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  1. jad
    That would explain it if other teams were not playing w/ the same ball.
  2. jad
    But allowing for exemptions only makes the problem worse, since only rich teams can afford these multi-bazillion dollar and multi-year contracts. They should not be able to get out from under them,which they most certainly will do (case in point, the Yankees' repeated efforts to embarrass A-rod into retiring.) No team should be able to outbid weaker teams in the hope that they will find some loop-hole in the future to avoid paying up.
  3. jad
    It's actually one of the worst fonts in typographical history. (Just sayin'!)
  4. jad
    Why does that affect only the pitchers, and not the hitters?
  5. jad
    "Multiple hairline fractures"? Any sense that this was exacerbated by 'microfracture' surgery itself?
  6. jad
    Well, that could be an argument I suppose (and it's certainly the policy for some teams with limited payroll). But any plan based on "not signing the best players" (since many of the best players do in fact want those long-term deals) is probably not going to win four championships every 15 years or so.
  7. jad
    Why should he? This is why the Union negotiated for guaranteed contracts. It's not like they didn't know there might be injuries such as this. The RS gave him the contract. So pay him and move on.
  8. jad
    I know that in my business, once the boss walked in and let us know that there were going to be no long term contracts, that we would be working, not for money, but for the good of the business, that salaries would be capped, and that anyone who did not get w/ the program would be let go, why productivity and morale just shot way way up and the number of applications for positions went through the roof.
  9. jad
    I am sure that once all the top FAs in the league are informed that the Red Sox are giving ONLY one-year deals, they will flock to Boston! and probably take a discount as well. Time to tell that Betts character that he's getting, oh, 10million for a one-year deal and he better damn well like it!
  10. jad
    I guess a .210 hitter who is an average fielder and costs a tenth as much? (I have always loved watching him play, but I really just can't stand watching him hit any more.)
  11. jad
    Another quality start, alas.
  12. jad
    Ouch. Even JBJ could have hit that (well, maybe that's a stretch).
  13. jad
    To what purpose? So that we can have this thread another year?
  14. jad
    If JBJ can't hit either of those last two pitches, he really should not be in the lineup.
  15. jad
    I have heard this type of thing suggested many times (was it here? on an NBA board? -- can't remember). But in all seriousness, do you have an example of a case where this has actually worked out? (It may well have; I just can't think of one right off hand; i.e., essentially a 'one year rental' player coming back to the home team).
  16. jad
    Ha ha! So when your boss says I'm moving you to Fairbanks for a year, but don't worry, I'll have you come back in a year--now don't you dare negotiate w/ any other employer, and don't sell your house; look, it's only a year and it's for the good of the company ... When your boss tells you that, you're fine with it?
  17. jad
    He meant Drew. (I made the association with the two JD's and AGon--all of whom performed EXACTLY as should have been expected, and were vilified despite that.) (My view based on RS history, although it's probably pointless to argue it, is that a lot of the anti-Agon talk was racist in origin. Not sure of this--did the RS have any Mexican-American players before him? I found only 3 or 4, who played briefly, none of whom I have heard of. Am I missing someone?)
  18. jad
    Oh sure. Replacing an MVP with a prospect equally good and less than 1/100th the price is simple. Why didn't we think of this earlier?
  19. jad
    The anti-JD criticisms remind me of those against Adrian Gonzalez (who hit his career-average w/ the REdSox, despite the claims that 'he didn't fit in'--gosh, I wonder what that meant?); or J.D.Drew, who also hit right on his average for the RS. JD's numbers are this year above his average, no?
  20. jad
    Bring back Pinkie Higgins!
  21. jad
    As Charles Barkley so wisely said, players care about 3 things: money, winning, and minutes ... in that order. I am also saying that Chris Sale is not a complete idiot: he would never accept the logic (nor would you), that his performance would be better if he were paid less. How would you react if your boss suggested that to you?
  22. jad
    I'd love to be at the meeting where you pitch this to Sale and his agent: "Look, we only have your legacy in mind, and you have ALWAYS played better underpaid. Forget about the market or what your team-mates make ..."
  23. jad
    Are you referring to the tough guy whose most famous bad-ass move was sucker-punching a guy (while in full pads and mask)? (The only good thing Carl Crawford did while here was calling him out for his "captain" b.s.)
  24. jad
    Eck's fault, clearly.
  25. jad
    Oof.
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