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Title: Westmoreland
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on January 29, 2023, 06:47:57 AM
Good article on Westmorland. He was touted as the Sox version of Mike Trout, although a lefty swinger.  Big, strong athlete was projected to be a starting OF slugger for 15 years.  Until tumors on his brain took baseball away.

https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2023/01/former-red-sox-top-prospect-looking-to-reinvent-himself-by-going-back-to-school-in-boston.html
Title: Re: MLB and YouTubeTV
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on January 31, 2023, 06:47:14 PM
I got an email today from YouTubeTV, my streaming service, that they are dropping MLB Netwotk today.  They could not agree on an extension.  And right before spring training!

I’ll look at DirecTV Stream or some other service.  I think the other outlets for MLB Network are Sling Orange and FUBO.  Hulu does not carry it. If you guys are streaming, you’ll know your package.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: longgame on January 31, 2023, 07:01:45 PM
 I have DIRECTV for my TV service and have had their package for years.  You can just get MLB directly from MLB and watch via the app or in a browser. 
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: MongoLikeSox on February 04, 2023, 10:04:27 AM
If your TV supports the MLB app, you can go that route. Most of those services can be activated within a TV's operating system. I still have Cable/ISP combination and watch 1/2 the games through that. If my TV supported the MLB app, I'd just get it straight from MLB and be done with it.

I also use Uzzu TV. Best thing since sliced bread. It does have limited resolution and has a tendency to skip here and there, especially early in games. I also had to get an IP TV app for my LG TV. Lifetime license for $15, IIRC. IPTV is the name of it. That's the bad part. The good part is all the NBA/NHL/NFL/MLB games for $100 (IIRC) - home/away broadcasts. I've started watching the Celtics again for the first time since I lived in New Hampshire before 1982 when I used to watch them on WBZ in Black & White.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 04, 2023, 11:41:42 AM
Yes, uzzu tv is a great alternative. And in that you can get the Bally games for Braves, Hornets , Hurricanes - in the Carolinas, whereas with streaming services Bally is not available.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: longgame on February 06, 2023, 08:54:27 AM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on February 04, 2023, 11:41:42 AM
Yes, uzzu tv is a great alternative. And in that you can get the Bally games for Braves, Hornets , Hurricanes - in the Carolinas, whereas with streaming services Bally is not available.

I get all those too with my DirectTV package. 
Title: Re: Spring training
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 08, 2023, 10:58:56 AM
Besides Sale being at Jet Blue on Tuesday, Whitlock was also running sprints, and he was lifting in the weight room.  His hip surgery was said to be successful.  Yoshida was also in camp.

Brayan Bello has been pitching under the tutelage of Pedro, probably at another site.
Title: Re: Spring Training
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 14, 2023, 09:50:36 AM
On the eve of Spring Training I got this from a Phillies guy today.

“The only Sox player with four body parts in his name”

TONY ARMAS

rofl rofl
Title: Re: Spring Training
Post by: SeaBeachFred on February 14, 2023, 11:04:39 AM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on February 14, 2023, 09:50:36 AM
On the eve of Spring Training I got this from a Phillies guy today.

“The only Sox player with four body parts in his name”

TONY ARMAS

rofl rofl

Frankly Sea Dog, I don't know whether to laugh or what, but I tend to the latter whatever that may be since once again Bloom blows a chance to help our team get better.  He seemingly refused to give Michael Wacha a two year contract and insisted on one year for horse dung money.  The result?  He signs elsewhere and for th umpteenth time the Sox get outbid for a player we could have used because e ither he or Prune Face was too cheap to extend  their contract offers.  This is starting to really shape up as another shithole start to what could turn out to be another 2012, 2020 or any of the other last place farces we've we've been forced  to endure the past decade or so.
Title: Re: Spring Training
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 14, 2023, 03:31:51 PM
No Fred, not good news at all about both Nate and Wacha.  Our highest paid and long contract pitchers are getting long in the tooth and lower in velocity.

In the batters cage today, Duran has changed his stance.  His hands are up high, and he has little to no leg kick.  Could he be the backup to Arroyo at 2B?  On a lot of clubs, plugging in a AAAA guy like Duran is a terrible idea, but we're talking about what is the '23 Sox idea of a MLB club, sad as it is.  Bloomer seems done with the payroll additions, but he did throw some mumbo jumbo word salad out at his presser today.
Title: Re: Spring Training
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 16, 2023, 07:46:31 AM
Sale is scheduled to throw off the bullpen mound against batters next week.  So the batters will be inanimate objects to frame his pitches?

From Schaunessy,
â€"â€"-/â€"â€"â€"â€"-
But he looks even thinner than usual. Gandhi-like. And though I am neither a doctor nor nutritionist, Sale’s physique makes me wonder whether his hereditary frame â€" the skinny gene â€" makes things tougher as he attempts to once again be a stud starter for the Sox.[
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He’s listed as 6 feet 6 inches, 183 pounds. I asked how much he actually weighs.
“Want to pick me up?” he challenged with a grin. “I haven’t stepped on a scale in a minute, but I’d say I’m around 185-ish.”
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: longgame on February 16, 2023, 08:23:58 AM
Interesting tidbit I heard last night.  This current Sox team has more players from the 2018 Dodgers than from the 2018 Red Sox.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 17, 2023, 04:54:33 AM
Fangraphs came out with their predictions for ‘23.    Sox 31% chance of making the wild card round. 81-81 record, 4th in the ALEast ahead of Balt. 4-4 1/2 behind Tampa and Toronto.  Does that excite the fan base, NO!! But probably what the Sox based their budgeting on.  It is what it is.
Title: Re: Spring Training
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 17, 2023, 03:51:35 PM
Tough news from Ft Myers, Brayan Bello was pulled, complaining of ‘forearm stiffness’, that usually is a precursor of TJD.  To be determined. Cora said they would try to work him again on Monday.

  Pivetta also complained of some kind of discomfort that they blamed on his recent illness and lack of stamina. These things have got to put the MGT on pitching depth alert.  How good are the AAA pitchers?
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: elktonnick on February 17, 2023, 04:58:04 PM
Cora said that Bello's forearm stiffness is because he was throwing a lot of breaking balls.  If they have him working on a cutter they should be all fired for incompetence.

Title: Re: Pitchers/Spring
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 18, 2023, 09:24:27 AM
Quote from: elktonnick on February 17, 2023, 04:58:04 PM
Cora said that Bello's forearm stiffness is because he was throwing a lot of breaking balls.  If they have him working on a cutter they should be all fired for incompetence.

When asked later about getting shut down, Bello changed the feeling from “soreness” to just “tightness”

“I didn’t feel any pain. I just felt tight,  and I really didn’t want to force it,” Bello said through translator Carlos Villoria Benítez here at JetBlue Park on Saturday.

Also Paxton was throwing this week. His first normal  spring training since 2019.  Sale is up next week,
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: elktonnick on February 18, 2023, 09:29:31 AM
I hope they have trainers and doctors fluent in Spanish.  Diagnosis through translators can be problematic.  Quite frankly they should have Dominican trainers and doctors.
Title: Re: Spring
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 19, 2023, 11:50:13 AM
Adelberto Mondesi is in camp and just began baseball activities during his knee rehab. Batting, throwing, but no programmed running.

On a minor league note OF Marcus Wilson was signed Saturday.  DFAd by Sox last year and was claimed by Mariners.  Six at bats in Seattle, 1 hit, 1 run, 4 Ks.
Title: Re: Henry
Post by: Sea Dog 23 on February 20, 2023, 08:07:04 AM
Where to start? In Prune Face’ rambling rebuttal in The Athletic some plums:

We wil never be a $300 mil salary team”
“You must remember there are 30 teams all trying to sign the best players” (Really?)
“You press guys push a false narrative about not spending to improve the Red Sox”
“You reported we were booed at the Winter Weekend, but you didn’t mention there wa a standing ovation at the end”
“This is not Bloom’s team in the end, but the hole organization’s team”
Title: Re: Henry
Post by: longgame on February 20, 2023, 08:54:35 AM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on February 20, 2023, 08:07:04 AM
Where to start? In Prune Face’ rambling rebuttal in The Athletic some plums:

We wil never be a $300 mil salary team”
“You must remember there are 30 teams all trying to sign the best players” (Really?)
“You press guys push a false narrative about not spending to improve the Red Sox”
“You reported we were booed at the Winter Weekend, but you didn’t mention there wa a standing ovation at the end”
“This is not Bloom’s team in the end, but the hole organization’s team”

He's getting lit up as he should on social media.  Just trying to lay out his skewed view of life versus what actually happens along with Baghdad Bloom.  He also said he wasn't happy with last year and they addressed it (by signing lesser players and lots of injured guys).   Just amazing how clueless he is.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: elktonnick on February 20, 2023, 08:55:21 AM
My take away from the article was that Henry is unable to accept reality.  If Spring training tickets sales are any barometer, the Sox are in big trouble at the box office.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: longgame on February 20, 2023, 09:48:19 AM
I wish I remembered the numbers but apparently the media coverage is pretty low too.  Found the tweet from Sean Mcadam, here it is:


QuoteFor what was essentially 1st day of spring training - w/ Cora and Bloom speaking -- there were 5 Boston media outlets in Fort Myers: 1 TV station and 4 newspapers/web sites. If that doesn't greatly concern the Red Sox, it should. Not long ago, that number would have been tripled.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: elktonnick on February 20, 2023, 10:22:23 AM
I have been going to ST games for 9 years.  This the first year that ST tickets are still available.  I do not mean  a few but a lot.
Title: Re: Spring
Post by: SeaBeachFred on February 20, 2023, 03:20:28 PM
Quote from: Sea Dog 23 on February 19, 2023, 11:50:13 AM
Adelberto Mondesi is in camp and just began baseball activities during his knee rehab. Batting, throwing, but no programmed running.

On a minor league note OF Marcus Wilson was signed Saturday.  DFAd by Sox last year and was claimed by Mariners.  Six at bats in Seattle, 1 hit, 1 run, 4 Ks.

fIRST u cHANG AND NOW mARCUS wILSON, TWO DUDS WHO STUNK UP THE JOING LAST YEAR BROUGHT BACK FOR ANOTHER ENCORE.  wHAT'S NEXT, ANOTHER JACKIE BRADLEY COMEBACK????
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: SeaBeachFred on February 20, 2023, 03:26:00 PM
Quote from: elktonnick on February 20, 2023, 08:55:21 AM
My take away from the article was that Henry is unable to accept reality.  If Spring training tickets sales are any barometer, the Sox are in big trouble at the box office.

I'm doing my part Elk.  I recently cancelled  my subscription to the BLB totol package because I cannot stomach what I will be seeing on it if I kept that program.  I also  told the Red Sox that , NO, I will not becoming to Boston this season or asking to purchase tickets.  Now if we could thousands of fans going the same way and doing ths dame things perhaps we would wake the Prune up and make him realise that he is indeed driving the team into a real hole.  Apparentey he doesn't know  that.  Either that he is just to stupid and dense to understand reality.
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: longgame on February 20, 2023, 03:33:35 PM
Related article, not the original Athletic article.

https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/red-sox-owner-john-henry-entirely-misses-point-why-fans-are-angry?cid=sm_npd_rsn_bos_fb_mn&fbclid=IwAR1WG9BZ9u2A-asNhz4RCeoG4W4388ykOlGBcyESvSekcNmhn8BNo5EnYvs (https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/red-sox-owner-john-henry-entirely-misses-point-why-fans-are-angry?cid=sm_npd_rsn_bos_fb_mn&fbclid=IwAR1WG9BZ9u2A-asNhz4RCeoG4W4388ykOlGBcyESvSekcNmhn8BNo5EnYvs)
Title: Re: Westmoreland
Post by: elktonnick on February 20, 2023, 04:30:35 PM
Tomase's article reinforces the point that John Henry has zero people skills.  He has absolutely no concept of how his actions affect other people.