Bellhorn04
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Everything posted by Bellhorn04
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Oh I get it. To me it all reeks of self-fulfilling prophecy - we're gonna suck anyway so it doesn't much matter what we do.
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Nope, the Alchemist is gonna give everybody one more shot at it. 13 aces - I think that was your line.
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Bill Lee (who else?) is the man who first came up with it, IIRC.
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Cora might not even be here next year. But he wouldn't be the first to make plans for a future that isn't there - they just fired the last guy who did that.
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It's just a literary trope. It doesn't bother me. To each their own of course. But again, the historical parallels are kind of freaky.
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This is exactly why we have the ugly rumors that this is all about funding other FSG enterprises.
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It's not far-fetched, no. It could also quite easily fail. We only have so many credentialed pitchers. Trading Jansen makes it one less, unless they get one back in the trade, which seems rather doubtful.
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I commend that attitude, I really do. It's just uncanny that the Sox halfway knowledgeable reporters like Abraham and Speier are flat out convinced we'll get a minor move or two and nothing else. It's not like they've been doomsayers in the past.
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a) Of course Snell and Monty have flaws. They passed or missed on all the other worthwhile options too. c) Next year they'll find reasons not to acquire any of those guys either. Starting with too expensive of course. Plus one or more of them will likely sign extensions.
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Featuring such classic lines as "I couldn't even cheat these guys to a .500 record."
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Subtitled (The Roster is What it Is)
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I Am Sam
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As the article points out, Henry turns 75 this year. It really is a time to contemplate one's legacy.
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If they don't at least sign one of Monty or Snell, this is absolutely one of the worst clusterf***s in the history of baseball management. Downright irrational, self-destructive s***.
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I know. It really is this bad.
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How many c words are off limits here? It's a good article regardless. Some of the parallels with last century are pretty crazy. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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It only makes sense if the payroll budget for tax purposes this year is in fact etched in stone at let's say 200 million. Which would mean any number of lies about the budget have been told us, of course.
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Another nicely scathing piece on Henry from OTM: https://www.overthemonster.com/2024/2/8/24063965/john-henrys-legacy-is-on-the-line-red-sox-yankees-dodgers-mookie-betts
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Liar Liar Scrooged
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What we'll never know is how many other voices he had in his ear on the buy vs. sell decision, including the voice of the big man. It's quite possible of course that he had to make the decision on his own. According to Werner they don't interfere with their CBO, so I'm sure we can take that to the bank.
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I see a problem in not weighting anything, lumping in $10 million contracts with $140 million contracts. It's all academic, of course.
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So you're saying he sucked on his biggest deals, but you're not counting Story and Yoshida?
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Not saying must be fact, but I believe the reports were from credible sources, and if not refuted, why would you doubt them?
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So we shouldn't wait on Story and Yoshida, only Bogaerts?
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I don't know, I thought Bloom really was trying to do the rebuild but compete thing. He just made some s***** moves, and he got incredibly indecisive at the deadlines. But his offseason moves did make some sense in view of the stated plan.
