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  1. Hitch
    Almost certainly not. But what did they waste in trying?
  2. Hitch
    I'd like to know how they are doing this - losing draft picks and being punished in drafts for their spending, yet still having great farm systems consistently. Whatever it is they are doing development/draft wise - I hope we're looking to emulate.
  3. Hitch
    They hate Kennedy. They blame a lot on him. And might be right. Did they believe it was real, though? The offer?
  4. Hitch
    Just felt like a weird segue. We were talking about Bregman and then all of a sudden you're replying to me as if we're having a conversation about Lester.
  5. Hitch
    I'd be absolutely fine with people expecting them to be around 4th/5th in spending if that's the parameters of the conversation (simply revenue streams), but we know only too well that every single conversation around this up until about a month or so ago was about Henry is a billionaire and that they're rolling in it. There is and was an expectation they should dip into their pockets. Yes, your second paragraph sums it up. I just find the hypocrisy and bullsh*t hard to stomach on times. But again, that said, now is the time they should be spending more.
  6. Hitch
    You must be kidding? That's all we hear around here is that Henry is a billionaire and should be spending more. The revenue thing is a relatively new angle. Before then it was ALL about Henry's wealth. But yes, revenue is one part that should dictate spend. They took $100m less in both 2021 and 2022 seasons than they did in 2024. So if they went up to their absolute cap and spent another $100m on long term contracts and then revenues dip again, what then? Expect the owners to cover it with their own money?
  7. Hitch
    Personally, I'd prefer Bo for 7 than I would Bregman for 5. But any higher on either would make me queasy.
  8. Hitch
    I think they would have been fairly happy if he'd accepted that 3 year deal. It's not too risky and worth seeing if he wanted to take it. But they clearly did not feel they should go further. Which again, fine by me.
  9. Hitch
    We were discussing Bregman. Nothing to do with Lester. With Lester they just flat out screwed it up.
  10. Hitch
    While they should spend a bit more than they are doing (which I'm very confident they will), part of the reason the ticket prices are so high is because they have the 26th biggest park in the MLB with no scope to expand. I'm sure the majority of fans would be absolutely fine with them lowering ticket prices and spending less though. 😐 I notice nobody ever answers the why they should be in the top 5 spenders question. Easier to ignore it I suppose.
  11. Hitch
    What's your problem with this? Seems obvious to me, they checked in with him like most teams did and then made him an offer they were comfortable going to. Which is to say they weren't overly sold on him. Fine by me.
  12. Hitch
    I'd be tempted as long as that wasn't it. But then I don't have much faith in Campbell.
  13. Hitch
    Never make your final offer first, as they say. Also, if we've made an offer, the player and agent will then shop that offer to everyone else to see if they will beat it. Sometimes our fans act like it's just our decision who comes here. Short of blowing people out of the water (something we absolutely shouldn't be doing), there's a process involved.
  14. Hitch
    That's a s***** thing to say. Joe converses with everyone with respect and backs up his points of view. Nobody is forcing you to engage with him.
  15. Hitch
    This proves the point I was making yesterday quite nicely.
  16. Hitch
    You don't know what you're talking about. I have attacked ownership plenty, including constantly suggesting they're trying to be too smart for their own good. But when I see stuff that makes no sense, or is just flat out made up, on either side of the argument, I'll challenge them. There's an awful lot of hysteria around right now. You were attacking them yesterday for only doing a 1 yar arb. A ridiculous line of attack in anyone's language, but absolutely in line with someone looking for things to be angry about with ownership. Again, we are 4th in revenue, and there are 4 teams (outside of the 3 above us in revenue) that dwarf our ownership in wealth, so why exactly should we be higher than 8th?
  17. Hitch
    Great book and film. 👍
  18. Hitch
    4 of them are considerably richer than us.
  19. Hitch
    I think they should give it to you, too. It would make you less grouchy! 😆
  20. Hitch
    I'm not sure I agree with your last sentence. The only thing we know for sure - Duran has been linked away with trades for months now, a year or more really. And he's still here. Somehow values are not matching up.
  21. Hitch
    Um, no, The person who came up with the line is the writer, obviously. In this case, Aaron Sorkin. The meeting between Beane and Henry is fictional. Sorkin talks about piecing together what he thinks they may have talked about had they met that day. Just like The Social Network (another Sorkin movie) is a movie jampacked full of imagined conversations, not a documentary of what happened.
  22. Hitch
    It's what should happen, but won't because, well - business. Everyone wants to make money not give it away.
  23. Hitch
    Nobody is allowed to say anything I believe I'm right in saying - can't influence the market or some nonsense. While they all leak like a sieve.
  24. Hitch
    100% agree. I don't see it happening, but boy does the sport need it.
  25. Hitch
    What on earth?
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