Yankee4Life
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This article right here says that Stanton will be out at least a month. But when you read the second paragraph it says that the "initial estimate being a four-to-six week recovery period." This means with Stanton it will be six to eight weeks. Let's see, it's April 18 so that brings us (if they are accurate with this guy) to somewhere around June 18. But you know Stanton, once he gets on the disabled list it's hard to get him off of it. I don't see this guy back until July. Then once he comes back he will have to "find" his swing and that will last until the end of August and then you can cross off another year of the worst contract in Yankee history.
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5 out of 10, 155 seconds. Intermediate sports questions are not my cup of tea.
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5 out of 10, 129 seconds. What did I do?
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8 out of 10, 63 seconds. I should have had them all and I don't know what happened.
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3 out of 10, 117 seconds. I've been going up and down lately.
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10 out of 10, 56 seconds. Softball style questions today.
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5 out of 10, 94 seconds. I was lost on a lot of these. Thank God for the baseball ones.
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That is an understatement. 🙁 This team will never be a winner on the field unless they become winners off the field first. I am talking about first gathering all the medical staff in a room and giving them their walking papers and then doing the same to Boone and Cashman.
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10 out of 10, 62 seconds. Now that is more like it.
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Should this surprise anyone??
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1 out of 10, 117 seconds. Can i do a do-over?? Please? Damn, I only knew one of them.
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7 out of 10, 159 seconds. Yeah, ok. Could be better.
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Hey Jim, where you at? Nine games into the season and I have not screamed once. It may be a record but I’m not sure. 😲 I have had reasons to also. Lazy Luis is up to his old tricks. He’ll be back by July 4th. Josh Donaldson has been proving that what he did last year was no fluke and Aaron Hicks is still on the team. But I am still patient and calm.
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10 out of 10, 138 seconds. No comment. 😀
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You provided no screen shots of this overlay. That usually helps. I am sure it is a good one but then again I don't know. -
English only on this site. English ONLY. Thank you.
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4 out of 10, 69 seconds. How the hell did this happen?
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10 out of 10, 37 seconds. Everyone should ace this today.
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Now that's true about Weaver. I can recall John Lowenstein, an outfielder, complaining about being platooned by Weaver with Gary Roenicke. Again I have to go back to the baseball books I read as a kid. I devoured them because I couldn't get enough of them. Casey Stengel of the Yankees was big on platooning and he even was doing that before he became the Yankee manager in 1949. Hank Bauer did not like the platoon system but then begrudgingly said that Stengel extended his career by bout five years by doing it. You really do. That has always been obvious to me since our High Heat days. Most people your age think that baseball started with Derek Jeter and not a day before. Your knowledge of its history and your willingness to learn more and more about the game is impressive.
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That's the truth. Pitchers dd go longer. Let's take for example one of our favorite years, the 1978 Yankees. They had thirty-nine complete games that year. With the way Boone runs the pitchers it will take them them years to have that many complete games. Ok, I better not get started on Boone because then I'll get off the subject. Damn straight they did. And it wasn't every hitter. That's true. I already mentioned Hargrove but Willie Montanez and Tito Fuentes were in the same league. I hate bat flips and pitchers who act like they won the World Series when they retire the side or save a game. They do this because they know they are on TV and maybe could be a Sportscenter highlight. No argument here. That is another thing I don't like. Instant replay does not belong in baseball. I kind of wonder how retired players think of the game today? The first I ever heard of a shift in baseball was when I was reading a book on the Indians of the 1940's and player-manager Lou Boudreau used a shift on Ted Williams. I don't recall of many instances of the shift in the 70's. George Brett said once that if the shift was used on him he'd of hit .600. I am no fan of his but I believe him. The cause of this? Analytics. Computer guys who have ruined the game. That's true KC. I trust a manager making the decisions instead of a computer. Billy Martin may have been a lot of things but he could manage. Earl Weaver knew what he was doing too as well as Whitey Herzog. They were winners without computer printouts. I have been to some minor league games when it was that hot and with no breeze at all so I understand what you mean. It doesn't matter if you are a Dodgers fan. What you are is a baseball fan just like we are so please feel free at any time to basically talk about anything!
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4 out of 10, 46 seconds. Two lousy days in a row!
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Jim, there is no way that I prefer games to go three hours or four hours long. This is why I have refused to watch the Yankee - Red Sox games because they drag on and on and on. Remember a few years back when they played a doubleheader at Fenway Park and both games took about eight hours combined? That's too much. When a Yankee game starts at Fenway Park at 7:00 PM you can almost guarantee they will only have 3 1/2 innings in around 9:15. Both teams are guilty of this and not one more than the other. So to just confirm I am agreeing with you that when games are played at a quicker pace they are more interesting and you do get more involved in them. I mean my God I can go watch an episode of Magnum PI and I would only miss two innings. And no I do not enjoy hitters stepping out between every pitch to adjust their gloves or their hat or their uniform or to have them look at their bat to make sure they brought the right one. All that is a time waster. Do you remember Mike Hargrove of the Cleveland Indians? He drove people nuts with his routine. Now everybody does it to get more TV time. Jim, when you when I first started watching baseball in the 1970s it was a better game than what these people are playing right now. The game was quicker and you have to consider that the catcher had unlimited visits to the mound, the pitcher could throw to first base as many times as he wanted to, teams had the option if they wanted to do a shift or not. As far as pitcher delays they did that to try to install until the bullpen guy was warmed up.The game was played more intelligently during those days and since that was the game I was introduced to I did not appreciate it as much until it was slowly taken away and replaced by the rules and regulations we see today. KC says that the pitch clock eliminates and the dead time during the game. Again you guys make a point. I mean with some batters I was able to go in the kitchen and make a sandwich and come back before the next guy was up. My question is this: if baseball from the 1970s did not need a pitch clock and yet all that other stuff was still in the game why can't they do it today? Okay only let them step out of the batter's box once and if they have to do it the second time make sure they have permission from the umpire for example if they have dirt in their eyes. I am sure that you all could tell that I am a baseball traditionalist and it is almost like I cannot recognize the same game I grew up with.
