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I agree.

Nah.

Not hindsight. Even the announcers on tv questioned it. He was done. Everyone saw him do his postgame routine. He didn’t think he was coming back out.

Everyone I was at the bar with was saying he should have been taken out. I don't know anyone who wanted to keep him in. It was baffling.

Nope.

Do you think we needed one in 2019? Should we have cut salary then? How would you have sold that to the fans? Would you have told DD not to resign Sale and Eovaldi?

Isolated and hard to get along with is a great person to give an open checkbook to.

Because John Henry is a toddler in a suit throwing a tantrum because they didn't make the playoffs last year.

Nah, the Union is more concerned that owners are making more money than ever and the teams are worth more than ever, but salaries are stagnant. I think they are happy for the upper echelon, just want to fix the issues with younger players being drastically underpaid and having their playing time reduced so that a team can hold onto the player's rights longer.

This question is just for Moon and Grady Little, right? No one else would have left him in.

If they made the playoffs, they would still need to reduce payroll? Or just because they didn't make the playoffs. Why would they sign Sale and Eovaldi last year if they wanted to be under the tax this year?

Fencesitters of the world, unite and take over.

Guys, we just won 108 games. Time to blow it up! I remember all those great posts of yours about that last offseason. You were right!

They went 38-43 at home and 46-35 away. In 2018, they went 57-24 at home. You don't think they'll have some positive regression with that home record in 2020 if they keep the same squad? That's a team that needs to be dismantled?

They just won 108 games and the WS the year before.

Did we need one in January 2019?

I agree. It just makes for a very manic fan experience. Lots of rollercoaster seasons.

Except that he just fired the GM because the payroll was over the luxury tax. Henry could have stopped DD from any of those signings if he wanted to, especially the 2019 ones.

For real.

"That's what was needed at the time." I'm going to disagree with you. They should have kept Theo and Tito as they've both had great success elsewhere. Also, no reason to kick them on their way out the door.

Honestly, I think John Henry is a guy who lets other people make decisions and then bitches about them if they don't work out. The prime example is Carl Crawford. JH let Theo go crazy in FA in 2010-2011 offseason. People on here (*cough* *cough* A700) wigged out and thought it was the best thing ever and couldn't stop talking about how great Theo was now because the signings showed that he was ready to play big boy baseball. Everyone was happy until they choked on donkey dick in August and September because of the pitching. The next offseason, they just had to blame someone for the failure so they dumped Theo and Tito and kicked them out the door with amazing pettiness. JH get pissy over comments made on a local radio station, so he called up and ranted about how he wasn't at fault for any of it. It was chicken and beer. It was the Carl Crawford signing WHICH HE WAS AGAINST FROM DAY ONE BECAUSE HE KNEW IT JUST DIDN'T WORK OUT AND HE ALLOWED THE GM TO MAKE THAT CALL EVEN THOUGH THE GM THOUGHT HE HAD TO FEED THE MONSTER AT THAT TIME. So then they hire Ben to be the GM and don't let him do anything and make him hire a pick yourself up by the bootstraps old school Bobby V as manager. See it was the players and coaches that were at fault for the swoon so let's treat them like garbage to show them who is really in charge. It couldn't be that ownership made a mistake since HE REALLY HATED CARL CRAWFORD EVEN THOUGH HE'S A PLAYER STILL UNDER CONTRACT. We all know what happens next, Bobby V sucks the life out of the team and they have to do a complete teardown a half year after barely missing the playoffs. John Henry just can't take failure even when it's his fault. He doesn't know how to manage and anytime there is a rough patch he just loses it and says f*** it let's throw the baby out with the bathwater. My concern is that he's doing the same thing now. They won 108 games in 2018 with mostly the same squad. They had a WS hangover just like they had in 05 and 14. Big deal. I agree that signalling to the fans that they want to cut payroll is pretty s***** given how much tickets are these days. I don't agree that it affects the offseason moves that Bloom wants/needs to make. John Henry is just a passive aggressive toddler who is going to take his ball and go home to mommy whenever he doesn't win (see Crawford reaction, how he treated the greatest Sox manager of all time, hiring dickhead coach to piss off his players, etc.).

Favorite Sox injuries: taking out the trash sleeping with baby putting cowboy boots on

You think?

Big if true!

No s***?