Protecting the Shields -- The Nick Cafardo Thread
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Maybe this is unfair. Too bad.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/08/27/what-red-sox-with-mookie-betts/wrrJelrKGC09EkVeNvBviK/story.html
But Betts being traded is certainly one scenario.
As the Red Sox explore trade options for a front-line pitcher, Betts’s name will pop up again. To get a quality starter like Cole Hamels would require that type of quality going back to the Phillies.So here we are with the next head-scratcher — what to do with Mookie Betts? (8/28/14)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/13/mookie-betts-was-showstopper-for-red-sox/KVYREvt2uckdgY8O8kk3sI/story.html?p1=Article_InThisSection_Bottom
This was a good example of why you don’t trade Betts for Cole Hamels or Zimmermann. (4/14/15)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/08/27/what-red-sox-with-mookie-betts/wrrJelrKGC09EkVeNvBviK/story.html
But Betts being traded is certainly one scenario.
As the Red Sox explore trade options for a front-line pitcher, Betts’s name will pop up again. To get a quality starter like Cole Hamels would require that type of quality going back to the Phillies.So here we are with the next head-scratcher — what to do with Mookie Betts? (8/28/14)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/13/mookie-betts-was-showstopper-for-red-sox/KVYREvt2uckdgY8O8kk3sI/story.html?p1=Article_InThisSection_Bottom
This was a good example of why you don’t trade Betts for Cole Hamels or Zimmermann. (4/14/15)
I refuse to give Nick any clicks so I can't see if there is some context that makes your comparison unfair.
If his second quote stated something along the lines of, "now that we have seen more of Mookie it is clear why the Sox don't want to trade him yada yada yada" but instead he states it as if it is something he knew all along when we all know it isn't.
If his second quote stated something along the lines of, "now that we have seen more of Mookie it is clear why the Sox don't want to trade him yada yada yada" but instead he states it as if it is something he knew all along when we all know it isn't.
This is the money quote from the first piece:
And as long as I can remember, Cafardo has been criticizing the front office for not budging on moving Swihart and Betts for Hamels. So, yes, the second piece represents a turnaround that poses as something he's felt all along.
And as long as I can remember, Cafardo has been criticizing the front office for not budging on moving Swihart and Betts for Hamels. So, yes, the second piece represents a turnaround that poses as something he's felt all along.
I'm sure if Nick is called out, he'll say, "I never said they should trade Betts for Hamels... WE said it."
Really hoping that Betts is a HOFer because I'm a Red Sox fan and that Nick Cafardo is a distant memory by the time Betts is inducted.
(Please read out the snark that could be seen in the above...not intended; just looking at this differently and, on topic, hoping that Cafardo goes away ASAP, and heaven forbid that he is around in 20 years or so).
(Please read out the snark that could be seen in the above...not intended; just looking at this differently and, on topic, hoping that Cafardo goes away ASAP, and heaven forbid that he is around in 20 years or so).
More MassDebation
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/15/red-sox-starting-rotation-early-cause-for-concern/c6S9TRY6dhdIA2YQDobWNN/story.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHLf2Weu1k
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/15/red-sox-starting-rotation-early-cause-for-concern/c6S9TRY6dhdIA2YQDobWNN/story.html
What do I mean by yes? What do I mean by no?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHLf2Weu1k
Nick have anything today about how the sox need Hamels? 6 innings last night vs. Washington. 5 hits, 5 ER, 4 BB, 7K, 2 homeruns against him.
Leave it to a hack like Nick to die on the Cole Hamels hill. Nick must see a lot of himself in Cole- past his prime, way overpaid yet still generally thought of as something by people who aren't really paying attention.
Nick's column today:
Let me Google that for you ("black sand fenway"):
http://www.popsci.com/fenway-using-black-sand-melt-away-monster-amount-snow
I am not sure which of these three statements is the most pathetic. 1) Even though he is on the field at the park on a regular basis, he never bothered to ask anyone on the grounds crew what happened to the sand. 2) Some random person on Instagram in March did a better job of asking the right person the right question than Nick has been able to do all week long. 3) Even if he was not enterprising enough to ask someone on the grounds crew the right question, Nick was unable to spend 10 seconds to see if anyone had figured out his conundrum.
Let me Google that for you ("black sand fenway"):
http://www.popsci.com/fenway-using-black-sand-melt-away-monster-amount-snow
I am not sure which of these three statements is the most pathetic. 1) Even though he is on the field at the park on a regular basis, he never bothered to ask anyone on the grounds crew what happened to the sand. 2) Some random person on Instagram in March did a better job of asking the right person the right question than Nick has been able to do all week long. 3) Even if he was not enterprising enough to ask someone on the grounds crew the right question, Nick was unable to spend 10 seconds to see if anyone had figured out his conundrum.
More musings by Nick:
"The reason home plate is shaped the way it is I haven't a clue but certainly makes you go hmm..."
"Baseballs are white. Could have been neon - why not after all?"
"Papelbon called a team meeting which is interesting. Who knows why?"
"Scouts are constantly discovering future major leaguers in Double A like Vladimir's nephew. That's where they really earn their money."
"The Sox have won more than they've lost. No one knows if that will continue."
"More trades seem to happen mid-season than in April, I guess."
"If I were a betting man, I'd say that neither the Yankees nor the Red Sox can both finish in first this year."
Hey Nick, feel free to use any of these to fill up your next column you lazy piece of shit.
"The reason home plate is shaped the way it is I haven't a clue but certainly makes you go hmm..."
"Baseballs are white. Could have been neon - why not after all?"
"Papelbon called a team meeting which is interesting. Who knows why?"
"Scouts are constantly discovering future major leaguers in Double A like Vladimir's nephew. That's where they really earn their money."
"The Sox have won more than they've lost. No one knows if that will continue."
"More trades seem to happen mid-season than in April, I guess."
"If I were a betting man, I'd say that neither the Yankees nor the Red Sox can both finish in first this year."
Hey Nick, feel free to use any of these to fill up your next column you lazy piece of shit.
I don't think that the bolded is correct, am I wrong? Shouldn't it be, "The Red Sox have sandwiched two last-place finishes around a championship."? Because I don't see how one season can be sandwiched around two different seasons.
The sentence just doesn't make sense to me but I am so hyper critical of Cafardo, I could be wrong here.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
You're right, he screwed it up. If he'd said "sandwiched a championship between two last-place finishes" he'd have been alright. Should be the kind of thing an editor catches, wouldn't you think?
Reflects badly on Cafardo and the Globe....not that much of a surprise, I guess.
Well, the championship is the meat in the sandwich, so I can see it the other way . . . but it's awkward and not professional writing
Lose Remerswaal said:
Right. But he said that the Championship was "sandwiched" around two last place finishes. Bologna is not sandwiched around bread, the bread is sandwiched around the bologna.
So the net of it is, Nick could greatly improve his sportswriting if he composed a food madlib as his template.John Marzano Olympic Hero said:
Did anyone catch Nick moaning about the disappearance of the Sox' Fenway home field advantage, because the Sox are 3-3 at home this year?
He's trying to be this stupid, yes?
He's trying to be this stupid, yes?
Did he at least try to tie in their home record from last year (34-47), or is he strictly going off the 3-3 record?Smiling Joe Hesketh said:
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In AL East, every team flawed, but every team in the hunt, writes @nickcafardo
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That's our Nick
Lose Remerswaal said:
No, he was past awkward into just wrong. How can the meat of a sandwich be "around" it's bread/ container?
Alex Speier in his email newsletter today seemingly took a veiled shot at Cafardo's syntax. His item immediately following a link to Cafardo's column was about the Orioles' success with an "ace-less" rotation the last three years:
Cafardo is the dead horse not worth beating or reading. He'll still be writing for the Globe when it no longer exists.
I saw this headline on the CBS fantasy player updates page:
Report: Phillies hoping to deal Jonathan Papelbon to Red Sox
I bet myself one million internet dollars that this had to be coming from Cafardo, and sure enough old Nicky was the source. He's got an official Phillies phetish at this point.
Report: Phillies hoping to deal Jonathan Papelbon to Red Sox
I bet myself one million internet dollars that this had to be coming from Cafardo, and sure enough old Nicky was the source. He's got an official Phillies phetish at this point.
Same here. When I clicked on the link and saw it was him I got pissed at myself for giving him traffic.
Nick forcefully argues in today's Globe that the Sox will not make a move in their rotation. They will stick with Buck. And the rest of them.
I'm so relieved. Now I know that change is coming, and coming soon.
Thanks, Nicky.
I'm so relieved. Now I know that change is coming, and coming soon.
Thanks, Nicky.
More stupid "ace" bullshit. As though not-aces are not supposed to do well with a 4-0 lead.
The irony is that Nick is supposed to be the "ace" of the Globe's baseball staff. It's now the 5th inning, Nick has given up 7 trillion runs on 80 fucktillion hits and the Globe is leaving him in the game.
Haha, this is the perfect imagery.Cafardo's been mailing it in for so long, he won't even notice when the company is closed down, he'll just keep turning in his half-assed columns to nobody.MuzzyField said:
"Huh, the building's all locked up, they must be doing construction or something. I'll just write from home and file the columns from there from now on, that will be even easier!"
He might eventually wonder why Boras and JP RIccardi quit calling him up to plant stories, but then he'll decide it's actually easier to leave out the anonymous quotes and just make every sentence a rhetorical question.
I could totally picture him writing this and trying to file it to a newspaper that no longer exists:
"April 29, 2027: Will Cole Hamels Make a Comeback With the Red Sox? by Nick Cafardo.
Does it matter that Cole Hamels has been retired for 5 years? But once an ace, always an ace, right? Couldn't the Red Sox improve their rotation and make a splash and add some energy by adding a proven veteran ace like Hamelsblahblahblahblahblah......"
Nick also defends his eagerness to sign Josh Hamilton prior to 2013 with one if the most unprofessional, condescending responses I can remember in a mailbag:
I want to go easy on him, and I imagine his inbox is flooded with vitriol. He just makes it so hard. It's such a sad form of laziness, ignorance, and incuriousness. You don't need fucking ESP to know that it's a pretty big risk to give enormous money to an addiction-plagued OF with injury issues for his mid-30s.
YES. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT THOSE THINGS WERE POSSIBLE, NICK.
I want to go easy on him, and I imagine his inbox is flooded with vitriol. He just makes it so hard. It's such a sad form of laziness, ignorance, and incuriousness. You don't need fucking ESP to know that it's a pretty big risk to give enormous money to an addiction-plagued OF with injury issues for his mid-30s.
Absolutely no new insight, and nothing new or interesting in the entire column.
Zee. Ro.
2,562 words of vapid pabulum.
Zee. Ro.
2,562 words of vapid pabulum.
In which our hero discovers that Ruben Amaro, Jr., does indeed use advanced statistics:
Amaro said he’s not afraid of risking injury to his trade chips.
“The reality is this: There are a lot more chances for the 29 other teams to get people hurt than the one or two guys that we have,” he said. “That’s basic math.”
Amaro said he’s not afraid of risking injury to his trade chips.
“The reality is this: There are a lot more chances for the 29 other teams to get people hurt than the one or two guys that we have,” he said. “That’s basic math.”
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