Bellhorn04
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Kennedy is being paid to be the front man and lie whenever necessary.
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They got prospects for Vaz and McGuire to replace him. Bloom was apparently hoping someone might get stupid with an offer for JD.
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I understand your point. I'm saying if the narrative is the Sox were all in to contend, worrying about going over the tax line 2 years in a row, while a lot of other teams are outspending them, suggests that they're full of s***.
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For better or worse, we're lightly moderated here, mvp.
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Either are Henry and Werner. Not sure what that has to do with it.
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Nope. Henry authorized going over in the first place. And if the narrative is they were all-in on contending, selling off at the 2022 deadline when they were 3 games out would totally contradict that.
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This time I think they're going to backfire.
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Larry departed in 2015, right? Somebody is definitely making decisions to fire and hire. Henry is the principal shareholder. Unless he's lost his marbles and Linda is telling him what to do, I think he's still the guy.
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If they fired Bloom for not lowering the payroll even more, that means they're even more full of s*** I've been giving them credit for.
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Henry isn't giving anyone a "long term look", that much has to be obvious by now.
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They'll probably just have to pay a little more. Chaim Bloom might be a little shocked and pissed right now, but the money the Sox paid him (and will pay him for next year) has probably put him and his family in a pretty good financial position.
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We were middle of the pack in payroll this year. I think that's an established fact.
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Maybe Henry had already given up on the Bloom experiment after 2022 and was semi-hoping for a s***** 2023 to justify canning him.
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I don't disagree, but to me the question right now is, did Henry order the 2023 payroll to be what it was, mid-pack in the game? What was the thinking behind that if they were really anxious to get back into contention this year, knowing what a tough division we were in? Something just doesn't make sense.
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I think it's quite possible the Story and Yoshida contracts had a lot to do with this, just like Pablo and Hanley and Castillo probably sealed Ben's fate, and Price and Sale may have sealed DD's.
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Another thing is Henry and Werner have always been "line in the sand" guys. When they had the trade for A-Rod almost done the deal was rejected by the Players Association, but when it was re-worked the Sox only had to pay another $12 mill or so to get it done. But they said "No, f*** you," and the rest is history - lucky history for us as it turned out. But I think it was the "line in the sand" approach that led to trading Mookie.
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Hard to say. These guys have been capable of being pricks to the talent from the get-go. They put Manny on waivers, remember?
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I don't think it's quite that simple, because we don't really know what discussions went on between ownership and Bloom, and we don't really know how restricted he was with the budget. Dropping to middle of the pack in payroll this year was a big deal IMO. How do you square that up with being fully committed to "results now"?
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That plus Story being injured.
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Henry definitely decided they did. It's the only reason you replace DD with a guy from the Rays organization.
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I get that, but like I say, trading him didn't make us play any better.
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It doesn't matter, though. We made a big deal out of it, but it's not like the team improved a lot after Kike left.
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Not really buying all that. DD didn't even get a chance to fail, unless you consider 2019 a disaster. The 2021 team was mostly residual from DD. "Someone in between Chaim and DD". Yeah sure, that's cake.
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The funny thing is that when Kike left, people started to realize the rest of the defense wasn't very good either.
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Because the only reason you replace DD with Bloom is if you want to rebuild and get payroll under control.
