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Post by kaybli on Aug 13, 2018 4:25:39 GMT -5
Yankees' Aaron Boone pressed on sitting Greg Bird after he finally looks hot
Q: Why wouldn't (Bird) play after getting two doubles?
Boone: Well, I mean, I would say hot's a little more extended period. But whether a guy's -- you're talking to me about Greg Bird, who I believe a lot in the player, and who he is and his ability to handle (righty and lefty pitchers). But this doesn't change that for me. This is more about Martin Perez today, wanting to keep (Luke) Voit relevant, Perez has had his struggled against right-handed hitting in a big-time way this year. It allows me to strategically deploy Greg Bird in a spot where I like. It's a Sunday day game. We're still in this stretch. It's not a matter of hot and cold.
Q: But all that stuff overrides that fact, well, 'Let's keep him going because he'd been really struggling and then he gets two hits.' Now he comes in, he's out of the lineup. Now that overrides that?
A: I don't know it necessarily overrides. We kind of take on each day independently and how a guy's swinging, how rest goes into things. It all gets baked into the cake when I'm making my decision about it.
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Post by inger on Aug 13, 2018 10:19:55 GMT -5
I will say that perhaps we're all too upset about a guy that's hitting .215 being out of the line up. It's not just this one instance though. It seems this is happening over and over. Maybe the issue is that Boone needs to open a bakery so he can bake cakes. I can imagine that going bad too though.
Aaron Boone: "Hi Mrs. Smith, what can I do for you today?"
Mrs. Smith; "Hello Boonie. I'm looking for a cake for my tea party today".
Aaron Boone: "Wonderful. They're all right there on the counter. I know you have three left-handers invited, so we left all the sugar out of the cakes today because we just felt that people were enjoying the sugar, so we might just give it a rest today. That's a plastic faux icing on top that I think the ladies will enjoy, because you can peel it off and reuse it anytime you feel the sugar needs a rest. I'm going to give sugar tomorrow off too, though. It's going to be a long year and I want to make sure there's enough sugar in the barrel to last until New Year's Eve. That week I'm only going to be able to give vanilla extract the day off. It's a religious holiday for vanilla extract. We need to make decisions about what we bake into the cake on a daily basis to assure the long term viability of our product".
Mrs. Smith: "WTF?"
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Post by inger on Aug 13, 2018 10:21:18 GMT -5
One last thought. Keeping Voit relevant? SMH...Stabbing my eye with my fork right now...Just so I can see if I'm dreaming...
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Post by domeplease on Aug 13, 2018 10:36:36 GMT -5
Andujar's biggest problem in his footwork at third, it's very poor. yeah...the same problem Nunez had, but not quite as bad.....I think training can improve that, but the really great ones have an innate ability in good footwork... Did some one mention NUNEZ?
Tequila wants to know: " Is he back with the Yankees?"
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Post by sierchio on Aug 13, 2018 15:14:12 GMT -5
Glad you are enjoying some of this beautiful country in the Rockies....I am planning a utv excursion on the Arapeen trail in southern Utah in a couple weeks....that is an off-road vehicle trail system about 500 miles in length that runs along the spine of the Uintas, much of it at about 10,000 ft....Arapeen was a Ute chief in the 1840's, friendly with Brigham Young, who helped the two peoples assimilate in a mutually beneficial way....the trail itself is quite beautiful, particularly as the foliage at that altitude comes into the fall colors.. Riding off road is so amazing. Of course, I used to always get hammered before I did it. |
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Post by inger on Aug 13, 2018 15:41:20 GMT -5
Glad you are enjoying some of this beautiful country in the Rockies....I am planning a utv excursion on the Arapeen trail in southern Utah in a couple weeks....that is an off-road vehicle trail system about 500 miles in length that runs along the spine of the Uintas, much of it at about 10,000 ft....Arapeen was a Ute chief in the 1840's, friendly with Brigham Young, who helped the two peoples assimilate in a mutually beneficial way....the trail itself is quite beautiful, particularly as the foliage at that altitude comes into the fall colors.. Riding off road is so amazing. Of course, I used to always get hammered before I did it. Yeah, but you also got hammered DURING it and AFTER it...and the week prior to it...and the week afterward, the next month, the next hour...so... (; You were a bad, bad boy... Utah, I'm going to bet you won't be riding "hammered". Therefore you will also have your memories of the trip... |
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Post by utahyank on Aug 13, 2018 16:28:28 GMT -5
haha.....no hammering...I've led a clean life for the most part....and, have been blessed to be healthy...I did have a near-death episode about 6 years ago following a bout with flu....I actually was visited at my bedside by my first wife and my parents....beautiful and heartwarming experience, and no, I wasn't hallucinating because I performed some mental exercises to make sure....except for that time, I have been generally healthy...there is a Jewish word or blessing I will probably murder here....it's something like L' Chaim....which means "to life"...…...
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Post by sierchio on Aug 13, 2018 18:28:54 GMT -5
Utah- mind elaborating on the near death experience... I was actually just watching YouTube videos on the subject the past couple days
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Post by utahyank on Aug 13, 2018 19:13:54 GMT -5
Utah- mind elaborating on the near death experience... I was actually just watching YouTube videos on the subject the past couple days most people tend to roll their eyes, thinking the person having the event is somehow mentally compromised...not the case with me because I was fully lucid, and knew it because I did some mathematic problems in my head as well as deliberately looking away at other objects, then back at the individuals, etc..... short story...I was quite sick with the flu...my wife had taken me to the ER where I had been given some fluids and sent home....that evening I was lying in bed feeling rough, and became aware that others were present beside me....I looked to the side of the bed, and there was 5 individuals standing there, in an attitude of waiting...more striking was a robust young man sitting on the dresser with one leg pulled up towards his chin...he was also looking at me with interest.... My first wife and I had 5 children...4 of whom lived, but we lost an infant son one day after his birth...my wife passed away at age 46 from a severe case of lupus....She, along with my parents were in the front, and two others (possibly three) were behind them....might have been her parents with whom I was very close...or, I'm not sure....the young man I believe to have been my infant son.... I looked at them for some minutes...perhaps 10 to 20 minutes, I'm not sure...I must have been constrained to not speak to them, for it never entered my mind...strange as that seemed to me later...they did not speak either, but were silently attentive.... I must have rallied from the illness, or a crisis passed, for at a moment they were gone, and I was left alone to muse over this singular event.....Dee, my wife, came in shortly to check on me, and I told her of that experience....well, there it is to make of it what you will....regards... |
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Post by inger on Aug 13, 2018 21:31:36 GMT -5
No one that has attention of 100% of the world’s population has ever been to the “other side” and been able to come back to speak authoritatively about all the mysteries that no one alive today thoroughly understands. We’re trapped in a situation for which we have no explanation, but plenty of hope...
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Post by sierchio on Aug 13, 2018 22:49:27 GMT -5
Utah- mind elaborating on the near death experience... I was actually just watching YouTube videos on the subject the past couple days most people tend to roll their eyes, thinking the person having the event is somehow mentally compromised...not the case with me because I was fully lucid, and knew it because I did some mathematic problems in my head as well as deliberately looking away at other objects, then back at the individuals, etc..... short story...I was quite sick with the flu...my wife had taken me to the ER where I had been given some fluids and sent home....that evening I was lying in bed feeling rough, and became aware that others were present beside me....I looked to the side of the bed, and there was 5 individuals standing there, in an attitude of waiting...more striking was a robust young man sitting on the dresser with one leg pulled up towards his chin...he was also looking at me with interest.... My first wife and I had 5 children...4 of whom lived, but we lost an infant son one day after his birth...my wife passed away at age 46 from a severe case of lupus....She, along with my parents were in the front, and two others (possibly three) were behind them....might have been her parents with whom I was very close...or, I'm not sure....the young man I believe to have been my infant son.... I looked at them for some minutes...perhaps 10 to 20 minutes, I'm not sure...I must have been constrained to not speak to them, for it never entered my mind...strange as that seemed to me later...they did not speak either, but were silently attentive.... I must have rallied from the illness, or a crisis passed, for at a moment they were gone, and I was left alone to muse over this singular event.....Dee, my wife, came in shortly to check on me, and I told her of that experience....well, there it is to make of it what you will....regards... I've witnessed to three people talking to dead relatives on their death beds... it's a very interesting subject |
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Post by inger on Aug 13, 2018 23:46:14 GMT -5
My brother started to tell me that he had had an experience just a few months before he died. For whatever reason, the conversation was truncated and we never revisited the subject. There seemed to be a hint of religious conversion in what he was saying, but then...he had brain cancer, so it was quite obvious that things were going on in his brain that were not normal. It was painful to see his cancer progress, especially after we had all watched our father go through the same illness almost three decades prior. Still, it would be interesting to know what happens in the human brain and why when tumors begin to press on this or that portion and cells are dying...
I've been fortunate enough to never have had a near death experience, but I can say that I have often had dreams that were so real that I had trouble separating them from reality. Some of the more lucid dreams perhaps have been attributable to ambien, and perhaps to bouts of depression or anxiety. Interesting point here is that who knew that many of the things I was doing in life in the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of security were actually detrimental to those pursuits.
I've had hallucinations before that I attributed to exhaustion. Nothing too spectacular to tell, but a hallucination is a hallucination. I also had one experience that I could never quite figure out if it was a dream or if I was awake. Shortly after my father died, maybe one or two nights later I saw a face almost directly in front of mine while I was in bed in a very dark bed room. I recall waking (I think I was awake) to see the face staring at me. I wasn't sure if it was my father or not. It was expressionless and just staring right at me. My pulse quickened. I became short of breathe. I ever so slowly drew my leg back and hollered out a loud HA! as I kicked at it with all my might. This woke my ex-wife screaming. As it turned out, I had kicked the front of our dresser next to the bed. I was quite fortunate to miss the sharp corner of the edge of the dresser and not injure myself.
There was no sign of anyone in the room and there was never a re-occurrence. Poor Ruthie gets an odd kick or punch in the middle of the night on occasion when one of my dreams goes haywire. I recently read that acting out dreams CAN be a sign of early onset dementia. Or it can just be a bad dream that means nothing...
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Post by sierchio on Aug 14, 2018 6:13:13 GMT -5
Neil Degrassi Tyson had a segment on the science behind near death experiences... Who knows if it's just chemical reactions or something bigger than what our human minds can figure out the science behind. I'd like to think there's more to it than a chemical reaction
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Post by inger on Aug 14, 2018 9:53:37 GMT -5
Religions have been born for the same reason, Sierchio. In general, humans want to believe that there is a greater purpose to life itself, and that perhaps there is an extension of life when we die...Wanting it to be so, or believing it to be so doesn't make it so. Not believing or not caring also won't make it stop if that does turn out to be reality...You're searching for an answer that no one has found yet in the total time of human existence. Maybe you'll be the one to make the discovery...
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Post by utahyank on Aug 14, 2018 10:23:37 GMT -5
I will offer these thoughts near the end of a mortal lifetime....
1. Putting aside all guesses and suppositions and imagining...there is only one hope we have, and that is that the words of Holy Prophets that are contained in scriptures are true..……..if those words are true we can have hope...if we have hope, we can develop faith by pondering and testing those words...
2 If those words are true, we find that we are eternal spirits, fathered or created by a Eternal Father....we lived before being born into mortality...we are now clothed in a Haz-Mat suit of sorts called a body from which we will separate at what is called death....we then go to Paradise (a place of spirits) to await a promised reunion with a perfected body, never to be separated from that body again...ever....all mankind will be judged and by mutual consent receive what is right for them...the design of the whole plan is that his children might have joy...
3. If the words of the Prophets are false, all is for naught, and we have no hope...regards
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