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  1. Bellhorn04
    2019: Dombrowski ruined us for years with Price and Sale-and got fired. 2020: Goodbye Mookie. And on and on it goes...
  2. Bellhorn04
    Yes, when things go wrong, we point fingers. We all do it. Bloom had fingers pointed at him by all of us for various things that didn't work out, and then Henry pointed his finger and said "see ya". Why would this be different?
  3. Bellhorn04
    And that's what I've been saying. They badly needed more starting pitching. Everyone said so including the team. What do they do? Nothing but swap one risky starting pitcher for another-one reclamation project for another. That was their answer. It's kind of mind-boggling to me.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Ridiculous. I've acknowledged the injury risk over and over. It's hopeless trying to debate with someone who fails to understand your position or has no problem misrepresenting it and using straw men.
  5. Bellhorn04
    It was one hire, but a pretty significant one when the guy just got fired as hitting coach by our arch-rival. The Yankees offense under Lawson was roundly criticized for being one-dimensional, home run or nothing. And the numbers bore it out. Why would they think this guy was a plus? You can keep making move after move, but it doesn't get you far if your judgement continues to suck...
  6. Bellhorn04
    If you think the budget was no factor, why not keep Sale and sign Giolito? Sale + Giolito has to be either better or the same as just Giolito. That's beyond dispute. And if they need a second baseman that bad, there are other ways. Grissom was a prospect, no more no less. I have no idea why you would think "replacing" Sale was necessary. Talk about making ZERO sense. This is starting pitchers we're talking about. You've talked countless times about how a team needs a pile of starting pitchers to get through a season. "Adding to" Sale - yes, that would have made sense.
  7. Bellhorn04
    Right, but that's an enormous qualifier when you're talking about 4 kids that have never even played in an MLB game.
  8. Bellhorn04
    In reality I don't think we'll ever know if moves likes this have an impact one way or the other. But I perfectly understand the cynicism of an old schooler like Denny. They get tired of hearing about all the supposed upgrades in analytics and other off field programs when the actual major league team continues to flounder the way it has basically starting when they hired Bloom. I seem to be the only one here who was dumbfounded that they hired Dillon Lawson after the Yankees canned him midseason, and in 2024 the Yankees got much better in the K/BB department and the Red Sox got much worse.
  9. Bellhorn04
    No one is sure of anything with Henry and the payroll any more. I have shifted to a pessimistic outlook, but maybe that's just because I got sick of the optimistic outlook being squashed.
  10. Bellhorn04
    But they also have these things called "doctors" who perform these things called "examinations" before trades are finalized. He was obviously healthy as far as anyone could reasonably determine. The rest is just "yeah, but still, he gets injured a lot" no s*** Sherlock stuff.
  11. Bellhorn04
    There's one simple 2-part explanation for all of it-trading Sale/signing Giolito/not replacing Giolito. 1) The budget was tight and was prioritized over everything else. 2) They were punting anyway - it really didn't matter to them if they made the playoffs.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Can you please try to read what I actually said? Is it that difficult? I said he looked healthy AT THE END OF 2023.
  13. Bellhorn04
    So you think their moves with the rotation were an interesting mix of the smart and the bizarre...
  14. Bellhorn04
    The first part is just more convoluted stuff. There was no medical science involved in trading Sale. He looked healthy at the end of 2023 and the doctors obviously pronounced him so or the trade wouldn't have happened. Nobody knew if he would stay healthy in 2024, obviously. There was plenty of risk he would miss time, but that's the case with virtually every pitcher now. His past injuries were a hodgepodge of the predictable and the strange, but as a whole there was no way to predict if any of them would reoccur.
  15. Bellhorn04
    I guess I'll have to say this another million times. In isolation, yes, I see the reasons for trading Sale and getting back a good prospect. But I don't think we should look at moves like this in isolation. When you look at the big picture that the Red Sox needed starting pitching and that the only other move was signing Giolito, a guy who got lit up for the last 2 months of 2023, that's when trading Sale looks just plain bizarre.
  16. Bellhorn04
    No, that's OK, you're tried and failed enough times.
  17. Bellhorn04
    I'm still waiting for a logical explanation of why that would be a good reason for Boston to trade Sale...
  18. Bellhorn04
    It all kind of starts with Boone pulling Cole after 88 pitches when he doesn't really have a lockdown bullpen. Certainly no one could have foreseen Boone considering the rust-caked Cortes as his his #1 lefty option over Hill.
  19. Bellhorn04
    It does kind of have the feel of "look at all this stuff we're doing!"
  20. Bellhorn04
    Trading Sale could have been justified if it was part of a plan to seriously upgrade the rotation. That's what I thought was going on when I first heard about the trade. But for them to trade Sale and his potential to at least have a 3 win season which I thought he still had, and then do no more than sign Giolito, yeah, I did find that infuriating. They deserved what they got IMO.
  21. Bellhorn04
    So you're joining moon in the convoluted hindsight hypotheticals...
  22. Bellhorn04
    Since we have gone off madly on this Ohtani tangent, thanks to notin's harmless little joke, I will add this: Gambling problems that come to light are usually not new problems, and they are almost never short-lived ones. If Ohtani had a problem, he has a problem.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Agreed. Personally I hope they do keep all four, simply out of a selfish need for some f**king excitement.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Unless you get the burner cups. More likely it was a Cone of Silence setup. 😀
  25. Bellhorn04
    If they were using burner phones it indicates this was some sort of premeditated scheme. If Ohtani is smart enough to hide a payoff to the interpreter, why is he also stupid enough to make a long series of readily visible bank transfers to an illegal betting operation? That's the real problem - you're saying he was incredibly stupid in some ways and incredibly smart in others.
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