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Post by kjc2 on Dec 20, 2022 12:52:21 GMT -5
This is insane. Paying Drew Doughy’s inflated salary. Absolutely crazy!
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Post by madmarx on Dec 20, 2022 16:46:23 GMT -5
This is insane. That would be 150 in Toronto maybe more .
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 22, 2022 14:56:07 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on Dec 22, 2022 15:01:29 GMT -5
King Lindholm +24 Patrice Bergeron +17 Trent Frederic +16 Brandon Carlo +15 Charlie Covle +14 Matt Grzelcyk +14 Connor Clifton +13 Taylor Hall +12 David Pastrňák +11 Jake DeBrusk +11 Brad Marchand +7 Nick Foligno +7 Charlie McAvoy +7 Derek Forbort +6 Tomáš Nosek +6 Pavel Zacha +6
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Post by madmarx on Dec 22, 2022 15:08:30 GMT -5
🤷♂️
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Post by kjc2 on Dec 22, 2022 15:30:12 GMT -5
I wanted him to be the first guy out of town after last season. I’m so happy he has turned everything around. Hopefully he finishes the season healthy and can make an impact in the playoffs. He’s the guy that can start a run of momentum from the fourth line and have if spread through the lineup.
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Post by madmarx on Dec 22, 2022 15:47:32 GMT -5
I wanted him to be the first guy out of town after last season. I’m so happy he has turned everything around. Hopefully he finishes the season healthy and can make an impact in the playoffs. He’s the guy that can start a run of momentum from the fourth line and have if spread through the lineup. I think your thoughts were held by most Bruin fans . I moved the Nick interview to his own thread .
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 22, 2022 17:03:57 GMT -5
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Post by kjc2 on Dec 22, 2022 18:13:20 GMT -5
Yes and I hope it’s the last we hear of it 😡
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Post by orym on Dec 23, 2022 9:58:55 GMT -5
Yes and I hope it’s the last we hear of it 😡 Definitely time to turn the page on this.
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 23, 2022 10:47:36 GMT -5
Great time to announce this too. Holiday break. Someone calls in for a follow up nobody will be there for 4 days.
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Post by kjc2 on Dec 23, 2022 14:34:19 GMT -5
Great time to announce this too. Holiday break. Someone calls in for a follow up nobody will be there for 4 days. I feel like the Bruins brass has this part down to a science. No need to audit this process.
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Post by madmarx on Dec 26, 2022 14:52:15 GMT -5
Hopefully everyone had a good Christmas and stayed safe , that was one hell of a storm and we got easier that others .
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 26, 2022 17:24:33 GMT -5
Hopefully everyone had a good Christmas and stayed safe , that was one hell of a storm and we got easier that others . We lost power 3 different times. Got it back about 3 hours later but it still sucked. Once was when our roast was 1 hour into its 3 hour cooking time.
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Post by madmarx on Dec 26, 2022 19:06:26 GMT -5
Hopefully everyone had a good Christmas and stayed safe , that was one hell of a storm and we got easier that others . We lost power 3 different times. Got it back about 3 hours later but it still sucked. Once was when our roast was 1 hour into its 3 hour cooking time. Man that sucks, we had outages all around us literally blocks away from downed trees but we were lucky this time round.
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 26, 2022 19:57:26 GMT -5
We lost power 3 different times. Got it back about 3 hours later but it still sucked. Once was when our roast was 1 hour into its 3 hour cooking time. Man that sucks, we had outages all around us literally blocks away from downed trees but we were lucky this time round. This was right near our house. They left it there for 2 days. Finally finished falling last night during our cooking
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Post by madmarx on Dec 26, 2022 20:14:29 GMT -5
Man that sucks, we had outages all around us literally blocks away from downed trees but we were lucky this time round. This was right near our house. They left it there for 2 days. Finally finished falling last night during our cooking That’s friggin dangerous to leave it like that for so long 🤬
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 26, 2022 21:51:12 GMT -5
This was right near our house. They left it there for 2 days. Finally finished falling last night during our cooking That’s friggin dangerous to leave it like that for so long 🤬 Our guess was they were trying to restore power everywhere else before bothering with that tree. I know people who had no power for 72 hours.
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Post by kjc2 on Dec 27, 2022 4:57:05 GMT -5
We got off easy with the storm, lots of wind and rain but it stay above the freezing level and not too many power outages.
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 27, 2022 7:23:38 GMT -5
Drove by that tree this morning. It is down. Finally broke apart because it is not cut up at all.
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Post by crafar01 on Dec 27, 2022 7:35:48 GMT -5
Drove by that tree this morning. It is down. Finally broke apart because it is not cut up at all. Coming out of Plainfield around where the little turnoff is, there are 2, or 3 trees still resting on the lines...fucking nuts!
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Post by madmarx on Dec 27, 2022 8:46:32 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on Dec 28, 2022 13:35:01 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 28, 2022 14:21:52 GMT -5
Some of those pictures that I have seen look surreal.
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Post by madmarx on Dec 28, 2022 14:35:06 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on Dec 28, 2022 17:25:51 GMT -5
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Post by SeaBass on Dec 29, 2022 11:10:46 GMT -5
Hot stove talk around Fenway Park this past week was that the Red Sox were thinking of adding a former MVP to their lineup. The mystery player was a power-hitting lefthanded bat, in the late prime of his career, and on a decent contract to boot. Let’s squash that talk. Taylor Hall only played one summer of baseball, when he was 12. Also, he won’t drop his allegiance to the Blue Jays. If the Bruins were to create a sandlot baseball team, it would be built around Hall. A December survey of the Black and Gold dressing room found that the broad-shouldered winger is the only player to have cleared a major league fence.
During a 2016 batting practice session at Rogers Centre with fellow Toronto-area “hockey guys,” Hall said, he fouled off several offerings from the pitcher, Josue Peley, a Blue Jays translator. Hall eventually tagged one down the right-field line and over the wall, 328 feet away.
“I’m not surprised at all,” defenseman Connor Clifton said. “He’s built like a truck.”
“He’s been bragging about it,” teased left wing Jake DeBrusk. “He wants to hit it out of Fenway.”
Several of Hall’s teammates had similar dreams before they turned to hockey.
Nick Foligno hung up his spikes at age 14, but it was a tough call. He played second base in Hershey, Pa., youth leagues while his father, Mike, was coaching the AHL’s Hershey Bears.
“It was a blast,” Foligno said. “Unfortunately they make you make a decision. I think it’s so stupid.”
If Hall is the No. 3 hitter in a Bruins fantasy baseball lineup, we’ll make Foligno the leadoff man.
“I could field,” said Foligno, who believes his “dad strength” would allow him to poke one deep today. “I was an on-base guy,” he said. “Get a single, get a double, steal a couple bases.”
“Last time I played was when I was playing juniors,” center David Krejci recalled of a day some 18 years ago in Gatineau, Quebec. “I was in the [outfield]. Guy hit it high, so I see the ball, I’m trying to catch it, I’m running to it … and before you know, damn, it’s 20 yards behind me. I appreciate how those guys catch the ball.”
Krejci was the only one of five Czech players on the Bruins’ roster who had seen a baseball game before coming to North America.
“Didn’t know the rules when I came here,” said David Pastrnak, who prefers soccer and tennis. “Didn’t really get into it. Then I went to a lot of playoff games. Great atmosphere. A home run over the Green Monster is great and I saw a couple.
“It looks like a great sport. Playing a professional sport and eating pizza on the bench there, it’s pretty nice.
“I definitely would not be good at hitting, but maybe catching. I could probably get ahold of a fastball, but as soon as you start throwing curveballs I would swing and miss.”
Easy strikes were mandatory that day in the North End. Clifton, like most of his teammates, could not recall the finer details of the game: the score, who pitched, the kinds of beverages consumed.
“There were some home runs,” Clifton confirmed. “On errors.”
Clifton, of Long Branch, N.J., committed his summers to hockey. But he’s eager and focused, and so we’ll make him the No. 2 hitter in this lineup. It’s his defense we’re concerned about.
“I played third base up until the big field,” he said. “Then, it was Wiffle ball. I started throwing curveballs [across the diamond]. I didn’t have the arm strength.”
“I liked hockey better,” said Frederic, the Bruins’ No. 3 right wing and Spoked Sox cleanup hitter. “But I loved baseball. If I could have done both in college [Wisconsin], I would have tried to do it.”
Based on physical stature and hours logged playing Wiffle ball, Weymouth’s Charlie Coyle slots into the five-hole. He hasn’t swung a wood bat in years, but he would enjoy mimicking a righthanded Big Papi.
“When I was in middle school, they were winning championships,” said Coyle, 30, who has made dozens of Fenway trips for Red Sox games, concerts, and the 2010 Winter Classic.
“It took me a little while to figure out my swing,” said Lindholm, a left shot in hockey who didn’t know if he would bat lefthanded or righthanded. “If I used my hips, I’m sure I could get it.”
Though goalie Linus Ullmark has more experience with a mask and pads than any Bruin, Frederic has a lock on the catching position. That’s fine with him.
“I’m more of an outfielder,” said the 6-foot-5-inch netminder, who could surprise as the eighth hitter. “I don’t have a great throwing arm. I’m more of a first baseman.”
Though a total newcomer, he believes he could hit a fastball.
“Yes,” Ullmark said. “Definitely. A hundred percent. [It’s] hand-eye coordination.”
Defenseman Brandon Carlo, a product of one sixth-grade season in Colorado Springs, will bat ninth and be relied on for his glove.
“I couldn’t hit the ball,” Carlo said. “It was not my calling. But I enjoyed shagging balls in the outfield. I’d like to give it a shot now.”
We will be calling on DeBrusk as a pinch runner.
“Give me five tries,” the speedy winger said, “I think I could hit one.”
The Bruins’ would-be pitching rotation is even lighter on arms.
Pastrnak, though he dazzles like Pedro Martinez in his day job, has only ever thrown tennis balls. Frederic, who believes he could reach the 70s on the radar gun if properly warmed, would be the ace. Defenseman Derek Forbort’s arm would get sore when he took the mound. He’s out.
Coming out of the bullpen: Brad “Wild Thing” Marchand, who smiled when he recalled his limited repertoire as a middle-school pitcher in Nova Scotia.
“I had a fastball,” he said. “I’d throw it as hard as I could. Spray and pray.
“I hit a lot of kids. Might have been on purpose. Might not.”
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Post by madmarx on Dec 29, 2022 11:51:51 GMT -5
😂
Coming out of the bullpen: Brad “Wild Thing” Marchand, who smiled when he recalled his limited repertoire as a middle-school pitcher in Nova Scotia.
“I had a fastball,” he said. “I’d throw it as hard as I could. Spray and pray.
“I hit a lot of kids. Might have been on purpose. Might not.”
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Post by KSJ08 on Dec 30, 2022 18:08:34 GMT -5
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Post by madmarx on Dec 31, 2022 9:50:39 GMT -5
As the calendar turns tonight what’s one thing that needs to be better in the World in 2023
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