Bellhorn04
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I don't have much opinion on him, except he was one of the few guys I liked watching in the abysmal 2005 World Series.
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LOL that is funny. zac, can I please see your truck day pic again, the one with Cherington, and Pedroia on the sled...that one kills me.
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Fighting on an anonymous internet forum has to be the most useless practice ever. Yeah, you're really gonna get the best of somebody by putting unkind words on their computer screen.
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OK zac WTF are RSPs? I assume you have a pic ready to go.
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Making A-Rod the face of the franchise till age 42 didn't work out so good.
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Yeah, my bad.
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I felt so bad for Marty Barrett - a journeyman guy who played out of his mind that postseason and would have been World Series MVP and Red Sox hero.
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Baseball posts please.
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Marahiro Tanaka And Sox Starting Rotation.
Bellhorn04 replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Sabathia might have a bounceback season, too. -
Marahiro Tanaka And Sox Starting Rotation.
Bellhorn04 replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
The Yankees bullpen looks a bit thin at the moment. But to borrow a page from Fred's book, I don't think the dirty conniving bastards are done yet. Who knows, maybe our old pal Papelbon is on their radar, among others. -
Getting back to MVP's point, taken to its extreme this might mean that selling Babe to the Yanks was 'good for the rivalry'. Plus all those other players they took from us in that time frame. They raped us, basically. That created a type of drama too, in the form of years of untold anguish for Sox fans and Dan Shaughnessy getting rich.
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Red Sox-Yankees rivalry/buzz is at its peak when the two teams are duking it out for a postseason spot or meeting in the postseason.
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Well, this is kind of a nebulous issue IMO, but if we focus on the one specific scenario of Drew signing with the Yankees, I think that might tend to affect Sox and Yankee fans/media a lot more than it would affect general baseball fans/media. With a big name like Ortiz it's a different story. Was Damon going to the Yankees good for the rivalry/buzz...if so, in a big way? I don't think it had that big of an impact on baseball in general.
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Maybe. You could also say that if Ortiz goes to the Yankees in 2015 it would provide more drama too. Or you could say it would make you sick and angry.
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I have to say the one thing that will sour this offseason for me is if the Yanks sign Drew.
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What I'm suggesting is that there are a lot of X factors in play. For the Yankees we can start with Sabathia and Tanaka. Pretty hard to predict. But if those two have strong seasons, etc. etc.
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The Yankees have a lot of question marks, but so did we going into last season. Everything went right for us. I'm not writing off the Yankees this year. If Sabathia comes back, if Pineda comes back, if they sign Drew etc....
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Very good.
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Marahiro Tanaka And Sox Starting Rotation.
Bellhorn04 replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
In what way is it a big weakness though? In the competitive fairness department, all the Yankees spending isn't equating to many championships lately. In the business department, MLB is obviously raking in more money than ever. -
Marahiro Tanaka And Sox Starting Rotation.
Bellhorn04 replied to marklmw's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
That's the same thing we heard about Dice-K. What are the final numbers on the Dice-K marketing benefits? -
My memories of 1986 are mostly good ones, except for the finish obviously. I had a trip to Boston that year with some buddies that was the best trip I've ever had there. We arrived on a Friday night. They lost the Friday game 14-3 to the Orioles, but Fenway was in a big party mood regardless. The next afternoon we spent several hours at the Cask N Flagon. There were 5 of us, a couple of them were former college football players who weighed over 250. We were all big beer drinkers. We drank so many beers that afternoon that when we were about to leave, the manager insisted that he have his picture taken with us.
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I remember Game 4. It was on a Saturday night and I was watching it in a bar while drinking heavily. Clemens was pitching for us and we had a 3-0 lead going to the 9th. For some reason the group I was with moved somewhere else and I stopped watching the game. Then, it must have been at least an hour later, I passed by a TV and saw that the game was still going on. I felt sick to my stomach. The Angels had scored 3 in the 9th and then they scored 1 in the 11th to go up 3-1 in the series.
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Right. And what they are doing now is making it up as they go along, don't you think? If they knew they were going to bust through the 189, and they knew it was going to be all about getting back to the postseason, why the hell not pay Cano?
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If you're thinking of Austin Jackson, you have to also think of why Detroit would be willing to trade him to us and for what.
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Because they said they were gonna get under the 189 million threshold, of course! Seriously, there were a lot of stories about the Yankees being determined to get under the 189. In retrospect it seems laughable. However, there were two factors that lent the story some credibility: 1) Supposedly, there is a big, bad new financial penalty for luxury tax payers in 2014 - the 'revenue-sharing-disqualification' penalty, or words to that effect, which some stories projected could be in the tens of millions for 2014, on top of the 50% tax. 2) The Yankees did seem to be trimming payroll a bit the last few years, most notably last offseason when they cut Swisher and Martin loose and made no effort to replace them. The current spending spree does raise the question of why the f*** they let go of their best hitter by far.
