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  1. Elktonnick
    Recently there was comment made how baseball will eventually become a niche sport. Here is an interesting article that appears to indicate that more kids are playing baseball. According to the Aspen Institute which promotes youth sports participation and used SFIA data 13 .6 % of kids 6-12 played baseball in 2018 up 3%. Baseball was second to basketball which had a14.1 % participation rate. USA Today Aug 23, 2019.
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    You are so young. Cuba and North Korea may be the only two left of old style communist regimes but there are millions of Eastern European s who remember the bad days when communist regimes were prevalent until about 1990.
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    Sure did!
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    Not anyone who I've ever met who has lived under a communist regime and I have met a lot.
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    None of the above. A ten year contract is insanity. Any club who signs one for that long will regret it after five years.
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    The above is very interesting but not germane to either the discussion specifically about your two consecutive posts which contradicted one another. You wrote " Ratings have fallen for years" then you wrote "the people who still watch will always watch." If the people who still watch will always watch is true then ratings literally wouldn't be declining. If ratings have fallen for years is true then the obviously fewer are watching which means the people who still watch will always watch is not true. One of your statements is true but both can not be true regardless of whether the viewers are boomers or not. In any case, if the Red Sox trade Betts before the trade deadline it will be an admission they have given up on being competitive in 2020. Both Fenway attendance and NESN viewership will decline accelerating the process you claim is happening with the transition to baseball as a niche sport in Boston. BTW you realize that Minor league attendance increased last year. Just saying!
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    It is logic such as yours which is the reason that Montgomery Ward, Zayre's and Bradlee's are in such great shape today. Maybe Sears / K Mart should hire you to do its marketing. Maybe you will have them do spots on the Mutual Radio network and the Dumont television network
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    You just contradicted your previous post which said ratings have fallen for years. Which is it; ratings have fallen for years or, the people who still watch will always watch?
  9. Elktonnick
    So let's accelerate the decline. That makes sense.
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    If Bloom trades Betts now before the team has a chance to see how well they can compete in the 2020 season, it would be preemptive capitulation. Henry would see a catastrophic drop in both attendance and NESN ratings. Quite frankly the Padres have nothing that would justify any trade with them to Red Sox Nation. Red Sox fans would see any trade before the deadline as a betrayal by Henry. Lux Tax and reset mumbo jumbo would be seen as exactly that mumbo jumbo.
  11. Elktonnick

    Kobe

    Elktonnick replied to Sox75's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk

    So sad. I understand his daughter died in the crash as well. Pray for all those who died in this crash.
  12. Elktonnick
    If Boston makes any deal with San Diego, they should insist that the Padres take O"Brien for Orsillo. If Bloom is going to gut the team, Boston fans shouldn't have to endure another year of O'Brien. Bring back Orsillo
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    all of it
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    Don't they have Outback Restaurants in Nova Scotia
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    That ain't happening either.
  16. Elktonnick
    Ain't going to see a player manager in Major Leagues ever again.
  17. Elktonnick
    Maybe Bloom will bring back the College of Coaches that Cubs Owner Phil Wrigley used so ineffectually from 1961 until 65.
  18. Elktonnick
    Haven't you heard Blooming Onion has decided they don't need a manager for Spring Training.
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    Things would be so much better if both stayed in Boston. How about trading O'Brien for Orsillo straight up.
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    Bloom would be rightly pilloried for any trade involving E-Rod at this time.
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    Really I guess you have forgotten 2011 already! Baines who knows MLB players from experience thinks Bloom is inviting a repetition of beer and chicken days again and said so.
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    That's why I do not want Cora back assuming he isn't banned.
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    No title equals no authority
  24. Elktonnick
    The point that Harold Baines made is that the manager sets the tone for the team. He thought Boston was inviting another instance of inmates running the asylum scenario with no one in charge. As a former big leaguer Harold Baines has a lot of credibility and his comments have to be taken seriously. If Bloom is serious about not naming a manager before the start of ST, I'd say Henry learned nothing from last year's disastrous ST.
  25. Elktonnick
    Chain Bloom said that he won't rush hiring a new manager. He is prepared to start Spring Training without a manager being named. The guys on MLB's Hot Stove went ballistic over his comments.
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