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Reply | Take Me Out to the Ballgame
at 00:55 22 Oct 2025
I think the very best sports writers gravitate to baseball — and, in earlier decades, boxing. My favourite was Roger Angell, who wrote like one for New Yorker. His elegy on the closing of the Polo Grounds, the home of the New York Giants, is stone gorgeous. |
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Reply | Take Me Out to the Ballgame
at 22:51 21 Oct 2025
Ah yes, '92 and '93, glory days. Joe Carter jumping and skipping round the bases after the home run that won the series with the last pitch of game. |
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Reply | Take Me Out to the Ballgame
at 19:19 21 Oct 2025
This Jays team is pretty remarkable. Only one Bona Fide star, a handful of decent journeymen and a bunch of make-weights. It was glorious how they wiped out the Bronx Bullies whose fans booed them constantly. Even the laid back Seattle crowd lit into George Springer when he injured himself on the base-path. Fortunately he repaid their rudeness by hit the winning three-run homer in game seven.
So now to The World Serious, the star-studded Dodgers await.
Where If the Jays win a single game it'll be an achievement. L.A., OTOH have only lost one out of ten playoff games. And in Shohei Ohtani have probably the best all-round player in baseball history — ten strikeouts as a pitcher, three home runs as a hitter in a single game against the Brewers in the NL playoffs. Phew!
Still you gotta dream eh? [Post edited 21 Oct 19:26]
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Reply | First 20mins
at 20:07 19 Oct 2025
Yeah. Hindsight is always 20/20, but it does seem odd to start the slowest defensive back four in our squad. Plus, though I've loved him to bits since he arrived, Madsen isn't likely to win any 20 yard sprints back into his own area to help out. The pressing/speed of Mbengue and Esquerdinha early on from might perhaps have changed things? |
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Reply | The Harvey Vale Conundrum
at 21:44 18 Oct 2025
I was a little surprised that, early on, he was taking corners and FKs from the right side. They really didn't work very well, and Madsen took over as usual. To me Vale seems to be better when in possession and running at defenders.
Re: Varane: I don't understand why, when given the ball going forward he regularly turns around, or looks to do so, when there's no apparent need. It just slows down our offence. |
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Reply | Keeper conundrum?
at 17:09 9 Oct 2025
So Koki Saito will be our next keeper then? |
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Reply | Kolli up front in a two
at 22:10 8 Oct 2025
Chair doesn't have anything like Burrell's footspeed. He's also is a ball "keeper." Too many touches to provide regular fodder for an open striker.
That's not a knock on him at all BTW. I actually think he'd make a great #8, to complement and lead Madsen and/or Morgan. |
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