FredLynn
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This IS a crisis, trust me. Not trying to paint an overly gloomy picture, but the picture is quite gloomy. Unfortunately the US was slow to act and remains slow to put in place the kind of restrictions that will be needed to cap this and flatten the curve below where it will overwhelm the hospital services our system is capable of providing. Unless folks understand the seriousness of this and behave accordingly we will be in for many months of rationing of care.
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They failed to act quickly enough to close the borders to hot zones. They are still not testing nearly enough people, and testing is some areas is not free, or became free only recently. They continue to fail to limit non essential travel and they continue to permit large gatherings of people in one place in most locations such as schools. Kids don't know what "don't touch your face" means. They get mild to assymptomatic infections and can then infect adults. If everyone just eliminated non essential travel for about three weeks this would be gone in this country. Do we have the will to do it? In terms of consequences the virus has now spread to the community and continues to spread. If its not contained there will be insufficient capacity in the hospitals to care for those who are critically ill. I heard that in Italy they are not intubating anyone over age 50, probably because there aren't enough ventilators. We could get there too.
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My guess is that its a year away, maybe two. "Close" is a relative term. It will happen. Also, some of the Asian countries are WAY ahead of us in controlling this. Just got back from a diving trip to Indonesia (Bali) and the Philippines, passing through Korea and Taiwan. Korea was hit hard, but is now on the down slope. Taiwan has done a remarkable job controlling this, especially given its proximity to China. Last I read there were only 51 cases on the whole island. We could take a lesson from them. I think that its likely that either Korea or Taiwan will have a vaccine first. Our health care system dropped the ball.
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I am buying airline stocks and hotel stocks. They have been decimated. If you hold them for a couple of years you can make a lot of money. This is a blip....it will end and a vaccine will be developed. Hang in there everyone.....and go buy an Elizabethan collar for yourself.
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And you know this .....how? Seems to me that the choice for surgery or no surgery is Sale's alone. But the voiding of the contract is not his alone.
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Microfracture surgery sucks. The results are quite short term, if they work at all.
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75+/- 3 games
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This whole team is a weak link. How many games will they win this year? My guess is 65-70.
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Exactly what I was going to post...word for word.
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No s*** Sherlock. What makes you think that we are entitled to "the whole story"? Its a fair assumption that we rarely, if ever get the whole story. Sale is going under the knife. And 2020 is going to really suck. I expect that we will be relevant again in two years.
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Red Sox close to deal with Kevin Pillar
FredLynn replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I sure hope so. Bradley has proved what he can do with a bat in his hands here.....and what he can't do. Lets see if we can get a bag of used golf balls for him. -
Mookie Betts and David Price have been traded to Dodgers
FredLynn replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Not to mention the Patriots franchise....and even the Celtics and Bruins. The C's last mediocre season was 13/14 and the Bruins last losing season was 06/07. New England fans have had it good. -
Mookie Betts and David Price have been traded to Dodgers
FredLynn replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I think this is a much better deal for the Sox. Downs could step in and play 2B and Verdugo is a decent OF. I would have loved to get a good SP, but for one year of Betts I think we did OK. This will likely be a down year, and we can choose to sign Betts in 2021. -
Mookie Betts and David Price have been traded to Dodgers
FredLynn replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Because its such a fantastic deal? -
Mookie Betts and David Price have been traded to Dodgers
FredLynn replied to Jasonbay44's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Blow it up. This is a huge red flag. -
Pretty funny. I remember you writing similar nonsense in 2018, the last year the Sox won the WS. Perhaps you remember that year. Lets play the games first; then talk about a bloodbath.
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Betts has made it abundantly clear what his plans are: he is going to test free agency and will almost certainly sign for the most money he can get. That is why its time to trade him for as much as we can get for him. It will be a season or two of holding our noses, but within five years we will be competitive again.
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Scum knows no financial limits.
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Can we change that next year?
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I think certain Sox players played hard at times. But all season long there were too many mental errors on the part of both the players and the manager to ignore. I know you weren't on the game threads much, but many of us who were mentioned them at the time. Baserunning blunders over and over again; poor decisions on the field; Cora failing to put his players in the best possible position to win a game; Cora failing to get is SPs ready for game one...and so forth. Its a matter of opinion, but to me, these guys did not play with the same focus and intensity this year as last. The talent was there to be competitive, but they simply were not into the games too often. Thats my opinion and I am sticking with it.
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Your act is getting old.
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That word, "hate", is being tossed around here, but it is not really accurate. For me its really reserved for people who commit immoral crimes in real life. I love trash talking to our rival Yankee fans and certainly would not want them to win another game as long as baseball lives.....but in this context real hate is not an accurate description, as every Sox fan knows. I think you are right: "dislike" is more accurate.
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A lot of people here are gloating over the fact that the Yankees will not win a ring this year. I can't do it, not when my team never showed up despite being close to the same team that won 108 games last year. Their guys played way over their heads for sure, but when our guys didn't even play its hard for me to knock other teams who were more successful. I think it would be different if we were as competitive as we should have been based on our roster.
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Yes, that is a knock on the 2018 Sox, a team that steamrolled all year including the playoffs. They beat "the best team to come around in a long time" in FIVE GAMES-despite Sale "being a shell of himself". If you are looking for the best team to come around in a long time you need look no further than the 2018 Red Sox, a team for the ages.
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They lost Sabathia, German (what an idiot), and Severino (who never really got his footing). In the pen they lost Betances. Stanton was hurt. Yes, I hate the Yankees too, but they never gave up, unlike this year's Red Sox team which never even showed up. I am glad we still have a ring from 2018 and finished the job that year, and I am almost as glad that the Yankees didn't get a ring this year. But I see a team in the Yankees that busted their butts to make the most of what they had available in contrast to our team this year. Yes, the cockroaches are dead, and we are all entitled to rejoice in that fact. I would be much happier if our team showed up for the season this year too. They had the talent to do it but took the year off.