A weird time to be a Red Sox fan

[jung]

Actually, with respect to the sabermetrics comment, it appears from all we know now that the sabermetrics part (headed by Bill James) was largely *ignored* over the past couple of years, and it's that part that they'll be trying to get back to.

 

I think this "story" is just more ******** from Upper Management. Seriously....."largely ignored" for Three years which was the number in the article. So what are they telling me...that they knew James was being ignored for three years and did nothing about it or that they did not know about it for three years?

 

In addition, the big money did not go to guys that did not have great "numbers". The big money went to guys that had great numbers but did not stitch together into a team. If anything that sounds like to much Bill James and not enough team building skills.

 

So much ******** spits out of this Management group now mostly with one saying one thing today and another contradicting it next week that I frankly no longer trust anything they say. More PR and more spin is all I see. Until I see something that suggests walking the walk and not just talking the talk, I will remain from Missouri at this point.

 

They made a great deal by shipping off a bunch of poor contracts but that was as much to do with luck and the existence of an angel to bail them out as anything. Now what? How will they use the money? When will they use the money. Will they end up again with a great fantasy baseball team that is not worth a lick on the field where the game is played?

[Bellhorn04]

I think this "story" is just more ******** from Upper Management. Seriously....."largely ignored" for Three years which was the number in the article. So what are they telling me...that they knew James was being ignored for three years and did nothing about it or that they did not know about it for three years?

 

Yeah, it'd be kind of nice if somebody could ask Henry for specifics of what he meant by that. The only thing I can see is that Crawford was not a great OBP guy.

[jung]

You are right Bell. CC was not a great OBP guy. Clearly they thought his other numbers offset his OBP cause I cannot find another rational for how they got there with him. Funny thing about that is that while you could blame his really ugly OBP for his lack of steals here, even when he got on he did not steal. The CC experience is the oddest Red Sox personnel thing I have seen in a long time.

[a700hitter]

What I said about you came off as less flattering than it was intended to. My apologies. You really took that and ran with it. Pom pom waver? Nice.

 

You shouldn't think that I like the fact that they are losing. I said it was a 'silver lining' in a s***** situation that they are headed toward a higher draft pick with each loss. That part was obvious and shouldn't be turned against me. I will always root for them to win first and foremost. I can't even imagine doing otherwise.

 

It sucks that you go through such agony when the team is this bad. I go through that when they are anywhere close to contention, but not at this point. After a few months of grieving and being down, I'm more or less emerging into being able to think ahead again. The first thing I think it "how can this situation be turned into a positive?" and my brain immediately goes to the draft (the game's compensation for sucking, basically). I guarantee any FO worth its salt considers how they will finish for the draft when they are this far out of contention. It's a natural part of the game to be strategizing from any position you are in.

I would never call you a pom pom waiver except for the fact that after all these years, you still mischaracterize me in an offensive way. You've been here long enough to know better. I prefer to address the sports and opine about that than about my fellow TalkSox members.