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  1. From the sounds of it, the two sides are still so far apart that it's a virtual certainty we're getting a short 2022 season, if we get one at all. Disgusting.
  2. He'll probably get a podcast.
  3. Seems like a nice, well-balanced lad!
  4. It does appear that it's the owners of smaller market teams who are throwing their weight around this time.
  5. It looks like the only way Bogey gets traded is if the Red Sox are out of it at the 2022 deadline.
  6. It's reaching the point you're scratching a dead horse's head.
  7. You posted that at 2:22. Might be good karma. Or not.
  8. Bloom bought prospects. It seems to be part of his MO. We all know JBJ is unlikely to earn what we're going to be paying him. Let's just stipulate to that.
  9. Aargh...not that dime-a-dozen thing again.
  10. Yep. None of that is going to be easy.
  11. No, they're probably not going to help the 2022 team. I think that's a given. But it's Bloom's job to think of 2022 and beyond 2022 at the same time.
  12. Fair question. But have you looked at Pillar's defensive metrics? Looks like they have slipped a lot and Bradley is definitely better. That said, there seems to be no getting around the idea that Bloom must really like those prospects...
  13. What could have happened differently?
  14. The Duquette appointment was the first step toward a new era of great success for the Red Sox.
  15. I must say dissecting those painful losses of the past is much more bearable when you're looking back on them through the filter of 4 championships.
  16. And Johnny Mac had the perfect opportunity to pinch-hit Baylor for Buckner against Orosco.
  17. Damon was a good player. Letting him go was kind of a wash. Didn't help much, didn't hurt much. We won a ring without him and he won one with the Yanks.
  18. 1980-1985 was sheer hell for Sox fans.
  19. They're kind of a necessary evil, jad, if you want pro sports. What beef can Red Sox fans really have with Henry? If he had told fans before he bought the team that over the next 20 years, prices would go up, but the team would win 4 championships, how many Red Sox fans would have signed on for that? Somewhere over 90 per cent, I'd say.
  20. How do Red Sox ticket prices compare to Patriots, Celtics and Bruins prices?
  21. Other sports have gotten pretty expensive too. Concert prices have skyrocketed, which has been tied to the big decline in sales of physical product. Fenway has the highest average prices, and all the amenities are expensive as heck, so people tend to pick on it as being on a gouge. Not without some justification, of course. But in return they also place high expectations on the team to provide good entertainment.
  22. I'm guessing they settle at around $220-230 for the tax thresholds and $700-725 K for the min salaries.
  23. We seem to be hearing some more hopeful signs on the negotiations now, at least.
  24. The bottom line is, the players have asked for a $245 million first tax threshold and a $775,000 minimum salary, and they will have to settle for less if a deal is going to get done.
  25. You have to have a minimum salary for MLB players for their first 3 years because it's a fixed wage. They can't offer their services to any other teams, they have no control over any of it. It's just the way the system is set up.
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