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  1. a700hitter
    I think we can expect half season Buch.
  2. a700hitter
    It will not be later than the All Star Break.
  3. a700hitter
    I have you and others who do that. No need for me to intercede. Edit: Plus, I really didn't notice anyone calling anyone else a derogatory name.
  4. a700hitter
    Stop with the name-calling jack-hole.
  5. a700hitter
    Correction, he is our number 2 until mid or late June.
  6. a700hitter
    I am still holding out hope that DD gets another top pitcher in a trade.
  7. a700hitter
    If DD bets on Porcello as his number 2, he is in deep doo doo.
  8. a700hitter
    My signature contains my final statement on the issue.
  9. a700hitter
    Billionare puppet.
  10. a700hitter
    That was my good laugh for the day. Thanks Pete!
  11. a700hitter
    But he was a snappy dresser.
  12. a700hitter
    Not enough according to his bosses who fired him.
  13. a700hitter
    The irrelevant horse fossil.
  14. a700hitter
    Whether we give him a pass or not is irrelevant. The owners did not give him a pass and fired him. The notion that the fans drove him out of town is beyond absurd. Ownership fired him after giving him a pass on 2014. I am willing to put him in the past, because that is where he is in Red Sox history. He has to his his credit a World Championship of which he can be proud, but he is also the holder of certain ignominious records during his GM tenure. It is no longer about him. Future accomplishments of the team will not be attributed to him in any official manner. His legacy is one for message board debate and it is one that will take some time to develop, so let's wish him well and move on.
  15. a700hitter
    it isn't black and white, but the be only people who know the inner workings of the dynamics at the executive level in the FO are the people involved. Apparently, JH and ownership felt that Ben wasn't doing the job. I don't think they would have fired him if he had opposed the bad moves and was responsible for the good moves. I don't think they would be so petty. If they had a pattern of rejecting Ben's recommendations which had turned out to be correct, I think he would still be here and owners would be listening more closely to his recommendations.
  16. a700hitter
    it is pretty difficult to spend what he spent and have a staff ERA that hovered around 5 for most of the season.
  17. a700hitter
    That it happened 2 years in a row makes it a pattern, not an enigma.
  18. a700hitter
    Wisdom was his hallmark along with last place. Other Red Sox GM's have won World Series, but no Red Sox GM has finished last 3 times and I don't think any GM in baseball took the second highest payroll in the league to last place twice in a row.
  19. a700hitter
    No one would ever expect $184 million roster to be so bad, but it was. And he did the unthinkable two seasons on a row. Very hard to do.
  20. a700hitter
    Spending that much and finishing last has to be unprecedented.
  21. a700hitter
    I agree. It is far more difficult to spend $184 million and finish dead last two years in a row.
  22. a700hitter
    Napoli signed with the Guardians. The Guardians have done very little so far this off season. I think Napoli is a pretty shot player.
  23. a700hitter
    Iwakuma's deal with the Dodgers has fallen through due to his medicals.
  24. a700hitter
    If you get tired of the same old arguments, why do you keep rolling them out. The guy got fired. He rolled out rosters that were steaming piles of crap in 3 of his 4 years at the helm. He left the organization without top quality pitching. He got fired -- yes fired except for those in fantasy land- because he wasn't doing a good job. Keep arguing his greatness.
  25. a700hitter
    A Three team blockbuster trade:
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