (JoshPR @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 01:05 PM) Gordon looks good at 3rd Frankly, the only entertaining moment of the home opener was Gordon's defense.

Bucks actually scare me. But then again, we basically only lost the last game because Aaron Brooks closing games is hilarious, it's almost guaranteed he will turn the ball over.

QUOTE (Condor13 @ Apr 17, 2015 -> 11:19 AM) This is either gonna be a pitchers duel or the sox are gonna get smoked 9-0. The Shark better have his A game going bc the tigers have their bats on fire so far. Really disheartening to me that 8 games into the most anticipated year in 10 years, and almost every game so far I have felt we are outmatched, worse yet it's against all division foes.

http://devour.com/video/new-york-knicks-one-shining-moment/

I totally understand the impulse to think that 44-88 is not middle class, and I have to wonder when sensible housing policy becomes a bigger deal. Breaks across lines in some ways.

"the main injury worries have been the players that have been on the bulls for their whole careers and must just be injury prone!"

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Apr 16, 2015 -> 11:57 AM) So tell me which bulls injury that they could have caught prior to and prevented? and I dont think they are awesome, they clearly have messed up a few major injuries(which all fell under Tedeschi) Taj's shoulder, Taj's reoccuring ankles, Noah's mysterious minor surgery that affected his entire 2015 season, McDermotts back, Rose's hamstring, the seemingly every day injury to Hinrich, Butlers lingering foot and thumb injuries, the players that continue to go out to play after clearly having a play that caused the injury.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 16, 2015 -> 10:48 AM) It's not bad luck. You know it's coming. It's like Ken Griffey Jr. in Cincinatti. You knew he would get hurt every year, it was just a question of when. The medical staff has made some bad decisions previously, but I don't see how you can pin any of the injuries this year on them. It would be like Adam Eaton taking a fastball off his wrist, fracturing it, and putting it on Herm Schneider. No it wouldn't. It would be like an entire team getting injured year after year, and blaming it on Herm Schneider.