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  1. User Name
    What the f*** is with this team and the stupid baserunning? Stop it plz.
  2. User Name
    The "trainers" get a flat percentage cut that's unchanging. If the Sox spent 900 K on his players, regardless of the actual allocation, his earnings do not fluctuate. He engages in the practice because of future benefits (i.e, the team signing players that may go unsigned), and overall strength of the business relationship (pleasing a team that guarantees him future paychecks). Most teams that have a dedicated academy here (The D-Backs immediately jump to mind) heavily engage in this business practice. But they're not doing this s*** in the open. Someone with ties to the baseball world theorized to me that the Sox got caught because they got sloppy in their handling of these negotiations when the change in the cusp of baseball operations was imminent. That may have played a factor in their recklessness. Per his recollection, The Sox/Ben/DD change/power struggle was quite a saga, and it was pretty messy. Stuff the fans aren't privy to, he said.
  3. User Name
    Pretty much. But they did this with reckless abandon, and even signed crappy players to bigger bonuses to entice their trainers to do future business. Shady stuff.
  4. User Name
    They deserved it. When news first broke talent evaluators immediately pointed out how blatant the Sox' bending of the rules was.
  5. User Name
    They were the most obvious target because they were the ones who were bending the rules the most.
  6. User Name
    Workman is a reliever.
  7. User Name
    Dat cop out tho.
  8. User Name
    lol
  9. User Name
    You're pretty strong, moving those goalposts all by yourself.
  10. User Name
    Honestly? They are already in serious trouble. The rotation is not providing quality or innings as a unit, and that's killing a BP that relies on a guy who's been horribly overworked the last three years, and a 40-year-old that's effective, but needs his IP carefully managed.
  11. User Name
    I don't get it. I'm saying "he's been bad, but let's give him some time", while you're making borderline moronic statements. Porcello was f***ing terrible last year, and I made the exact same case for why we should give him time, while some idiots claimed he sucked and getting him was a mistake. Just have some goddamn patience.
  12. User Name
    Bro, do you even logic? Harden had been DL'd five times with shoulder/arm trouble before he left Oakland. Zito was coming off a year with a 1.40 WHIP before SF gave him that huge contract. The Mulder trade is debatable, but I think you need to get a dictionary and look up the word "definitive" so you know what it means. And what about Aaron Harang? A guy who sucked in Oakland then actually went to a hitter's park in Cincinnati and had a pretty nice career. What about Gio Gonzalez?
  13. User Name
    I'm consistent though. I defended Porcello last year, and I've been rewarded for my faith.
  14. User Name
    How much lunch money does he owe you? I will reimburse you so you can hop off the guy's dick. He's been here three months.
  15. User Name
    Mulder already had shoulder/arm trouble by the time he got trade, Harden had absolutely terrible mechanics, was terribly fragile and was doomed from the start, and Zito had shown signs of regression way before he left Oakland. Give me a definitive example please.
  16. User Name
    So, you saw them one night, didn't like what you see, and that invalidates the opinions of guys who do this for a living? I don't see it. It's not even an appeal to authority, but if the industry consensus is that the system is loaded, I will tend to believe that they're not making it up.
  17. User Name
    They better hammer this team into next year. Wright's not going to f*** this up.
  18. User Name
    Did Price steal your lunch money when you were in high school? I mean, it's clear he's underperformed, but goddamn.
  19. User Name
    @TBSB: You made a sweeping generalization. Sweeping generalizations are almost always incorrect. Pitchers like Tim Hudson, Dan Haren, Tyson Ross, Trevor Cahill (who then lost it, but he was pretty good for a while in ARI after leaving Oakland), among others either blossomed after or were still good after leaving Oakland.
  20. User Name
    It's common practice, but the Sox pushed the envelope. I've been following this incident closely since news first broke out a while ago, and it seems like MLB is looking for someone to make an example of. In this case, if the Red Sox become the example of what happens when you bend the rules, they have it coming. Several industry sources have come out saying they've signed huge package deals with some of these academies, and that's just asking for trouble.
  21. User Name
    Home ERA: 3.55 in in 28.1 IP. Away ERA: 1.40 (!) in 38.2 IP. These things take thirty seconds to verify.
  22. User Name
    I do like my selfies. But I don't have maturity issues, so there's that.
  23. User Name
    What the Red Sox are being investigated for is cheating the system. You're misinterpreting what the problem is here.
  24. User Name
    I'll be totally honest, TBSB. I thought you were an 18-19 (and really bored) college student.
  25. User Name
    Obviously not, as attempting to troll Red Sox forums and ending up being dragged into giving his life biography by a clever Red Sox fan is a full-time occupation.
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