Brian26

If I had to put money down on any one person to be the next Sox manager, whether this year or five years from now, I'd wager on Ozzie.

Gotcha.

What do you need a rep for? I ask honestly, not cynically. I've had season ticket packages for years, and I don't think I've ever had a reason to call them back once the tickets arrived in the mail. Once the tickets arrive for your games, what's the deal with "the rep"?

Considering Duquette pretty much tanked the entire offseason for the Orioles, let Markakis walk, did basically nothing....some compensation is in order. You have to look at it from Baltimore's perspective.

Dempster's the biggest windbag on that Network.

Susan Slusser on MLB says A's front office is at dinner, and then they're going to sleep. See everyone tomorrow. Goodnight.

LOL. I assume the 12 game stretch you are referring to is the 2005 postseason? The Sox had the best record in baseball and lead wire to wire. To say they overachieved or to cherry pick the playoff run like they were the '03 lucky-ass Marlins is insane. Ridiculous post. They ruled baseball that entire season from April 1 to the Uribe throw to Konerko on October 26th. Time and revisionist history doesn't erase that fact.

The third structure was going to be on the 37th Street side? I'm trying to picture where that would be. By the school?

I'd be happier to see him continue to try to throw strikes, grab first pitch strikes, stay in the zone, quit wasting pitches and generally throw less pitches. In the start before this last one, it seemed like he was 3-2 on every single batter. You just can't do that. If he's got an 0-2 count on someone, you can almost guarantee the next two pitches are waste pitches 18 inches off the plate. Throw strikes, make the batters swing the bat, keep them honest.

Did DeAza have two strikes on him when he was hit? The only thing I can come up with is they called it a strike because he got hit by a pitch in the strikezone (he's standing on top of the plate). http://www.qcbaseball.com/baseball_r...by_pitch1.aspx Hit by Pitch When a Batter Should Not be Awarded First Base It may seem obvious when a batter is hit by a pitch and awarded first base, but there are some cases where a base may not be awarded. If the ball touches the batter as the batter swings at the ball. This basically means that if the batter is swinging at the ball and the act of swinging has caused the ball to hit the batter, then the ball is a strike. Example: Batter swings and the ball hits him on the forearm as he's swinging. The ball is dead and it is a strike. If the hitter has two strikes, it is strike 3 not a foul ball. This isn't called often as most of the time the player will stop the swing and be hit by the ball. In that case most umpires will determine that the player is attempting to get out of the way by not continuing the swing. So, even though the act of swinging has caused the ball to hit the batter, the umpire may determine that player attempted to get out of the way and award the batter first base.

You realize you're talking to the core of the core of fans here. Of course people are living and dying with all of these games, and that's ok.

I've been on the Semien bandwagon for awhile. I'd love to see Semien or even L Garcia on a daily basis just to see what they can do.

LOL love it.

I'm with you. This team is too good to lose 90+ games.

There's a lot of irony in that statement for a lot of reasons.

Maybe you don't understand that people shouldn't have to be told how NOT to act.

Perhaps it is because you weren't there. Perhaps you're just immature. It's not really up for debate though, no matter how contrarian you want to be. It's pretty much a despicable act. I'm not saying you cannot dislike the guy, but that's not the place to act that way. It was embarrassing.

Basically, and Rabbit can back me up on this in case I misqoute...the guy said Ventura did fine in 2012 but wanted to know if he had a pulse in 2013 and if he's really the right guy to be our manager. Ventura said, "I think I am". Then Hahn immediately interrupted and said that what you see on tv is a FRACTION of what Robin does, and the fans don't see Robin on the plane or in the clubhouse or before/after the game or behind closed doors, and just because he's not out there making a spectacle of himself or acting fired up, it doesn't mean the message isn't being said and put across behind closed doors, and quite frankly that's the way they like it (Hahn, Sox management). That last part was in reference, I believe, to the person asking the question who had referenced how Robin was different that Ozzie at the beginning of his question. The Dunn stuff is just embarrassing.

I wonder if this is the reason they replaced Dunn with Johnson in the Holmes seminar.

Hahn's response was classy and thoughtful but also assertive. He nailed it though. That should also dispell any rumors that Hahn is an Ozzie guy. The seminars today have been weak. I'm getting ready to leave the Laurence Holmes show right now. This is awful.

Exactly correct about the 10am seminar. The guy that asked Robin if he had a pulse was out of line, and Hahn's response pretty much was perfect.

What??? Is this guy for real? And he's one of the "insiders" around here?

My take is different. I'll never have a problem with the GM as long as he holds himself accountable and has a reason for what's he's doing. I heard Hahn talk about that this morning, and I was fine with it. It makes sense to me. Viciedo hit 26 HRs last year in his first full year. Whether he improves or not is yet to be determined, but the Sox would be pulling the rug out from under him by not at least giving him the chance.

Why would you do this? Just curious. Isn't this unfair to season ticket holders?

I'm not disagreeing with you, but Glavine's career happened to coincide with an Atlanta Braves' run where they were the best team in baseball cumulatively over a 12-year period. If Glavine isn't pitching on the Braves for those years, he has many fewer wins and probably never would have reached 300.