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  1. Bellhorn04
    It's a beautiful piece of irony that you're better off with a 50 gamer.
  2. Bellhorn04
    I don't put much stock in the 2015 team looking good on paper. The 2014 team went 71-91. We replaced Lester and Lackey with Porcello and Kelly. We added Miley and Masterson. We added guys like Ross and Ogando to the bullpen. The 2015 pitching staff was a major gamble. Everything needed to go right. The offensive underperformance of Hanley and Panda couldn't be predicted. But putting Hanley in left might have to be described as an experiment at best. There were just way too many X factors IMO. When you have that many X factors projections are not going to be reliable.
  3. Bellhorn04
    You got that wrong. Tony C did not have 'good luck to get hurt'.
  4. Bellhorn04
    Why do you say that Kimmi?
  5. Bellhorn04
    It was reported at the time that the Red Sox were angry, not with Damon, but with Boras, because he said he would give them a chance to match the Yankees offer, but didn't do so.
  6. Bellhorn04
    It may not be Dombrowski's fault, but it will be his funeral. When the games begin DD will be treated no differently from Ben. The team has to perform, or he wears it.
  7. Bellhorn04
    What exactly do you mean by 'he never saw the big picture' in terms of his number one job - the teams he put on the field?
  8. Bellhorn04
    I was happy for him when he won a ring with the A's. He really deserved it.
  9. Bellhorn04
    Bummer. RIP
  10. Bellhorn04
    Well, we'll have to wait and see what happens. But adding Price and Kimbrel sent us considerably farther over the tax threshold than we've ever been.
  11. Bellhorn04
    What about Dumbo?
  12. Bellhorn04
    I can agree with that. But the GM works for the owners. Red Sox ownership has maintained the payroll at a high level year in and year out for many years now - presumably some of that is to please the fans. No hardcore rebuilding years like Theo had to work with, with the Cubs. A big part of Ben's mandate, obviously, was to field contending teams.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Maybe it's just me, but I find it depressing when a bunch of people are calling the team's new head of baseball operations names before his first full season has even started. I could understand it if it was June and the team was sucking, but this is December.
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  15. Bellhorn04
    It's not a good thing that we have multiple posters calling Dombrowski Dumbo. It's no different from Francoma or Inepstein.
  16. Bellhorn04
    The Sox were over the cap in 2015. So 2016 is Year Two. 2016 is also the last year of the current CBA. Personally I think John Henry doesn't care so much about the tax cap these days.
  17. Bellhorn04
    The problem with this position is that, whether it was Cherington's idea or not, the Sox did spend a ton of money on Hanley, Panda, Porcello and Castillo, and none of them performed. And as MVP says, the Sox also charge the highest ticket prices.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I didn't actually mean to say Ben was a crushing failure. I meant that 2014/2015 were a crushing failure for him. And thanks for the kind words.
  19. Bellhorn04
    A body like Ruth's will decline rapidly. The guy lives on beer and hot dogs, for God's sakes.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Kimmi, I was a Ben supporter up until 2015. And I do agree with you that he did a lot of good things. The short version of why I think Ben had to be replaced comes down to this: When you're the GM of the Boston Red Sox and blessed with one of the highest payrolls in the game, you can't finish last two years in a row. No matter what the underlying reasons and explanations are, that is a crushing failure.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Shoulda traded Middlebrooks when he still had some value!
  22. Bellhorn04
    Really reaching on that one, jacko.
  23. Bellhorn04
    Oh I know...it was an attempted joke.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Duquette was not a bad GM, he procured some great players, we had some good years under him. But ultimately he failed us. He couldn't finish the job. Also from what I understand in his latter days he had somewhat of a mental breakdown and became something of a paranoid creep. He also reportedly shunned the team's legacy and didn't want players from the past anywhere near the park.
  25. Bellhorn04
    No, Dombrowski is not the GM. He is not the GM at all. You have clearly not been paying enough attention to the Dead Horse Debates!
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