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Yes, and all of us started out sucking at sports. That doesn't mean that we thus all became professional athletes, although maybe one or two of us became good ones.
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I notice that Bloom apologists have a grasp of the subjunctive (which they seem to use with every sentence) that I thought quite beyond what is required of most sports fans.
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Ha ha! Only now, the Orioles we have surpassed are the 2019-2020 Orioles. This reminds me of years ago when I lived in New Orleans: when they first built the Superdome and began selling season tix, some long-time fans were appalled to discover that instead of seats on the 50-yard-line, they were moved to the endzone. The response of the team? "We want our fans to think, not in terms of sidelines, but rather in terms of levels." That is, a seat in the second level would cost the same regardless of where it was. The complaints about seating, thus, was officially defined as a problem with fans, not with the organization.
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Wow. We're better than the Orioles!!! Too bad it's not 1968.
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You're on a racing team. You can have (1) an average F1 car that needs some work, but runs, and maybe a bit overpriced. or (2) two 1964 VW bugs, an old Pinto, and a '85 Buick with a bad transmission, all at a great price. You need this for a race (not a demolition derby). Which do you choose?
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As noted earlier, you really need to work on your Yiddish, dude!! (And, on more important matters, what happened to the USC avatar???)
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Actually, I think the word we can agree describes the last season and offseason: Oy!
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Yeah. That's exactly the problem LAD had last year.
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WE'RE SAVED!!!! And if we hadn't gotten rid of Mookie, there would have been no money available to make deals like this!
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I don't think it makes much difference, as at those times, there will be plenty of other games to watch whose players we're more familiar with.
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It seems now anyone would have to be paid a premium to come to Boston.
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That's why I added "more than." 20, 30, 40 ... it's pretty much all the same to me. I just don't recall anyone ever saying "Wow. Here we are at beautiful Tropicana Field. 'The Trop'! ah how great to be at the ole park."
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I believe that conversation happened more than 20 years ago. And then Fenway became the 'model' MLB park, with all others trying to emulate it.
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You know what? As a decades-long RS fan like yourself, my interest in the team never wavered because of those last place finishes. Nor did yours. In large part because we knew most of the players on the team and enjoyed following them. The only thing that will make me want to watch them this year is Fenway Park, as it will be one of the few items (and frankly, that's what players are now) that actually connects the present team to its history.
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So the RS have essentially cut ties with their past, getting rid of the majority of players that are part of that past. ALSO part of that past, however, are the thousands and thousands of fans who have supported them, in many cases, for decades. If our admittedly sentimental attachment to particular players doesn't count, then what does? When you see kids going to the ball-park, they don't spend their time studying dWAR or FanGraphs or "options"--they wear jerseys with names of actual human players. And when I am casually listening to the radio during the summer (as I have for 60 years or so), when I no longer recognize which team is at bat, why wouldn't I just turn on some music instead?
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Exactly. Bloom/Henry are more concerned with, say, 'making their mark' on a team than producing something that fans might actually want to follow. Now, to complete the plan, I assume Vaz and Boggaerts go for a few International league players, and Bloom will finally have created 'his' team. It's really a shame the RS don't have the financial resources, and obviously don't have a strong enough fan base or a popular enough venue to be competitive.
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Why? Does it really matter whether we get one crappy player or one crappy player plus another even less distinguished one?
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So speaking as a fan (and not as a pretend GM), now that the RS have rid themselves of the majority of players I have watched and followed with interest over the past few years, why would I follow this team rather than any other one?
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I trust your knowledge of MLB and its history mroe than I trust mine. How do you think getting rid of low-level minor leagues will affect this? Won't a lot of h.s. kids opt for a year or four of college instead of trying to work their way up from what used to be D-ball?
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You're right, they do. But not anything comparable to what MLB has had. I assume a "G-league" (or whatever they call it 'this' year) can more or less sustain itself, as likely can the top-tier (AA and AAA) of baseball minors. (I don't have the figures of course--why bother with facts when one can speculate in complete freedom?). But college sports costs professional sports nothing; and wouldn't you agree that only fairly recently has college ball (baseball, I mean) served as a popular route to the pros?
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I imagine this is all part of a long-term strategy by MLB to off-load the annoying expenses of a minor-league system onto the state-supported college system, used so successfully by basketball and football. Your tax dollars at work.
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Yes. But then, what sucks even more is musical chairs rosters (becoming the norm in prof. sports). I stopped watching hockey bec. I no longer know where my favorite players are playing. I have no problem w/ RS losses (I'm used to them); I'm happy when they win. But when they run out a team where I haven't heard of half the players, I don't care what they do.
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Sorry. I mis-read your phrase "highest spending budget teams". You meant simply highest spending teams [in terms of budget].
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Oh. I thought your phrase "third highest spending budget team" distinguished high-spending teams (LAD, NY etc.) from "budget teams" (TBay, KC) etc., and among those, we were third highest. Damn. Might as well move to Milwaukee. Of course, as a fan, I want to see skilled players, whether they win or lose. I don't care what their salaries are. I don't watch sports imagining myself as the GM of a fantasy team.
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Did Moon just really use the phrase "third-highest spending budget team" as a form of praise?
