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  1. FredLynn
    You book it.....and book your loss too. Truth is, even if they squeak into the playoffs it will be another fast exit. That was fine last year. This year I expected more. And there could have been more if Henry wasn't so cheap.
  2. FredLynn
    LOL. Show me where I wrote that I believe that ST numbers mean much. I don't, so good luck. I do believe that Seabeach was correct in that on a team basis going into the season with some momentum IS important, but on an individual basis.....preseason stats are next to meaningless.
  3. FredLynn
    I think its fair to say that the Sox offer to Alonso was not competitive because of the number of years guaranteed. It was LOWER than what the O's offered him, obviously. Had we signed him I think our offseason would have been complete and our team improved. Right now I do not think we will score enough runs to compete for a ring, or even for a playoff spot.
  4. FredLynn
    They could finish as high as third...but no playoffs. That might be OK with you. Its not OK with me.
  5. FredLynn
    We already have visibility. Fourth place. Sellers at the deadline. Maybe third if the Orioles underperform.
  6. FredLynn
    From what I read their offer to Alonso was not competitive. They didn't even try to get Schwarber. I think you cannot make a team comprised solely of top end talent like Betts, Alonso, Schwarber etc. You need a mix of excellent players and players who don't suck but are more average to slightly below average. What frosts me is that this year we had a chance to be really relevant and have a shot at a ring. I don't think many people believe that is the case anymore.
  7. FredLynn
    Which Fred? I have repeatedly said the he spends, but not enough relative to his means
  8. FredLynn
    I didn’t say he NEVER spends. He just doesn’t do it often enough. Had he loosened his purse strings this year and signed a premier bat instead of some of the guys he fished out of the dumpster we could have been in the top five competing for a ring. He’s allowing a window of opportunity to pass by.
  9. FredLynn
    Well it’s pretty clear that their policy is to avoid paying market value for top end talent. Suarez is good but he came at a cost that was less than top of the line talent this offseason -and he was an exception. Both Schwarber and Alonso got more. Henry just doesn’t pay up the way he can afford to. Too many examples exist to deny that fact.
  10. FredLynn
    The "good reason" was that the Flops have a policy, apparently, of not signing prime talent at market cost. Instead they tend to make insulting offers (eg: John Lester) and as a result struggle to even MAKE the playoffs let alone be serious competitors for a ring. This year will be no different. It will not be any different as long as cheapskate John Henry owns the team.
  11. FredLynn
    Like Ortiz did whenever the gave him the intentional pass?
  12. FredLynn
    Obviously you don’t understand what I am saying. There are no contradictions. Let’s give it one more try: I DO care if the Orioles, for example, finish above us costing us a playoff spot. I DONT care how they accomplished that. I DO care what the Flops DIDNT DO to get better. There are no contradictions there.
  13. FredLynn
    Suit yourself. It’s your lack of ability to understand the concept that is the problem, not what I write. Others here have no problem understanding it. You do. I am not the problem. You are.
  14. FredLynn
    You still don't get it. I DO care if the Orioles finish above us and make the playoffs instead of us. I DO NOT care if the reason they did it is because they signed Alonso. I'm more concerned with how WE do relative to other teams than the details of how we got there. If our owner is too cheap to spend a higher percentage of revenue than some other teams (and it results in us finishing lower relative to other teams in the standings) thats a problem.
  15. FredLynn
    Its really not that complicated. It comes down to where the Flops are relative to other teams rather than how we and they got there. If we are spending, for example. just 10% of our revenue on player salaries and another team is splending, for example 80% on salaries (yes, this is an extreme example used just to make a point) then that means our owner is cheap compared to other teams' owners.
  16. FredLynn
    Why? Because you can't understand it? Lets try it a different way: I don't really care if the Orioles make the playoffs or if they signed Alonso. I care if we DO NOT make the playoffs or sign him. If you can't understand this I give up.
  17. FredLynn
    Good plan if you cannot understand my logic.
  18. FredLynn
    See my last post
  19. FredLynn
    I only care about other teams in terms of our position measured in comparison to them. For example, I don't care that team X signed top talent player Y. I care that WE did not get him. I do not care that other teams finished first in the division, I only care that WE did not. I do not care that other teams spend 90% of revenue on player salaries. I only care that we spend LESS than other teams.
  20. FredLynn
    That argument fails because I really don’t care what other teams do, only that the Flops spend the money and build the roster so that the are factors in competing for a ring nearly every year. They are failing to meet those expectations.
  21. FredLynn
    The bottom line is that we didn’t end up with the talent to be considered serious contenders for a ring this year despite having our ace and a stud hitter to anchor the lineup. Part of the blame goes to Henry for being cheap (ie being unwilling to spend enough money) and part of the blame goes to Breslow for not spending the available money wisely-and for being an idiot the past two TDs. Not looking for perfection, just “better” will do.
  22. FredLynn
    It’s obvious that Breslow has done a poor job in allocating the money available to him. That doesn’t mean everything he did sucked. But his job performance has left much to be desired. Case in point: being neither buyers nor sellers at the last couple of TDs. Just marked time. Henry needs to allocate more money for high end talent and Breslow should be fired for not doing his job in obtaining it.
  23. FredLynn
    Thats where we disagree: I think Henry knows perfectly well what he is doing : prioritizing profit over winning but still claiming that winning rules. He’s a smart guy. He can’t just come out and say “the Flops are a business and businesses are in business to make money”. That at least would be honest.
  24. FredLynn
    I believe so but I’d have to think it through a bit. Doesn’t matter. We didn’t get Alonso.
  25. FredLynn
    No, I wanted Suarez PLUS Alonso (over Contreras) and IKF can play somewhere else.
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