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“It was not a mistake,’’ said Michelle Rand, senior brand manager for Turner Licensing. Rather, it’s more a matter of not being able to predict the future. The deadline for the calendar is always the previous May, and in May of 2017, Sandoval was still a member of the Red Sox organization, just not a very productive one. It’s not an ideal time to forecast what a baseball roster will look like for the following season.

Terrible post. I believe he only ever achieved the rank of lieutenant commander. By 2379, Data was expected to succeed Commander Riker as first officer following Riker's promotion to captain of the USS Titan. En route to Betazed for the second phase of Riker's wedding to Counselor Troi, the Enterprise discovered B-4, one of the three prototype Soong-type androids Data had learned about years earlier, physically identical to him but having a less sophisticated positronic brain. Trying to help him become more Human, Data copied his own memories into B-4's positronic net. Before Data could take the role of first officer of the Enterprise, the Enterprise was ordered to Romulus where a new praetor, Shinzon, had come to power. Shinzon's self-asserted good intentions, however, were soon found to be false. In reality, Shinzon was discovered to be a clone of Captain Picard and, due to genetic degeneration, he was in need of Picard's blood in order to restore his life. After Shinzon's vessel, the Scimitar, had all but destroyed the Enterprise, Shinzon planned to eliminate the crew with his thalaron radiation weapon before turning it on Earth. Though Picard was able to defeat Shinzon in hand-to-hand combat, Picard was trapped aboard the Scimitar due to damage to the Enterprise transporters. With no other option, Data elected to physically jump into the vacuum of space through a hull breach in the forward section of the Enterprise – and force his way aboard the Scimitar from the outside. Proceeding to the Scimitar bridge, Data utilized a prototype emergency transport unit concealed in his forearm, to return Picard to the Enterprise. With the thalaron radiation weapon seconds away from firing, Data used his phaser to destroy it, which resulted in the complete destruction of the Scimitar – and Data as well.

All that needs to be said is that Theo was better than Ben or DD and ownership was dumb for not taking control away from Larry and forcing Theo out.

This is crazy talk. You can't pick and chose who gets the credit. That information isn't out there and you weren't in the front office.

********. You never carry on and on about the same gripe for a whole season.

How much talent do you need in the pipeline if you can sign your 3b, SS, OF, C on long term deals if you want to keep them?

This is a good point.

That was years before they went belly up two straight years.

There's no way to really say that for sure.

And that's why Pedroia needs to be traded. He's a bad hombre. Bad genetics. Doesn't stick up for his teammates. Sad!

Especially if he can opt out in a few years.

If all things were equal. However, you have to give up players of value for Stanton. For JD, it's just money.

His injury history is not much different than Stanton's. A lot of his injuries were not soft tissue injuries (i.e. hammies that keep popping up) but rather from in game contact (hit by pitch, diving for a ball).

I saw a chart that showed how is HR's would overlay at Fenway. Apparently, only 5 of the LF shots were low enough to not clear the wall.

People were more concerned about last year's budget so that they would stay under the cap and not carry a huge penalty going forward. The Sox are going to spend this winter and they can get anyone they want (except for Otani).

Davis was a 37 y/o pinch runner. He wasn't brought in for his bat.

Granderson? Nah. Too old and is a lefty bat. They need a right hand hitting 4th OF.

He's a bench bat. I'm not sure people fretted about Mike Carp's defense all that often.

He hit about .280 last time he was up in BOS. If he can keep that up with his new power profile, that's a pretty high value for a platoon 4th OF type.

And the MLB team was a last place dud.

A long two weeks away!

Looks like his last game was Nov 14th when he was added to the 40 man roster.

@EvanDrellich Where things stand now, unless something changes, source says Red Sox are an "extreme long shot" for Giancarlo Stanton for a variety of reasons, starting with asking price.

I wouldn't say "a few" and I certainly wouldn't say "all".

Anger rising...