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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Tell the Giants if they pay 90% of his contract, we'll take him back and put on the Riff-Raffy Restricted List... where he can only be activated to suit up and bat against Cole for the rest of their careers.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He doesn't always come through -- because he's a baseball player -- but we've seen him repeat heroics more than most for three years now.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But why do we need to eat now when we'll just be hungry later? Who needs to wear clean clothes when they're just going to get dirty? What's the sense in combing my hair when someday it's all going to fall out.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    "We just keep running into good pitchers." Night after night after nightmare.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Personally, I had a lot more fun watching the Red Sox all those years when they were slugging and scoring runs. There certainly seemed to be a lot more fans cheering during those games. And as much as I like Lou Merloni, I couldn't stomach him last night saying that the Red Sox keep running into so many good pitchers. Is it possible this Red Sox offense makes so many pitchers look good? Maybe my despair is easier to take in those 11-9 losses when a couple Red Sox pitchers blow a slugfest. Comparing that to losing a pitchers' duel is a numbers game for me, when I'm more frustrated watching 9 or 10 inept batters basically offer little hope of scoring, inning after inning after inning.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was over when Varitek, age 29 and coming into his own having a career year, dove for a pop foul and broke his elbow on the dumb wooden on-deck logo. So three legit star players went down. This year we have Crochet and now Contreras out. Anthony was kind of a star... in the WBC and team yearbook and preseason media guides. But there's no Manny still in the line-up.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In 4+ years, including post-seasons, since Kyle Schwarber left Beantown, he's blasted 228 home runs. In their Red Sox careers -- Boston's entire 2026 starting line-up has hit 224 homers. But Schwarber just didn't fit in here. To use a notin simile: that's like looking at a three-car garage with a Pinto, a Gremlin, and a Pacer, and saying there's just no room for a mint 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brez now scrambling in the bleachers to recruit enough bodies to fill out a Nine so they can finish the game. What's their LBR? (no one squeezed into the box seats could move with their arms folded and pasted across their chests).
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Durbin just hit into an inning-ending DP and OB said the side was retired. So I give credit to all the former Red Sox players who just decided to hang 'em up.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But what's our OPS?!?!?!?!?!? Remember, doubles and triples are included in the S... which in Boston also factors into LOB. HRs -- as someone reminded the forum AND BREZ today -- immediately count on the scoreboard.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I read an eval on him at the time that said he could be a GG at either. I don't remember the source, but I didn't make it up. I also saw him in person make special plays at short with range nobody else had in Boston at the time or since.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Right -- it's like they were worried he'd turn into another Mookie so better lock him up cheap so they wouldn't get excoriated for trading another generational player when refusing to pay him fair market value. Comparisons may seem absurd now, but in the minors Ceddanne had more pop, could run, and was said to have a big league Gold Glove in CF and SS. That's potentially a five-tool star that could become very costly... when Betts was in the minors, no one projected him in the majors to win a batting crown, hit 3 homers in one game six times or make himself the best defensive rightfielder in the game.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This year it's the bar (Sox are driving more fans to drink) -- or at my recliner, because I don't drink and drive. Second would be at the cororner.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They can't make it much lower and they won't push it back, so we all know MLB will revert to their tried and true solution -- especially if there's another obnoxious lockout and they're desperate to bring back fans: JUICED balls (that batters hit).
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When two batters K in front of the home hitter, you get a lotta solo shots.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Somewhere on the top shelf of the safe in the front office is a secret formula that only these geniuses devised that calculates which approach saves the company the most money. Locking up a group of young players longterm at team-friendly terms in case one of them becomes a superstar worthy of top of the market value is one trend. As a fan, I prefer they pay controlled guys minimums and then market value when the times comes -- which Boston doesn't seem to mind, either, to appease the base... as long as there's not a No Trade clause so they can dump them sooner than later. The reason I'm on board with the latter is that it would appear to provide more budget flexibility to fill roster needs with legitimate talent year to year. But don't trade Mookie Betts, you complete and utter baseball no-minds!
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This regime doesn't mind long extensions for youngsters -- and it really isn't about not having to pay true market value for a star in his prime... because that really hasn't happened, has it? (If someone can think of an example of a Red Sox rookie or second-year man signing longterm and then reaching an age where his status made him a ridiculous bargain, please chime in. I'm not talking Pedro, who was a Cy Young when he got to Boston, or Papi, who kept agreeing to team-friendly contracts... but young guys). The reason is the same reason that caused Bregman to walk: No No-Trade clauses... because as soon as Henry tires of paying someone what he offered, he dumps him.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Dr. Breslowstein and his office full of Igors did the mash a year ago, congratulating themselves for their Campbell creation. But then the monster turned on them and now no one can control him. We all know the reasons he was demoted a year ago, but every time I see him swing now it looks like he's hurting himself trying to pull the ball in the air. Yesterday: tying run on 3rd, winning run on 2nd -- a single could've been enough... but KC tried to kill the ball. I know the minors don't put as much emphasis on winning, but being a walk-off hero can't hurt a guy's chances at getting noticed by a parent club in desperate need of offense.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You asked two. The first one is totally your assumption. KC was 0-for-4 with two bad Ks and a questionable approach when a four-run homer was unnecessary to win a one-run game. From my observations of watching Campbell in person in games several times this season, Campbell has not shown he is a big leaguer. He looks the same as he did last year: a pro athlete, but not a major league baseball player. Have you even seen him hit this year? Arms, legs and head are all out of synch, with no consistency from one AB to the next. Guys who can't mesh those working parts in games in the minors aren't considered for the next level. When Anthony, an outfielder/DH went on the IL, why didn't Eaton get promoted over Gasper? Eaton can run fast on the bases and in the outfield. But Gasper has had Woo's most consistent bat and the Red Sox need more.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I-witnessed Worcester report: (typing in the Realistic thread for those who still think Campbell is an option in '26)... Woo lost, 3-2, to the Scrankees. Gamboa looked decent, Anderson threw meatballs and Guerrero is so big and fast, he lets go of the pitch about five feet from the plate. Guys who guessed right made contact, but others were overmatched... though he won't be in the majors until he stops bouncing 101 off the dirt. Woo had the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th, down one with one out and clean-up batter Kristian Campbell up. He was O-fer with two Ks already -- one fishing, one looking. But this was his chance to be the walk-off hero. All he needed was a single somewhere... but swung out of his shoes, pulled his head, and missed the first two pitches. What was he thinking? KC then grounded to 2nd for a game-inning DP. The only realistic position prospects right now look like Seigler, who can hit, and Ward, who is so disruptive on the bases that it's conceivable some MLB contender will want him included in a package at the trade deadline.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We can trust them to spend... at least on Alaskan king crabs for their next lunch meeting on how to get out of paying market value to established position players .
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But... payroll flexibility, and they're further from paying competitive balance taxes -- fans should celebrate.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Out Gate C, left on Lansdowne St., right on Brookline to the middle of the David Ortiz Bridge, jump off onto a flatbed heading west on the Mass Pike.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If only he wasn't working in a country where the lies will keep him prisoner.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yoshida's career stolen base success rate is better than those of Rickey Henderson, Lou Brock and Ty Cobb.
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