Elktonnick
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Everything posted by Elktonnick
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Yes experience is way over rated. It is always better to go with unproven talent than someone who has a track record of success elsewhere. If I am running a multi.million dollar business I always would hire a young accountant to do my taxes instead of an experienceed CPA because IRS audits are so much fun.
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But with over 30 games to play it is more plausible than the crap team we have out there now.
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Or wildcard no wildcard.
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Do not compare yourself to me especially on what we know and do not know. Like I said I no longer consider you sincere or serious so I will no longer play your silly games.
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Why I know what a plan is.
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If you carefully analyze what you just wrote that is even sillier. Just stick with you "have no idea what a plan looks like". It accurately refutes everything you previously posted on this subject.
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It is a non sequitur because the Rangers owner fired the GM who had been there a very long time much longer than any Red Sox GM has been here. When he fired him he said we have been bad for a long time. So it really is apples and oranges to compare the Rangers and Red Sox situations.
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You know yours is a silly post. I was giving you a broad outline in effort to be somewhat responsive to what I sincerely thought was a sincere question. I now realize your question was neither sincere nor serious. I won't make that mistake again, of ever thinking you serious or sincere on this board.
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While I admit Cora bears less blame than Bloom but some of his moves last night were headscratchers. Having Kike pinch run for McGuire instead of pinch hitting for Dalbec is a puzzlement. Dalbec is anything but a contact hitter. He is a strike out waiting to happen.
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Really the only thing I agree with you on is: you don't know anything about building a mlb team.
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I am bashing him because he got rid of Renfroe and made no effort to retain Schwarber. Bloom failed at virtually every level. He alienated his players and his fans. He deconstructed a winning team into a pathetic collection of demoralized inept players. Yet, he still managed to exceed the lux tax. That is a record of incompetence achieved by few Red Sox GMs since Pinky Higgins.
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Non sequitur.
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Not if you accept the premise that Bloom had no plan to begin with. That everything he thought of doing was OBE by the time he got around to doing it. Face it Bloom is really a minor league GM unable to adjust to the speed of the big leagues.
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Sign players to fill the holes you have. Typically teams do this in the off season. They lay out the strategy targeting possible players to fill their holes with contingencies in the event their first choices was not available. What Bloom did was create more holes to fill and then failed to aggressively pursue players to fill those holes. He was repeatedly beaten to the punch by more aggressive teams. Hence the criticism of having no sense of urgency. Bloom misread the baseball market as a whole and the demands of his local fan base.
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That was no plan that was a hope.
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I see that you haven't done any serious planning in your professional career. If I had submitted a plan based on hope to my boss I would have been fired before I left his office. One deals with uncertainty by having contingency plans. I see no evidence that Bloom ever had either a plan or a contingency plan.
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Hope is not a plan.
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What you are saying is implicate recognition of Bloom incompetnce. Bloom failed at virtually every stage of the 2022 season. Moreover I do not think he has placed the Red Sox in the best place to make the moves needed to be a contender in 23 despite all the money coming off the books.
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It was a no win situation because Bloom boxed himself in by not making moves in the off season. Hence the criticism of having no sense of urgency and grumbling in the clubhouse about his not improving the team enough when he had s chance to do so.. Face it this was a situation of Blooms own making.
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I did.not miss the point at all. Bloom deconstructed s contending team in the off season. He made the team worse at the trade deadline. They have losing record since then. To blame their current state on injuries is denying the obvious. Bloom has made a mess of this season, creating a team of.mismatched socks (pardon the pun) with a questionable future without major acquisitions next off season.
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ALDS!!! The closest any from this Bloom.team will get to the ALDS is on their television set unless Bloom DFAs someone.
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It was true at the time. But soon evidence of Bloom"s utter incompetence became too obvious except for the most obtuse to ignore. Take last night's game for example. A man on third no outs two innings in a row and they fail to score. Only an incompetent executive constructs a team as impotent as that. And Bloom still insists he has no regrets about his moves at the trade deadline.
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What are you prattling about now? Even when you keep it short you make no sense.
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I guess so