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The rumor re Price didn't even ballpark the salary relief. That is not even a rumored a plan.

At least with the Lindor ruling, the Dodger fans had a targeted player to be acquired. The rumors about Price didn't contemplate us getting any talent in return except possibly a broken down Wil Myers. Isn't Allen Craig available?

Unfortunately, we are just guessing. All we know is that he hasn't begun to execute any plan as the calendar turns to 2020. As for Betts getting traded, that would be a tough swallow for him as he has made repeated statements that the Red Sox will make every effort to keep Betts long term. I don't see it happening.

Those rumors were so vague and there were no interesting names coming back our way. They seemed to be very unserious speculation.

I really can’t think of anyone here recommending spending. Moves would be nice. If they are going to sell, then sell. If he is going to stand pat and build around the edges, then do that. It would just be nice to see some sign of life or of a plan. I haven’t seen anyone advocating spending.

Your generalizations are nonsensical.

What do you think?

Quick Hits: Cishek, Red Sox, Cubs, Guardians December 29th, 2019 at 10:38am CST • By Anthony Franco We’ll highlight a couple notes from around the league to kick off Sunday morning. Veteran reliever Steve Cishek, a Cape Cod native, “would like” to sign with the Red Sox, hears Peter Gammons of the Athletic (Twitter link). Cishek is among the top relief arms remaining in a generally weak free agent class for late-game options. The 33-year-old submariner compiled a dazzling 2.55 ERA in 134.1 innings over the last two years with the Cubs. However, his age and a pedestrian combination of strikeouts (24.3%) and walks (10.3%) over that time figure to tamp down his market. The MLBTR staff forecast a modest two-year, $10MM deal for Cishek at the start of the offseason.

The Dodgers have reportedly been interested in blockbuster moves like acquiring Lindor. The Red Sox are not even registering anything interesting in. The rumor mill.

And you are an authority on the thinking of everyone in the fan base. Get over yourself.

Failure to launch by the small market guy finding himself in a big market organization.

So, the Plan is failing already?

Another day of nothing from this jackass. If he isn't going to make any moves, they will not have a successful 2020, so what is the point of keeping all that payroll?

Aye.

Merry Christmas fellow Red Sox fanatics and all others who post on TalkSox.

Bloomin Onion appears to have no plan to assemble a competitive roster for 2020.

I predict that in 2020 Price will win 17 games and pitch to an ERA under 3.50 with around 200 k's.

This sounds like a crazy situation. I wonder why she didn't just bring the bag back to their car.

Just you opinion or have you seen a reported rumor?

Bloom is a small market guy. He needs to acclimate faster than this.

And they are losing ticket sales.

As I said, it has been 10 years since I worked there, but I still know people who work in LIC. I realize that there has been a lot of development since then. I don't think they have changed the drop-off spot for Rikers Island releases that had been on Queens Blvd. The official Board of Corrections bus did the drop off at 5 am, but if for some reason they missed that bus, they took a city bus that let them off in the same spot during working hours. While I was working there, we got a number of memos about criminal activity around our building -- a shooting that killed a nurse at the Dunkin Donuts in the early morning hours, another shootout that resulted in a bullet going through the window of our employee gym, a cop stabbed in the eye at the elevated train station on a weekend. To allay our fears, the employer told us that NYPD had informed them that most of the criminality occurred from 11 pm to 5 am and that it was safe during normal business hours. We had an applicant who interviewed with us who left a jacket behind and called to ask if we could just mail it to her, because she didn't want to come back to LIC. I made a job offer to an attorney who accepted, and a couple of days later her employment agent called to inform me that she was rejecting the offer because of the neighborhood. We couldn't attract talent at that location and had to move back to Manhattan.

That would be me.

You are probably already wearing a winter coat when it is sunny and 65 degrees. LOL!

LIC? What Street? How often do you go there? I worked there for 10 years.