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  1. Bellhorn04
    I agree about Yost but the move by Gibbons made sense because Rios owns Price.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Those are the exact same error messages we get when the Boston.com forum goes down.
  3. Bellhorn04
    You just don't see many front 3's like the Mets have right now, that good and that young. They have really hit the motherlode all of a sudden. As I'm sure many people here know, the Mets got both Syndergaard and d'Arnaud from the Jays for R. A. Dickey. If that doesn't give you the chills about trading prospects...
  4. Bellhorn04
    That is very fair-minded and magnanimous of you.
  5. Bellhorn04
    For those numbers, he just screams albatross to me.
  6. Bellhorn04
    I liked the Pablo signing for the most part. But I was very surprised that they signed Pablo and Hanley at virtually the same time. It seemed strange - definitely felt like one of those 'let's make a splash' situations.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I have seen some guesses on Chris Davis at 6 years/144 million. How would you like your albatross - rare, medium or well done?
  8. Bellhorn04

    1975

    Bellhorn04 replied to cp176's topic in Other Baseball

    When Morgan hit the ball that Evans caught, I thought it was long gone. That was when I realized for the first time how deep right field at Fenway is. For it to turn into an inning-ending double play seemed like a miracle. Morgan would get his revenge the next night, unfortunately.
  9. Bellhorn04
    I can see Dombro being open to trading Swihart in the right deal.
  10. Bellhorn04
    Not me. I've been saying f*** the Mets since 1986.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Oh, I'm sure they will.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Personally I would not trade either for Harvey. They are 4-5 WAR players who would be very difficult to replace, and there are other pitchers comparable to Harvey that we could acquire.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Cubs are not a joke at all. They beat out the teams with the 2 best records in baseball. Then they ran into a team that is better, or hotter than them right now.
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  15. Bellhorn04
    The Jays pitching is not in great shape at all now. Losing Brett Cecil hurt them, and Price hasn't been the stud horse they needed him to be at the front of the rotation.
  16. Bellhorn04
    Duquette was out of the game a long time and was still able to procure a pretty decent job on returning.
  17. Bellhorn04
    Strapped may not be the right word. They would be severely hampered though. You've got 5 starting pitchers to pay, 3-4 good relievers, 9 position players. The numbers add up in a hurry.
  18. Bellhorn04
    I'm not worried about anything here. I enjoy this stuff. As far as facts go, the Red Sox payrolls for past years are facts. The luxury tax thresholds are facts. The extremely close relationship between the 2 is a fact. I maintain that my point is a very simple one. You just don't seem to get it. No big deal.
  19. Bellhorn04
    My point is pretty simple. We know how much they want to spend on payroll. We know how big the pie is. Which of course is tied into the question of whether we as fans should 'worry' or 'shudder' about such things as signing Price for $30 million a year. IMHO, it has nothing to do with worrying about the billionaire's money. The billionaire will be fine. He will not be reaching into his pocket to pay a nickel. He has an asset that keeps appreciating in value, and that generates more than enough revenue to cover the expenses. Any worry is only about how the $30 million impacts the strength of the team.
  20. Bellhorn04
    What I'm saying is that the Sox have made it clear, through the actual historical data, that their payroll budget matches up with the luxury tax threshold.
  21. Bellhorn04
    And, their payroll budget has been very consistently at or around the luxury tax threshold. The numbers are no mystery.
  22. Bellhorn04
    I don't look at it as worrying about 'billionaire's money'. I look at it as 'the team's money'. John Henry does not dip into his own pocket to pay for the players' salaries. The team has a big pot of revenue that it derives from the fans. It spends a carefully budgeted amount of that money on players. It will not go very far above that budget - because Henry and the other owners do not want to lose money. It's almost like a fantasy baseball team where you have X number of dollars to spend and no more, so the money has to be spent wisely.
  23. Bellhorn04
    No, he didn't screw up the team for years to come, I would never say that. Theo left him a lot of good prospects, and we have acquired some more thanks to the last place finishes.
  24. Bellhorn04
    No, I know that. This comes from Dojji saying 'Everyone and their grandmother knows the real reason he's here is to take over at DH when Big Papi retires.'
  25. Bellhorn04
    This is true, paying Hanley 88 million to take over DH in 2018 doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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