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Yeah, we got an extra preseason game in. 😉
Or, we could just play the starters more in the regular preseason games.
AgamemnonOver 800 words.
And not one word on how our guys did competing with theirs.
I’m interested why you complain about the coverage so much this year (to the point where every post is a complaint), when the simple fact is, it’s no different from any summer before. I mean, tell me for example, in 99, where were the detailed breakdowns comparing how the 3 competitors were doing at MLB? I don’t mean to come across as countering you in any way—it’s an honest question from one friend and board mate to another.
So why weren’t you complaining all the previous years? Because nothing is different in terms of the coverage this year, I promise. So from what I see, the difference this year isn’t the coverage itself. It’s what we’re asking of it.
In terms of the centers, this is what I have gathered so far from watching and reading around. They have a competition in the first place because (as per Boudreau) the decision will be based on how they perform as leaders and captains of the offense in the heat of battle. We can’t tell about that, but we can make some observations about the physical stuff. In terms of that, Barnes is holding his own, Jones has struggled, and Rhaney has surprised. My guess is that since they’re trying Rhaney at guard too, they are trying to judge how much versatility he gives them, so it’s probably not Rhaney’s job—it looks to me, at this early date, like it’s Rhaney as the #2 and either Barnes or Jones as the #1, with Barnes in the lead so far.
Personally? I have seen Boudreau field good OLs with the Rams with centers who were not better than Barnes (the details get boring as to what I base that on). So I am not worried about center, myself, though I get that me personally not being worried is not news from olympus for everyone else.
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Oxnard? Did you say…OXNARD?
I don’t know how I remember this. But I can’t ever get it out of my head now.
After Maclean Stevenson left MASH, he had his own sitcom that was terrible and got cancelled quickly. But I remember this ONE thing. Perhaps because I was a teenager. There was an episode where he was visiting somebody else’s house for dinner, or something, and the host had a trophy wife…big, beautiful blonde. And Stevenson just cannot wait to get out of this guy’s house, trying to make excuses to go home. And finally he reaches the front door and makes an exit line just as the guy says something like, “Too bad. I was just going to show our pictures of the volleyball tournament my trophy wife was in at the nudist camp in Oxnard.”
And Maclean Stevenson shoots back into the house saying, “Oxnard? Did you say…OXNARD?”
I had never heard of Oxnard before that, but every time I hear the name, or drive through the town, I can’t help but think of nude volleyball.
And…there you go.
I’m gone for 5 or 6 weeks, and when I come back, my first post makes an immediate contribution to understanding Training Camp.
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