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I am with you until that very last part. Mookie is smart and he wouldn’t undercut his value that way.
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What a shame. There had been such high hopes for him.
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I hope that he is good, because we don’t have a lot of reliable arms in the pen.
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I don’t think that happened for 2 reasons: 1. Mookie is very smart and he would not eliminate one of the biggest checkbooks in baseball that he could use as bargaining power to drive up his price. 2. The Red Sox love to cover their asses with the fans so I have no doubt that after the fact that they would have disclosed that information that Mookie told them he wouldn’t be coming back.
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Keeping vs Trading is a different issue. Making a statement that Mookie was a priority to keep and then trading him only a month after the renewal date for tickets without an explanation of anything changing since his statement leads me to doubt his veracity.
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I have been at these meetings before where similar questions have been asked of Red Sox and Mets GMs. This is the first time that I have had a GM answer so unequivocally about the importance of keeping a player and then actively market him for trade and trade him before the start of the season.
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No, there are no publicly known or disclosed developments via club statement or Mookie statement after that meeting. I have said that I would like to ask Bloom the question, but with nothing on the public record after the date of the meeting, I conclude that he lied. But feel free to keep going in this absurd circle.
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There were no new developments regarding Mookie and the Red Sox that are known have occurred after Bloom declared that keeping Mookie would be a priority. So, I don’t get understand your point.
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The call was shortly after Bloom was hired. It was his introduction to the season ticket holders. And there had been statements that Betts would test Free Agency during the 2019 season. There was nothing reported that he would not consider coming back to the Red Sox. That also didn’t happen after the conference call and before the trade. That would have been incredibly stupid for Mookie to do — eliminate one of the biggest checkbooks in the sport. You never eliminate competition that can drive up your value, and Mookie is very smart. Unless Bloom says otherwise, I can safely rule out that Mookie told Bloom that he wouldn’t come back. I am sticking with Bloom being a lying sack of s***.
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I saw that too. The author probably lurks here and saw your post.
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Possibly, but I have heard nothing about any developments in this regard from the time Bloom made the statement until the date of the trade.
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Whole home generators are big sellers these days.
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I would like to ask him what efforts he made to sign Mookie after his public unequivocal pronouncement about the priority to make Mookie a lifelong Red Sox until the date that he traded Mookie. I have not seen nor heard any statements by him in that regard, and until I do, I will continue to think that he lied to our faces.
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Good point. What was I thinking.
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I am giving the lying sack of s*** a chance, but I’d rather have an honest person at the helm.
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imo, he’s a lying sack of s***. I would trade him for Ben in a heartbeat.
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i was on the call with the season ticket holders. He got a direct question and answered it very unequivocally.
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He starting changing his story after the season ticket renewal date.
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But I also maintain that Bloom is a lying sack of s***. He unequivocally told the season ticket holders that it was his top priority to make Mookie a Red Sox for life and within weeks of the ticket renewal date was putting him on the trading block. I have never seen a GM do something like that.
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Okay, I agree. It is acceptable to start the season with 2 starting pitchers. It happens all the time.
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i will always watch, but they did lose 70% of their audience according to the ratings during a pandemic when most people are stuck at home. I would put that in the category of unwatchable.
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Who said “stud” or 2 studs? He just needed to get a couple of major league competent starters to take the ball every 5 days— even a couple of Jason Vargas types would have been a major improvement. I think he had the resources to get that done.
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You make excuses for him. He leads an organization with lots of resources. If he wanted to hold the line on payroll, he could have pursued some trades. You can’t start the season with 2 starters. There is no rationalizing that away.
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Sale’s injury was known in February before play was suspended. The roster at that time had only 3 other starters — ER, Eovaldi and Perez. That is not a viable starting rotation. I posted about it at the time, and the COVID delay gave him 3 months to get add some starters. He didn’t. The staff that he started the season with was a joke. In all my years of watching the Red Sox, I have never seen them start a season with a worse starting rotation. When ER went down, we were at 2 starters and still he did nothing. It was ridiculous.
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I am giving him a chance. 2020 was an unwatchable product. And he is heading down the road of another unwatchable squad in 2021. I am waiting for him to give me something to defend. And I will admit that I have had a bad taste in my mouth, because when Bloom was introduced to the season ticket holders, he promised us that it was a top priority to keep Mookie for the length of his career. Within a month, Bloom was shopping Mookie and then traded him. I never heard that Bloom made any good faith effort to retain Mookie, so, at best his remarks that day, were very disingenuous. I used to criticize Ben plenty, but I always appreciated that he was always straight with the fans.
