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  1. notin
    Fun fact - they were teammates in Korea…
  2. notin
    Welcome to LA, Ha-Seung Kim…
  3. notin
    I’m sure many rich folks get ripped off by their employees. But let’s be realistic. The ones who do rip them off have some sort of access to their money. Assistant? Accountant? Sure. Gardener? Probably not. Shohei isn’t some single guy living with his translator in a luxury bachelor pad. He has a wife. He probably has an accountant. He might even have a personal assistant. (It is LA, after all) To think his wife, accountant, assistant, and bank all didn’t notice these transactions? And the one guy with complete access to his account was the guy whose sole responsibility was to translate languages for him (which is not a financial thing). The more one thinks about it, the less likely Shohei appears innocent…
  4. notin
    You’re confusing me. Literally just 3 posts above you compare Bregman to Nomar, highlighting the death spiral that was Nomar’s career from that age on. Now you’re calling for Bregman? I still think the Sox will sign him, but part of me thinks the Dodgers might as well…
  5. notin
    You’d think they didn’t win last year. I’ve never seen a defending champion have such a thorough rebuild before. I can’t imagine what it’s like for a lot of those players from last season. Management is literally telling them “we know you just won a World Series, but frankly, a lot of you are simply just not perfect and therefore are going to be replaced by more expensive and therefore more perfect players.”
  6. notin
    Make that 568 bullets as they just signed Yates…
  7. notin
    Infinitely more reasonable? Infinitely? Right, “it wasn’t me” is such a rare thing for the guilty to cry. So it’s obviously infinitely likely to be true. I wonder if Tucupita Marcano tried to blame his translator as well and how much MLB laughed at that. Some of us struggle to believe Ohtani’s money was just so accessible that anyone who knew him could easily access millions of dollars and just happen to have a gambling problem and happened to get caught immediately after Ohtani signed a record-breaking, headline-stealing contract that it would have been a huge black eye for MLB if they had to void a week later because they banned the player for life. Although even if Ohtani did get caught betting on baseball, MLB would probably change another rule for him…
  8. notin
    Big deal. Steamer couldn’t predict last year’s results…
  9. notin
    Criswell was a lot better than I thought he’d be. Of course, I thought he was going to be AAAwful…
  10. notin
    But to say you don’t see Bregman as one of “the guys” the Sox finally spend on is kind of silly as a reason not to. Right now, “the guys” on the Sox includes Story and Yoshida. I will say this - if Bregman is looking at $160mill over 6 years, I don’t think that as cheap anymore…,
  11. notin
    Yeah but spending and missing is at least spending. There’s a huge difference between making a bad decision and making no decision at all. And Story did make some sense. His fWAR was comparable to Bogaerts over the previous seasons. He was and still is a better defender. He’s just been hurt a lot…
  12. notin
    I think you’re losing sight of your point. The argument that Sox ownership is cheap gets convoluted when you repeatedly bring up cheaper or cost equivalent players they could have signed instead.
  13. notin
    The story that the Sox were the highest bidder for Scott has been refuted, and MLBTR had the Cubs as the runner up. I don’t think Boston was as competitive as they needed to be there…
  14. notin
    I’ve theorized Story was signed just to prove we not Tampa North. But the reality is the Sox commited $147 million to him,,,
  15. notin
    I go the other way - they shouldn’t but they will…
  16. notin
    Solid argument, but I still think the Sox will sign him…
  17. notin
    That feels like a weak reason to not sign him. Especially considering how many good ones are out there…
  18. notin
    Sox didn’t sign Thornburg; they traded Travis Shaw for him…
  19. notin
    Let’s see if the union steps in…
  20. notin
    Maybe they did call him. But they had to speak to his interpreter…
  21. notin
    I think we already went down that road. And MLB 100% believed the interpreter went rogue and had access to tens of millions of dollars. Because who doesn’t give complete access of their bank accounts to their interpreter?
  22. notin
    Ohtani could place a bet on live TV and murder his bookie instead of paying up, and MLB would look the other way. They changed the rules to accommodate Ohtani. And they’ve been heavily marketing him for a while now. The chances that they expel him for gambling are roughly the same as the chances I flap my arms and fly to the moon…
  23. notin
    But how did they miss out on Soto?
  24. notin
    It’s a bit hypocritical that MLB nixed deals to Aaron Judge and a few others for trying to circumvent the luxury tax, but allowed that Ohtani contract. Maybe Ohtani will bet on the Dodgers this year and get another translator in trouble…
  25. notin
    Up next - Pete Alonso? Someone has to DH when Ohtani pitches.
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