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The Draft is scheduled for this coming Saturday (4/2). We have 12 teams signed up for the draft, but we need dues from a couple of teams -- Your Long Lost Pal and Thunderstruck need to pay their dues if they want to draft a team.
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He's not in panic mode. If you lit a fire under his ass, he would barely react. He is in idiot mode, which is where he has always been. I followed his Toronto teams closely, and the last 2 years in Boston were more of the same. There is no rhyme or reason to his moves and his teams run the bases like imbeciles.
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But for the cancer, I think Farrell would have been shown the door as part of a clean sweep with Ben and Larry. I would like to see Lovullo get the job, but unfortunately, we would have to collapse in April for that to happen, and none of us wants to see that.
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And where does that leave Chris Young?
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a700hitter replied to Redsoxgirl51282's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
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On slow news days, Cafardo has a habit of printing stuff that was said here first.
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I would have deployed the capital in a different manner. I never understood signing Pablo and Hanley in that off season. One of them, yes, but not both. Especially, when our starting pitching was a steaming pile of garbage.
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Cafardo probably read it here.
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I would rather the $22 million have been spent on good starting pitching. That has been the bigger need for the last 2 off seasons. That is what I think HR's contract is unecessary. We have guys who can play 1B and hit. We don't have a lot of good pitching in the organization.
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Why? He didn't take his own career serious enough to get in shape.
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And do we need a full time DH making $22 million/year? That is more than Ortiz has ever made, and he is the greatest DH in history. Full time DH's are a dying breed. Ortiz may be the last of the full time full career DH's. Also, if Hanley plays well at 1B, I think even DD will have trouble telling him to leave his glove at home. This whole line of discussion started with my post taking a shot at BC for saddling us with 2 big unnecessary contracts.
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As usual, we are arguing past each other. And Travis will have trouble getting playing time next year. If Hanley can handle 1B this year and stays healthy, Travis will have nowhere to play.
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I didn't say that he didn't do a good job. I have said that he is far better than BC. I just think you overstated the "perennial bottom dweller" aspect.
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Perennial bottom dwellers? Theo took over in 2012. In 2009, the Cubs finished 2nd, and they won their division in 2008.
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Once again, you argue in a nonresponsive manner to a post of mine .
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Pablo, Hanley, Shaw, and Travis --Four players for three positons (1B, 3B and DH). Someone is blocked, but hey if you want to exonerate Ben for the $178 million of contracts, it is your choice.
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Sale is a top 5 pitcher who the White Sox have at replacement level starter cost. He is going nowhere.
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Pablo and Hanley and $178 million are blocking Shaw and Travis.
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The second part of your post is speaking for others.
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But it is so much easier for people to disagree with you if they can place you in a box that is the creation of their own misconceptions. Surprisingly, we do not need to adhere to any ideology or philosophy to intelligently discuss to sports.
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Thanks Ben for putting $178 million of useless contracts in place to block his progress.
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But don't speak for others.
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This might light a fire under some of the other veterans. Sam Travis is waiting in the wings.
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In a word, the answer is no. My post was just an elaboration of that answer. I guess that slipped by you. And that is taking into consideration that your question is based on a false premise -- that Pablo can turn back the clock 2 or 3 years. Even if he can do that, I like Shaw's upside better.
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They are all a bunch of overpaid suits imo. Even the good ones are fungible. I don't give a hoot about any of them. Just make the right moves, boys, and give me a good team to watch.
