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  1. notin
    I believe the expression is “not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
  2. notin
    That's Snagglepuss you're quoting. Also, not so sure he was straight...
  3. notin
    Try harder...
  4. notin
    Not really. MLB is a singular company, not 30 distinct ones. Plenty of people do not get to choose their division in their job, and certainly don’t get to choose who runs that division…
  5. notin
    So… like Walmart? Or Amazon? Or like lots of other companies. Really, almost all of them. Really the only difference is we all know who the CEO of Walmart and the CEO of Amazon and the CEO of Google is. Those are the famous people. They’re also the richest people in their own organization. Google CEO Sundar Pinchai makes more money than the people we actually interact with, like whoever created today’s Google doodle. In MLB, THAT is the reverse. I would have to go look up whoever owns the Texas Rangers. But I can name everyone who’s been in their starting lineup for the past umpteen years. So the money really goes hand in hand with the names we know. In all walks of life…
  6. notin
    But like the Sox, they’re still spending nearly $200mill annually, if not more. If the best argument is “but what about inflation?”, is that really all you have? I think fans of teams like Boston and the Yankees and the Dodgers sometimes moss the big picture in how h these teams spend and just demand that it be more and more…
  7. notin
    It’s out really unique? Isn’t that how every company works? The lowest paid people generate the money by building products or performing services. I’ve never heard of any company with any other structure…
  8. notin
    That’s how capitalism works. Do people think Jeff Bezos is personally grabbing items off the shelves and packaging them for delivery? I want to side with the players. But I can’t because their “union” doesn’t care about its lowest paid members. If they were trying to institute better conditions or pay for players in A ball instead of fighting to have anyone with a $20mill salary upped to $25million, I’d be more sympathetic. The baseball CBA is the Bible of Greed. It’s an endless struggle in which a couple hundred people cannot agree on how to divide up several billion dollars…
  9. notin
    You do realize Hal has been spending more than George ever did, right?
  10. notin
    I’m talking about trade where the team trades for prospects. The problem is, if there were any subsequent deals, the shut down didn’t give us a chance to see what they were. I can’t say it’s a good trade, but I see the logic behind it. And after questioning last of season and then seeing the team go to the ALCS, just because Bloom doesn’t think like me isn’t necessarily a bad thing….
  11. notin
    Always remember - at least half of that fuel is for outgoing trips…
  12. notin
    Oh I don't think they plan to move on. But it is one scenario where they would move Betts for someone like Seabold. In fact, it's the only one...
  13. notin
    They might if they just wanted to dump lots and lots of salary, right?
  14. notin
    Why not? They're the one team whose GM is less predictable than ours...
  15. notin
    Considering the cash he is owed, is that value really unreasonable? Or the fact that he cannot be included in trades?
  16. notin
    I have doubts KC would want Bradley, given they have the reigning Gold Glove CF in Michael Taylor. If the Sox plan to let Bradley play CF, they have a LHH option in Duran for LF, and could platoon him there with 35yo free agent Andrew McCutchen (.969 OPS vs LHP last year). And if Duran struggles, maybe McCutchen gets a bit more PT. There are other guys like Jordan Luplow and Darin Ruf who also crush LHP, but neither is FA right now...
  17. notin
    Bezos can afford to have the sun moved closer, if need be…
  18. notin
    FWIW Bradley’s value matches up with Wil Myers at -12.8 on BTV. If San Diego included former Bloom acquisition RHRP Emilio Pagan (BTV value:0), it might make more sense…
  19. notin
    Well, for LF the premier RHH are Kris Bryant, Nick Castellanos, and Jorge Soler. Soler and Castellanos are horrific fielders. And Bryant wants the moon and he wants it gift-wrapped. Bloom might scrape the bottom of the barrel for Andrew McCutchen or Tommy Pham…
  20. notin
    We had Schwarber last year and he was left-handed then…
  21. notin
    Yankees, Phillies and the aforementioned Carolina Panthers…
  22. notin
    Translation - no one knows. Soxprospects still lists Kyle Schwarber as the LF acquisition. Sure it could happen, but there are other alternatives…
  23. notin
    Maybe some sort of insane clown posse, with all lowercase letters to avoid confusion?
  24. notin
    So if the Sox announced today they dealt Bradley to the Dodgers for Bauer and tickets on Jeff Bezos’ phallic rocket, thoughts?
  25. notin
    Wacha and Hill. Whitlock is a known (and extremely effective) commodity in the bullpen. Not broken. Don’t fix…
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