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Mookie Betts hits for the cycle last night

MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,840 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The team lost the game, but Mookie made some history.

Congrats Mookie !!

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  • bronco2078bronco2078 Posts: 10,227 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think we can all agree on this guy , just wondering if they can hold onto him :/

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 10, 2018 12:11PM

    If one has a HR, triple and double and hits one in the gap in the ninth inning...is it cool to stop at first?

    (nothing to do with the noted cycle, just thought it was a strange, albeit rare, event.

  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I think it would depend on the inning and score. If my team is down, but the game is within reach, I'd put on the steam...otherwise I hit the brakes at first. The cycle doesn't come around every day, more likely never.

  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,029 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coinstartled said:
    If one has a HR, triple and double and hits one in the gap in the ninth inning...is it cool to stop at first?

    (nothing to do with the noted cycle, just thought it was a strange, albeit rare, event.

    I just read the headline.

    Did he really do that? If so, that truly sucks, especially because the OP stated that his team lost the game.

  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @stevek said:

    @Coinstartled said:
    If one has a HR, triple and double and hits one in the gap in the ninth inning...is it cool to stop at first?

    (nothing to do with the noted cycle, just thought it was a strange, albeit rare, event.

    I just read the headline.

    Did he really do that? If so, that truly sucks, especially because the OP stated that his team lost the game.

    Yikes...no, not at least as far as I know. Tried to put that disclaimer in parenthesis but guess it got missed.

  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭✭

    From what I understand the sox tried to get him on a long term contract and he did not want to do it.

  • BaltimoreYankeeBaltimoreYankee Posts: 2,995 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mookie Betts rules!!

    Daniel
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I remember a couple years ago when Betts and Jackie Bradley and maybe one or two other young
    Red Sox came up I wondered who was going to be the best of them, now I guess the answer is pretty clear!

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,656 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Betts is a beast

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,984 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I imagine that Mookie will be in pinstripes before he retires. That’s usually the way it works when your team has more money than Fort Knox.

    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • tommyrusty7tommyrusty7 Posts: 2,022 ✭✭✭✭

    He is setting himself up for a big payoff to the highest bidder for sure.

  • MCMLVToppsMCMLVTopps Posts: 4,840 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd be more than amazed if John Henry didn't outbid the high bidder for Mookie.

    Recall the movie scene from Count of Monte Cristo, when Jacopo tries to buy the castle and the owner disses him...then walks around to the back of the wagon and spills untold jewels and money out to make the purchase. Hang in Mookie, you may well get two wagon fulls.

  • bigmarty58bigmarty58 Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Mookie is and should be the sox number one young player that they need to sign a long term contract with. He is a five tool player with the quickest hands in baseball. Very special player!

    Enthusiastic collector of British pre-decimal and Canadian decimal circulation coins.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 30,656 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Betts absolutely should be a priority for the Sox however it’s going to take 200 Million to keep him in Boston

  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,492 ✭✭✭✭✭

    the cycle was nice, but in a loss it didn't have as much meaning (to me!)

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