Bellhorn04
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Step One to get the fans back a little is to announce an extension with Devers.
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He was in a classic no-win situation at the deadline. According to Alex Speier, Bloom did put JD and Eovaldi on the market, but he was asking for a big return, and he didn't get any bites.
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This season is a mess, without a doubt, and much of it does fall on Bloom. There will be major acquisitions, book it.
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I'm an accountant, but I'm not ashamed to admit I can't figure out how some of these calculations work.
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He didn't miss the point, he deflected.
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"Terrible" seems a bit excessive.
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In retrospect this is one of the funniest posts on the thread. (Posted on August 4.)
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The one thing I regret is that Slasher isn't here any more. He seems to be the only other guy who knows this troll from way back the way I do.
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As far as I can tell, if the Sox decline the option, they're on the hook for 6 million for 2022, and the tax hit for 2022 will be adjusted to that. Also if the Sox decline, Paxton has his own option for 2023 for 4 million. Would he do that? Hard to say.
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My prediction is you get banned again soon, and the board will celebrate.
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Nice, a Troll Poll.
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I was talking about on here, obviously.
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Now Old Red, maybe you're misremembering the times you said "Bloom Jock Supporters"...
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You've certainly shown what floats yours.
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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.
