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  1. marklmw
    Really? What makes you say that?
  2. marklmw
    Agree ... who does this ... it might be harder to hit as a DH then to be hit while playing in the field. Ortiz seemed to do pretty well at the plate against the Cards while playing 1B.
  3. marklmw
    True that Dojji but at the end of the day in professional sports ... no prizes for finishing 2nd.
  4. marklmw
    Could be that if Drew accepts the QO that the Sox end up offering him a multi-year deal. If so this is where the Middlebrooks at first comes in. Can Middlebrooks give the team Napoli type of numbers? One thing the Sox would like to have is a good balance of younger and experienced players.
  5. marklmw
    This discussion is all contingent on Drew being back next season. Hold on to your hat.
  6. marklmw
    imo ... if Drew finds a 3-4 year offer from another club he is good as gone.
  7. marklmw
    Should Napoli sign with another club I can see Drew, Bogaerts with Middlebrooks at 1B. Why not. We had Youk moving between 1st and 3rd for many years. If Middlebrooks does not work out we can deal with that when and if the time comes. Can Nava play 1B. Carp has but not very well.
  8. marklmw
    Ortiz was part of 3 championships ... pretty great stuff there!
  9. marklmw
    It must be awesome however for a club to be paying a player like Trout league minimum all the while he is putting up numbers worthy of 25M per year. The Angels are ahead about 50M over the past two years on Trout alone with more to come.
  10. marklmw
    Is Trout a good example? He is only 22 years old so there might not be an ounce of drop-off over a 10 year period. Hard to imagine considering the numbers he has managed to put up so far.
  11. marklmw
    Come on Palodios ... cut the kid some slack. Everyone in the world knows that Ellsbury will not accept the QO. I would rather the Sox go after Tanaka than to re-sign Ellsbury if the premise is one or the other and not both. IMO... JBJ & Tanaka > Ellsbury & Dempster over the next 5 years.
  12. marklmw
    In reality every team ... all 30 of them have a # 1. It is also true that some teams # 2 might be better than many of the # 1's. It is when a teams number 3 has better numbers than your teams # 1 that you have a problem on your hands. When you look at Lester can you honestly rank him ahead of Verlander? Do not get me wrong here ... I have always been a fan of Lester and he proved himself big time in the WS.
  13. marklmw
    If I had to do my life over I would have studied sports management and learned how all the financials work for each major professional sports team ... mainly player contracts and how the caps work.
  14. marklmw
    You think so? That would be nice.
  15. marklmw
    I accept that the Yankees, Dodgers and Rangers are all going to make a posting offer for Tanaka ... even to be the winning post out of this 3 plus Boston would be a victory in my eyes. Win the posting and then you have to actually sign the player.
  16. marklmw
    I have to give you props UN for changing my mind about Ellsbury. You took me from a 'we have to sign him' to a 'we can get by without him'
  17. marklmw
    I agree ... the Yankees overpaid for Arod for sure but they also overpaid for Sabathia. Shields is a proven commodity but what happens when his arm shuts down because he has been so durable ... lots of miles on his arm. If you trade your best young players it would be nice to obtain a player in his prime and not downward half of his career.
  18. marklmw
    Lester was and is an amazing pitcher. The more he changes speed the better he pitches.
  19. marklmw
    I would like to be clear on something ... Ownership is not going to make a posting fee just because they can ... they will make a posting fee if it makes financial sense to them. As I said earlier ... they have tax and other advisers that they pay a tremendous amount of money to for helping them make sound financial decisions. The Sox averaged how many fans last year .... 35,000? x's 81 games plus the playoffs. 2,835,000 regular season fans. Average ticket price ... $30 ... average on concessions ... $30 (note to UN ... this is not factual) = 170M. + Playoffs +MLB revenue sharing, +TV Contract with NESN + + + who knows what. I would imagine that the Sox are turning a profit. Just a wild guess.
  20. marklmw
    Agree .... if you are going to pay for a player you would like to be paying for him in his prime.
  21. marklmw
    What was Bostons Payroll last season and what is it projected to be next season? They are hardly spending like a drunken sailor.
  22. marklmw
    You guys kill me. Have you ever heard of Warren Buffet and Berkshire Hathaway. BH is a holding company that has many businesses. Some companies they own stakes in while other companies they may control outright. I said that I would not be surprised in the Sox ownership team also has its entities under one holding company and to say that I am being presumptuous is a low information type of statement. In fact I would bet a steak dinner to any taker on this assumption.
  23. marklmw
    Suppose they do pay a 60M posting fee but have a real cost of 30M ... then you factor in the contract that might cost 17M to an experienced MLB player but they sign him for 72/6 ... which becomes very reasonable to keep under the cap. It is their decision but I hope that you realize that GE at times pays no corporate tax because of corporate tax laws. Spread the 30M posting cost over 6 years etc. It is an expense that they probably covered in the past two weeks alone. This ownership team lives a different kind of life. Do they really miss 30M spread over 6 years? I doubt it. They cannot spend the money that they make.
  24. marklmw
    I would not give up Owens. The Sox score plenty of runs and they will continue to do so even without Carlos Gonzalez. Think pitching folks ... you must admit the the Sox were lucking getting by TB, Detroit and St. Louis.
  25. marklmw
    I would not be surprised if all of ownerships entities are controlled by a holding company. Decisions like a posting fee for Tanaka might be decided by the tax attorney's based on how well Liverpool did or NESN or their NASCAR team. It gives them tremendous flexibility. Same goes in the opposite direction ... how the Sox did in 2013 might determine what they do in their NASCAR operation. This is why I am telling all you folks to stop being concerned about the posting fee. They might actually need the posting fee to offset some other profits. The Sox ownership enjoys winning and they enjoy riding on the duck boats waving at their adoring fans.
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