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same here.
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Mark Teixeira signing and the fallout in RSN
rician blast replied to jacksonianmarch's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The embodiement of a Yankee fan...it's as if YOU won the title, or were somehow connected, or somehow benefit concretely from the success of a team of players who don't know you, don't care about you. What's next? A Buckner joke? A Bucky reference? Or the oh-so original 26 Rings ********? So to all the gloating Yankee fans, go jerk off to your Jeter bobbleheads, shove your ARod action figure up your ass and chant 27! 27! 27!...win or lose I'm a Sox fan, I'll support my team regardless and I'll certainly keep the whole issue of ML baseball in a perspective different than yours. Understand, it's nothing personal, though. -
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Why? Is he eating all of the sushi at the post-game buffets?
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Good call, PC. I know they're nowhere close in terms of hitting ability, if I'm the Mets or Yankees, I have to kind of start thinking maybe I can get Manny for less than I thought he'd command.
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What would have constituted "the extra mile?" By all accounts I've read, the Red Sox were told by Boras that there was a $200m offer on the table. So they shoulda believed him and bid $201m, or $21m higher than the Yanks signed him for? It appears that it was that disclosure by Boras that lead Henry to say the Sox would not be a factor. Also, weren't the Yankees given the last chance to bid? Boras/Tex didn't get the $180m offer, as far as I've heard, from the Yanks then come back and see if the Sox would beat it. All indications were that Tex preferred to be in pinstripes, but might have become a Sox player had the bought into the possibly fictitious $200m offer. So quit trying to make it seem like the Sox lost out because of an unwillingness to pay a mere $2m more per year and understand that it is quite possible that the Sox pulled out because of disingenuous negotiations and the fact that Tex preferred to go to NY.
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"Derek Lowe's market has dried up" No, I think it's just on sabbatical. Now if you said Hillary Clinton's vagina has dried up, I'd be on board.
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wild as trade proposal, yes...but the retort is not really necessary. just saying.
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That doesn't fly at all here, GOM. I think it did for a few days and perhaps there may be several "sticks in the mud" who still think that the Sox lost out because of an unwillingness to pay $1m - $2m more per year than they offered. I believe (hope?) that the bulk of Sox fans realize the guy wasn't coming here for the amount that the Yanks offered. He did not want to play in Boston, and any successful attempt by the Sox to acquire him would likely have cost much, much more than the target the Sox had set and the amount the Yanks paid. You know this, despite your playing it off that the Sox just needed to give a little more to get Tex.
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Political Speaker Series
rician blast replied to porterhouse's topic in Talk Sox Issues & Suggestions
Wow, this is a first for sure! They generally speak out their asses. I understand your excitement. -
In this case "the Yankees" really means "The taxpayers"
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A buddy of mine had season tickets in the cesspool known as Yankee Stadium and I went to at least one game a year for a number of years. For 3 years straight there was the same blob of no one knows what on a wall...looked like a combo of cranberry sauce, s***, and cat hair...the f***ers refused to clean it up, and it haunts me to this day. Yeah I know, Yank fans...it's part of the history and nostalgia of the toilet.
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How about "throwing in" Youk? Buchholz, Youk, Anderson, and a top tier ML pitcher?
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If you're going to pull wild s*** out of the air, then speculate on how they get Pujols over here. That I would love.
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Exactly...and it was the Lindros brothers that came ot my mind, too. AFter a couple of concussions, Eric seemed to get dazed by almost every big hit. As for Stevens, although by league rules those were legal hits, he concussed so many players in his day...and I saw many, many of those games...that I always believed he targeted the head with his shoulder. He hit Ron Frances one time as he was looking for the puck and he came from a distance and threw his shoulder/upper arm right into the guys head, leaving him crawling off the ice. Never liked fkn Stevens. He hit to injure, no doubt in my mind.
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I've felt all along (in 2008) that he was fragile and that another pop could put him out for a substantial amount of time...and I think that is exactly what we've just seen. It kills me to see him potentially go the route of some other famously head injured...while the punk that hit him got a two game suspension last year. At any rate, I remain concerned about his viability this year.
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I believe in the 2001-2002 and 2003-2004 seasons the Bruins had the best record in their conference (at a minimum they won their division) The announcer at the time (Dale Arnold?) said after a game late in the year "you're looking at the best team in the NHL folks." They lost in the first round each of those seasons. I love this team right now, they play great two way hockey, their goaltenders are playing well, they stick to the system, and their capitalizing on opponents mistakes...opportunism is the key to winning with the style they play. I'm not ready to crown them the best in the league...or even the best in their conference...yet. Lots of hockey to be played, and when the playoffs roll around, opponents play much different...harder, smarter...than in the regular season.
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The +/- is certainly being impacted by the teams these players are on, so that diminishes, at least a bit, the gap...however, I do think Boyes stats are indicative of him not being a two-way player. In the current B's system that wouldn't fly, so I think Chiarelli was sound in moving Boyes.
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How will Red Sox finish the offseason?
rician blast replied to MANNYHOF24's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Tex didn't really want to play here. To entice him it would've likely taken much more than the Yanks offer...I commend the Sox for not being played by Boras and Tex. Now, based upon the reaction of some fans, I'd love to do business with them...they don't understand the setting of, and adherence to, upper financial limits and think if you want something, you pay whatever it costs...would love to negotiate a deal with some of these clowns.