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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Bellhorn04
    So you think their moves with the rotation were an interesting mix of the smart and the bizarre...
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Bellhorn04
    No, that's OK, you're tried and failed enough times.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I'm still waiting for a logical explanation of why that would be a good reason for Boston to trade Sale...
  8. 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.
  9. Bellhorn04
    It does kind of have the feel of "look at all this stuff we're doing!"
  10. 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.
  11. Bellhorn04
    So you're joining moon in the convoluted hindsight hypotheticals...
  12. 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.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Agreed. Personally I hope they do keep all four, simply out of a selfish need for some f**king excitement.
  14. Bellhorn04
    Unless you get the burner cups. More likely it was a Cone of Silence setup. 😀
  15. 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.
  16. Bellhorn04
    When Devers wasn't playing third, our fill-ins like Dalbec were bad.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Investigations are closed. It would take some new evidence coming out for anything further to happen.
  18. Bellhorn04
    OK, but they did supposedly do some investigating of cell phones and so on and couldn't find any incriminating communications between Ohtani and the interpreter. I guess you're assuming Ohtani somehow brilliantly covered all his tracks. How would he have paid the interpreter off, in your theory?
  19. Bellhorn04
    Hugh, I'm talking about the part where Ohtani changed his story and said his friend was lying and stole millions from him.
  20. Bellhorn04
    16th is a perfect ranking for the masters of mediocrity.
  21. Bellhorn04
    It only makes sense if you think Ohtani and his people are basically the Mafia, and they told the interpreter his choices were to be killed or to go to jail and be looked after for it.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Understood. I just don't see how if it was Ohtani they couldn't find out it was Ohtani. And that leads to the massive coverup theory.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Rumor had it that last offseason when the Sox were making inquiries on trades for young pitchers, other teams weren't interested unless the Sox were willing to part with at least one of Anthony, Mayer and Teel, and talks ended quickly.
  24. Bellhorn04
    That scenario, that Ohtani was helping his friend until he found out the consequences, probably makes the most sense. Needless to say that doesn't reflect well on Ohtani either. Didn't seem to hurt his game much, that's for sure.
  25. Bellhorn04
    Ray Davis is going the John Henry route and wants to get under the tax threshold by any means. He's been reading moon's posts about nuttiness.
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