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The Metrodome was pretty old and the team owners wanted to move on. New stadiums often rekindle fan interest. (Winning teams do, too, and are actually cheaper. But owners like to do the “new stadium” thing. Maybe it’s easier.) Also apparently at some point Target offered them a boatload of money for the stadium naming rights...

I think he just spent his allowance and needed players willing to settle for his budgetary limitations...

Target Field replaced the Metrodome in 2010. It should have. The dome looked like an awful place to play. The ceiling was the same color as a baseball, and flyballs/pop ups FREQUENTLY disappeared in it. Also the roof of the Metrodome collapsed under the weight of Minnesota snow, also back in 2010. Fortunately it was empty at the time...

I think he’s the only actor to play a DC hero and a Marvel villain...

As he played in Chicago, a city where the weather is determined by a random number generator, Banks was well aware that it could be 70 and sunny for the first game, and then 40 degrees and snowing by the time the second one rolled around. Yet he still wanted to play two...

Plus look at the celebrities. The Yankees have Billy Crystal and the Impractical Jokers cast. The Sox have Stephen King and Ben Affleck. Who really wins?

The Astros did it in 2012...

... depending on whether or not it is the contributing Brasier who shows up...

At some point, clinging to the 27 rings does get very meaningless. How many other events prior to World War II do people still brag about? Name one other event that happened in 1936 people still take pride in. In the last 40 seasons - and even that might go back too far for relevance for a lot of people - they have won 5 titles, just ahead of Boston. While that would still be the most in baseball for that timeframe, but then going back that far, the low budget Twins, and the perpetually hapless Royals and Marlins (all with 2 apiece) also make the list of multiple winners...

Well, as you are in NY, maybe the local fans have more humility.

You don't see it so much anymore, as the slot money system was created to prevent those Matt Bush signability draft picks. It does happen now, but more so with the underslot money in mind. THe most glaring example was the 2012 draft when Houston took Carlos Correa first overall, passing on the large #1 favorite Mark Appel (who would be drafted by Houston first overall the following season), along with others a highly regarded as Correa, including Kevin Gausman, Byron Buxton, Lucas Giolito and Mike Zunino. But Correa was no so much of a reach, as he was often mentioned as a candidate to go first and was a consensus top 6 pick. But Houston took him because he was willing to sign for underslot money, and the applied the savings to their next pick, a projected first rounder named Lance McCullers Jr, who was falling for signability reasons. The Royals made a similar move, taking Hunter Dozier at #8 the following year despite his inclusion in the first 20 picks of almost no mock draft that season. But they used the savings from his underslot signing to grab a falling Sean Manaea in the second round. Could Bloom try something similar in this draft? He couldn't last year as he had no second round pick (and yet he still made what many called a reach pick)...

I would guess I have been around at lot fewer Yankee fans than you, but I don't think I have seen the "graceful losing" stuff as often as you say. And I have even run into enough of them who think that when the Yankees lose, it is part of a MLB Front Office conspiracy to keep them down...

It all depends what they think is "top talent." If they think someone like Texas RHP Ty Madden or A&M RHP Bryce Miller is a top talent, Bloom will take him. That said, the unexpected move by Bloom might be to take one of the remaining from Lawlor, Mayer or McLain...

Or maybe the Sox will sign them both...

That’s why I haven’t posted in the last 6 game threads until after the win...

Sometimes people use these forums for cathartic purposes. Hey if trashing the Sox in an online forum gets that frustration out of your system, it’s probably a good thing. There’s no praise because no one needs a catharsis when it’s going well. During those times, we just deal with doom and gloom prophecies from Jacko...

Joni Mitchell for reminiscing about old lovers? That’s what Green Day is for!!!

The Sox also have Daniel Gossett. Very short track record as an ineffective MLB starter, but might be a viable option in the back of the pen. All he has to be is better than Valdez or Brice right now...

Cashman likes injuries and hates shortstop defense...

Certainly Houck needs to be on the roster and Taylor needs to go to Worcester. Replacing the other 2 will just have to take longer. But Taylor has to go first because Cora seems to think he can pitch in important spots...

Or make a Tommy John Surgery Thread and stick him on the list after Kirby Yates and James Paxton...

And they likely will, unless injuries get in the way...

I'm fine with 14 pitchers. I'm happier with it if at least two of Brice, Valdez and Taylor are not among them...

He’s a mild mannered reporter for the Daily Planet. But whenever there’s a cry for help...

Anyone with an option. Taylor and Valdez head my list...