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[Money99]

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This is just Henry looking for a reason to fire Farrell after the team gets off to a bad start again. Hell he should've been fired after last season but we all knew that was never going to happen. And also not the first time something like this has happened with Red Sox reporters. Look at Jenny Dell, is now married or engaged to former Red Sox 3rd baseman Will Middlebrooks. She was fired after the news came out that she was dating Will.

Wasn't former NESN reporter, Hazel Mae (now with the Jays on Sportsnet) linked to several Red Sox players during her tenure in Boston?

[areobee401]

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Wasn't former NESN reporter, Hazel Mae (now with the Jays on Sportsnet) linked to several Red Sox players during her tenure in Boston?

Jenny Dell
Hazel Mae
Heidi Watney

[SPTO]

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Wasn't former NESN reporter, Hazel Mae (now with the Jays on Sportsnet) linked to several Red Sox players during her tenure in Boston?

She was linked to Brian Burke (former Leafs GM) and there was some CRAZY talk that her kid is actually Burke's.

[Money99]

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She was linked to Brian Burke (former Leafs GM) and there was some CRAZY talk that her kid is actually Burke's.

LOL, I remember reading that too.
One person commented that Brian Burke was the Tiger Woods of the NHL.

[AC]

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She was linked to Brian Burke (former Leafs GM) and there was some CRAZY talk that her kid is actually Burke's.

This ended with him suing someone on a message board for slander? libel? one of the two

[Money99]

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This ended with him suing someone on a message board for slander? libel? one of the two

I believe so.
If memory serves, he targeted 3 message board members specifically in his case.
Not sure if he won or not though.

[ImTellinTim]

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Interesting piece on Bryce Harper. Link

"Baseball's tired," he says. "It's a tired sport, because you can't express yourself. You can't do what people in other sports do. I'm not saying baseball is, you know, boring or anything like that, but it's the excitement of the young guys who are coming into the game now who have flair. If that's Matt Harvey or Jacob deGrom or Manny Machado or Joc Pederson or Andrew McCutchen or Yasiel Puig -- there's so many guys in the game now who are so much fun.

"Jose Fernandez is a great example. Jose Fernandez will strike you out and stare you down into the dugout and pump his fist. And if you hit a homer and pimp it? He doesn't care. Because you got him. That's part of the game. It's not the old feeling -- hoorah ... if you pimp a homer, I'm going to hit you right in the teeth. No. If a guy pimps a homer for a game-winning shot ... I mean -- sorry."

He stops, looks around. The hell with it, he's all in.

"If a guy pumps his fist at me on the mound, I'm going to go, 'Yeah, you got me. Good for you. Hopefully I get you next time.' That's what makes the game fun. You want kids to play the game, right? What are kids playing these days? Football, basketball. Look at those players -- Steph Curry, LeBron James. It's exciting to see those players in those sports. Cam Newton -- I love the way Cam goes about it. He smiles, he laughs. It's that flair. The dramatic."

[Money99]

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Interesting piece on Bryce Harper. Link

Thanks for posting this. Loved it.
I'm a big Harper fan an I hope he can continue putting up MVP seasons.
I also agree that I wish there was more flair in the game. I loved the Bautista bat-flip and I like some of the personality that (mostly) Latino players offer.

Not sure if it's already been posted here before, but John Baker wrote a great article about how players pimp everything in the Dominican.
Rizzo even gets in on the act with a twirling necklace he purchased specifically for the occasion.
Nobody down there cares. It's not personal. They just love to have fun and celebrate the game:

http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/just-a-bit-outside/story/playing-baseball-right-way-depends-three-factors-when-who-where-061615

[SPTO]

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I'm not always a huge fan of the pimping that goes on from time to time but I will concede that it can add a lot of flair to the game given the right circumstances. I certainly don't want to see all that "flair" ALL the time like they do in Latin America but in big moments that change the complexion of a game? By all means go wild.

[Speedy]

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I agree with his point but that doesn't mean I like him.

[Sportsforever]

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I think he sells baseball short...I don't pay money to watch him "pimp" a home run. I pay money to watch him play baseball, whether it's him blasting a home run on a 98 MPH fastball, legging out an triple, or gunning a guy out trying to stretch a double. Doesn't mean I don't think he should get excited or go crazy, but I disagree with him that the game is stale/dry whatever he said.

[Knight165]

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No problem with emotion...as long as they run out grounde......
Oh.
'ain't got no time for that....

M.K.
Knight165

[ProfessaPackMan]

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About time somebody said this.

[areobee401]

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Goose Gossage disagrees.

Bautista is a f---ing disgrace to the game," Gossage told ESPN. "He's embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. [Yoenis] Cespedes, same thing.

Oh, and he shares a few thoughts on analytics.

The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it. I'll tell you what has happened, these guys played Rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f--- they went and they thought they figured the f---ing game out. They don't know s---.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/14943065

[DrJones]

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Interesting piece on Bryce Harper.

Yep. Hockey's even worse. I'll take over-celebrating every time over false modesty from athletes who are total dickbags as soon as the camera's off.