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  1. jad
    Oh I guarantee a win! (Just not entirely sure which team will get it.)
  2. jad
    Ah, just dreaming of all those prospects we're going to get for Devers.
  3. jad
    Yes. Absolutely. Because I don't enjoy watching Bogaerts or Devers any less because the rest of the team sucks.
  4. jad
    So you're ok with Bloom replacing a 'face-of-the-franchise' player with someone half as good for what might be the same amount of money?
  5. jad
    It's just so unfair that the RS have to play teams better than they are.
  6. jad
    Yeah, you're right. Why, one of them might even be the next Trevor Story!
  7. jad
    Yeah, because you sure as hell don't want to offer Bogey Trevor-Story money!
  8. jad
    When did player "value" become "what I could get for him in trade?" To me, the "value" of a player is how well they perform and how much fans like watching them play, not the hypothetical haul of prospects one could get by getting rid of them.
  9. jad
    Afraid I agree. And I have no doubt the FO will adopt the strategy: when your team sucks, identify the best players and get rid of them.
  10. jad
    "The worst is not so long as we can say 'this is the worst'." (--King Lear)
  11. jad
    I am, and was, aware of that!
  12. jad
    I'm not sure Story becomes acceptable simply because there are some players out there who are even worse.
  13. jad
    Given the dismal performance of game-thread initiators this year, I'll try one, with a guarantee that at the end of the day, my record will be as good as anyone else's.
  14. jad
    In my experience, whenever you ask questions like this: "How bad could it get?" "What could POSSIBLY happen?" "How much lower could we go?" you tend to find out.
  15. jad
    The obsession with 'closer' is something I don't understand. You don't need a 'set-up' guy, an '8th inning' guy and a 'closer'. Mario Riviera wasn't a great pitcher BECAUSE he was a great closer. He was a great closer because he was a great pitcher. Same is true here: the RS pitching hasn't been ineffective bec. they don't have set roles; it's ineffective bec. the pitchers themselves are ineffective. Once again: this is Bloom/henry's fault, not Cora's.
  16. jad
    Oh, Bloom and Henry (who are responsible for this mess and more to come), already have their fall guy in place. You know they won't fire themselves.
  17. jad
    Hey! Stop criticizing Dugo! He's one of Bloom's guys!
  18. jad
    So the problem with the RS this year is Scott Boras?
  19. jad
    Yeah, we don't need Bogey, we got Story!
  20. jad
    Did you forget about Devers? I don't know what ihis OBP is, but Ill bet it's above his average, which alone is better than .310.
  21. jad
    It was pretty much Bloom's way of proving that the only long-term deals will be to "his" guys, not to those dead-beats like Bogaerts and Devers who were here before him.
  22. jad
    Why fire the guy who was done exactly what he was hired to do? In case of failure, you already have the fall guy (Cora) in place who you can certainly replace with some assistant to the assistant from Tampa and save another boatload of money.
  23. jad
    I dunno. Sometimes, I guess, you have to sacrifice. Like, we need to realize the importance of making lots of money, and to do that you need to learn and exercise fiscal responsibility. And if you want to be 'successful' at that, sometimes you need to give up once important things--things like friends and family, your best employees, Mookie, Bogaerts, and replace your friends with accountants and your players with .200 hitters. As for the fans, think how great it will be for them to walk down to the ole ball park and get a ticket on game day! Maybe, if enough people stop going, you can even lower ticket prices! If the Reds can do it, there's no reason it can't happen in Boston.
  24. jad
    Yup. Only with one difference: Bloom clearly wants to put a stamp on this team, getting "his" guys (e.g., Story--or one of them, not sure whether it's the one making 140million or the one who was 0-4 today and is hitting .202), and getting rid of deadwood, i.e., guys associated with a different GM (you know, like Betts, and soon Devers and Bogaerts).
  25. jad
    Losses have become so much the norm that they seem a given: the basic conditions under which you follow the RS. So now that there is no expectation of winning, we can relax, kick back, and enjoy the way ownership is lining their pockets, without regard to success or (curiously) the satisfaction of customers. So yeah, got to see a great throw by JBJ last night, a 4 K performance yesterday by a superstar, plus watching Ohtani. Life is good
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