There's nothing wrong with being annoying with someone who's being an uninformed numbskull. Doing it in person if they're a lot bigger than you might not be a great idea, admittedly.
You said 'a GM like Dombrowski cannot win without spending'.
That may be so. But it's also been true of Theo, Ben and Cashman.
Does that fact make them bad at what they do? That's my question to you.
The difference, I believe, is that Sandoval had language explicitly written into his contract acknowledging that he was never in shape and never would be in shape.
Getting people to change their beliefs on this particular issue has probably become one of the easier tasks.
Just say 'back to back Cy Young award winner Jacob DeGrom' until they shut up.
That's just one part of the issue though.
The other is that teams like the Red Sox can spend $200 million plus and still make money and have the franchise value grow. So shouldn't they spend that money? The alternative is to pocket it.
We know that they're not going to reduce prices.
ERod was good this year, period. His W-L is inflated by the run support, but 203.1 IP with a deserved sub 4 ERA in the year of the Manfred Missile is commendable in any case.
I'm giving harmony a pass on this one. The Yankees made a bad signing. Big deal. We've made plenty of them. Big deal. It really doesn't matter that much. I'm a bottom line guy.