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  1. Bellhorn04
    I concur with this.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Larry doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
  3. Bellhorn04
    4 innings stinks. Bullpen killer. Cashman was just publicly lamenting how Yankees starters haven't been going deep enough in games. They're averaging 5.4 per start.
  4. Bellhorn04
    There is no confusion at all in the reports on this. If some other team makes a deal for Hanley within the week, the option passes to them. If not, another team can sign him to a new contract, but the option is non-existent because it's part of the terminated contract. Do you want to e-mail Speier or do you want me to? He's pretty good on answering them in my experience.
  5. Bellhorn04
    The only tinkering with the game that MLB itself-the 'powers that be'-might be responsible for, that I can see, would be juicing the baseballs.
  6. Bellhorn04
    You're very troll-like Larry.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Do you really think columnists like Speier and Drellich would be reporting in no uncertain terms that the Red Sox are off the hook for the option if they didn't have some solid information on it? Do you really think if this was a 'gray area' someone wouldn't have picked up on that fact?
  8. Bellhorn04
    It's not easy to find out anything definitive about this, you're quite right about that. All I can figure is this: 1) A vesting option is not part of the standard contract as seen in the CBA - it's a 'special covenant'. So we can't see what the language actually is. 2) A vesting option is a 'Club Option', not a 'Player Option' even though it is automatically triggered by the games played. I think this may be a critical part of why it dies with the contract.
  9. Bellhorn04
    And why didn't some Sox press guy badger DD about it like Tommy Cruise in A Few Good Men? 'You ordered the DFA, didn't you???!!!' Finally DD blowing up: 'You're goddam right I did!!!'
  10. Bellhorn04
    If we lived in a world where people like Dombrowski were totally comfortable being 100% honest, he could have started his remarks about Hanley something like this: 'First of all, let me remind everyone who doesn't know already, that it was Ben Cherington's bonehead idea to not only give Hanley 88 million but to put in this ridiculous vesting option, and it was that idiotic move that had a lot to do with me sitting here instead of him...'
  11. Bellhorn04
    I don't see how it can be a gray area at this point in time. There have been plenty of vesting options in MLB contracts.
  12. Bellhorn04
    I think that for business and governments, liberal doses of lying have always been the normal. Maybe we're just more enlightened about that fact now.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Alright! There's two of us.
  14. Bellhorn04
    I curse and swear a lot in real life, trust me. I just try to pick my spots here.
  15. Bellhorn04
    Do you really find DD girly? I don't doubt at all that DD wanted Hanley's vesting option gone. I suspect there was a LOT of discussion before this season about exactly how they were going to handle this, including what they were going to say if they DFA'd Hanley. I suspect this story was partially to allay concerns about the Players Union objecting. And it's pretty clearly 100% BS that the option had nothing to do with the decision. But I really don't expect to get the actual truth from management a lot of the time. Because they have to play the PR game, it's part of the deal.
  16. Bellhorn04
    I'm just having fun, Thunder. I'm in a great mood Red Sox-wise today. If this was after a nasty Red Sox loss my comments could be interpreted differently.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Well said.
  18. Bellhorn04
    Just trying to talk his language.
  19. Bellhorn04
    No kidding.
  20. Bellhorn04
    This is probably just one of those 'gotta compare him to somebody' deals, but I think Beni reminds me a little of Don Mattingly at the plate.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Try a .988 OPS in May now.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Klay Thompson is the Warriors MVP the last 2 games.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Did anyone mention yet that in return for all this great advice, at the game you attend, you are required to hold up a sign that says 'Talksox Rocks!'?
  24. Bellhorn04
    Vendetta much?
  25. Bellhorn04
    Alex's managing seems just fine. 36-16 works for me. I think the story is probably at least partially BS, but it doesn't affect my opinion of Cora at all. It was a stupid damn vesting option in a stupid contract inherited from previous management that put everyone in a stupid situation.
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