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Ha ha. You know perfectly well Mookie is not going to anything, particularly something to ease the chaos in Boston. He will simply say I'm with a new team and that's where my focus is. What will be cool, once the pandemic is over (if it ever is), is when LAD comes to Boston. Probably we all agree that we hope that happens in 2021. (By the way, did you note that catch just now by Betts?)
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Ha ha! Not so sure about that, even though any 'parallel' could be argued to be absurd. But I'll try one: each team had the services of one of the greatest players in the game; in both cases, they determined that money was more important to them than the services of that player. Now maybe they were right, then and now; but that's the decision they made.
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Wow. In Bloom you guys trust. I truly hope next year at this time you are gloating "Told you so." But I guess I would ask now: what has he done to make the average fan want to go the park (impossible!) or turn on NESN?
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There was (at times) a lot in dead center field, and if you got there early, you could park right next to the entrance facing out and beat the 20,000 suddenly-East-Coast-style drivers trying to leave at the same time. Is that the one? But damn! what a drag going to a game when half your mental energy is expended on just getting there. Of course, I can't say that Fenway Park is much different. I've only been once in the last thirty years and it was an ordeal (not even counting the 5 hour rain delay!)
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You can now take the train from most areas in LA to Union Station and either take a bus (I think a Dodger express) or just walk. You're absolutely right about how it was 10 years ago. Any enjoyment you could get out of the game was destroyed by the stress of getting there, parking, and then getting out (as everyone who drove there seemed to transform from an LA driver to a Boston driver in the two hours they spent in the park).
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Worse than that! Dodger Stadium is the only park I know where fans coming in pass those leaving. This occurs pretty regularly in the fifth inning. (Anyone who has tried to get in or out of the extraordinarily badly designed parking lots knows why! i'm told they've improved. But one can now get there pretty easily now without having to drive.)
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True. But come on. It's a PR statement. No way he's going to a new team and say to his team-mates and bosses "I'm here for the weather." He says what every player would say going to a new team.
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With public transportation (we're talking pre-Covid, of course!), I now put less than 1000 miles on my car. (Of course, people with real jobs--like pro athletes--don't have the option I have, which is to say 'Oh screw it; it's drizzling. I'm staying home.')
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Seems reasonable. In addition, he might also have found that LA is a great place to live; also a good way to avoid the drama of the RS organization, which shows no signs of abating over the next few years.
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Oh right. My bad. I saw the ref's to Felger but hadn't seen the article, and given the high eloquence of the reactions, I had no idea what it said. (Btw, I disagree with you that SG's post is POS. It is, rather, completely unintelligible.)
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https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/video/felger-source-says-red-sox-offer-similar-dodgers-mookie-wanted-out?ls=social-vid&fbclid=IwAR1Sp_6XdbgMBABFQ-3pwWtJL9edFQvzx-LYO6J1E_N4zSv_GEo4clwmemQ Anyone believe this report? Or is it just yet another case of someone in the RS organization bashing a guy who leaves?
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The 'teammates' in the organization's minor leagues likely feel pretty good about him.
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? I don't see why. The only problems they will have in signing him is if they do not offer what he could get on the open market, right? (That was also the case with Mookie.). I can't imagine any player (or worker in any organization) accepting the argument: "We really can't pay you what you want or deserve because we paid your colleague too much."
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Ha! Obviously, you spend WAY too much time reading and collating my posts! But I believe you are essentially correct. (In my defense, and in defense of good people everywhere, perhaps allowing for a bit, just a bit of hyperbole [i know I know, we never see that on sports boards], I'm not sure those two posts are contradictory!)
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I'm not sure I think JH is too cheap to sign MB. To me, it's an example of owner/GM/management all wanting to put their 'stamp' on a team (human nature--same with the 'new guy' your company just hired). And they think more about that than the results. So Bloom wants primarily to make a big splash, and what better way to do that than to do what he did? As to question 2-- I'm sure this damages fan relations (but fans have short memories, and if you live in NE, as most of us do, you're going to remain a fan regardless); players? I wouldn't know. But they'll probably go where the money is best (even though, for young athletes, I can's see how Boston can compete with LA or Miami).
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Yeah, the RS commitment to winning is SO much stronger than the Dodgers'. (Who could ever forget the celebratory post by the ecstatic RS management the day they got under the luxury tax! Now THAT'S baseball!)
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Whenever I hear the b.s. sports cliche "[doing things] the right way," I always think of the dumb-ass Cardinal organization and their equally arrogant and moronic fans. (I find it hard to believe there are RS fans hoping Mookie gets hurt as a way to vindicate their opinion that he should have been traded. But then ... sports fans.)
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I agree entirely. A player like that is the main reason to watch professional sports. (But why then are you ok with giving him up?)
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The high-five to the fan, wheeling double-play was without question the most entertaining sports play I have ever seen. I also love the aftermath--the guys in the dugout showing the video to Mike Lowell, who had apparently not been watching. As for his plate discipline, he was always perfectly balanced, as if never fooled by a pitch (even though of course he was). He made Ortiz look like a free-swinging hacker (which of course has its virtues too!)
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Sorry to interrupt your bean-counting, J.H., but how did Mookie do last night? ... Oh. Here's an article from ESPN. Maybe there's something in here. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30157376/how-mookie-betts-changed-super-sabermetric-world-series-super-fun-series
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Most people ON THIS BOARD did that. Bec. on a sports board, we're all trying to appear cool, brilliant, witty, knowledgeable ... and ... We're not ordinary fans, nor are we necessarily the ones who 'put the pennies in the seats'. Imagine the vilification a poster would get for saying "Hot damn, I don't know nothing about baseball economics, or statistics, or trade values, but I just LOVE watching this team!" But I'm one of those, as are others. As are the 37K fans who showed up for RS games on a nightly basis.
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No. He's telling you what he prefers as a fan. And a lot of us feel exactly the same way. We'd rather watch great individual athletes, stars, than pretend to be GM's or treat sports entertainment like fantasy sports. We also like to continue to follow athletes we've grown accustomed to--Boggaerts, Devers, Bradley, Betts, and yes Benintendi (if he can get it together again). Because we are fans. Not make-believe owners. And there must be a lot of us: RS average attendance in 2019: 36,000. Rays average attendance in 2019: 14,000.
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Yup. Do you remember his comment as he was limping off the field? "Hip pointer. ... Not a bad one."
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And don't forget what's-his-name ... B- ... Babe Ruth, that's it. Wasn't he a Sox for life? ... or ... yeah, maybe he was just too expensive for the bean counters back in the day.
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https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/10/19/mookie-betts-robs-home-run-nlcs-game-7 Isn't this the third night in a row with game-saving plays? I mean, I really wouldn't know because I'm still recovering from the thrill and excitement of getting under the LUXURY TAX CAP, baby!! Now THAT's baseball!
