One reader asks if Tiebreaker B (Ellsbury/Crawford SB) is for the entire season or only with the Red Sox? I.e., perhaps Ellsbury gets traded during the season. ... So: Boston-only SBs.
Yabbut... the contest has already started, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who didn't figure that in. I gave total SB for Ellsbury + Crawford, period.
If anyone who has already emailed me now thinks that Ellsbury or Crawford or Gonzalez will be traded to another team during the season and wants to edit his or her entry, the deadline remains April 1.
(If all of our starters go out driving and get in a wreck and we have a AAA/AA rotation all year, as long as it happens before April 1, feel free to send in a revised ballot.)
However, I am assuming most readers believe all three of those guys will stay with the Sox, so the point is moot.
What about rehab assignments?
Everyone will be healthy all year. No rehabs at all!
Seems to be the spring training style of GD--all Ks are 3-pitch, all BBs are 4-pitch, everything else is 1-pitch.
Meanwhile, some really good Don/Remy silliness tonight, talking about the team dance contest and then dancing themselves. And Remy keeps talking about the size of this one woman dancer's butt. Chest hair talk, too.
John, I'm sure it's small consolation at the moment, but if previous years are any guide, MLB video/audio/tv options are seldom all up and running smoothly by spring training.
(It must be like the postal service at Christmas. The rush always takes them by surprise. Spring training and opening day are only, what, more than a century old?)
I subscribe to MLB Audio (only) every year, and from what I see right now, it's still available. It might be less frustrating to leave it for now and try again in late March.
John, my faith in MLB is nil. But it looks like MLB Audio still exists. I sure hope so, it's how I get through my weekends all season. I have no other way of following games at work.
What about rehab assignments? Defensive indifference? Nuclear war??
ReplyDeleteSo: Boston-only SBs.
ReplyDeleteYabbut... the contest has already started, and I'm sure I'm not the only person who didn't figure that in. I gave total SB for Ellsbury + Crawford, period.
Can't change the rules after the contest starts!
Nothing is changing.
ReplyDeleteIf anyone who has already emailed me now thinks that Ellsbury or Crawford or Gonzalez will be traded to another team during the season and wants to edit his or her entry, the deadline remains April 1.
(If all of our starters go out driving and get in a wreck and we have a AAA/AA rotation all year, as long as it happens before April 1, feel free to send in a revised ballot.)
However, I am assuming most readers believe all three of those guys will stay with the Sox, so the point is moot.
What about rehab assignments?
Everyone will be healthy all year. No rehabs at all!
Hm. Ok.
ReplyDeleteEveryone will be healthy all year. No rehabs at all!
ReplyDeleteYeah, we used up all of those stints for this year during last year's season! Problem solved!
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteWatch it on full screen.
I have to know what that is before I click. Please advise?
ReplyDeleteFirst "On Fire!" of the year?
ReplyDeleteDrew HR.
Is GDGD lying or is HH really getting through almost every batter in one pitch each?
ReplyDeleteNine outs, two hits, 11 batters faced...17 pitches?
ReplyDeleteGDGD is all f'ed up.
ReplyDeleteSeems to be the spring training style of GD--all Ks are 3-pitch, all BBs are 4-pitch, everything else is 1-pitch.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, some really good Don/Remy silliness tonight, talking about the team dance contest and then dancing themselves. And Remy keeps talking about the size of this one woman dancer's butt. Chest hair talk, too.
Plunk-off win. Hit by pitch with bases loaded to win it for us.
ReplyDeleteThat video is NUTS! Reminds me of a video game.
ReplyDeleteAnd also Good stuff, Coyotes
"GDGD is all f'ed up"
ReplyDeleteI mentioned a few days ago my fruitless attempts to buy GD audio--today I got a message saying that GD audio was no longer an available option.
Well, fuck, you try pulling in dinky 5000 watt WZON-AM Red Sox radio on a thundery summer night....
John, I'm sure it's small consolation at the moment, but if previous years are any guide, MLB video/audio/tv options are seldom all up and running smoothly by spring training.
ReplyDelete(It must be like the postal service at Christmas. The rush always takes them by surprise. Spring training and opening day are only, what, more than a century old?)
I subscribe to MLB Audio (only) every year, and from what I see right now, it's still available. It might be less frustrating to leave it for now and try again in late March.
thx, laura k, good advice for the terminally frustrated, though my faith in MLB is not great....
ReplyDeleteHey, Allan. Go here for a spectator's view of that bike race from 2008. Totally nuts.
ReplyDeleteJere: I love the "plunk-off win" phrase. That's a classic!
2nd place in the women's division: Canadian!
ReplyDeleteafter he makes the jump at 2:28, i love the chuckling he does to himself. (it sounds like a little holy shit moment)
ReplyDeleteand the jump at 3:04 -- yikes!
More helmet cams.
ReplyDeleteMmm. Dice-K bad. Errrm.
ReplyDeleteJohn, my faith in MLB is nil. But it looks like MLB Audio still exists. I sure hope so, it's how I get through my weekends all season. I have no other way of following games at work.
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