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Blind and disabled people are eligible for social security…
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The biggest punishment may have been levied on whistle blower Mike Fiers. Two months after outing his former team, he signed his last one year contract with Oakland. And no one has touched him since…
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That’s fine. I would say there is a big difference between not wanting him hired back and implementing a lifetime ban. I understand why many would agree with the former, but I feel the punishment for his transgression was best left to those in charge…
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
notin replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
And that’s why he can get away with all this - he doesn’t have to look at himself in the mirror… -
That’s simply your opinion. The people entrusted with levying said punishment clearly felt differently. And that is not the fault of Cora. If it is going to be compared to the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Cora is far and away not the biggest difference. How many Astros players were suspended for even a single game?
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My understanding is with one press of a button, they can seal off that area and pump it full of sleeping gas so as to quell said boorish behavior for up to 15 minutes per dosage…
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Slaten could if Breslow could finish a deal for him…
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I think the most overblown one was the Steroid scandal. I was talking about the Astros cheating scandal last night. My daughter had to pick an event in history and discuss the impact, etc. for a history project, and she chose the Astros Cheating Scandal as her event. If anything, once you get into it, you start thinking maybe it didn’t get the attention it deserved…
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1. It’s absolutely not the most overblown scandal in the history of baseball. 2. Cora was an active participant. He has admitted as much and been punished by the league (along with others), and he served his suspension. Again, HE SERVED HIS IMPOSED PUNISHMENT. 3. All this talk of him backstabbing his way to the top is just idle gossip, speculation, and confirmation bias. The guy is no saint, but just because he’s not a saint doesn’t make him The Devil. He’s just a human with good points and bad points and need not be categorized solely as one extreme or the other. 4. That he has survived as a manager (unlike Carlos Beltran) does speak to his abilities. And more important, he’s our guy. He’ll do things well. He’ll other things questionably, like every manager ever…
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For the record, I would argue telling your GM NOT to sign someone isn’t the same as telling them who to sign. I’ll accept it at the “meddling” level, but it’s not “dictating”…
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While I don’t know that for certain, my feeling is if he wasn’t, he should have been…
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I think Ben played a big part on the decision, if not the only part. Henry may have a history is limiting his budgets, but not in dictating what players to get…
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There are always theories that any unpopular signings were the result of some unpopular front office personnel. Lucchino took the brunt of those theories for years. But at some point, it’s probably just Confirmation Bias. Ben didn’t have the biggest budget, but it’s not hard to believe he also made poor choices every now and then. It’s not hard to blame any GM can make a bad move, especially regarding free agency. The only GM whose never made a bad move is any GM whose never made a move. Henry did plenty to handcuff Ben when Cherington was in charge. Including keeping payroll do tight the Sox had to trade Marco Scutaro just to accommodate Cody Ross. These are not upper tier derailed players I’m talking about. To me, the biggest surprise of Henry’s tenure has been when he basically gave Dombrowski free reign to spent what he wanted where he wanted for multiple seasons…
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Questionable sense of direction?
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If Landis was still Commish, we really don’t know how he would rule. Since he’s be like 160 years old. He might find the Astros guilty. He also just as likely might find them to be tasty trout…
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He doesn’t make the decisions. He just sits in his booth like Caesar and gives a thumb up or thumb down. I bet he even wears a laurel when he does it…
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2-3 years earlier = different team
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Right. That was all on Cora. And a severe dismantling of that team after one underachieving season…
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Bottom line is no individual in Boston passed on Scherzer and waited a year for Price…
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They didn’t just learn that in the last two years. It’s been reality for many. He k I’ve been saying it on message boards for years. The problem is it’s just not always easy to have that level of depth. Hard to find 5 guys that are good enough to have in your MLB rotation but who are also willing to sign minor league contracts…
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It wasn’t just a good team; the team he inherited was arguably great. But to argue Cora was the one who ran it into the ground is more than a little bit presumptuous…
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You’re a horrible manager!
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And apparently he’s expressed interest in Boston, which I’m guessing is due to 1) Giolito and (more importantly) 2) a lack of interest from other teams…
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Well, DD couldn’t sign Max for the Red Sox because he’s wasn’t here at the time. It’s not fair to ask why he waited a year to sign Price instead of Scherzer when he wasn’t heard at the time. And as both of them are pitchers he traded for at one point, we can’t even use his history to highlight a preference for one over the other…
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To be fair, those off-season involved different administrations. The guy who signed Price didn’t have the same chance to sign Scherzer…
