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I think Bard has a hard time being objective about his performance. After his last start last season before he was sent down to the minors, he thought he just needed to make some adjustments before his next start. He had completely imploded as a starter, but he thought he just needed some tinkering.
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Bard had a rough outing again today: It looks like the winter off didn't help him reset anything. He's just as lost now as was in September.
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They are in trouble now. I'll say that before the season starts. It's just not a well-constructed team. The strength is its bullpen if it doesn't get overused. The first series in the context of their season is meaningless, but if they lose to a decimated Yankee squad, the fandom will tend to say, "here we go again." If we beat the Yankees, there will be excitement and false hope. I could use some excitement and false hope after the several slow starts we have had in recent years.
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No one said anything close to this.^ I was talking about fan interest, not the team's 2013 chances. Nothing is better at generating interest in the Red Sox than beatng the Yankees, and it is equally demoralizing to lose to them. Fans are already demoralized after last season and the prior September collapse. Only winning will get the fans interest back. A fast start, especially against the Yankees, would get the fans pumped. BTW, whether they start fast or slow, this team's chances at the playoffs are not good. If they start fast, they might get back some fan interest until they eventually fall out of the race.
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They need to come out of the gate fast this season. If they stumble at the start like they have done for the last few seasons, they will lose an opportunity to spark some interest in this otherwise non-compelling, boring group of mid-level players and below. We are getting the Yankees at a very low and weakened point-- no Tex, ARod, Grandy or Jeter. Taking 2 out of 3 or sweeping would go a long way toward generating some excitement. If they let the likes of Youkilis and Overbay beat us, they fans will barely acknowledge that the season has started.
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Just because Loshe is a worse contract than Dempster doesn't convince me that Dempster was a good or helpful acquisition.
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Career minor leaguer. Plays all 4 IF positions poorly-- a utility bum.
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Me too. I hope my wife makes some sausage with the lasagna tonight.
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Very true. Sausage making is not an interesting read. All of us here surely prefer baseball to hot dogs. Since baseball interests us so much, we analyze it more than we analyze the hot dog, so we probably are a better judge of baseball than the hot dog business.
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We don't need to know how to run a baseball team. We compare the finished product whether it be a baseball team or a hot dog and we know which organizations make the better product. You don't need to understand or see the sausage making process to know if the product is good or bad. Good organizations make winning baseball teams and good sausage companies make tasty sausage. That's all we need to know. I don't like hot dogs with chicken or too much filler. I know that. I also know that the Red Sox starting pitching has no depth.
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That's because you probably don't have a discriminating palate. Most people who have eaten enough hot dogs can tell if the hot dog is beef vs. chicken, if it has too much filler etc. Most people know enough to know why they don't like the hot dog. They don't need to know the finances of the business or their labor issues to know what is f***ed up about the hot dog.
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i am a bit odd.
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You probably don't know how to run a hot dog manufacturing business either, but you know the difference between a hot dog that tastes good and one that doesn't taste good.
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Official Talksox Fantasy Baseball 2013
a700hitter replied to Sox Fan on Cape's topic in Contests/Prizes
I had another in person draft, I couldn't make this draft. My son drafted for me. I think he did a pretty good job. -
The Yankees will sign him by the opening series and he will be playing against us. He will be an upgrade for the Yankees.
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It will help, but Lackey puts far too many balls in play for those upgrades to make much of a difference. It will also not defend against 4 -5 walks that Doubs gives up per game and the 5 wlaks per 9 innings by Hanrahan. We gave up the 4th most walks in the league in 2012. The Defense can't do anything about that or the fact that we gave up the 3rd most HRs.
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Holt is an inferior fielder and not a big offensive guy either. We are all waiting on this kid Bogaerts to see if he will be a bona fide star. A slick fielding SS with a barely adequate ML stick (i.e Iggy) is not something that I would call "riches". The other guys are so far away from making a run at the ML club that we really don't know what they are. People have to get excited about something I guess when there is so little that is interesting about this team.
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The Japanese National Treasure has turned out to be fools gold and his gyroball was merely a myth.
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So, you can't go on record for yourself, but you can go on record for what I will think in a year. Such an arrogant twit, especially since I am on record saying not to burn a year of eligibility when this team is going nowhere. Isn't that what you are advocating... that they don't burn a year of control?
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So, you are on record that you think this is a blunder? I think it is somewhat foolish, because this team doesn't have a chance in 2013. Why screw up a year of control for nothing. However, if the Sox finish last again in 2013, Cherries will be gone long before 2019.
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Thank goodness that went longer have Beckett. Wells used to beat the tar out of Beckett whether Wells was having a good or bad year.
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The players are accountable on the spot. They get a hit, make an out, make an error, etc. How much more accountable can they be held? Unless they are simply not trying, there is no reason to give them accountability beyond their stats. IMO, the players try their best. Sometimes the players aren't good enough. That's really not their fault. They are limited by their talent which the FO and the scouts are paid to evaluate.
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The best players in the World are not at the tournament, so the title is meaningless. The DR can celebrate all they want. Bragging rights only mean something if the people you are bragging to give a s***.
