Bellhorn04
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Tell you what, Nick, show us one credible source that confirms every move Theo made in those "early years" was approved by Lucchino. Just one.
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I know plenty, and I know you don't mind making stuff up.
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Nope. Rays were 96-66 in 2019. They're 69-55 in 2022.
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Nonsense.
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You know this how?
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Seems like a meaningless comparison to me. They didn't get under the tax line at the deadline because they thought the team still had a shot with Sale and Wacha coming back.
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Nice gibberish.
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Way to gloss over the point about Theo. You're good at that, I find.
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To me the Story signing seems like a case of "you can't win". People beeched about the lack of big signings and when they finally did one, they beeched about the signing.
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Theo had no experience as a GM when the Sox hired him either. If you always go with experienced guys you basically have to get someone who was just fired by another team, like DD.
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The other aspect of this is everyone sees what Friedman has done with the Dodgers. Friedman was part of the Rays Way and now he's Rays Way Plus Money. I think Henry likewise envisioned the Red Sox could be Rays Way Plus Money.
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There's no question that a lot of the support for Bloom comes from the belief that the Rays Way Works. I'm pretty sure that's why Henry hired him, too.
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Amazingly I've never encountered that acronym until now. It's a good one all right.
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Nope, nobody thinks that.
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We know that, Denny, we really do.
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From what I've gathered, most people only consider an ace a guy who's on a Hall of Fame track.
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They were the most aggressive team.
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Right, like the Texas Rangers, who spent $500 million on Seager and Semien and have since fired the GM and the manager!
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It certainly should have by now.
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OK Mr. Circular Argument.
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Reese McGuire has a .906 OPS with the Red Sox. And he's a good defensive catcher. That's one of Bloom's deadline moves that is looking good. And he shed Diekman and his 2023 salary in that trade.
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He did have a plan. It was explained in the article by Speier we have both referred to. I thought you read that article.
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Yes, I've heard that many times. But it's false. Every plan involves uncertainty and therefore hope.
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Hoping somebody overpays. It happens. I think he had a plan. It was a plan that everyone can question, absolutely, but it had some reasoning behind it. In retrospect a fire sale and 2012-style tank job was the call. But that would have created a lot of bitterness with fans too.
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And what if he did make moves at the deadline and we still miss the playoffs? Then we're even worse off. The people who say he should have had a fire sale are undoubtedly correct. I wasn't for it, because I thought we still had an outside shot. At the deadline we still thought Sale would be back and Paxton would also be coming. The best laid plans of mice and men and so on.
