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  1. Bellhorn04
    Can't make much sense of this.
  2. Bellhorn04
    Jax is all excited because Kluber made it through 4 innings yesterday.
  3. Bellhorn04
    You sign a guy like JD Martinez for 5 years and 110 million, and everyone is happy at first. 2-3 years later most of the fans are itching to unload him. Funny how that works.
  4. Bellhorn04
    And as I wrote in the comments section of that article, the intelligent fan only cares about the budget because they know if the team spends stupidly it will hurt the team sooner or later. Which should be fairly obvious, I would think.
  5. Bellhorn04
    It takes more than the stache LOL...
  6. Bellhorn04
    Knowing Max, I don't think he was being serious. But this isn't especially funny, either.
  7. Bellhorn04
    The Lester offer was flat-out Lowball City. 10 and $300 million wasn't quite that. But it still sounds like a minimum bid when you're talking about Mookie Betts. Maybe they should have started where the Mets did with Lindor, 10 and $325. Give a signal that you really want to get this done. None of which matters, of course, just something to pass the time by musing about...
  8. Bellhorn04
    Not much point in this as an actual thread, is there, Max? We've already got one called Major Concerns that was started after the first game. This is pretty much the same as a thread titled We Suck. Silly.
  9. Bellhorn04
    It is the fans who provide the money to the organization. It's the executives of the organization who get to decide how to spend it, of course.
  10. Bellhorn04
    But we know that they made an offer of $300 million. It's not like they were just letting him walk away. I think what it came down to was they drew a line on how high they would go with him, just like most teams do in any negotiation. The only real question is whether they drew the line too low.
  11. Bellhorn04
    Most Sox fans liked JD's contract a lot when he signed it. And he has earned it up till now. Talk about trading him and eating money just shows what a low point the team is at.
  12. Bellhorn04
    The overreactions are funny, but it's all part of the 3 ring circus of being a sports fan...
  13. Bellhorn04
    It appears to me that in the 2018-2019 offseason they went to Betts first. When that fell through they went to Sale and Bogey. The Sale and Bogey extensions came together right at the end of that offseason. I guess the puzzle will always be why they didn't make a bigger offer to Betts. $300 mill wasn't an insult by any means, but it wasn't what you'd call a strong opening offer.
  14. Bellhorn04
    You're kind of pushing some political buttons here.
  15. Bellhorn04
    As Sox75 asked, who really gets hurt by this?
  16. Bellhorn04
    100% on all points.
  17. Bellhorn04
    The Mets and Lindor showed how one of these negotiations is supposed to go when both parties want to get it done. And frankly, Lindor did a lot better than Mookie compared to his value.
  18. Bellhorn04
    If it was all about wasted money and luxury tax, the seeds of destruction were sowed sooner than that, with $256 million flushed on Pablo/Hanley/Rusney.
  19. Bellhorn04
    Not all, actually. There were some posters here who didn't want to give him the mega-contract. I wasn't one of them.
  20. Bellhorn04
    Very fair questions. But we're all in danger of falling into the hole of an acrimonious political discussion here.
  21. Bellhorn04
    John Means Business was the story of this one.
  22. Bellhorn04
    Swihart's Ghost nuts?
  23. Bellhorn04
    That would be Eovaldi, Sale and Bogey. But they also let Kimbrel go and signed nothing in the way of relievers. I think there's a lot more to it than that. It was an accumulation of things that bloated the payroll. Even a guy 'under control' like Mookie was suddenly quite expensive. Not that he wasn't worth it and more. But it has gotten really difficult to be a good team for long without the payroll mushrooming. Look at the Dodgers this year.
  24. Bellhorn04
    Sounds like being sent to the Gulag LOL
  25. Bellhorn04
    Keep in mind the fellow who started this thread has been trash talking us big time. I couldn't pass up such an opportunity for fun.
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