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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 20:20:00 GMT -5
I don't but then again i don't remember either. Jay's hair is too long for the gook killer in SF ? I see ouch...which brings to mind why the heck does SF live in SF?...prick should move to Oklahoma...oh, sorry Cole...
been to Oklahoma once and folks were pretty nice actually...actually never been anywhere folks weren't nice, so...
Well good question. He seems to have lost a little luster and keeps quiet for the most part.. . Me i just look for opening to stick myfoot in for shits and giggles . He has that Tennis and Yacht Club i think he's around his own peeeps. Surely never sits foot in the Height. Not that its nice there anymore anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 20:21:06 GMT -5
Nah Christmas last year in Va,
I would be mugged in a New York second here in Nicalandia dressed like that.
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Post by elvissurfs on Apr 23, 2019 20:25:09 GMT -5
six minutes to go B's up by 2 to advance!!!
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Post by elvissurfs on Apr 23, 2019 20:29:37 GMT -5
empty net, 4-1...so stoked...onward!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 20:42:33 GMT -5
Leaders warned Navy SEALs that reporting alleged war crimes could cost them their careers,.
WAR Heros? No criminals
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Post by puddin on Apr 23, 2019 21:53:19 GMT -5
Yea but im still not worried about the Sox. And 45 still isn't worried about Congress getting his tax returns either!
Same.... same....
Pud
Sox lose a twin bill today..... OUCH!!!
Interesting article from WaPo:
washingtonpost.com The Red Sox went all-in last season and won big. It’s costing them this year.
Steve Pearce, left, and David Price watch a 5-3 loss to the Yankees this week. (Kathy Willens)
Being the most aggressive, living-in-the-present, future-be-damned franchise in baseball has served the Boston Red Sox well, bringing together the players who last season delivered the franchise its fourth World Series title this century. Doing so required the Red Sox to push their payroll well beyond the luxury tax threshold and to strip their farm system of prospects, but as the saying goes, “Prospects are cool; parades are cooler.”
It was easy to get behind Boston’s philosophy when the team was winning 108 games and going 11-3 against the New York Yankees, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2018 postseason. But when that same team, with largely the same roster, approaches the 20-game mark of the new season as one of the worst teams in the game — with a 6-13 record, a minus-42 run differential and a 6.01 ERA entering Friday — the effects are doubly concerning, and the solutions are few.
Aggression carried the Red Sox to a title in 2018, but it has left them exposed in 2019. Anyone in their right mind would take that trade-off, but that doesn’t make their current plight any easier to stomach. And with a three-game series beginning Friday at American League East-leading Tampa Bay, a team that is leading the Red Sox by eight games, it is not too soon to call this a critical weekend for the defending champs.
“We have to go down there and win the series,” Red Sox Manager Alex Cora told reporters. “Win two out of three or sweep them.”
How bad have the Red Sox been? Through 19 games, they were just one game ahead of the pace of the 2018 Baltimore Orioles, who merely went on to become the worst team in baseball in 15 years. Their run-differential ranks 29th in baseball, ahead of only the lowly Miami Marlins. Their current pace (.316) translates to 111 losses over a full season.
To get to 97 wins — the threshold required to earn a wild card in the American League in 2018 — the Red Sox would have to play at a .636 clip the rest of the season, a winning percentage they have maintained for a full season just once in the past 70 years. Of course, that one instance was last season.
But there isn’t any evidence to suggest the Red Sox are on the verge of turning things around. Mookie Betts, the 2018 AL MVP, was hitting .200/.305/.371 entering the weekend, and fellow 2018 stalwarts Rafael Devers (.262/.351/.308), Steve Pearce (.125/.160/.125), Eduardo Nunez (.159/.178/.182) and Jackie Bradley Jr. (.148/.190/.185) were even worse. Veteran Dustin Pedroia left Wednesday night’s loss to the Yankees after reinjuring his surgically repaired knee, a potentially season-ending injury.
And then there’s the pitching. Perennial Cy Young contender Chris Sale is 0-4 with an 8.50 ERA and showing signs of a diminished fastball. Rick Porcello, with 50 wins in the previous three seasons combined, is 0-3 with an 11.12 ERA. Nathan Eovaldi, a hero of the 2018 postseason, has a 6.00 ERA. All told, the starters’ ERA of 6.70 was a half-run worse than any other team in the majors entering Friday, a colossal condemnation of the organization’s strategy of ramping up its starters’ innings slowly this spring, to account for the later finish in 2018.
The team’s management, with ample justification, was impressed enough with its 2018 squad that it made only tweaks to the roster this past winter, even as arbitration raises, the re-signing of Eovaldi and other moves pushed its payroll to the brink of the most onerous tax-rates possible. That, plus a farm system that was rated 30th in the game by Baseball America, has left the team few options for getting out of its current predicament.
The Red Sox are certainly not about to abandon their live-for-today strategy less than a month into the season, and just this week they showed how committed they are to the present by designating 27-year-old catcher Blake Swihart for assignment in favor of Sandy Leon, who is three years older and a lesser hitter but a better receiver behind the plate.
The longer the Red Sox struggle, the more it is going to start to feel like 2014 around New England. That year, the Red Sox, coming off a World Series title, got off to a slow start and never recovered, going 13-14 in March/April, 13-15 in May and 12-16 in June. By July, their management had seen enough, trading veterans Jon Lester, John Lackey, Jake Peavy and Andrew Miller for mostly prospects.
In no way is this suggesting the Red Sox are anywhere near that point yet in 2019, but among those raising the possibility of a 2014-style sell-off this summer was ace lefty David Price, who told The Boston Globe, “If we don’t start playing better, J.D. Martinez, Mookie Betts, maybe myself, we could get traded. … We’re dead last. It’s going to be talked about.”
This is the season of overreactions by fans and media, a time when everyone gets fooled by bad teams who look good and good ones who look bad — long before the rigors of the 162-game season can reveal the truth.
But even with that caveat, Boston’s situation looks different and more ominous. In part, that’s because of the quality of the AL East, in which the Yankees, even at 8-10 entering the weekend, are as loaded and dangerous as any team in the game, and the Rays (14-4), despite their tiny payroll, look as if they might have staying power.
But it’s also partly a result of the choices Red Sox management made ahead of 2018 and again this past winter. No one can fault the Red Sox for the aggressive moves they made and the massive checks they wrote to secure a title and keep themselves in position, theoretically, for another one this year. But there is also an unspoken understanding to such a strategy: If it all goes wrong, the repercussions are painful, as are the choices.
The Red Sox are not there yet, by any means, but if they hope to avoid such a fate, now would be a good time to start playing better.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2019 21:59:32 GMT -5
Thanks Pud. Itstead of pleasant dreams i;ll have nighmares.
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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2019 23:31:54 GMT -5
Nah Christmas last year in Va, I would be mugged in a New York second here in Nicalandia dressed like that.
Fit right in with the gang in Peaky Blinders!
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Post by elvissurfs on Apr 24, 2019 10:34:43 GMT -5
any idea when we play again?...lot of down time...same for the Bucks as well though I guess...
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Post by sfbosfan on Apr 24, 2019 10:47:57 GMT -5
Yup, I don't like all the down time. There is something to be said about "momentum". Good only if it allows a hurt player to mend and return...don't think it will with Smart. Don't think we need time to practice unless we study films and try to simulate the Bucks. Perhaps maybe double team the Greek freak and see if their perimeter shooting might be off a bit. He's going to be tough to handle but we might need to accept fouling out a couple of our big men to stop him or make him want to pass the ball out. Anyway, as someone said, the Bucks too are waiting and they just may be overconfident with their dominating wins while Indy really could have won a couple of games but I think Indy would have swept Detroit too.
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Post by Cabutan on Apr 24, 2019 12:49:04 GMT -5
I am with you guys. Too much down time, not good.
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Post by elvissurfs on Apr 24, 2019 20:40:07 GMT -5
Yup, I don't like all the down time. There is something to be said about "momentum". Good only if it allows a hurt player to mend and return...don't think it will with Smart. Don't think we need time to practice unless we study films and try to simulate the Bucks. Perhaps maybe double team the Greek freak and see if their perimeter shooting might be off a bit. He's going to be tough to handle but we might need to accept fouling out a couple of our big men to stop him or make him want to pass the ball out. Anyway, as someone said, the Bucks too are waiting and they just may be overconfident with their dominating wins while Indy really could have won a couple of games but I think Indy would have swept Detroit too. not concerned about Smart being out...whatever he does defensively is outweighed by his bonehead offense...rather see Brown out there, a hella better player on all levels...he needs to play...
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Post by elvissurfs on Apr 25, 2019 21:24:46 GMT -5
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Post by cole on Apr 25, 2019 22:32:42 GMT -5
Rip hondo
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Post by puddin on Apr 26, 2019 3:53:31 GMT -5
washingtonpost.com Celtics great John Havlicek dies at 79
Des Bieler
April 25 at 10:00 PM
John Havlicek, who won eight championships in 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, has died at the age of 79. The team confirmed the news Thursday evening, saying in a statement that he was “one of the most accomplished players” in the franchise’s decorated history.
A 6-foot-5 Ohio native nicknamed “Hondo” for a resemblance to John Wayne, Havlicek played from 1962 to 1978, earning 1974 Finals MVP honors along the way. The Celtics’ all-time leader in games, points and field goals, he revolutionized the role of “sixth man” as a high-energy and -impact reserve on the stacked Boston teams of the 1960s.
Havlicek’s nonstop motor amazed his contemporaries, including New York Knicks head coach Red Holzman, who once said (via NBA.com), “On stamina alone, he’d be among the top players who ever played the game."
“It would’ve been fair to those who had to play him or those who had to coach against him if he had been blessed only with his inhuman endurance,” Holzman added. “God had to compound it by making him a good scorer, smart ballhandler and intelligent defensive player with quickness of mind, hands and feet.”
After helping Ohio State win the 1960 NCAA national championship on a team that included two other future inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame — forward/center Jerry Lucas and coach-to-be Bobby Knight — Havlicek was selected seventh overall by the Celtics in the 1962 draft. His hard-charging style was a welcome addition to the team, which had won four straight NBA titles and five in six years but had some aging stars in Bob Cousy, Bill Sharman and Frank Ramsey.
Havlicek soon took over Ramsey’s role as Boston’s first man off the bench and he helped the team to championships from 1963 through 1966 and again in 1968, 1969, 1974 and 1976. In the 1965 Eastern Conference finals against the Philadelphia 76ers, Havlicek authored one of the most indelible moments in Boston sports history when he tipped a Sixers pass to Celtics teammate Sam Jones in the closing seconds, sealing a one-point win.
“His defining traits as a player were his relentless hustle and wholehearted commitment to team over self,” the Celtics said of Havlicek in their statement. “He was extraordinarily thoughtful and generous, both on a personal level and for those in need, as illustrated by his commitment to raising money for The Genesis Foundation for Children for over three decades through his fishing tournament. John was kind and considerate, humble and gracious. He was a champion in every sense, and as we join his family, friends, and fans in mourning his loss, we are thankful for all the joy and inspiration he brought to us.”
The team said Havlicek died Thursday in Jupiter, Fla. The cause of death wasn’t immediately available.
Of biding his time before cracking the Celtics’ starting lineup, Havlicek said after his playing days ended, “It never bothered me, because I think that role is very important to a club. One thing I learned from [legendary Boston coach and general manager] Red Auerbach was that it’s not who starts the game, but who finishes it, and I generally was around at the finish.”
Havlicek eventually became not only a starter but a veteran leader for the Celtics. He again came through in a clutch moment during the 1976 NBA Finals, when he hit a basket near the end of the second overtime of Game 5, which Boston would go on to win against the Phoenix Suns in three overtimes. He ended his career with 13 all-star nods and the enduring admiration of teammates, opponents and NBA fans.
“He epitomizes everything good,” Auerbach once said of Havlicek. “If I had a son like John I’d be the happiest man in the world.”
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Post by hedleylamarr on Apr 26, 2019 14:32:04 GMT -5
3 OT game - one of the best in NBA history.
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Post by kyceltic on Apr 26, 2019 16:45:44 GMT -5
3 OT game - one of the best in NBA history. I've never been more nervous watching any game, as I was watching that one!!
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