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  1. He's just a suspect, until he delivers in the bigs... -Ole Red
  2. BTW, using hyperbole after a great game by Dugo has nothing to do with "optimism."
  3. You really took those off the cuff statements to heart? Wow! Like I really meant "Mookie who?" Geesh. Wow!
  4. Since 2019 is meaningless, since the Sale trade ended after 2019. The Sale trade was for 3 years (2017-2019.) Kopech has a 4.6 career bWAR and 1.9 career fWAR with more to come. Sale gave us 14.5 bWAR and 17.4 fWAR. from 2017-2019. I doubt Kopech catches him. Maybe Kopech + Moncada and others might come closer.
  5. Okay. I was just going by what you said about watching more baseball, again.
  6. So, it's based on fear of being let down, I'm assuming. Still no answer to as why others' optimism seems to bother you, but I'll settle for one answer. You really had no optimism going into game 6 in the 2021 ALCS? You are more gloom & doom than I thought. Not ever being letdown is a nice benefit, though.
  7. Boris Badenov, of course.
  8. Indeed, and yet each GM keeps getting the brunt of the blame.
  9. He sure did a great job in choosing who to keep and who to trade. Many of those he kept were near no-names, but keeping Devers was a big key. Those who say he "emptied the farm" were wrong then, and more than wrong, now. While he did trade over 20 prospects who once were top 20 on soxprospects.com, most turned out to be highly overrated. That does not mean the same is true, now however, and maybe this farm has some sleepers like DD's did with Bello, Casas, Duran and Crawford, and maybe a few more to come, like Rafaela, Wikelman and Perales. It's all speculation, but no team wins without some homegrown infusion.
  10. Why just the ones he traded away? The farm rankings were based on the ones he kept and traded away.
  11. That's when his posting slowed, and he "stopped watching, because baseball was watered down." Now, that we are losing and Bloom is gone, he's posting a mile a minute and suddenly watching the games, again. I guess MLB is no longer watered down.
  12. You sure were quiet when the team was on a roll. I'm not asking you to be an optimist. I was just wondering why you seem to get so upset with people who are. Was the optimism in 2021 under "false pretenses?" In many ways, that team looked worse in March. I'm fine with you choosing doom & gloom. I understand it. You sincerely have nothing to be optimistic about, going forward with the Sox? There is no hope, for you, until you start seeing results? Did you have false hopes in 2019?
  13. Two top ones is probably wishful thinking, but we need 2 near aces or 3 solid SP'er, or no GM is going to turn this around,
  14. Yes, even in the days of Theo and others. Pedro A Beltre Damon...
  15. That just sucks, but it's not irony.
  16. I don't think I did, but I'll apologize if and when you find the link. Again, why does a fan's optimsm bug you so much? I can see my optimism for this year was unfounded, but I'm not sure why you have to stomp all over the idea of optimism for fans. Gloat all you want and throw it in my face that I was wrong, fine, but it seems you just can't handle optimism, in and of itself.
  17. Most of the examples in that song are not irony.
  18. Tell me the last 3 year period we brought up 5 pitchers as good as Bello, Crawford, Whitlock, Houck and Wink? I'm not saying all 5 are great or even sure bets to be good, but when?
  19. Again, you get it wrong. I said our chances could be in our own hands, because we were going to play TOR and TEX. I ever said I expected we'd win. Was I optimistic we still had a chance. because we were playing the teams we had to pass? Yes, to some extent, but I still don't get why that bothers you, or that I stopped posting the WC standings once we had no hope. You won't tell me what the problem you see in that.
  20. You guys do know Betts, Bogey, Devers and others were once highly ranked prospects, right? You gotta start somewhere. It is rare when you get guys like Bello and Casas from low-ranked farms, but since we finished last again, with them, to hell with optimism, right? Let's just trade em all and start from scratch. The whole system sucks! The sky has fallen.
  21. Thanks for finally answering. Shoot me for thinking our future looks bright, or at least brighter than it did after 2019.
  22. We did just graduate Bello, but your point is still a valid one. Houck, Crawford, Whitlock and Wink are also recent grads. This group of 5 is better than any 5 I have seen in a very long time. The next five look very concerning. Like you said, not are even on anyone's honorable mention list. Mata can't stay healthy and should be converted to a RP'er ASAP. Wikelman can't improve his BB/9, but does show some promise. Perales is only 20 but has a ways to go to make anyone's list. Drohan is dropping like a lead Zeppilin Walter and Murphy have probably peaked. We do have quite a few lower ranked pitchers, and maybe 1-2 show marked improvement, soon, but again, I doubt any make a list: Gambrell, E R-C, Dobbins, Bastardo, Guerrero (RP), Hoppe, Rogers, ICoffey, Troye, Paez, Penrod, Duffy, Uberstine and of course, good ole Noah Song.
  23. Of course it is all speculation, but the odds of a top 5 farm producing more stars than a bottom 5 is great enough to be optimistic about it. Some prefer to wallow in doom and gloom.
  24. Okay, so between 3 and 16 compared to 24th to 30th. Which would you prefer? Why you can't even answer this simple question is very telling about you and your complete refusal to comment on anything even remotely optimistic, other than rejoicing in Bloom's demise.
  25. Don't like what as much? BTW, you still won't answer why you have an issue with when I do and don't post standings.
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