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  1. Bellhorn04
    Yanks extend Hicks. It's interesting that they're not choosing to wait until the season starts to make these extensions official and therefore adding to their 2019 payroll for tax purposes.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I've said this before - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine are very similar places. Whenever I've been in Maine I have always felt very much at home.
  3. Bellhorn04
    The rumor mill now has it that the Dodgers are making a surprise late push for Harper.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Hockey is it here. My community of Halifax/Dartmouth has produced the great Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon (currently 4th in NHL point scoring) and Brad Marchand of the Bruins (currently 13th in points).
  5. Bellhorn04
    I didn't know he lived in Bangor, just that he was born in Saint John, New Brunswick.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It also smacks of constraints, as in financial ones. Even with only signing Eovaldi and Pearce we have the highest payroll and we're 30 million + over the tax threshold. I understand your concerns about the pen, but other than that I'm not sure what big moves you were expecting.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Off the top of my head, the only MLB player I can think of from the Atlantic Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland), is Matt Stairs.
  8. Bellhorn04
    There haven't been all that many players from my COUNTRY that have had highly successful MLB careers.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Chavis is en fuego!
  10. Bellhorn04
    There's truth in this too. It's actually a bit of a curse to be really really good at something but not quite good enough to make a serious living at it. You see it a lot with golfers. There are guys who crush their competition right up to the point that they're trying to make it on the PGA tour, and that's when cold reality strikes, and they end up being insurance salesmen or something.
  11. Bellhorn04
    I agree with your point about MLB players. I just saw an opening to quibble about something else.
  12. Bellhorn04
    What it all comes down to is whether the owners, collectively, are spending enough of their revenues on payroll. Oakland's revenues are s***, so you can't fault them for low payrolls.
  13. Bellhorn04
    They're not anywhere. You just can't compare athletics with regular jobs. In my job, competency is competency. A lot of accountants can do a tax return 100% correctly. You can't do it better than 100%. So there's no differentiation.
  14. Bellhorn04
    The thing about Eovaldi is, he was a different pitcher last year. He added a cutter to his repertoire, and the results can be seen in the dramatic improvement in his K/BB, which was more than twice as good as his career mark. His health is obviously a concern, but there is reason to think he was not lightning in a bottle. The Red Sox clearly thought so or they would not have guaranteed him $68 million.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Mind you there are jobs and professions where there is no discernible difference among the best. Competency is competency. I don't think I'm the best public accountant in the world, but I'm probably tied with a zillion others.
  16. Bellhorn04
    We were 3-4 against the 62-100 White Sox last year. But that's about the only example of inexplicable randomness from 2018. Usually there are more, but for the Sox 2018 was an unusual season where just about everything went like you draw it up in your dreams.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Things have changed. For a period of years the Yankees were outspending the next highest teams by 30-40%. It doesn't bother me in the least now if we're the highest spending team. Why? Because the main reasons we're the highest spending team or one of the highest are: 1) A great fan base who supports the team with their wallets and pays the highest average ticket prices in the game. 2) An excellent owner who is willing to pour the big revenue streams back into the product on the field. It's a perfect storm of goodness for Sox fans and we should just enjoy it while it lasts.
  18. Bellhorn04
    To each their own.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Personally, there's nothing there that quickens my pulse. Once Harper signs there are only 3 things left for me this offseason: 1) Who gets Kimbrel. 2) Who gets Buchholz. 3) Does DD break down and acquire a reliever.
  20. Bellhorn04
    It's very difficult to say, but my guesses would be: 1) They still sign Eovaldi. 2) They don't sign Pearce. 3) John Henry tells the fans: 'We're swallowing a big chunk of tax one more time for you, folks, but that moonslav fellow on talksox is right, we're resetting hard after this year!'
  21. Bellhorn04
    Hanley signs minor league deal with Guardians.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Maybe so, but that doesn't mean I want them to keep adding top players.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I was happy they didn't get him. It might hurt them a few years down the road, but it would likely hurt us this year.
  24. Bellhorn04
    He's gonna be hitting a few taters for us over the Monster this year, I think!
  25. Bellhorn04
    The thing is, I can't think of any player other than Machado who has been singled out for multiple instances of dirty play over the last 2 years. It's not my intention to persecute the guy, but these things keep happening and they are 'caught on tape' for everyone to see.
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