That's the sad part.
Law vanished when Buck proved him wrong. He is a coward.
Softlaw uses a ridiculously transparent mask - to mask how wrong he was at so many levels last year. His GM projections never transpired, so he attacks Theo instead of admitting the obvious.
When SD took almost the exact off I said they' take (I said Casey, Rizzo, and Bowden), and softy was so wrong it was pathtic, he attacked SD'sGM as being idiotic and then claimed he never said it was a 50-50 chance he'd be dealt. He said he said it was 100%. Outlandish lies and swollen ego.
He took the position that CERA was voodoo because it's not widely accepted by GM's.
Now that VMART is no longer a FT catcher - that no GM wanted him in that capacity - he won't even debate the issue with me. Instead he wears the mask of a liar.
The worst part was, he actually defended the money for VMart as a firstbaseman, calling him better than Morneau, K Morales and others by saying he would be a top 8 1Bman in MLB even 4 years from now!
Softlaw is a born liar.
He's worse than a liar. He spews hatred and vile.
A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
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Thanks for the research harness. Looks like h's about like Napoli and VMart. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II:Yeah. I'm in it, Boom . You probably missed my posts. But it's got too many software issues for me right now. Let 'em work the bugs out. Josh owned the Big Apple tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by harnessAgreed; classic pitching; games like this I don't mind losing, 'cause my team had no business winning it. Also, it could have easily been 10-0. Here's guessing Varitek catches more games than planned. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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What a game for Beckett...and Pedey and Pap! What a travesty for Dice-K...I think I want to send Dice-K to Salem and make someone else a fifth starter. I think there are several candidates all of whom would outperform him. I hope something good comes of this start; I want to believe the "tested by fire" thing and follow the tenets of my Puritan forbears but it seems like the hole is getting pretty deep. As for "GM" I have chosen this path: I don't read his posts and thus I can not and will not respond to them. Not that he would care much, but his invective made it so unpleasant here last year that sometimes I just didn't enjoy it anymore. Furthermore, he is unreasonably biased against some players. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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Fifth starter debate? What about all starters debate?
Catcher throwing? Our catchers toss, don't throw. At least they block the plate when stealing home, so the other team's walks only end up as doubles or triples.
Francona's "decision making"? Does his coin still have two different sides when he flips it?
And Mr. Epstein, while you are going to going gung-ho in free agency, I hear that Tony Gwynn is available for maybe $8 million a year, and we can prop up the pitching staff with return of Roger Clemons.
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II:...and Softy who is clearly baseballGM behind ( again for the most part ). I choose to believe tom-uk over GM. tom says he caught softy red-handed. GM slipped by answering as softy, then quickly deleted his post. More evidence... we all know softy holds some pretty bizarre positions. What are the odds that GM has exactly the same positions and the same style and vitriol. The same enthusiastic level of bashing of precisely the same players softy despises. It's obvious softy's trying to save face by pretending he is not breaking his promise not to come on this thread. To me, he has proven his dishonesty countless times, so these actions do not surprise me. He's becoming such a pretender, I wonder if even he knows who he is anymore.
Posted by moonslav59But, any of us could be baseballGM, or Tom, or Burrito or really anyone. Completely matching a writing style is difficult and I would think not all that much fun but some people chose tospend their life doing it. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II:Check out Pawtucket's result from tonight. Life is Good!: http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_04_11_pawaaa_bufaaa_1
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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Is Cash working at a fast food joint? He was very bad. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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I watched the Sox vs Yankees game today....I think the Sox have a great team....But something is missing...Earlier today, I was thinking that the Yankees had better personnel if one copmpares them with the Sox on a man to man basis...But that is not it...The Yankees looked like they were better prepared to play major league baseball....Could it be that the Sox' coaching is sub-par. I am beginning to wonder. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II:Tito/Theo won't pigeon-hole Beckett. Not for long. He/they didn't learn their '09 lesson. And the same mentality that went with VMART as a full-time receiver in 2010 has put Salty in the same position for 2011.
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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Wakefield is a burden on the active roster. One pitch is an unnecessary burden on the bullpen. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
- nhsteven
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According to Peter Gammons, he's got 4 more starts to straighten out. Considering the nibbler he's been, that game was shocking from a pitch location/selection POV.He needs to revert to nibbler form, which is what he was when he went 18-3. RSN will just have to get over his high Pitch counts per IP in this mode (About 20). -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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Problem is: NIBBLER form means 5 IP - 100 pitches, and an unnecessary burden on the BP.
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
- BaseballGM
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Wally could be an innings eater. The last outing, after DiceK's meltdown, Wakefield threw softball batting practice. "Innings eater" means nothing. It's "quality innings" that count. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
- nhsteven
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That was one game, and that game was over at that point. If Wakefield is as effective as he was last yr, that would be good enough for a long man role. Not everybody can be Koufax. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
- nhsteven
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Disagree; he's still an innings eater. Also, Harness, he could pitch the 6th and 7th when Dice-K pitches his 5. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 3:34 PM EDT
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Take a look at Wakefield's numbers from 2010. He needs to go, but clings like a teflon Don. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 5:58 PM EDT
- harness
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It's unfortunate what measures BDC has taken to deter bumping issues.
This forum has no history now. Just two pages.
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 6:00 PM EDT
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We'll see who does better and maybe will end up with Wally before the season's over. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 9:46 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II:We'll see who does better and maybe will end up with Wally before the season's over.
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Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 9:48 PM EDT
- fenwayjack2
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In Response to A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II:The season is finally here. The long winter is over and the roster and rotation is set for now. No major surprises this spring. Let's keep this thread troll free, softy free, and abusrd free. Use the game threads to discuss play by play action, and let's make this a thread about season issues, theory, philosophy, and direction. Softy has pledged to stay away, so that alone makes this a much less hostile place for rational debate and ideas. I'm sure a few topics will come up again: 1) Line-up debates 2) 5th starter/bullpen issues 3) Tito's decisions 4) Baserunning and Catcher throwing 5) Fielding and sub rotations/platoons 6) Later, trade talks Let's keep it "real". Let's keep it clean. Let's keep it all about the Sox and Sox-related issues. Let the games begin. Let the rings be ours!
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You must really regret posting that. Lol. Like last year this team will again miss the playoffs. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 10:39 PM EDT
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My guess is nobody else we bring up will do much better than Wake, except Aceves. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 11:08 PM EDT
- BaseballGM
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Your guess will be that everyone but Aceves will be teriible then, because Wakefield isn't going to be "better" than anyone unless they, too, are horrible. -
Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part II
posted at 4/13/2011 11:15 PM EDT
- harness
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Aceves can implode as well. Big difference between pitching a few mop-up BP innings as compared to starting.