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  1. jad
    I think we've been fans about the same length of time, and I agree 100% with this. There has never been a team as bad and unlikable as this one: even the Bobby Valentine year was at least amusing. I can get better baseball than this by going to Portland for the SeaDogs, which the Bloom apologists here will take as proof that he has rebuilt the farm.
  2. jad
    He's sure doing it tonight
  3. jad
    I see Vaz is hitting .370. Good thing batting averages don't mean anything.
  4. jad
    Meanwhile, Minnesota is up 9-0 on the Yankees and still batting in the first. Life may not be good, ... but it's ok.
  5. jad
    Thanks. If Henry figured Bloom alone was enough, then both Henry and Bloom snookered each other.
  6. jad
    ?? Not sure of your first sentence. Did something I said imply that? I thought I said that (I assumed) Henry gave Bloom the charge of cutting payroll. I also said I didn't know anything about bloom's staff, but Jung's statement above seems to confirm what I suspected.
  7. jad
    I don't think we disagree. I just don't see the clear evidence distinguishing Henry/Bloom. Thus I treat them together. It's perfectly reasonable to assume: OK. Henry wanted to try the Tampa way: small budget, good success. So he hired Bloom, and told him to cut the budget and that he would have free rein to do anything he wanted. Reasonable, yes. But evidence for it? I have none. Given that this is all speculation, I also assume that as an arrogant CEO/owner, Henry decided that all he had to do was hire the top guy (because, you know, worker bees and other such rabble don't really count). And that we are all now discovering that the Tampa Way wasn't the product of some 'boy genius' at all, but was the result of serious grunt work by the no-account analytics guys and scouts. Does anyone here know how many of those guys Bloom brought with him? I assume almost none. Which would go a long way to explaining why nothing has worked since the Bloom hire.
  8. jad
    Yeah, except that I'm in LA for the winter, so I got the trifecta: Ducks, Clippers, and RS. At least SC came back from the abyss.
  9. jad
    Well, you are distinguishing Bloom from Henry. But I don't know any evidence that allows fans to do that. Maybe it exists; I just haven't seen it. Start with the major assertion: Henry told BLoom to trade Betts and get rid of Price. Thus it's not Bloom's fault. I don't dispute that, but I don't know whose decision that was, but if JH actually made that statement, please provide the soruce.
  10. jad
    Well, ok. But he did mention Betts, justifying trading him because what he offered?: "It was a fair deal." Fair? Fair is market value. JH did NOT offer that. That's why he traded him for Verdugo and a bag of balls. And what do long-term or even short term fans care about owner finances and profits? We want some indication that ownership cares about the product on the field, and cares about the fact that fans (some of us) believe players are human beings, not characters in a fantasy league. As long as there is no salary cap, the owner has unlimited funds and is still turning a profit, why should I take heart in frugality? When you go to a movie, do you say: I know this would have been better with Nicolas Cage, but I appreciate the fact that the producers wanted to save money.
  11. jad
    A response like this is why I am amazed at the claims that there are no Bloom-apologists here. This is Bloom-speak at its finest. "I know those are popular players, but it is not 'helpful to the team' to keep them." But that is crazy talk (by which I mean: 'this is RedSox front-office talk'). It is not 'helpful to Henry's wallet' to keep them is what you mean, since you cannot possibly mean that this team would not be better with Betts and Bogaerts.
  12. jad
    Yeah, it's really not fair!! How come the Rays get to play nothing but teams who are worse than they are, whereas the Red Sox have to play teams that are better than they are? (Can't blame Bloom or Henry for that!!)
  13. jad
    What a boring, crappy, bunch of losers Bloom has left us with.
  14. jad
    No. I like home-grown players. I get used to watching them. That's why I still turn on Dodger or Padre games: I'd rather watch Bogaerts and Betts for the few minutes they play than the mish-mash of players, old guys, injured players, has-beens, and guys with rap sheets, BLoom now calls the Red Sox. But we'll see. If by some miracle,, Devers is still with the RS in 2025, I'm happy to lose the bet.
  15. jad
    I know. But it didn't make any sense to get rid of popular players like Betts, Bogaerts, Vaz, etc. etc. Since there are no salary matching rules in MLB, you could let him go for that mythical "boatload of prospects" and you would be in the same position as if you had let him walk, w/ hundreds of millions of dollars left in your pocket. The team that gets him is happy, and you can tell your fan base: "Well we tried to sign him big time, and did; but it didn't work out so LOOK HOW WE'VE REBUILT THE FARM!!! How is that different from the thinking that let Betts and Bogaerts walk? (Mind you, I think kicking your fans in the teeth like that is bad business; but so was getting rid of the guys named above.)
  16. jad
    Not mine. I'm asking YOU to set the over/unders. I would bet that he's not here opening day 2025? I'd say that's even money.
  17. jad
    I think Refsnyder batting third is more the result of ChatGPT. .
  18. jad
    So far Bloom has gotten rid of ALL high-priced guys and replaced them with "his" guys--generally cheaper and less productive. I'm curious--why do you think Devers' situation is different? That no one in the RS organization will say, "Hey, John. Look. Here's a way to put a couple of hundred million in your pocket." What in the past history of three years of so makes you think JH is committed to keeping him? Because everything I see suggests he will soon be gone and there will be plenty of teams willing to take on his contract.
  19. jad
    What are the over/unders on when Devers demands a trade? Win/win situation. Devers gets to play with a serious team, and MOST IMPORTANT, John Henry gets another 300million in his pocket.
  20. jad
    A 'healthy Story'!!! OMG that's funny! STop, you're killing me!!!
  21. jad
    But what team would want them? Except maybe a team that got rid of an all-star OF, SS, DH recently and needs a utility player to compensate for them?
  22. jad
    The RS can't even play intelligibly enough to be understood by professional sports broadcasters
  23. jad
    WTF???? TWO RUNS DOWN in the 9th???? You BUNT? Even the Rays announcers are baffled.
  24. jad
    More RS defense! Did Vertugo forget the rules of baseball? (Looking again, it must be that he expected the cut-off guy to take the throw better? But he doesn't seem like he would show up a team-mate in that case. Guy must have been in the wrong place?)
  25. jad
    TOTALLY agree. I actually spend a fair amount of time flipping channels to see Bogaerts and Betts play. Those guys are a lot of fun to watch (but that of course has no place in BLoomian/Henrician/analytical/corporate-greed economics).
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