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  1. jad
    https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2021/03/16/mookie-betts-red-sox-gq-mlb?s_campaign=bcom%3Asocialflow%3Afacebook&fbclid=IwAR2z6Fw8fkoz24GoPCeeNHmVmCqaCtkzGsBiKJRgqhBLT8M74uOn8Nkengo Not sure I buy the 'Boston owes me nothing; I owe Boston nothing' statement. But he's certainly right that that's the way this particular business is run by those with the most power. Not sure it's good for the popularity of the sport to have the owners and commissioner adopt this attitude, express it publicly and thus encourage players to do so as well. If I hear a musician say stuff like this, I won't go to their concerts or buy their music.
  2. jad
    Well, maybe not. But probably better to have comments on the matter here than buried in the other thread, where it was a sidenote. Good points raised there, though.
  3. jad
    ? Why? Not a big LB fan, but I sure prefer him to most professional sports team owners.
  4. jad
    You're 65 and pain-free?????? (You want to explain to the rest of us old f*rts how you do that?)
  5. jad
    I don't know. Why do you like players? Who knows. Why do like particular musicians? Why do you like friends? Lovers? Ketchup? I think of those two fantastic catches a couple of years back. The antics in the outfield. Loved the hair. Love Federer, Isner, Ferrer (when he was still playing) and Monfils, hate Dkokovic, Serena, ... This is related to athletic ability only insofar as they are all professionals. If we don't look at athletes as humans, but only as a set of talents and statistics, why wouldn't we just play video games?
  6. jad
    ?? Why? Because the three players I most liked watching play were let go? Are you telling me I shouldn't be annoyed at that? If fans don't care about human players, what are they supposed to care about? Team OPS?
  7. jad
    OMG, are you asking me to review all those posts only to find out I may have mis-read them??? What a world! What a world!
  8. jad
    Well, SG is talking about that, but it's possible most of us have him on "Ignore."
  9. jad
    His apparent defensive issues are the reasons for the argument to get rid of him, no? (That's what was being discussed here.) Its odd--when I saw him play a couple of times in AA, knowing nothing of him, his defense was fine; he seemed in a different league from the others (anyone who watches minor league bb knows what I mean here), and I just assumed his skills were defensive, and that his hitting was so-so. I would think that improving defense is something more easily learned than improving hitting.
  10. jad
    And if there are fans who follow the RS specifically because they enjoy watching Mookie, JBJ, Beni, Devers or anyone else? Screw them. This is the Tampa Way.
  11. jad
    Yeah, definitely give up on Devers because as all the moves this offense have shown, defense is key. Well, that and pitching, of course. And ... well, not spending anything.
  12. jad
    I know Lynn likes JBJ, likes Mookie too. But what does an old fart like that know about dWAR, fangraphs, and the importance of getting under the salary cap?
  13. jad
    Exactly. The league could easily put a stop to it if they stopped wringing their hands in a melodramatic moralistic fit.
  14. jad
    Yes. I don't choose players I like by their dWAR anymore than I choose friends on the basis of how much money they have. Is it shameful to like players who aren't the best in the league? Then why aren't you following the Dodgers?
  15. jad
    https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2021/03/05/red-sox-patriots-jackie-bradley-jr-belichick-versatility?fbclid=IwAR2GaVXGE2Qd6KmbQ9Ue_R8IBtOeyp2AIokOYY5mRA8V6Bi5TlKO4xPe1bc Nice. What the article only implies, but doesn't say directly, is 'becoming Bill Belichick' might not be a great thing if you don't happen to have Tom Brady.
  16. jad
    I don't have MLB.tv, and I stream all the sports I want. (Or WAIT! NO I DON'T I SWEAR! But I have heard of people who do.) But I did see one of the players I rather like (Lin) get a hit in the two innings they played today. Of course, he was playing for the other team, like many of the other RS players I've followed over the past few years.
  17. jad
    Watching an interview with JD during a rain delay (I assumed filmed a couple of days ago). Holy crap! Has this guy put on 30 pounds? He's not in Pablo territory, but there's no way that paunch is going to help. He also took some of the worst JD swings I've seen--that low outside pitch in the dirt that for some reason, he can't resist waving at--a swing that has gotten far too familiar over the last year.
  18. jad
    Can't you stream them? (I haven't tried yet bec. there's only one or two players on the team I even recognize.)
  19. jad
    Not trying to duck that. I just have never felt going into a new season that the majority of my favorite players are gone. Probably one reason for that is that in pre-sports board days, I never bothered to think about the team during the off-season, and by spring, I would say "Oh look. A new player." I never sensed that four or five guys were suddenly gone. Nor did I hear open talk about dumping players and salaries or shipping guys out when their contracts came up. (I admit that many players I liked were dumped (obviously one's 'favorite' players are not to be confused with 'most skilled' players): Nomar, then Cabrera, B. Holt, Lester, Manny; I liked Hanley too.) But I never looked out and said 'Holy crap-- a brand new outfield!'
  20. jad
    That is exactly correct. And they will follow players they know and like (as everyone on this board has), even when the team does not win championships. They don't give a crap whether the ownership group makes billions or loses their shirt. Nor whether the team is run like a "good business."
  21. jad
    A tough call?? Why? He was the best player in baseball. And the team they gave him away to (paying half of PRice's salary as a bonus!) just won a Championship while the RS front office was celebrating publicly getting under the salary cap. Manny is hardly comparable as the RS got and paid for the best years of his career.
  22. jad
    None of those championship teams began by ridding the roster of almost all the starters. Each one was recognizable as a variant of the team of the previous years. That is not true of this one. As for fun, I don't remember that following the RS in the last decade or so was any more fun than following them in the 60s or 70s or 80s or whatever. Winning championships is nice. But it's not why I follow sports, nor why I follow particular teams. (I'm not saying anything about what others do or should do.)
  23. jad
    Not to me. I don't like or dislike players depending on their salaries.
  24. jad
    Well yes. I'd like to keep Devers and Xander. BECAUSE I KNOW THEM. That's the same reason I want to see JBJ, Betts and Beni. Of course you can replace guys statistically. But you can't expect fans to show the same sort of loyalty they've shown to players they know to a 'bunch of guys' they've never heard of. This is not a question of 'what makes the best team at the lowest cost'; it's a question of 'what do the fans care about'? If I only recognize one or two guys on the team, I don't give a crap if they lose 162 games. I'll just follow teams with players I'm familiar with.
  25. jad
    If Henry had given a GM the charge "Here's your money: I want you to destroy whatever it is that has made fans look forward to a new season and has listened faithfully to a majority of games for the last ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more years." Had he done that, Bloom could not possibly have done a better job. So I have a question for Bloom apologists (who probably are better represented on sports boards, of course, than in the general population). Find me one fan (not in Bloom's immediate family) who says "Damn, I HATED those years when they had Betts, Beni, and JBJ. Never watched them. Never listened. Never went to a game. But NOW that we've gotten rid of all those guys, I can't wait for the season to start, and I just put in my order for season tickets."
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