The 2016 Boston Red Sox
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Somebody had to start it, won't be long. AND, I'm gonna get the baseball package this year, I think they really have a shot at it. Make no mistake, if Walrus and HanRam begin to stink, I will post accordingly...hopefully not.
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BTW...dump the Geppeto thing, at least use a Red Sox logo.
Wish I had more exuberance over the Pat's. Can't figure their last couple of games...they better bring their A-game next week, or I think their season may be over.
All is good on this end. Going to Vegas next week to see Celine Dion...and have a 2-week Italy trip on the horizon a few months out. I was at a North Carolina casino for New Year's...the noise and crowd was crazy!
Big change for you with regard to snow from this year to last. Finally some cold weather in Atlanta, nice to have a fireplace. Summers here are nasty hot with humidity.
Happy New Year !!
Al
At your former job site (Rte 66 in Rio Puerco), I won $1.6k in about 45 minutes and left. I played next to that rag single deck 6:5 table at a $25 table with a guy who had no clue about Surrender. After I Surrendered the first time, he asked the dealer..."what was that?"...she then explained the rule and he responded with "Gee, I didn't know you had that here". Doofus loooozer.
I won over $3k at Sandia.
Overall, a very nice trip, thanks, I do pretty good with my skills. I'd post some pics of the stacks of chips I won at both places, but this is the Sports page, not a gambling page. I think the Rio Puerco chips are very cool with the "Route 66" logo. Sandia's chips are kinda dull and boring...but, they all work at the cage.
Suffice it to say, I play a pretty good game of blackjack, BUT, I quickly leave smoky tables. Especially the clowns that smoke cigars.
BTW, I don't particularly think card counting is the answer to a successful gaming trip playing BJ. Card counting merely gives you an indication of the deck composition in terms of high value cards vs low value cards, no more, no less. Just because the deck may be rich in high value cards, there's no guarantee they will come to you as opposed to the guy next to you, or two spots over, even the dealer. I've seem a lot of dummies win when while making incredibly bad moves, yet catch the right cards. I have a different viewpoint, which has been pretty successful for me over the years.
Celine was fabulous and worth every penny. Sadly, her husband died the next morning and her brother yesterday AM. That lady has a lot on her plate !!
Do you feel that panda and han-ram have lost enough weight to help them and the sox this year or do they still even have enough left to help some other team?
My issues IS, and always has been the stupidity of guaranteeing enormous salaries to unproven future performance. It is clear that neither The Walrus or Hanram had their heads in the game last year, knowing their coin was coming rain or shine. It's the mentality of the player, the hubris that creeps into their brains thinking they're better than they really are and don't really have to produce...after all, they have enough money to live like kings for the rest of their lives. Kindofa screw you, I got mine.
Aside from the obscene salaries, I doubt Hanram at first and El Gordo Hombre still floundering at 3rd will not benefit the Red Sox. The idiot that signed these two is gone, and for good reason. So what if they pop a home run here and there, it's consistency that's lacking and the overall esprit de corps...play for the glory of the game and the team.
I think the Red Sox have a better than fair shot this season, but I won't hold my breath on BO and ZO, the BOZO boys that we're stuck with. I can only hope John Henry will jettison these two, and as unceremoniously as he did to Don Orsillo.
As for the Patriot's...where was the offensive line??? Had it not been for a blown PAT, the ending could have been a classic Brady thriller with the Gronk TD so late in the game. An overtime thriller was at hand, but not to be.
Carolina by at least 10.
AND, you gotta write something a bit more enticing than 20,400 baseballs leaving Fenway Park. A thought provoking post might generate responses...BUT, if you gotta go, go.
BTW, Manziel and Manning are the current topics, NOT baseball or the Red Sox, or any truck driving down I-95 with a bajillion boxes of baseballs.
C'mon!!
How on God's earth can these people in managerial positions entomb MLB teams to incredible monetary commitments without a scintilla of proof that the performances they are paying for will happen??? El Gordo and HanRam are the epitome of this mindless activity.
The jury is out on the Red Sox, I haven't ponied up for the MLB package yet and am leaning not doing so. I predict that BO will not recover at 3rd base, and ZO will be less then stellar at fist base. There may be spurts of brilliance...geez, you out to get something for all that $$$, but long term they are still a train wreck.
Hey Paul...my brother had 26 below last week at his Loudon, NH home, with a wind chill of 49 BELOW!! Holy Molley !!! Hope you're doing well pal...at least you dodged the big snows of last year. Hang in there, Spring ain't that far off.
Take care.
Al
"The work is only beginning for Hanley Ramirez with infield coach Brian Butterfield, who is trying to transform Ramirez from one of the worst defensive outfielders in baseball into a serviceable first baseman. They spent about 15 minutes together on a practice field Friday morning.
"The more they get a chance to work one-on-one ... the nuances of the position are being talked about in addition to fielding ground balls," Farrell said. "So it's his footwork, how he anchors to the bag, it's his positioning, it's different angles to anchor to the bag when he's in an overshift position. So there's a lot of background to the movements as there is to just fielding ground balls in those one-on-one sessions."
FIFTEEN MINUTES??? You gotta be joking, what can you accomplish in 15 minutes?? I should think this ZO should be humping the 1st base bag for a few hours a day, April ain't that far away. But, then again, he does need some time to spend all that Red Sox money.
Maybe I shouldn't read the blogs, they set my hair on fire.
They give this clown a gazillion $$$ and put him in the outfield where he is so inept, that I could play better than him...now they wanna coddle this ZO at 1st base!
FIFTEEN MINUTES??? Gonna be a disaster at 1st base, mark my words !!!
I caught that "serviceable" also, but I type too fast and hit the reply key and let it go.
Yup, "serviceable" is de rigueur Red Sox speak now. Not let there be a bad word said to these sickeningly overpaid and underperforming egos. Mmmmm, let's see...
The Red Sox will pay HanRam $22,750,000.00 for 2016. A quick calculation will tell you that comes to a stunning $140,430 PER GAME. The average game lasts 3 hours, half of that time (in theory), you're sitting in the dugout out of the sun and elements. So, assuming 3 hours per game, 162 games, = 486 hours equals a truly mind-boggling $46,810.70 PER HOUR. All this for a "serviceable, untested, unskilled, infielder, who has not played at the 1st base position in any recent memory. Gonna be exciting to see BO throw to ZO and the ball doesn't get caught, runners advance, or win the game on the error at 1st. How I hope I'm wrong !!!
I suspect when the wheels start to come off at 1st, Ortiz, now in his sayonara season, may see more action at 1st, enabling ZO (twin to BO) some "off days" here and there. Imagine getting an off day where you get $140,430 for sitting in the dugout? CRAZY STUFF !! When you really think that the baseball season is only 6 months long, you can double all the stats...opening is in April, the party ends in late September, unless you head to the playoffs...oh yes, more money for making the playoffs.
Yup, decided not to get the baseball package, better things to do than chase the Red Sox rabbit this year.
Dombrowski is gonna have a seizure over BO and ZO. Two players that will go down in the history of Red Sox acquistions as the worst ever. Wouldn't you love to be able to hear the upcoming conversations between John (I love everybody, it's all good) Farrell and Dombrowski? Bring on the Maalox.
Thanks Ben, you really hung a pair of turds on the Red Sox!!
There would be no leftover pie for tomorrow
The Red Sox are paying BO $17,600,000.00 this season...pls note that I don't use the term "per year", which is widely used for salary purposes, when in fact the "per year" is only 6 months long.
So, let's see...$17,600,000.00 / 162(games per season) = $108,642.00 PER GAME, assuming El Gordo plays in every game, which we know he won't do because moving that much girth around in the hot Summer months may cause him a stroke. Happy John will give him some days off.
Let us look a bit further...$108,642 / 3 hours(average length of a game) = $36,214.00 per hour. You can further break down this insanity, but at $36k++ per hour, the craziness of his salary becomes crystal clear, given his attitude and contribution to the team.
I leave you with this...he gets $17.6m in 2017 and a PAY RIASE to $18.6m in '18 and'19. Hopefully by then one of two things will have happened...(a) He has a miraculous transformation into a stellar player; (b) John Henry eats it and dumps this dud. I'm hoping for the latter and, the sooner the better.
I left out the ZO stuff about being a disaster at 1st base, I think that's a given. Wait till fatty and ZO do their comedy routine in key moments. I can hear it now from Remy...a hard grounder to third, Pablo bobbles, but contains the ball, then throws wildly to first. Or we have option 2...it's a routine grounder to 3rd, Sandoval tosses to 1st and Hanley tries to backhand the throw...it goes into the tarp area down the right field line, 2 runs score...
Oh, here's a little hubris for you... Big Papi would love to get a standing ovation in his last appearance in Yankee stadium. Really? WGAS? So a bunch of Yankee fans clap for a minute or two and you're at peace with the world. Get a clue Dave, they hate you and the rest of the team.
Geez already!!!
If you live outside the New England area, where NESN is probably already in your tv package and you'd like to see "some" games, both Red Sox and others, and you don't wanna pony up the big coin for the MLB package...I have a solution.
Yesterday I added the "sports package" for $10 a month. This package includes NESN, which is channel 628 and all the other channels in the 600 series. You will get to watch many other teams and games, unless MLB blacks out the game(s) for reasons known only unto them. This package, coupled with nationally televised games, which may otherwise be blacked, should give you enough baseball fix to get through the season. 60 bucks for the season and if you want, just cancel anytime, unlike the MLB package, which I think is a sunk cost up front.
Spring training is in high blower, and yesterday I watched a bit of the Boston College/Northeastern double header from Ft Myers.
El Gordo went 0-2, got booed by the crowd and some silly big deal was made of ZO's first putout at 1st, a dribbler that a 10-year old could have made.
http://nesn.com/2016/03/red-so...n-fight-with-teammate/
The bad news is that the Red Sox are hard to figure. BO and ZO on the corners are the key wildcards and I stand by my former comments about poor play just waiting to happen. I'm kinda tired of the math, but when you pay a slug $80-$100k per game guaranteed, there isn't much pressure to perform, or, for that matter a self-motivation for stellar "give it all I've got" attitude. I would cite FATTY'S texting in the clubhouse during a live game...which head is in the game?
So, I didn't get the baseball package, but did pop for the sports package on Directv, $10 per month. Charlie Moore is crazy as ever, he's gonna swallow one of those cigars one day if he hooks a real monster.
I'm pretty much old school, always excited to visit Fenway and the thrill of watching the team play and win, but today, more than ever it's all about $$$$$, not so much winning or esprit de corps.
Thankfully, my world doesn't revolve around Red Sox performance, win or lose, I just keep rolling along. They don't put any bread on my table, so it really isn't a big deal to me, although I'd like for them to excel this season, I think it'll be more of a farewell tour for Ortiz...who's prime objective is to hope the Yankee fans give him a standing O in Steinbrennerville on his last AB. I guess he has low expectations, as I suspect that's almost a given. Mariano of course is perhaps the only Yankee to have been so honored at the Fens.
So, my friend, I'd focus on the happy things in my life and let the Red Sox stats roll off your back, can't do anything about it anyway. Perhaps some road trips up through Camden and Boothbay Harbor area, maybe a cog railway trip up Mt. W, or the tram up Cannon mountain in your free time to enjoy where you live. Halibut Point State Park is a winner, but not alone !!
Stay well,
Al
it's early, it's Spring Training, nothing much matters, but:
Sandoval: .125 AVG, .375 OPS
T Shaw: .526 AVG, 1.466 OPS
Said it before, gonna say it again, the BO-ZO team are a disaster just waiting to happen, like lighting a cherry bomb, just waiting for the fuse to hit the powder. We'll see how many errors, or runs score with these two doofus loozers.
Not much excitement in this team...so far... I'm more concerned with the pollen now in full blower in Atlanta, powdery green crap everywhere.
I'm for winning...