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Published height and weight is usually fictional. Panda at his fattest is a good 40lbs bigger than Gwynn-- buy my eye test.

They would still have lots of obstacles. Once they move out of Fenway, they would lose the tourist money. A lot of people come to see the venerable old ballpark. That is a factor in their decision. It is why people keep coming to Wrigley. It's not the Cubs that are drawing them in. If you are a baseball fan, even casually, you have to go to Wrigley when you visit Chicago. If the Sox move to the burbs, attendance would drop like a stone if they field garbage like they did in 2014.

Gwynn was pudgy and soft, but Panda has about 40 lbs on Gwynn easily. The pounding on the joints is exponential as the weight increases.

Boston politics is too corrupt for them to get it done in our lifetime.

When you see Big Papi in person, you realize that he is not fat. He is just a big strong man. Even at his heaviest, he never had a gut like Panda. The knees give out prematurely on the overweight players, e.g. CC, Mo Vaughn.

In my experience, these tools, methods etc. are usually pretty costly. Consultants need to be engaged to train personnel etc. IMO, the money expended on these budget items would be better spent to poach other organizations' top scouts. These flavor of the day MBA ideas end up being copycat-ed by the competition so any edge is very, very short-lived. Businesses should invest in their most basic fundamentals. Never mind providing the scout with state of the art software. Get the best scouts. That's the way to go. That is the out of the box thinking. I have heard "out of the box" thinking preached for years, and then everyone does the same thing as the competition. This "neuroscouting' will be new and innovative for a very short period. No one is advocating that teams just go with an "eye test". In today's high tech world, there are people in nursing homes with cell phones and the internet. Technology is part of our world. What I am advocating is that human talent is more of a lasting advantage than any technological or analytical break through. Let the others waste their money on the trial and error of most of that. You can use it after it has been vetted and established. Some people would think that this is not forward-thinking. I disagree. If you get the best possible human talent at all levels of your organization, they will be able to better differentiate which break throughs are game changers and true advancements as opposed to passing fads. Let others invent the light bulb. I'd rather have the best organization for manufacturing it after it is invented. But that's just me... someone who has very successfully survived in business and seen many many of these things come and go.

It's a scouting tool meant to improve the performance of the scouting. Without researching this, I will bet that it came from some elite MBA program. As I said, I have seen these ideas come and go. Some of these fads can last for a long time, but they have little lasting positive impact on business. My personal favorite was when my Company hired a Corporate Ethicist (from Harvard I think) to give affirmation to a group of executives who had made some very poor business decisions. The ethicist (paid around $500k in the mid 1990's for this project) concluded that despite the fact that management's decisions had very negatively impacted the bottom line of the business they had acted in an ethically impeccable manner. Nonsensical rationalization is what the report was.

When your weight provides comedy material for Lettermen, it isn't a good thing for an athlete.

Neuroscouting? -- I.e. The flavor of the day. It is a way for baseball executives to try to differentiate themselves from the pack while playing barely .500 ball and missing the playoffs. In my 30 years of business I have seen many new Wharton/Harvard MBA business analytics and management tools with catchy names and acronyms come and go. They almost never improve performance or efficiency, except on a very temporary basis. The only people who profit from these ideas are the consultants who sell it to the exceutives. The consultants, not coincidently, are the same people that publish books on this stuff, and the books are profitable solely because they have a captive market -- their MBA students. It's mumbo jumbo.

It's nice to see that Panda arrived in Camp in top shape.

MVP = Fenway Hater

From MLB Trade Rumors:

The Yankee fans started "Boston Sucks" thing in 1976. I think it started the night of the brawl involving Bill Lee and that prick Nettles. Some guys from my high school claimed responsibility for starting that trend. Sox fans didn't go straight into the gutter with retaliation. That first year there were some shirts and bumper stickers that was a parody of NY's "I Love NY" travel advertisement. The stickers and shirts said "I love NY. It's the Yankees I hate."

You know all the tricks. On Sundays, I park on the street by one of the Northeastern dorms on Forsyth street. You don't have to feed the meters on Sunday. I have been reading your posts with great interest. You mention going to Shea Stadium and the Polo Grounds. Are you from NY? We must be pretty close in age. I wish that I had seen Ebbets Field.

Another clue, please.

Don't worry about it yet. This post was just me bein g sarcastic.

Oh yes, Gale Sayers. He was the most exciting running back of all time.

RIP Send'em in Kim.

I could live with this. This would be fantastic.

I'll bitch and moan about whatever I damn well please, whenever I damn well please. LOL!! It is my right as an American on the internet. And it is the right of everyone else, even non-US citizens, to ignore me or disagree with me. My wife isn't going to listen to me about the Red Sox, so I need an outlet. Posting my thoughts doesn't take up anyone's time unless they consent to reading my posts. If they consent, then buyer beware. Don't get mad at me for subjecting yourself to my musings.

Pal, I think that is a great idea, but I don't know if the numbers would work and if the Sox would want competition from their own AAA team for ticket sales in Boston. Te other issue that I am curious about is whether the Sox could walk away from Fenway.

Yep. She's an Australian Shepherd.

Yes, the dog in my avatar is my girl. A sweet dog with a lot of personality.

Fred, my Dad felt much the same way about Fenway. It reminded him of that ballpark.

I was wondering who would be responsible for the upkeep of Fenway if the city of Boston finally got its act together so the Red Sox could get a state of the art facility. The Red Sox own Fenway. If the ballpark can't be torn down, they wouldn't be able to sell it. Boston is not going to add a second franchise. Would the city buy it from them? It just seems to me that ownership is tied to Fenway whether they like it or not.