His k's per 9 and other numbers were starting to decline. His command was slipping too. ...And I am talking about the entire season... not just the last month.
Wow, it's been a couple of months since you have been on this kind of sugar high. SFF, don't get your hopes up on this kid. You'll just be setting yourself up for heartache and devastation.
and EnRon was a 5 star stock on everyone's buy list. That was a publicly traded company with all sorts of disclosure requirements and no one saw the trouble. Relatively speaking, almost nothing is disclosed about the financial health of a baseball franchise.
Rush Limbaugh--- just to see the heads of liberals explode all over New England. The mass deaths that would occur in MA would help make Social Security, Medicare and Romney Care solvent.
They have damaged the brand tremendously in the last 2 years. If their intent was to capitalize on the 100th year anniversary and then sell the team, they must be kicking themselves at this time. They should have sold 2 years ago when the franchise was at its highest value. TV ratings are down The secondary market for their tickets has evaporated which will reverberate to the primary market next season. There will be no rush to buy tickets next year. If they are truly looking to sell the team, they will either keep the payroll low and sell very quickly, or they will look to make one or two splashy acquisitions to gin up fan interest. Either way, they will not be looking to build for the future.
And now the mega trade makes sense. They were trimming expenses to make the balance sheet look more attractive. It was not done for payroll flexibility to rebuild the roster. Hopefully, they will sell quickly and get an ownership group in here that does more than pay lip service to winning.
And I think our FO was counting on that gimmick to keep the 2012 team competitive, but we just were so bad that we couldn't stay competitive since July.
Yes, the Phillies got back to .500 yesterday, and that overpaid closer, whats-his-name, has a win and a save on Sunday and a save yesterday. He sucks. The Phillies, unlike the Red Sox, are making a run.