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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Gotta get there first. There's no doubt this year's rotation looks deeper, but there's also no guarantee veterans like Gray and Suarez will both be good (though they're better bets going into the season than Giolito and Buehler off their previous year). But just because the rotation looks improved -- and assuming the bullpen is ok -- there are still concerns. We have no choice to move on from Bregman, but stop pretending it's a relief the Sox didn't spend all that money on their one All-Star position player and team leader. Durbin has had one decent big league season and Mayer has had zero. From the sound of it, IKF is going to get a lot of PT...
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How to resolve? Just ask The Godfather. Brando of course had the biggest payday in the original. But Clemenza made more dough than a then-unknown Al Pacino. When that became a family controversy, the Corleones just made Clemenza disappear. He was replaced by Frankie Five Angels in Godfather II.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My cousin Vinnie? And the Skanks can ruin it back all they want, but Juan Soto isn't walking through that door.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Like the NBA and NHL? Look at the bright side: none of us would have to watch any games until at least September... and for the really old guys out fishing or just sitting in the sunroom or on the deck, we can listen to music -- but not through ear plugs.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    As long as top four in each make the postseason. They might go for it because half the clubs get at least a taste of playoff money.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agreed, but you must be referring to my health concerns. Because watching the defense the past several years made me sick.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm really looking forward to all the frozen white stuff to melt and baseball to begin. I'm excited to watch the young Red Sox develop and the new additions to contribute. But come on. I watched the worst batting order in Red Sox postseason history and then heard the CBO say Boston needed big bats. He "pivoted." Failing the exam but doing an extra-credit essay to bring up the grade rarely gets anyone an A. If that paper eventually gets published and wins a national award, then it's ok to reassess. B-.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Games begin tomorrow!
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Contreras at 1B should hit better than any Red Sox did there in '25. If Mayer has just two good months at 2B, it doubles how many Campbell gave us. Durbin at 3B doesn't strike out, but he's not an All-Star hitter like Bregman. Assuming Story will duplicate last year's output is a huge risk, considering his tenure in Boston. Outfielders can't regress, including whoever DHs. Raffy hit 7 homers last May alone, which I don't think any other surpassed in the DH slot for the season. But this year's Sox also can't afford to tolerate any designated hitter whiffing 15 of 19 times to start, either.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mayer has a photographic memory. At least he remembered to take pics of all the guys in cowboy hats at the Story Camp. Duran, Mayer, Romero all looked good in black, but someone talked Anthony into buying a burgundy hat, and well... at least they have photo evidence.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not the four-letter f word... whenever my wife uses that, it's definitely not.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If everything ends, we're six feet under the floor. The cap is heaven... unless above us is only sky. Then it's fun stoppage.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora and Brez may like Masa in leftfield, but we all know the reason the owners won't let them play him there: they don't want to keep paying for new bulbs on the Fenway scoreboard. Lightwads.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If he's hitting homers with an .800 OPS again, I'd put Casas 3rd in the batting order... after Roman-Durbin and ahead of Contreras
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    John Heyman on the Sox' O: "I feel like the bottom third of the lineup is gonna be a challenge, and you're in a really tough division when you got Toronto, the Yankees and the Orioles, all of whom have way better offenses than you do." Positive Poster: "They haven't faced our two starting rotations or our bullpen led by Jeremy Wu-Yelland and Tyler Samaniego!" Way better? Rut-roh...
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Judge really ripped that "single" the Stadium scorers awarded him that Duran dropped..
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They were thinking they were glad my cousin Al wasn't around. According to no human on the internet, Ted was a standout pitcher in high school who won 16 of 19 games as a senior, including a 21-K game. "He was considered a better pitcher than hitter in high school..." said my monitor screen. I think I also heard he had a moderate to severe case of poison ivy, which led to the chant, "We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher." After that, Ted hated all pitchers forever.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The question we already know the answer to: the Sox are still missing a consistent longball threat in the heart of the order, but is there really any body out there worth trading Duran for, and losing his unique offensive skills? Both Duran's extra base speed and another guy's all-or-nothing power can contribute to a balanced offensive attack. Swapping one for the other doesn't upgrade what Boston chose to ignore this winter.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The only thing that changed after high school is when college started using the DH, many schools banned pitchers from batting to "protect" them. But pitchers were always the best players. When it wasn't their day to pitch, most played shortstop and hit clean-up. When Bloom drafted a thousand shortstops because they could be moved anywhere on the diamond, 995 of them were already pitchers. The other five had arms so strong, they were moved to the mound.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    P: improved, because Gray and Suarez are known to be pretty good off the mound. It's always been mystifying to me over the years how consistently bad Red Sox pitchers have been throwing to any base. Anybody who's ever played baseball at any level -- especially Little League -- is used to seeing the best players on the team standing right where we want them, on the hill smack dab in the middle of the diamond. Why is it different at Fenway Park?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not sure how the defense will shake up, but expect a lot of playing time for a dozen guys. The only thing that seems likely is that at least one pitcher -- probably a starter -- will need Tommy John and miss the rest of the season and next year. Only in Boston, that loss won't require any transaction except to maybe activate someone else or promote a major league-ready arm to join the rotation and become the next stalwart.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My mom likes his name because she's always kept an afghan folded over the top of the couch. Then again, isn't that why Old Red calls him Cro Magnum Man?
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'd hesitate to use it for a batter because it seems more apt for a pitcher hurling a projectile. I'd also hesitate to use it because I'd rather grind down on my syllables than end them with a "Shea" sound (nothing against the French, but everything against the Mets).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Poleaxe Oxford def: verb hit, kill, or knock down with or as if with a poleaxe.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    -- acknowledged, but like I posted, he wasn't a need for that roster at the deadline... ... not like quality bullpen help. As much as the Astro pitchers shut down Boston at the end of '21, the main reason the Sox didn't advance was their closer -- who was no one (and why Pivetta and Eovaldi had to come out of the bullpen and burned out). Someone posted that offense would've needed more homers to win -- sure, why not: in 11 postseason games the '21 Red Sox only poleaxed 22 HRs, when Enrique Hernandez was Big Kike.
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