4/16 Cleveland at Boston

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

From the bruins possibly choking first place it could be a terrible night.

BRUINS finishing 2nd gives them a better chance of getting thru the 1st round of the PO's.

[vegasbob]

I didn't see the RF-1B play as it happened, but by any chance did Casas miss the tag?

[jung]

I didn't see the Rf-1BV play as it happened, but by any chance did Casas miss the tag?

Casas put his glove down the only place that he could have missed the runner.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

He's not giving up his ESPN gig to do full time PxP for the Sox.

He's going to be gone for at least a month right now for the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Sean does it all and he's excellent doing them all.

[moonslav59]

That was one of the dumbest base running plays I’ve ever seen.

Agreed.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

BRUINS finishing 2nd gives them a better chance of getting thru the 1st round of the PO's.

A heads up; the BRUINS are not going to win the Cup. Monty has been a magician with this talent-challenged team, but he's not Houdini.

[illinoisredsox]

BRUINS finishing 2nd gives them a better chance of getting thru the 1st round of the PO's.

Winner gets the Islanders, loser gets the Maple Leafs. Tough choice.

[vegasbob]

The discussion on the benefits or not of coaching and training mid level players is interesting. You can't however, teach baseball instincts and inherent smarts . You cannot coach dumb to not so bright.

[illinoisredsox]

I didn't see the RF-1B play as it happened, but by any chance did Casas miss the tag?

Yes, though I don't know how accurate the throw was, if Kwan made a great slide to avoid it or if Casas just flat out missed it.

[d-money]

BRUINS finishing 2nd gives them a better chance of getting thru the 1st round of the PO's.

I wouldn’t trust anything with them let’s be honest. They have been failures in the playoffs.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

No matter what the SOX do this year this will be Cora's last season as manager. He's pretty much made it clear he wants to work in some team's FO.

[illinoisredsox]

The discussion on the benefits or not of coaching and training mid level players is interesting. You can't however, teach baseball instincts and inherent smarts . You cannot coach dumb to not so bright.

Agree. Those things are ingrained long before a player reaches the majors.

[SPLENDIDSPLINTER]

Winner gets the Islanders, loser gets the Maple Leafs. Tough choice.

Wrong. Winner gets Tampa Bay, whom the BRUINS don't fare well against.

[jung]

The discussion on the benefits or not of coaching and training mid level players is interesting. You can't however, teach baseball instincts and inherent smarts . You cannot coach dumb to not so bright.

Not only that but it points out the utter folly of trying to teach fundamentals in the ML's. Suppose you have a guy that simply defies instruction. Now what? You have a guy taking a spot on your ML roster that is NEVER going to be a ML player.

But of course modern computer geekery says everybody can play everywhere. The usual result of that thinking is that nobody can play anywhere.

[illinoisredsox]

Wrong. Winner gets Tampa Bay, whom the BRUINS don't fare well against.

Ah, I was was thinking the division winners gets the top two seeds and then the rest go by points. But as I think about it, 2-3 in each division get seeds 3-6 and the wildcards are 7-8.

I sit corrected.