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  1. seabeachfred
    You're late with the "evil empire of the West" by 56 years d-money. Walter O'Malley, the portly and greedy former owner of the Bums, said he wanted to just like the Yankees when he hijacked the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958, and I can tell you as a resident in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, that team is almost as despicable as the evil empire in the East.
  2. seabeachfred
    That's a helluva suggestion BSN and to me a totally fair and equitable one, but MLB would never go that far in my opinion because baseball is their cash cow and the risk that some of the best players in the game could be juicing would make the talent pool decline and with it the crowds that baseball has enjoyed. However, a commissioner with some balls could initiate such a plan and I think the fans and most players would fall in line with it.
  3. seabeachfred
    According to what I heard on 710 ESPN Radio LA this morning, Kershaw was more interested in some residual benefits concerning travel, hotel accommodations, and investment opportunities than in raw cash. Needless to add it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that we was staying with the Bums.
  4. seabeachfred
    I wonder if Jason Bay had not signed with the Mets and stayed with the Red Sox whether he would have had those concussions playing in a ballpark that he had become totally familiar with compared to that new and weird configuration in Queens. Remember, his last year for us he hit 36 homers and drove in 119 runs and Epstein, in one of his less impressive moves, let him walk and then replaced him with a totally spend Mike Cameron who immediately got hurt and forgot how to field while he continued to remember how not to hit. To boot, Epstein engineered Ellsbury's move to left field to "save his legs" which resulted in a crash with Adrian Beltre that sidelined him for the season. Some of the moves Theo made in his late Red Sox years boggled the mind and had all sorts of booby traps and land mines.
  5. seabeachfred
    You're not sure that you articulated what you were thinking Spud Boy? Well join the club. You don't think I was flailing away trying to respond to what Mr. Tibbs wrote? I can only believe that A-Fraud has convince himself that he has done nothing wrong and even though he knows he did, he has convinced himself that it just isn't so. Remember Spud, we are talking about the poster child for Narcissism.
  6. seabeachfred
    It's only a stupid question because the idea behind what A-Fraud is doing is totally stupid and there is no way to attack it but by asking stupid questions about it. It makes no sense whatsoever unless he wants to blow up his bridges front back and sideways. He's in desperation mode Mr Tibbs and right now very few of us I venture to say have any idea what is going through his alleged mind. And that's my stupid answer to what that dumb ass is doing.
  7. seabeachfred
    As we get closer to pitchers and catchers reporting a month from now while our collective mouths water for some baseball we have to be subjected once again to this ******** hogging up all the news on the hard ball front. The Yankees are rich beyond their wildest dreams---just release the son of a bitch and be done with it. As long as they hold onto him this circus will never pack up and move on. Sure, it's not my $61 million or whatever the total still owed the guy but the Yankees could well afford it and it would clear the decks of this virus and, besides, A-Fraud couldn't seek redress in court because a team has the sole responsibility if they want to keep a player or not. Just do it Yankees.
  8. seabeachfred
    Try the latter reason BEL. We're not getting into any bidding war for Tanaka. He is not coming to Boston. I would bet the garage on that.
  9. seabeachfred
    Come on PIN, this is your team and you should know them a helluva lot better than I do. They're experts at being the CIA of baseball; say one thing, do another, then go in one direction and backtrack somewhere else. If they think they need a little more thunder offensively at third base they will sign Reynolds in two shakes of a monkey's ass.
  10. seabeachfred
    It might still happen but I've always believed that Tanaka would wind up with the Yankees. A bit of optimism? Well I said A-Turd would get 90 days and he got over twice as much as that so don't take my prediction to the bank quite yet.
  11. seabeachfred
    Just keep that kind of stuff away from us is all I ask. We had more than our share of physical mishaps between 2009-2012----enough to last at least a decade.
  12. seabeachfred
    Well BSN we could use a little excitement around here. You have to admit it's been a little slow and boring lately.
  13. seabeachfred
    When it comes to choosing which of the two greedy teams Tanaka chooses, to me it which poison is preferable to the other----the Yankees or the Dodgers, the two teams I despise more than any others. Come on Cubs, Seattle and Texas get into it and make sure none of those two s*** can teams get him.
  14. seabeachfred
    Hey Palodios, think we'd be better served by resigning Jon Lester long term because I'm pretty sure the Red Sox don't want to get into a bidding war for Tanaka's services. With the MFY and disgustingly greedy Dodgers both jumping in with both feet it doesn't do us much good at all to join the "fun" Besides, unless our front office is lying to us we have some pretty good young pitchers down on the farm that might be ready sooner than we think......Owens, Barnes and Renaudo to name three.
  15. seabeachfred
    Makes a lot of sense that potential trade Spitball and not to be too cynical but for that reason it probably won't get done.
  16. seabeachfred
    Good point rj. With all this talk about a Gardner-Bailey trade, the fact is the Reds are at a loss either way unless they can get a RH big bopper to protect Joey Votto, otherwise he will lucky to see three good pitches a game. Of course, I plead total ignorance as to where the Reds would get such a guy but to me Bailey traded for just Gardner makes little sense on the face of it unless the Reds have enough pitching to absorb Bailey's loss. Do they? I keep hearing they don't have any more money to spend and that was the lame excuse when the Reds went South after their WS Title in 1990. They have always seemed to be a tight fisted outfit even when they were the Big Red Machine.
  17. seabeachfred
    What do some of these scribes have for brains----s***??????? Sixteen of them DIDN'T vote for Greg Maddux? If that is true they all should be jettisoned from ever voting for HoF candidates again. Maybe while we're at it the whole voting procedure should come in for some major reforms along with getting people on that board who know a little more about the game than those 16 dorks did. Really hard to believe. Personally, I', pleased Thomas and Maddux made it because to me that was a slam dunk, but it's a real bummer that Biggio missed by only two votes. IMHO someone screwed up there.
  18. seabeachfred
    Maybe someone can help me out on this one----is there any time line when Tanaka is supposed to come to a decision on which team he's signing with, or, better yet, when all the teams interested are supposed to cast their bid for the guy. It seems to me his decision or lack of it so far is holding up a lot of other pitchers signing on with their new teams, and as my pal Palodios mentioned yesterday it is making this off season's hot stove league moving at a snail's pace.
  19. seabeachfred
    This is like a boxing match Palodios with each fighter feeling the other out. Only in this case there are about ten to twenty guys posing as GM's trying to fool the other and instead of fists are using words and looks to bluff their way through. There should be three or four teams now actively engaging each other to get this guy and like you I think it will be the Yankees because they have no compulsion to spend until they drop. That's why while they may occasionally win a WS they will never dominate the league again because they go year by year and think spending their way to fame will get the job done. As we have seen since their WS romps ended with the 2001 meltdown against the D'Backs, they have only one WS Title in those 13. Whatever they're doing is not working that well enough for them. Maybe they ought to build their decrepit farm system once again....you think?
  20. seabeachfred
    Well it all comes out in the wash tomorrow morning. I think there will be at least two and maybe as many as four who make it. My money is on Thomas, Maddux, Biggio and one mystery guest.
  21. seabeachfred
    There will be a lot of people pissed off about who gets in and who doesn't this time around. Weren't us Red Sox fans totally chapped that it took Jim Rice 15 years before he got the nod? I will be upset if Maddux and Thomas aren't in there by Wednesday, but there seem to be a few more who should be given consideration and I stand convicted for forgetting Craig Biggio. His name should be considered strongly for the Hall and I'll drop a recommendation for Mussina. He was a lot better and lot more effective that some give him credit for.
  22. seabeachfred
    It depends how badly the Reds want Gardner my friend. I keep hearing they are talking up Billy Hamilton (I think that's his name) big time but aside from really blinding speed there is some concern with his ability to hit Major League pitching. If he can I see no reason why the Reds would even make that trade unless they are not confident with one of their corner outfielders and that seems a little far fetched. Bailey is a pretty good No. 3 or 4 starter and frankly I can't see the Reds giving him up if they are confident in Hamilton's ability. Apparently from all the rumors they're not.
  23. seabeachfred
    Very true Doj----in most instances, but young sluggers do improve in that regard with playing experience and improved discipline. When I was a kid in Queens we used to read story after story of how Brooklyn GM Branch Rickey used to have Duke Snider stand at a plate off to the side and have a pitcher throw balls at him while he had to call it a ball or a strike. The Duke was a notorious wild swinger. He is now in the Hall of Fame. By his second full season with the Dodgers he led the league in hits with 199 and hit 321, so it can be done. Now don't for a minute think that I'm comparing Brentz with a Hall of Famer, but with normal intelligence and a willingness to work on weaknesses the guy might turn out to be a surprise. I think if he doesn't shoot himself again and has a good start at Pawtucket this coming season me may yet get a better handle on this guy. I wouldn't give up on him just yet.
  24. seabeachfred
    The same way you do.
  25. seabeachfred
    Give me the Lester of the second part of the 2013 season, Buccholz' first half and a healthy full season, Lackey g etting more run support and still pitching well and Doubrant finally living up to his promise and coming to ST in good shape and we're ok in the starting pitching department, and I don't think anyone should dismiss Pevey either. Health is the key there and it is clear you win with starting pitching. Yes, the hitting might be weaker but I think Pedroia will be fully recovered from that finger injury and shoud hit better and I expect a big year from Napoli and Papi. That is why I keep insisting that we must keep Middlebrooks in the lineup. I think he is due for a pretty productive season and I have full confidence in Bogaerts coming through for us. With the same can-do determination we saw last season we have as good a chance to win the AL East as any team in the division. From there we know what could happen.
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