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  1. a700hitter
    It is just ridiculous, that Cherry Pie is going around making $5 million dollars offers for 1 season. Is that the standard stipend to be paid by the Sox going forward?
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    When you look at the moves made by the Sox this off season thus far, I don't know how anyone can conclude that Benny Boy did much of anything. He inherited a team with a few holes. He has filled none of the holes and created a hole at SS.
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  5. a700hitter
    I agree. Such an approach is penny-wise and pound foolish. One more pitcher makes this a very strong team. Without that additional piece, they will be rolling the dice that a lot of things will go right. If those things don't go right and the team misses the playoffs for a 3rd straight season, it will damage the franchise. They have created this tremendous brand that has excellence as one of its hallmarks. Not making the playoffs three years in a row would hurt the brand.
  6. a700hitter
    It is always difficult to pick up a productive starter at the trading deadline. The price in terms of prospects and talents is usually disproportionate to the 2 months of service being purchased. If they go to a second wild card team, it will be even more difficult because several more team will consider themselves as contenders and there will be more buyers than sellers.
  7. a700hitter
    Why must you make everything a referendum on whether the FO is stupid? We can discuss their moves and the team without discussing their intelligence. The smartest people are not always the best business people.
  8. a700hitter
    The Yankees are a much deeper team than the Sox. The Sox could get some break out performance -- namely from Bard and good health and they could make a run at the division. I haven't made my fearless predictions yet because I am hoping that our roster isn't final. When pitchers and catchers report, I'll make my predictions.
  9. a700hitter
    Of course Bobby V is happy with the pitching. Did you see the crap staffs that he had with his prior teams. He thinks trhat he died and went to heaven.
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    I think the players' agents just keep throwing our name out there trying to drive up the price for other teams. I think we are just getting used. Have there been any reports of Ben and LL meeting with either of these pitchers? If you want these guys, you sit down with them and try to get their name on a contract. I don't think the Sox want either of them. They are not acting like they are interested, unless this stuff has been top secret. Nolan Ryan met with Oswalt and Oswalt's wife. That's what happens when a team is interested.
  13. a700hitter
    But why bother going through this charade?
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  15. a700hitter
    If Boras had any decent multi-year offers, Jackson would have signed. You can't believe anything you read about a Boras client. If the Sox are out, who are these other teams clamoring for his services?
  16. a700hitter
    This one looked like it would be right up Cherrie's alley.
  17. a700hitter
    Like i said, he wasn't exactly Yaz down the stretch. If he had a couple of key hits in some of those games, maybe we'd be hoisting a banner in April. Please don't take it as it was an it AGon's fault post. The fact is in that stretch, no one stepped up. They all failed and it wasn't just the pitchers that stunk in those last 15 games. It was a group non-effort.
  18. a700hitter
    They are really being ridiculous this offseason. I don't know if you have ever sold a car privately. People come to your house, test drive the car and then offer you something ridiculously low. You'd get more money for the car if you put a match to it. They waste your time. Ben's wasting his time this offseason.
  19. a700hitter
    The worst of all outcomes is that he wins the hearing for $16.5 million and then pouts because they criticized him.
  20. a700hitter
    I can't access the link. It's blocked at work. Did jackson sign with someone?
  21. a700hitter
    I understand what you are saying about retyping. I get it. But, I really don't care about anything he has to say. BTW: The comment about him choking was a tangential comment made when I was making an entirely different point. If UN is going to comment on the tangential stuff without addressing the main point, he should at least be right about it. If you saw the stats I posted about AGon's performance in 7 games against that Rays and Yanks at the end, he did really bad. In fact in the last 4 series of the season, he hit well only in the home series against Baltimore. In the other 11 games, he had 2 RBI total, i.e he choked.
  22. a700hitter
    Neither do I.
  23. a700hitter
    BTW: In the last series against the Rays and the Yankees in that final stretch, AGon went 0 for the Rays (12 ABs) with 1 RBI in 4 games (all losses) and 2 for 12 against the Yankees with 1 RBI. Not exactly Yaz in 1967 during a pitching dominated era.
  24. a700hitter
    The whole choking comment was not the point of my post. It was just residual bitterness over the collapse. The point was that AGon's contract is not that much better than Tex's and Tex didn't cost the organization's top pitcher and hitter too.
  25. a700hitter
    I have him on ignore for a reason. Please respect that. If you want to challenge what I say, go ahead as you have done in the past, but please don't quote him for me to see.
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