Bellhorn04
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Well, see, it's the attacking that always comes first. You don't see anyone here start the day by saying "Well, I think Bloom is doing a bang-up job, don't you guys?"
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And you and Old Red and dgalehouse think alike. Let's make up a funny name for you three. This is all playground stuff.
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Don't be afraid to name names now, Nick. We're all internet tough guys here.
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The problem is the loudest fans consist of two main groups: grumpy old guys, and grumpy middle-aged guys. Just look at the makeup of this board. It's totally dominated by old guys. I'm one of them. We have one female poster, Kimmi, who is Bloom's biggest supporter here. We have one* young male poster, Thunder, who gets fed up with all the negativity. *There may be a few other young guys that don't post as much. Just seems to be the way it is.
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The thing is, saying Bloom sucks over and over again gets to be like a broken record after a while. Is it really a good way to spend one's time?
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Right, but they were hoping to make the playoffs again this year.
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The only other real option for JD and Eovaldi was to trade them at this year's deadline for suspects.
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Some folks are all about right now, I get that.
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JD and Eovaldi weren't bad contracts overall, no. But the last year of their contracts has certainly been bad. That's one of the reasons the team is where it is this year, and there wasn't much Bloom could do about it. So this "he had 3 years to do something about it" doesn't make much sense as a criticism.
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Bloom's sense of urgency seemed OK last year when he picked up Schwarber, Iggy and Shaw to help the team get in the playoffs. But that's all ancient history, right?
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"He had 3 years to work on this." Well, in 2021, Bogey, Eovaldi and JD were kind of important in us making the playoffs. So I don't think trading them last year was such a great idea. It just worked out that we had a bunch of contracts expire at the same time this year. There's really no great solution to it. It's unfortunate that Eovaldi and JD had down years this year. Bloom isn't a miracle worker. Every GM gets saddled with some bad contracts and usually all you can do is cut losses.
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The Cubs did the total tank thing. Regardless, it was a 5 year plan. DD also pretty much had a 5 year plan with the Tigers, based on the results.
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Pivetta is a solid #3/4 starter. Too bad our other guys couldn't take the ball the way he does.
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What would your solution be?
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Theo's 5 year plan with the Cubs seemed to work OK...
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Well, Denny, I see no harm in being optimistic, personally. It's not like anything we say has any impact on anything.
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What's painfully obvious is that you think on the level of a homophobic teenage boy.
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You and your homoerotic fantasies...
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I agree on the last part, and I think that's part of the reason firing Bloom now would be a bad move and a very bad look for Henry.
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Now you're responding to the wrong poster.
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Not if Abreu is primarily DH'ing.
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He didn't say anything about knowing. He said "I think" and "just my opinion". Terrible reading comprehension on your part.
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All I'm doing is registering my opinion that Bloom will be here through 2023 in spite of Shaughnessy calling for him to be fired.
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Everything is set up for Bloom to really make the 2023 team his team. There's a lot of pressure on him too.
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Jose Abreu might be on the radar as a DH/1B.
