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  1. a700hitter
    People who think that we can get Sonny Gray or Matt Harvey or Strasburg without giving up Betts, Bogaerts or Swihart are not being realistic. If we don't go the FA route, people will have to stomach losing one of those three guys.
  2. a700hitter
    Middle infielder potential? It's hard to gauge his mobility in those slippers.
  3. a700hitter
    Last place is just first place upside down.
  4. a700hitter
    Hey, SFF good to see you. Did you get to Fenway this season?
  5. a700hitter
    I think you are borrowing trouble. If he is performing well in the first two years, will you be actively worried about the back end of his contract? I like to live in the moment when it come to sports. That is just me. I am not criticizing you for worrying about the future. Different strokes. I save my worries for my real life. Baseball is fun for me, and if the idiot owners want to throw around their money like it is Monopoly money, that is their business and their worries. The financial aspect of sports is so far out of hand that average people just can't relate to it. I am not worried about the Red Sox running out of money or going out of business. They will find a way to be very profitable, and they have a huge advantages and resources compared to other franchises, so I am not worried about them crippling the team with bad contracts. And really, how much worse could they do than 3 last place finishes.
  6. a700hitter
    I enjoyed the heck out of that World Championship. It was a dream come true to be at game 6 (even better that it was free), but I do shudder at the last place finishes.
  7. a700hitter
    i knew you would appreciate the humor.
  8. a700hitter
    Two ******* posts in a row. Go for three and win a prize. Lol!
  9. a700hitter
    So did you shudder at Pedro's contract or not? You are talking out of both sides of your mouth. If you would sign the guy and like having him on the team, what are you shuddering about. Just enjoy getting a great player to watch. I just don't get the shuddering thing. It just seems fatalistic to me. Not very optimistic.
  10. a700hitter
    Three last place finishes in four years is a golden shower.
  11. a700hitter
    I love the team and the players, but the GM did a terrible job and suffered the consequences. Good luck to him getting a GM job in the future. He didn't exactly cover himself in glory. It is very unusual for the Red Sox to fire its GM. Duke got fired as part of a regime change. Other than ownership changes, I can't remember when the Red Sox fired its GM. Criticism of the GM is not criticism of the team in my view.
  12. a700hitter
    If Papi gets 500-600 PAs this year, doesn't he vest for another year? I wouldn't be surprised if he plays 2 more years. If he does, then we signed HanRam for 4 years to take over DH in the last year of his contract. That is not a wise move in my opinion if that was the strategy.
  13. a700hitter
    Talk about evading an answer! If you shudder at all long term contracts, and since you didn't deny that Pedro's and Manny's contracts made you shudder, I would have to conclude that those contracts also made you shudder. If that is the case, fair enough. From day one of those acquisitions, I enjoyed every minute of watching those guys play, and I am glad that Duke had the balls to pull the trigger on those deals.
  14. a700hitter
    If he stinks from day one without being injured or because he didn't want to play in Boston or for some other reason that should have been discovered during due diligence, that would be a true enigma, and no one would be to blame. And the chances of that are less than one tenth of one percent (.001)
  15. a700hitter
    So you shuddered at the 8 year contract for Manny Ramirez and the 6 year contract for Pedro?
  16. a700hitter
    He will only stink if he is injured or he just doesn't want to play in Boston. The FO needs to do it it's due diligence on those issues. If he is healthy, he is not going to stink. That is not going to happen. He will perform in the early years, but age and wear and tear might result in underperformance in the later years of the contract. That would not be unexpected.
  17. a700hitter
    A funny prick. You get me.
  18. a700hitter
    Let's go Mets! In the ALCS, I like Toronto.
  19. a700hitter
    What price for Price wouldn't make you shudder?
  20. a700hitter
    It's your wacky pessimistic hypothetical. You tell us how you will react. The only thing that I am somewhat sure of is that I will be happy if they sign Price.
  21. a700hitter
    Wow, what a pessimist!
  22. a700hitter
    I know that McClain was a thief, but I thought he went to jail for looting a pension fund. I didn't know that he ran a bookie operation while still playing.
  23. a700hitter
    Second guessing is the right and province of the fan. We can't be fired. Speaking for myself, if we get a couple or 3 years of good performance from a player, I am good with that even if they stink at the end of their contract, but if we sign a guy for big bucks who is a bust on day 1, I will blame the FO.
  24. a700hitter
    LOL! But they would love not having to face him.
  25. a700hitter
    I am just speaking for myself. I am just a fan. I don't pretend to jibber jabber about budgetary matters other than my own. If the rest of you want to get involved in a micro-analysis of the team's finances, go right ahead if you find enjoyment in that. At the macro- level, $189 million for a last place team is an overpay. As for whether Kimmi will shudder if Price gets a $160 million deal from the Red Sox, you would have to ask her. I would not.
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