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  1. Bellhorn04
    If there are no big signings, it will be kind of funny, kind of sad...and one hell of a sham!
  2. Bellhorn04
    Maybe trading Betts and slashing the budget were not the right ideas. We'll never know, I guess.
  3. Bellhorn04
    And I think it was somewhere around this time that Henry really lost his way. He wanted to prove who the smart guy was and he let his ego get the better of him. And we've seen the results.
  4. Bellhorn04
    There is a fair amount of pitching, but the lack of position player talent means there will be even more of a bidding war on the pitching. That's all I meant.
  5. Bellhorn04
    Well, if they were conducting a sham, it fits with the idea that Bloom was used as a fall guy.
  6. Bellhorn04
    I'll say add 10% to that, based on the big players all being involved and the overall shortage of talent in this year's free agent season. So we're talking about a $300 million outlay.
  7. Bellhorn04
    I'm getting the feeling it would take at least $250 mill (not including the posting fee) to shut things down the way they were shut down with Yoshida.
  8. Bellhorn04
    Apparently 3 first place finishes in 4 years didn't meet the guidelines, either.
  9. Bellhorn04
    What if Bloom was operating under the guidelines that his job in Years 1-4 was to build the farm and cut payroll, and his job starting in Year 5 would be to shoot for a title? He sure seemed to be acting that way, especially with the lack of spending on the rotation in 2023. There's a lot we don't know, obviously, and that we'll never know. To me it seems odd that if the Sox were supposed to be going for a title in 2023 that the payroll would end in the middle of the pack. Didn't you say something about a "sham"? Was the "sham" understandable and reasonable?
  10. Bellhorn04
    mvp says Bloom was offered another position in the organization. Oh no, someone else who took things the wrong way.
  11. Bellhorn04
    No idea.
  12. Bellhorn04
    Funny how people take these things. Seems to happen over and over.
  13. Bellhorn04
    Not really DD's fault that Kimbrel picked such a bad time to suck. Kimbrel in 2023 might be a different story.
  14. Bellhorn04
    And Click left Houston after they offered him a one-year extension. Seems he took that as a slap in the face too... I guess some of these baseball executive folks are just really sensitive!
  15. Bellhorn04
    I don't think many outside the organization were surprised at all. It was obviously a case of being demoted, and Cherington did what many in his position would have done.
  16. Bellhorn04
    So do you believe it came as a big surprise to Henry that Cherington left after DD came aboard?
  17. Bellhorn04
    Of course. And I think everyone who has lived on the planet a while and has a functioning brain is familiar with the idea that there's more than one way of getting somebody to leave.
  18. Bellhorn04
    It's fact that Epstein was gone after 2011, Cherington after 2015, Dombrowski after 2019 and Bloom after 2023. To me it's a strange pattern, especially when we're talking about the franchise that has won the most championships this century. If you don't see it that way, that's fine.
  19. Bellhorn04
    I think it's a myth that there are myths here. I think most people who have an interest in the matters realize that Nixon wasn't impeached and Cherington wasn't fired.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Now that was a random comment.
  21. Bellhorn04
    Well, if they were having big disagreements with each other it might be more understandable. But that's not the way Dombrowski made it sound. Of course, you'd to have to be the proverbial fly on the wall to know what all really went down leading up to it.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Dombrowski said he was shocked by the firing and that Henry never gave him a word of explanation. I see no reason to think he was lying.
  23. Bellhorn04
    I think you're making the facts fit your narrative. We all do it, of course.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Sorry moon, but winning rings every 3-5 years is not a real plan. The fact that it happened for the Red Sox is just random good fortune.
  25. Bellhorn04
    It's a fact that a lot of the folks the Sox were interested in interviewing for the supposedly coveted job opening said no thanks. One can read into that what they want. Sure, maybe it really was family considerations and the like. No way to prove anything, right?
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