Comments on: Game 14, Mariners at Red Sox

By: dickpole

dickpole — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:15:37 +0000

I think the earlier comment about Eddie being one decent pitch away from having a terrific outing, as opposed to what has mostly been termed as disasterous, is right on. He’s by no means perfect. Few closers are. Rivera let one go yesterday too. It’s one game, one pitch. Let’s see how they rebound.

By: Red Sox Girl

Red Sox Girl — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:04:53 +0000

I second that John. Thank you to all you guys that make this a decent place to come talk/read/learn more about baseball. You guys do a great job of keeping major arguments from breaking out.

“interesting(ly)-baddish” – thats a cool phrase, I’m going to have to figure out a way to include that in a conversation sometime.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:00:47 +0000

That was me. If only we got paid by the comment deletion: we’d be on a new server and drinking only the finest sports drinks while watching over the site.

By: John in L.A.

John in L.A. — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:53:26 +0000

Thanks to whoever was wielding the magic erasor there. Reading this thread just reminded me how blessedly free this site is of the usual internet trolly-posturing-aggressive nonsense. It’s appreciated.

This is a very weird team. At least this year they are interesting-baddish instead of just bad bad.

By: eponymous coward

eponymous coward — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:23:12 +0000

Shorter thebig708:

I got nothing.

By: thebig708

thebig708 — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:10:09 +0000

[deleted, name calling]

By: LB

LB — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:59:59 +0000

#417: Dave Winfield?

By: davepaisley

davepaisley — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:35:39 +0000

#417 – how about Rene Rivera?

By: davepaisley

davepaisley — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:34:45 +0000

Well, with Eddie, there are a several possible explanations for his suckitude:

1) Still getting his spring training licks in (or should that be Mark Loretta’s spring training licks?)
2) Still broken up over the whole Kirby Puckett thing
3) Arm has, in fact, fallen off and merely being held on by daily applications of superglue.

I’m leaning towards mostly #3, with #1 and #2 as aggravating factors.

The Eddie G career deathwatch is officially on. I’ll be shocked if he makes it to July in any fit state to be traded.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:34:17 +0000

Touche. There actually are a few examples that I’m aware of, but I’ll see if TheBig is actually aware of any before I give them away.