a700hitter
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It looks like the lack of pitching depth will an issue from the beginning. Thank goodness opening day doesn't matter.
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The problem with developing Bard in place is that if it takes him a year to develop, we will lose control of him almost immediately. This is not a case of developing a kid (and riding out the growing pains) who will be under the organizations control for a few years.
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Bridge year? The problem that I have with developing Bard as a starter is that he will be coming up on free agency around the time that he establishes himself as a good starter. I really hate developing guys for other teams.
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It took more than 40 years to replace Dick "the Monster" Radatz. Maybe this time it will only take 20 years.
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We get it. You hate Papelbon, but 9th innings will be miserable without him.
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It doesn't sound like the Sox are convinced that it is minor.
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Okay, you win. Opening Day doesn't matter. None of the games matter. I never said that Opening Day 2011 was the only reason why we did n't make the playoffs, but the fact is if they had won that game... If you notice, I didn't say that you were wrong that if we had won game 162 we would have been in the playoffs. The last game was just as important as the first. And when you lose by 1 game, they are all equally important. They all matter.
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Of course they are not trying to stop. They overpaid for Ortiz this year and last year. They just keep making the wrong decisions.
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and you can't say opening day doesn't matter.
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That's right, but yet so many people are willing to conclude that he didn't want to stay. I guess the allure of the bright lights of Philadelphia was too much to ignore.
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It's interesting that UN keeps directing comments toward me even though I don't see his posts. I guess it is probably lost on him that it is impossible to ignore A700Hitter.:harhar:
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2012 Red Sox Spring Training Game Thread
a700hitter replied to yeszir's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
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and Mo blew a World Series game 7 in 2001. I shudder to think what Boston fans would have thought of Papelbon if he had ever done that. Yankee fans, at least, realized they had greatness in their midst.
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We have plenty of overpaid guys on the Sox. It's a long list. If people want to argue that papelbon is overpaid, I will not even counter the argument, but don't act like we don't have a boatload of guys who aren't overpaid, and some of them are very under-performing. I would have preferred that the Sox have decided to overpay Papelbon, who I think has plenty left in his tank instead of making the decision to overpay any of the following: Lackey Ortiz Crawford
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It counts as much as any other game. If we had won on opening day in 2011, the Sox would have been in the playoffs.
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It's too bad as an ardent Red Sox fan that you can't appreciate the career of the best closer in team history. I realize that you have a good deal of Papelbon hate. You can build on that as his is putting up saves for the next 5 years for another premier franchise on the east coast.
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On opening day, we will not have a closer.
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It doesn't make the opposing point of view "tinfoil".
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The teams best DH is 36. Papelbon is 30. I would have preferred that Ortiz had been cut loose and Papelbon stayed and been overpaid.
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That's not the argument. You said a poster was wearing a tinfoil hat for being concerned about one or both of these relics coming to camp. I am just pointing out the sequence of events. The Sox offered them both minor league contracts. Neither player declined the offer until after camp opened. They announced their retirement after receiving very clear indications from Bobby V that neither would make the team. Spin that however you want.
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I don't usually insult you, but on this you are nut. He is the best closer in team history. Period end of story.
