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  1. a700hitter
    If Schilling sucked so bad against the Yankees, their fans would not despise him so much. Big Schill stuck it up their asses in some very memorable and painful ways.
  2. a700hitter
    His game has fallen off quite a bit, but I thought Fenway and a 1 year contract could breathe some life into him. Hopefully, he is on an exercise program this off season, because he could belly buck with Prince Fielder.
  3. a700hitter
    http://www.talksox.com/forum/talk-sox-forum/17106-sources-say-napoli-signs-sox-12.html#post814632 ^ I did give them credit for meeting their business plan.
  4. a700hitter
    I was not disagreeing with this^ at all.
  5. a700hitter
    It doesn't change my premise or conclusion.
  6. a700hitter
    Just a couple of comments on this post. First, why is it cutting it too fine to build a team to win 97 games, but picking a number like 95 is not too fine? That doesn't follow to me. Second, I for one never termed the organization's record as one of "failure". I don't think I made that characterization. However, there is plenty of evidence born out by the results that our FO was not building teams to beat the Yankees, our chief competitors. There are probably several examples of Theo saying that he didn't worry about what the Yankees were doing with moves and that it was an organizational goal to build a team that would win 95 games and be competitive. They have not demonstrated much ability to build teams to beat the Yankees. Under the new alignment that will be more important if we want to get more World Championship hardware.
  7. a700hitter
    People argued with my premise that they consciously did not plan to build the best team. That was my premise. I never said that their approach was not good enough to make the playoffs. Was the approach good enough to make the playoffs several seasons? Yes, but they weren't aiming to be the best team over the 162 game season, and they were the best team only once. Their target of 95 wins rarely would be the best record over those seasons, so IMO they were not aiming for first. People took exception to that. I stand by it. Yes, they made the playoffs, but they did not build those teams with a goal,of beating the Yankees, but rather to reach 95 wins which they should have realized had little chance of winning the Division. They pride themselves on sabremetrics. The numbers bear out that 95 wins was good enough less than 25% of the time.
  8. a700hitter
    Again, that was never my point that winning the division was the most important thing, so I am not the one taking us in the circle. A team's record over 162 games is the best gauge of how good the team is. The post season is a bit of a crapshoot. The record of our FO indicates that they have very rarely built the best team over a 162 game schedule. That's all I am saying. I am not making any argument valuing division titles over championships. I have made that clear over and over. Just making the playoffs was fine under the old alignment. Going forward, winning the division grows in importance, and our FO has shown little ability to achieve that goal.
  9. a700hitter
    The Yankees having more money is a cop out. The Sox have plenty of resources to be excellent. In one of the two seasons that the Yankees did not win the division, the Rays beat us out for the division, so money is not the reason. The 95 win target was too low IMO. It only won 3 divisions in 13 years. They used the wrong target.
  10. a700hitter
    Happy New Year to you and your family! Are you going to plan a trip to Fenway this coming season?
  11. a700hitter
    I think one of the weak points of the sabermetric approach is that it does not account for the dynamics of your opponents moves. I would build a team to be better than my competitors and let the wins come, rather than build a team based on WAR stats when your opponent has a superior team. Again, that's just me. One thing cannot be disputed, whatever approach the Yankees have taken, they have been far more successful than us.
  12. a700hitter
    My friend, you can certainly defend yourself better than I could. It's a pet peeve of mine when a poster becomes the issue and not his/her posts.
  13. a700hitter
    What a weird thing to say. If you think a person's character can be summed up by his posts on a sports discussion board, that's pretty pathetic. Maybe if you addressed my posts instead of who you think I am, your posts would be more substantive and less snarky.
  14. a700hitter
    same result. 95 wins was good enough 3 times in 13 seasons. That leads me to believe that they were building towards a target (95 wins) that the knew had less than a 25% chance of winning the division. They were aiming too low.
  15. a700hitter
    Iortiz has a body of work here that speaks for itself. I can see no reason for you to make that statement other than to denigrate him. Please explain yourself. what did you mean by posting this? I think you need to be real.
  16. a700hitter
    Since 2002, 95 wins was good enough to top the league only once. It was good enough for the second best record two other times. Perhaps, their goal wasn't ambitious enough. I would build a team to be better than my competitors, not to achieve a target number of wins which is likely to fall short of being the best record or even the second best record in the league, but that's just me.
  17. a700hitter
    ^ I guess the first sentence of your post is also meant not to denigrate him? Too funny.
  18. a700hitter
    Well, pointless snark doesn't prove any intelligence. As for denigrating, BSN's post, it was denigrating.
  19. a700hitter
    we would be better off giving up our first round pick, because it rarely amounts to anything.
  20. a700hitter
    I think there is going to be a flurry of activity very soon. There are a lot of players left unsigned and a lot of teams have holes to fill. There are only 6 week until pitchers and catchers report. This week might be quiet, but then the chips will start falling rapidly. I hope that they have resolved the Napoli issue by then.
  21. a700hitter
    Iortiz likes LaRoche, not Lee;)
  22. a700hitter
    And there isn't anything in those scouting reports that indicates that any of them is ready to crack a big league rotation in 2013.
  23. a700hitter
    Guilty. Now move on to baseball.
  24. a700hitter
    If you think about, I am the one giving the FO credit. I am saying that they have finished second to the Yankees several years because they didn't aim to beat them. I am giving them credit for accomplishing their business plan. You, on the other hand, are saying that they have tried every year to beat the Yanks. If that is true, then they are bigger failures than I thought, because they have beaten the Yanks twice and won 1 division.
  25. a700hitter
    Iortiz is a very smart guy. What can I say? He lis usually right about most basball issues, so we agree alot. I agree with him just as often as he agrees with me. Maybe I am the one who should be criticized. The times that I dont agree with him I am usually wrong. Iortiz knows baseball and the Red Sox. You guys should be ashamed to denigrate him when he is smarter than both of you with half of his brain tied behind his back.
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