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  1. jad
    I don't know: one suspected rapist, a minor league pitcher, both with histories of injury, plus paying Price to play for someone else. Seems to me that getting rid of the best player in baseball on a contract well below market value is a pretty small price to pay for a haul like that.
  2. jad
    Come on, man. If you follow a player like that on the field, you are no longer a true fan (or at least a true fan as measured by posters on sports boards), whose primary concerns are fantasy leagues, diwx97jacWAR, and competitive GM-ing
  3. jad
    I don't think they do. They still have to pay a good amount of Price's salary, and they also have to pay the players who are coming in. To me, what they did is get rid of a popular, MVP calibre player, whom they could have gotten for one year at WAY below market value. But JH is happy--that's the important thing. And, since TB is the model, the 14,000 fans who attend each game will be able to stretch out over a bunch of seats and relax.
  4. jad
    Can you build a better one around a suspected rapist with little MLB experience and a history of injury?
  5. jad
    Well, so far. But asking fans who have been following Mookie for years to switch their loyalties and cheer on a suspected rapist instead ... not sure that's going to work.
  6. jad
    Tampa Bay may have been competitive, but they also have one of the lowest attendance rates in MLB. Is this the model of success the RS want to follow? Getting rid of your best players may be great for 'fantasy-ball' fans, but it's not great for fans who like to watch baseball and pay money to do so.
  7. jad
    https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/02/05/red-sox-trade-mookie-betts-dodgers Agree totally with this writer, although we must understand by "fans," this writer means 'those who love watching baseball and want their team to win', not 'those who love competitive GM-ing and look at prof. sports as versions of their fantasy league'.
  8. jad
    Wow. Verdugo and ... who? "We're SAVED!"-- (Vladimir)
  9. jad
    I don't know about tthat. It worked fine for Socrates (well, maybe until tthe end.)
  10. jad
    Any examples of that? I can't think of any, although there certainly are players who were overpaid and did not play up to their salaries. Don't most people pretty much "do what they do" regardless of what they get paid? A competitive athlete will try to win, whether he's paid, over-paid, or 'insulted' by the offer he gets, no?
  11. jad
    Just a question: the CBA does not allow renegotiating (or 'restructuring' as the euphemism goes) a contract at any point during the life of that contract, correct? Thus the only way to get rid of an 'opt out' provision in a contract would be to have the player exercise that opt out and negotiate a new contract, right?
  12. jad
    I get the fact that (fans? GMs? owners?) don't like long-term contracts. Great. So here's an alternative: you can have the MVP at something below fair market value for a nice short-term contract (one year) w/ no commitments beyond that. Why on earth would you pass that up?? For the 'future'? 2020 IS the future. If I were as enamored of "prospects" as those here, I would simply stay home and follow the SeaDogs.
  13. jad
    100% agree.
  14. jad
    I believe that verse makes precisely the opposite point of the 'Greeks bearing gifts' cliche. But that is not unusual with Bible-thumping admonitions.
  15. jad
    Don't wait. Fire him now! Sox need to be more pro-active.
  16. jad
    Hey, youngster, since I doubt you're as old as me. No one uses the term "commie" or "communist" any more (well, except perhaps in reference to soccer).
  17. jad
    I'm confused. The Dodgers are putting together a package for Betts. But how do they have time to deal for him, since they are busy planning their World Series parades for the past, what, three seasons? Then too, since obviously the only reason LAD didn't win the WS on tthe field, but only in tthe hearts and minds of good people all over the globe, was that Betts was being given the signs, why would they want such a mediocre player on their team?
  18. jad
    Of course it "may in fact" (!) be happening. A giant earthworm "may in fact" be under Fenway Park right now, preparing to swallow it up. As you say, "who knows?"
  19. jad
    But then, if we "won't stand for that," what does that mean? What will we do? Not go to games? (So?) Not listen to the radio? Refuse to read the box score? Write angry e-mails to JH or to the Globe?
  20. jad
    Good thing we on the internet are so much more clever than any of the lawyers representing the Players Union. He could also retire and have the RS hand him a check for a few 10s of millions, you know, under the table? They'd never figure that out either. Or why not just restructure ALL contracts--paying the players half what they're making now, with the rest handed over in unmarked bills? Luxury tax problem solved.
  21. jad
    Well, if I had a wife and kids (which I do not have and do not want), I would certainly value my relationship with them more than I would value $12 million (which I also do not have and do not want).
  22. jad
    Unfortunately, there will always be the "Dempsters" of the world trying to prove that their presumed moral integrity is superior to their talent.
  23. jad
    I suppose congressional hearings are in the works, as there is really nothing pressing facing this country right now. A trillion or two in debt, war, billionaires presiding over poverty, 30-50 thousand gun deaths, mass incarcerations-- all that can surely wait. Besides, the LA city council wants its joint parade (oops, wrong word) with UCF.
  24. jad
    Really? In my experience, the only time an accused (i.e., any of us) screams in high moral indignation is when they know they are guilty.
  25. jad
    Ah yes, if only Pedroia were as bad-ass tough as your basic internet poster.
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