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I'm still trying to get my head around the idea that Sox fans or any sports fan would celebrate NOT getting to watch Ohtani. That they feel more of an affinity with JH's bank account than with the product on the field. But so it goes.
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I dunno. I guess I'm just not a 'real' fan. I follow sports because I like to see great athletes perform, not because I'm interested in the wild wild world of CPAs and WARs. And the place to watch them appears to be in LA. Of course it's completely unfair that the owners who agree to pay their employees more get the best employees. That's positively unAmerican.
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Yeah, just look how the movie industry collapsed when they started paying actors big time. Or how the art world went into the tank as soon as they started paying millions for paintings. (I'm actually surprised at how quickly posters began celebrating us not getting Ohtani. But I agree entirely: when you have stars like ONeill, McGuire, and what were all those pitchers' names? who needs stiffs like Ohtani, Bogaerts, Mookie. I wonder if these posters love going to speedways to see Hyndai's flying about, rather than those overpriced Ferrari's.)
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Oh I'm sure they are outraged: HOW DARE YOU sell our future for this flash in the pan? We could have spent that money developing the farm. Getting relievers. Signing .230 hitting roiders. Finding "value". Guaranteed none of the savvy posters wannabe GMs on this board would have gone for that signing.
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Oh man, that O'Neill signing is looking better and better! What a bargain. Can you believe how the dumbass Dodgers throw money away?
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Sounds right to me. (You left out the part about continuously signing those with pending legal issues or who some call "clubhouse cancers" because, you know, you get good value with guys like that.)
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A .230 hitting outfielder? Well, that's a pretty familiar commodity.
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So that's the evidence? Must be thousands of player/manager rifts around the league then. (My idea of a significant rift is, say,, Billy Martin/Reggie or T.Bauer/Francona).
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Is there any real evidence of a rift between Cora and Verdugo? Or is this all just dugoWAR b.s.
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Not sure about that. I imagine, just based on numbers, that EVERY draft has at least one HOF player. Can someone look that up?
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Hey! My grandfather was a left-haanded second-baseman in college. ... Of course, that was in the 1897-98 season!
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So the RS then just outbid these other teams? Kinda defeats the purpose of going after them, right?
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Good thing Bloom is gone. Bauer is exactly the kind of player he most favored: someone with just enough off-court issues (injury, legal problems, etc. ...) to allow you to delude yourself he's a bargain.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
jad replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Totally agree. All that getting rid of their best players and replacing them with journeymen had nothing to do with it. -
mute ≠ moot
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Ha ha! Right. But alas, there is only one organization daft enough to do that, and I hear they have a new GM.
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To "go big on at least one starter ... a more reliable starter" is what he said, but yes, when we start talking trades, our rhetoric sometimes outstrips reality. It's difficult to see such hypothetical trades from the other team's perspective. Normally we argue this is something they "should" do, but then, we ourselves never ever act in accord with what our opponents or competitors swear is our best interest, (nor should we).
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I see. Trade a player for ANOTHER player at the same position who is better. Genius! I'm sure half the teams in the league would jump at that.
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Yeah, the subtleties of buying a car that runs good today, while considering how it might run 100K miles down the road was just way too nuanced for this ordinary fan.
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You can't be serious. I suppose this kind if thinking is why Boston never got Babe Ruth back.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
jad replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Because getting rid of popular players has worked out so well in the recent past. And besides, who gives a cr*p what fans think or want. It's not like they pay the bills or anything. -
Extremely painful to turn on to watch Papi, interviewing Mookie, pretty much the Face of Baseball, after having Nate on earlier, heaping both with well-deserved praise. I guess sometimes customers have to be proud to sacrifice for the businessman's bottom line.
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I skipped work once in 1965 to watch the All-Star game. Does that count? (If you've ever worked in a shoe factory, you'll realize it was no great sacrifice.)
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I see that in the last 40 posts or so, not one has been about the present WS. And yet Manfred says, and Manfred is an honorable man, Manfred says ....
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I see no one is posting on the other playoff thread either. Likely because the average baseball fan doesn't give a cr*p. So today, the news comes out that the WS game 1 was the least viewed in history. None of the best teams are here, several of whom didn't even play in the first round. Manfred today comes out with strong support of the new format. The idiotic idea of endless playoffs was established (I assume copying the NBA) on the theory that it would bring in millions in revenue and keep fans on the edge of their seats. If this board is any indication, the 'average fan' is more interested in any one of the 162 regular games played by their team than in any playoff game during which their team is golfing.
