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Agreed that it solves nothing to bitch about the team here. I don't know that any of us think it will make a difference. We do it to vent our emotions about the team. Similarly, I don't think bitching about other posters solves anything either, but at least those who bitch about players, managers and FO personnel are not offending them because they aren't members of TalkSox. Bitching about other posters on the other hand...:dunno:

So far all he has managed to do is reamain manager-less for a month and a half and lose the greatest closer in Red Sox history. When he starts making some good moves, I'll give him his props. I am waiting.

i don't see trading our only RH power hitting threat.

What's the problem with ID'ing him? As you said, I have him on ignore so he is irrelevant to me. The truth is that I hope he stays on as Username to save me the trouble of ID'ing him under another name and putting him on ignore. If he gets himself banned it will have nothing to do with me. BTW, you defend Dutchy so much, would you like to see a psycho string of bullying intimidating pm's that he sent me while he was Imperial59? It was so over the top that i have saved it. That might give you a window into who he really is.

I have had him on ignore almost since he started posting here, so I don't engage him or read his posts. I could see from the quotes in iOrtiz posts that he was engaging in the same ridiculous cycle of escalation that I had experienced with him. Apparently Jacko has had the same suspicions. If he behaves, he'll stay, so what is the big deal. A number of us knew that jacko was Rivernator, but he has been a solid citizen since, despite being a Yankee fan. If User name is Dutchy, I think he will self-destruct as he has time after time. If he has changed his ways, good for him. I don't see his posts except when they are quoted by another poster.

Maybe they will find the perfect puppet manager and they can move forward building the roster.

If he is Dutchy, he will reveal himself. Psychos can't help themselves..

I don't see how that can be a consideration after letting Papelbon walk.

What!! No one is making moves yet. It's not even Thanksgiving. Ben the Boob is rumored to be expanding his managerial search to Japan and the far east. He wants to get the best puppet possible.

The last time that I identified Dutchy I was told it wasn't him. Then he went berserk left TalkSox to go to Sons of Sam Horn and spammed TalKSox. Very few posters here agree with me about anything. My Dutchy ID's have usually been right.:dunno:

Encourage Dutchy before his next banning.

We bludgeoned our way to the playoffs in 2005 too.

Blame the government for all of it. It's not the fault of the people making the money, which by the way, the government in their class warfare rhetoric classifies people making $250k/yr and above as rich. If you live in NY and husband and wife make $250k they can afford a 1 maybe 2 bedroom apartment, a car, and child care for the kids, because both have to work to live in NY. They don't have yachts or beach houses in the Hamptons. They are not rich. They work hard. They have little savings and they don't want to be told that enough money isn't coming out of their checks. The taxes that they want to raise are not on Warren Buffet or Bill Gates who are perfectly willing to pay them. They are talking about taxes on the couple that I just mentioned and on people with small businesses who invest their capital and spend 24/7 building small businesses that employ people in the communities. The government need to increase taxes on a broad base to have any meaningful increase in revenue. There aren't enough CEO's to make a difference in tax revenues. There have always been rich people and their always will be under any form of government. If you seized all the assets of every millionaire and a million ain't much these days, you wouldn't make even a slight dent in the national debt, so going after the rich isn't going to solve a thing. It's a diversion by politicians who point the peoples anger at the rich and then they hit them up for campaign contributions. Overinflated housing costs is the fault of who... CEO's? or government and Federal Reserve policies that kept interest rates low and mandated loans so that every American could share in the American dream whether they could afford it or not. The government is still pumping money into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to artificially inflate the housing market. They are artificially keeping interest rates low when they should be rising from the unprecedented increase in the money supply. The low interest rate are putting tremendous pressure on all financial institutions which will continue to fail if the artificially low rates continue. Crushing School debt? Whose fault is that ... the CEo's ... the rich? Why doesn't anyone protest the universities for their ridiculously expensive tuition and the ridiculous rate of inflation in school tuition when the rest of the economy is flat. What about the people who mindlessly send their kid's to colleges and incur the crushing debt for their kids to get a worthless education and worthless degree in something like History. I love history, but you ain't gonna get a job with a history degree. I spent about $120 k putting my Daughter through Northeastern Univ and that was with a $10 k per year scholarship. She had a game plan. She went into an under served field-- Chemical Engineering. She had multiple job offers when she graduated in May. Northeastern also has an excellent coop program for kids to get work experience while going to school. I refused to send her to NYU -- a better school, because she only applied to their general studies program and she was going to graduate with a worthless degree in liberal art or something. I wasn't going to pay $200 k for that. Parents incur enormous debt to send their kids to school with no game plan no strategy. I'm sorry, but that is just stupid. Would you go to a real estate broker and give him $250 k for a house without knowing anything about the house? Wouldn't you want to know where it is, how big it is, is it soundly constructed and on and on? Does anyone look at the rate of employment by new graduates of colleges as part of the process? No they don't, and the fact that they are not prepared for any profession or job when they graduate ain't my problem. It is their problem and so is their school debt. Every family has people who can' make it or who have trouble getting started. I callously call them losers. People sometimes need a cold slap of reality. In my parents and grandparents generation, huge debt wasn't incurred for the kids and those people who needed help getting through life were taken care of by their families, because they are not everyone else's problem.

and those people making profits are getting tired of supporting an increasingly large population of losers. I was at a business conference the other day and an economist was talking to us about the political dialogue in Washington. He was not a republican or a right winger. He had a very interesting observation about this country's crushing debt. he addressed the psychology of it on the population. He made the point that his father worked a long hard career, but it gave him a sense of accomplishment to save some money to be able to put a nice roof over his family's head and to help give his kids a better life with better opportunities than he had. He compared that to the empty feeling of tomorrow's working population who will be stripped of that sense of accomplishment of improving the lives of his family, because they will be working more and more to support an entitlement state for people that they don't know, leading to increasing resentment.

I think it is possible and this lineup could bludgeon its way to compete for a playoff spot. I think we need a big time acquisition for the pitching staff to make up for losing a key piece like Papelbon. Our starting rotation is already thin and now the bullpen is very very thin too.

My advice is to not bother engaging him. I'll send you a pm with more info.

I love it that people would like to get Heath Bell and give him 3 years, but they agree with Papelbon leaving. Bell is 34 and Papelbon is 30. The math doesn't add up.