moonslav59

Keep deflecting. It's your M.O. Yes, I have been wrong, often. I don't mind admitting it- something you can never do. I was wrong on thinking bringing back Kike at $10M to play CF. Does that make you feel better and bigger? IMO, no $10M contract can be a "great blunder," but it sure sucked. You never mentioned I hated the... The Richards and Perez signings JBJ trade The Diekman signing The Marwin signing The lack of SP signings (every season) The lack fo trading stars about to be lost to free agency and many, many more... That would undermine your theory I was a big "Bloom Guy." Tell us, again, how Casas, the guy you wanted demoted, last summer is "your guy."

Or hire within.

There are some teams that never sniff the playoffs, but still have some loyal fans. There were some stretches where the Sox teams did not look very competitive, yet the fans still came to the park or watched on TV. Not every team can win. I get the high ticket price argument on why we should spend more to win more than the cheap teams. I get it, but one could argue every team should spend more and more, and then where would we be?

Looking at cots 2024 estimates and subtracting Turner and Joely from the total, it looks like we might have about $50M to spend to the first tax line and $70M to the second, assuming we try to do either one. We could not offer an arb or two ($5M for Urias?) to save or add more to the winter spending budget, or try to trade a big contract or two ($9M Dugo? or $18M Yoshida or part of the $25.6M owed to Sale.) $70M could probably get us two top SP'ers and a guy like Duvall and a LH RP'er. $50M would likely get us one top SP, Duvall, a LH RP and a 4/5 slot SP'er. We could trade for one piece, so we'd have more to spend on the other slots need. I know I have harped on there really being only 3-4 major slots needing to be filled (5 max,) but in reality, some of the slots I have listed as filled, adequately could use some major upgrades. We won't win with 5-6 studs and 20-21 adequate to good players.

This is the guy who backed up much of what Swihart's ghost and the Stork said, and then calls me the poster boy for being wrong, so often. He cheers on strawman building and trolling, as long as it confirms his bias. He ran and hid in July, and now is back patting himself on the back for disliking Bloom from the day he was hired. We should all cheer for the guy who undermined the GM of our team, every chance he could. He thinks it's a big feather in his cap.

You always believe what you want. I defended Bloom more than anyone else. You equate that someone who likes or loves the guy or thinks he hardly ever makes mistakes. You jump to the wrong conclusions all the time, and go ape s***, whenever someone does it to an opinion of yours. You cannot find one single post by me that even says, "I think Bloom is a good GM." There are parts of his work, I think he did well at, and even the farm part, I almost always add, it is speculative, right now. I also think he did a pretty good job building up the 40 man roster to a point where there are no longer 18-20 bad slots, like when he began. You can disagree and dispute this, but it does not make me a "Bloom guy" any more than I am a "Wong guy" or "Casas guy." If you cont supporting any player or coach who is on the Sox as a "guy," then I guess I'm guilty as charged. Go back and read the Bloom thread, when he was hired. I gave you the link earlier and asked you find one quote. Try backing up your claims with evidence, for one. Keep deflecting, as usual. We see who you are.

I think, if it's a close call between 2 or more candidate, the interview(s) probably make a difference, but I think these guys already have a pretty clear pecking order of who they want, and the interview is just a process to see if the guy is onboard with or can get on board with the plan already in place. Maybe someone blows them away and jumps a slot of two on the list, or says all the wrong things and moves down, some, but I think they already know who they want the most, second most, third most...

A perfect synopsis of your personality and contribution to this site. Thanks for exposing your true self for all to see.

I know plenty of Sox fans who could care less who the GM is. Many can't even name him. Pretending to know the exact breakdown of who liked Bloom, was okay with him, disliked him or really disliked him- both in Sox nation and the disparity between that and this board's numbers is a joke. The whole "my corner is bigger than yours," and thinking ONLY they know the true pulse of Sox Nation is befuddling, to me. It's like they seek verification by majority opinion- also a joke. Even if they are right about what the majority thinks, it does not make their position right or wrong.

Just making sure nobody missed you back patting.

True, and we offered that, too- briefly.

In the 16th, have a home run derby.

I was for one fire sale: 2022.

In hindsight, maye- yes. You'd have to hit on every move and have the current team not slump. IMO, the types of "now" moves they might have tried were the ones like Castillo, but only if we extended him like SEA did and Civale, who had multiple years left. The teams were not good enough for giving up good prospects for rentals. You save those moves for seasons like 2018 and Nate. The one Bloom season worthy of that was 2021, when we got Schwarber, Robles, Davis, Shaw and later Iggy. We should have gotten a solid SP'er or closer. I was for buying in 2023, but not giving top prospects for rentals.

Is that essentially what half the team fans do?

I don't think many posters were against bringing Nate back, despite all the missed time and a stretch of ineffectiveness.

Will the away team trend continue?

After the season, the Red Sox made the surprising announcement that Alex Cora would have some input into the search for a new lead baseball executive. The reasoning went like this: the Red Sox wanted to make sure Cora and the new hire would be able to forge a good working relationship. That raised eyebrows throughout the game, since it’s highly unusual for managers to have a hand in hiring their boss. But according to a well-placed source, Cora has had very little involvement in the process to date. -Sean McAdam Makes some recent narratives questionable.

"Let him go?" He was a FA and he had the choice- not us.

Thumbs up to the strawman. Typical.

More strawman. I have maintained last winter was Bloom's make or break winter. When things looked good in July, we all felt Bloom's job was safe. There is no need to lie.

They basically traded Maeda for Graterol, so I think it could have been a deal.

13th, load 'em up.

Even that would not have been enough. In hindsight, we should have gone full firesale in '22 and '23.

Not one poster said we should keep Bloom, yet you persist with your strawman construction.