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This is a great discussion fodder question because we know both guys so well but can never answer the question with any certainty, but I'm sort of leaning toward Goff. Matthew has all that physical talent, and Goff has laid an egg in a game or two, but I've come around to thinking that Goff's decision making has gotten so good under Campbell that I'd take him where he is now over Matthew at any point in his career on the same team.

Good idea I'd never thought of!

I think since Benetti has joined the team he's raised the bar on all of them. We'll need to be more on the ball lest stuff doesn't fly over our heads.

definitely. We've had some of our best days doing something on the fly when plan A fell through or just didn't look all that interesting.

I would say yes. Pavel did have moves no-one else did, but the thing that separated Sergei was the combination of strength and speed. It was much harder to out-physical Sergei than Pavel. I think if you could have put Yzerman's competitive fire in Sergei's body you'd have consistently had the best player in the league instead once in a while. Though I'll admit, I think Pavel would probably be a more dominant player than he was playing in today's NHL, where there is a measure less physical intimidation than he had to face in his own era.

Abbey is almost a throwback with giving her interviewees long segment to speak in detail. Needs to lose the eyelashes though......

It did come after the Rays hit his catcher so the suspicion is understandable. Wentz's reaction looked exculpatory, but you never know.....

wentz hits him dead center on his arm armor.

Rays gave up 7 without waking anyone.

Hard to miss wasn't it? FWIW, I stopped wearing one 30 yrs ago after an wrist injury and never put it back on. A phone in my pocket puts the time close enough not to bother carrying around a lump on my wrist.

discussion about making a pitchers face batters from both sides to keep them from getting too comfortable is interesting. But I would think it had to depend at least a little on the pitcher's repertoire. I wouldn't think it would matter much to a guy like Skubal who is going to throw FBs and changes to the batters on either boxe, as compared to a guy that has to switch from throwing sliders to throwing changes when the batter is on the other side.

considering how the conventional wisdom was that the Sox had a can't miss rebuild in progress pretty recently, this year is quite the crash and burn. EDIT: I guess the only thing that can be said in the PaleHose defense is that they haven't played a team below 500 yet.

He's hunting the perfect pitch to get his 1st HR - it's inside his head now. But tonight not withstanding, he's holding his own.

Tork's OBP over the last 15 games is 350. He still not going anywhere.

Getting up there on time is one thing. Getting up there on time and not missing it pretty sick.

Now they have to avoid letting the Rays BP off the hook with another run...Dumb rule.

Is he coming out for another inning?

Jake can't buy a call. Rung up multiple times yesterday on close pitches, rung up today on close checked swing.

Thread chaos will not be tolerated!

Pretty funny that Monroe is talking about the Tigers offensive fortunes improving as they have stopping giving up so many strike ones and Tork takes a cookie right down the middle.

Tigers are embarrassing the Rays tonight, and the Rays are not a bad team, but that's baseball.

You can argue that if he had stayed healthy longer, his talent level was high enough to have matched Pujols - especially if he had stayed fit enough to stay at 3B longer. So it's a similar semantics discussion as in the Wings forum. Fedorov was probably the absolutely most talented hockey player I ever watched, but he didn't achieve a career that matched the absolute abilities he possessed by a large margin. Cabrera was the whole package as a 3b, soft hands, good arm, and that bat. But for all he did achieve in his career, he still fell far short of what his absolute talent level promised. And that is true of many players, but to me Cabrera is a pretty striking example.

Ben hit his stride in one and probably the only short era of league history when his particular skill set could dominate a game. Pretty good luck for him.

I suppose that's technically true but she's all over social media in the anti-Trump 'Nope' tee-shirt.

sure - it depends on whether Maeda would rather not embarrass himself in front of Major league audiences. Here's hoping he has a good outing and makes such speculation academic.