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  1. Bellhorn04
    True.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Deal Betts so we can sign Chapman? 700hitter is right, we need a vomit emoji here.
  3. Bellhorn04
    I sort of understand d-money's anxiety. After the Astros won the first 2 games I was hoping they were on a roll that would carry them past the Yanks.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Patience of Red Sox fans with their managers has reached a new low, and that's saying something.
  5. Bellhorn04
    "Up the middle!" That was Joe Buck's call when Bill Mueller hit his game-tying, history-changing single off Mariano Rivera in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS. Last night, the Astros made their final out when Gurriel drilled a grounder up the middle. It went right through the box past Snell, but it was fielded easily behind second for the out. It seems to me that once upon a time a hard-hit grounder up the middle that got past the pitcher was an almost guaranteed hit. Singles up the middle were actually kind of cool. Now with all the changes in defensive positioning it's usually an out. One more reason, I guess, that hitters are focused so much more on launching it instead.
  6. Bellhorn04
    Somebody needs to explain to me what has been so bad about our team's overall approach. Haven't we won the World Series more than the other teams since Henry bought the Red Sox? (Yes.) Sure we've made mistakes and wasted some money, but the bottom line is we've been pretty damn successful with what we've done.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Agree 100%.
  8. Bellhorn04
    I guess the obvious answer is that the difference between us and the Rays is the 4 rings. I wouldn't trade.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Sure, that might happen...on a sitcom.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Not a bad analogy.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Yes, I think it's safe to say it would have been seen as wholesale panic.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I'll say it for Kimmi in her absence: Lucchino!
  13. Bellhorn04
    It's not uncommon for managers to stay on while pitching coaches and hitting coaches get fired. So much specialization and compartmentalization now.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Let's be real, when DD came on board it was the equivalent of kicking Ben in the privates.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Other than Pablo, Hanley and Castillo, you mean?
  16. Bellhorn04
    You have your blood now.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Kopech was not non-impact, because he was one of the two big pieces that got us Sale.
  18. Bellhorn04
    It never hurts to explore, no. But realistically, you're pretty unlikely to find a trade partner who will give you back something that's obviously better than what you're giving up. There are reasons why you just don't see a guy like Devers get traded.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Those were all deadline trades, so they sort of fit in a separate category. The classic small-market move is 'selling high' like the Rays did with Archer and others.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Yeah, I thought it was an excellent joke when it was referred to as the 'Punto trade'.
  21. Bellhorn04
    I thought he had a lot to do with the Beckett & Lowell trade. It only makes sense that he would swoop in when Theo was on hiatus.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Tampa Bay makes small-market moves and they do it brilliantly. But we can't really follow their model. However, snagging their former mastermind Friedman would be nice.
  23. Bellhorn04
    That's a fair rule. Another is that Kimmi has to vote for a post other than one that's adamantly pro-Ben.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Ben Cherington's record as a GM is difficult to assess. For every point there's one or more counterpoints. Point: He won a championship. Counterpoint: 3 last place finishes. Point: He made 3 albatross signings in the same year (Pablo, Hanley, Castillo). Counterpoint: At least one of those was forced on him by Lucchino. Point: He left the team in great shape for the next GM. Counterpoints: He left those albatross contracts. He left very little in major league ready pitching. Some of what he left, like Betts, was left to him by the previous GM. Adding to all that is that he has never had any other GM job you could use for further evaluation.
  25. Bellhorn04
    You got it. They raise bloody hell here on Talksox!
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