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I stand corrected.
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Sox to hire Alex Cora as manager
a700hitter replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Hopefully, he told Price to stop being a dick and let his talent do the talking. -
There was an announcement that he had a serious illness was made very shortly before he died. I didn't see that release until after he died.
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My nephew sent me a photo of Flores facing my Great Nephew last February. In the photo, Flores looked to be a big kid, physically very mature. He told me that DD was there to sign the kid. They were very high on him. Just so tragic.
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Tragic
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Sox to hire Alex Cora as manager
a700hitter replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
desperate for what? He has one of the biggest payrolls in the game and he has been handed the keys. Just a dumb name. It conveys nothing. It's a lame insult. Daring Dave is clearly not an insulting nickname, but it isn't a bad nickname. -
Sox to hire Alex Cora as manager
a700hitter replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Desperate Dave is such a lame nickname. There are so many better options. Dumbass Dave, Dave the Dope, Dave Dunce, Douchey Dave and on and on. Desperate? WTH? It sucks. -
What adds up is that going into his third year since being fired, no one has offered Basement Benny a GM job. That speaks volumes.
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People are not in denial about the cost of these trades, if any, to the future, but none among us is Nostradamus. We have no idea of intervening transactions or draft classes over the next several years, so we have no basis to predict doom. Every deal has cascading effects, but countermeasures and adjustments will be taken and made. The quality of those decisions is what will define the future success of the team.
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I enjoyed the hell out of 2013. I was miserable with Ben when we were in last place. You might have liked the utter futility of being out of a pennant race by the end of April, but I didn't, and the prospect of getting a high draft pick didn't buoy my spirits at all. Edit: Ben showed no ability to build a good pitching staff. When he left the organization, it was almost entirely bereft of pitching talent. I wasn't predicting doom under Ben. We were living in doom. As for your lack of optimism about 2021- 2022, you have no solid basis for that lack of optimism except your fatalistic outlook. You have no clue what our major league roster or minor system will be like that far down the road. Sorry, but I am not buying into you being the Baseball Nostradamus. I don't buy into Nostradamus.
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How can you count on Kendrick and Pedey not being on the DL at the same time. Kendrick always seems to miss big chunks of every season.
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Sorry I don't know your feelings but you seem to be fatalistic. That is my take on you. Maybe I am wrong, but that is the impression that you leave. If it is wrong, maybe you need to better communicate your upbeat attitude.
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A cliff that may be 3 to 5 years down the road is no more meaningful to me than 7-8 years down the road for our next prominence after a rebuild. We have no control over any of this, not even next season, but at least we have a good deal of knowledge about current available free agents, trade targets, and prospects so we can engage in conjecture with a higher probability that our conjecture might become reality next season than if we are discussing player transactions 3-5 years down the road. Any projections that far down the road have such a minutely remote probability of being accurate that I don't consider it to be a realistic valid concern. I consider it to be a fatalistic outlook --pure speculation based on extremely flimsy evidence. That is just me.
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I was responding to your post. My thoughts on overall negative outlook among Boston fans were not directed at you, but if you are telling me that the shoe fits, then I will respond directly to you. You made it about you.
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I am looking forward to some new toys before Thanksgiving. With DD, it is hard to predict what he might do, but it should be something big. He will not wait around and get paralysis like Ben would do.
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It wasn't directed at you, so don't make it about you. I don't pretend to know what you think. I am just identifying what I interpret as a negative outlook by many people. This cliff was being identified as we were rebuilding into a competitor. The warnings started with the acquisition of Kimbrel and exacerbated with the acquisition of Sale. I enjoyed the heck out of watching those guys pitch this year annihilating opposing hitters. While they pitched, I was never concerned about impending cliffs although I might have thought that it will be great to watch these guys pitch for another couple of years. I think that fearing a cliff is an unduly alarmist outlook. Maybe I am just not as forward thinking as you are, or maybe you aren't forward thinking enough. It would be more positive if you looked further into the future to anticipate the success of our next rebuild.
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I don't think you are positive at all. Free agent signings of top talent makes you shudder and you live in fear of looming cliffs. That is not positive thinking. As for the new hitting coach hire, I have no clue who this guy is. What is his resume as a hitter and hitting coach?
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Before we climbed out of the abyss people were predicting doom. That is extreme alarmist behavior. There are up and down cycles for sports franchises. No one stays on top forever, but to be worried about impending doom as your team is starting on the upswing is a fatalist viewpoint to which I can't relate. Feel free to go on being miserable. As I stated, my post was not directed at any poster, but at a negative fatalistic outlook.
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He did a horrible job at that. In the end it was a very expensive and wasteful rebuild.
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Agreed. We have a young team with a ton of talent. We just need one top long ball hitter going forward.
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We win the Division is 2 consecutive years, which has not been done in anyone's lifetime on TS and people are looking to fire DD and predicting looming cliffs and last place finishes. It is no wonder why players have to be paid a premium to come to Boston. Lunacy. We have climbed up from the Abyss and the team is going in the opposite direction away from the cliff. Some people can't stand success and revel in failure. This is not aimed at any poster or posters, just at a completely negative outlook that many fans seem to have.
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I'd prefer to trade Price at some point during his contract, maybe to get back a big bat. In order for that to happen, Price would have to have a full healthy season in 2018 and Price would have to elect to not opt out.
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I don't see that happening. Anyone better than him will cost more than him. I doubt that he opts out unless he is fairly certain that he can get more money, so that would mean that the market is up.
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It's amazing that we sign one of the top talented starting pitchers in the game and fans want him to win the Cy Young so that he can opt out of his contract. Insanity. Then we can replace him with an inferior pitcher for more money.
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And no one on this board, not even bosoxmal, can remember back to back first place finishes. It is so ridiculous that people are calling for the head of a GM who has had two first place finishes in his first two seasons, especially while singing the praises of a guy that put us through 3 brutal last place finishes in 4 years. It is beyond stupid, bordering on mental illness.
