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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It breaks your ears. It is designed to break your ears.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I once saw a Blue Jay go wing to wing with a Hawk on the ground next to a pine tree, while a group of Jays cheered from the branches. The foes rolled around for a few minutes, each getting two points for reversals, then flew their own ways. The Mockingbird might seem disrespectful, but when he sings, we get to hear a whole concert.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The 2013 Dodgers finished first, but LA fans must have been in uproar ever since because of all the huge albatross contracts the team has been dragging around -- just look at the roster that season: Kershaw (who has made about $300 million, and earned some of it), Matt Kemp (who they owed over $100 million), Andre Ethier (who they owed $70 million the next half decade), Zach Greinkie ($50M for two more years) -- not to mention the kajillions LA agreed to pay to ex-Red Sox Crawford, Gonzalez, Beckett and Punto. The poor fans. How have the Dodgers been able to blow so much money, move on from costly mistakes, and keep reinvesting in quality ballplayers and a quality team -- year after year after year?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Probably Wacha -- who Bloom paid market price at the time. But once he proved he was quality, they looked elsewhere. And let's get something straight: I have never rooted for the Yankees in my life, and never will. But I'm rooting for the Dodgers' opener game to fail because I believe it's in the best interests of being a Boston fan; remember, I don't want LA to lose that game, just for one of their relievers to suck (maybe walk the park), so I don't have to live through it when the Sox are finally back in the postseason and try the same plan.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Obviously rooting hard for Mookie, Kike and the D's... ... except if you're an unrealistic Red Sox fan, channel your logic to cheer on batters to absolutely destroy LA relievers on any night on a national stage that they try to win a World Series game using an OPENER. I still want the Yanks' bullpen to blow that game, but Boston fans have to hope the Dodgers don't win because of an opener -- lest our owners feel more justified to never again pay market prices for quality starting pitching.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This has been an annual tradition since the Red Sox hired Bloomslow and intentionally didn't invest in enough quality depth while team-building in every single offseason since their last championship six years ago. And the past will continue to repeat itself every summer until the current -- or a new ownership -- decides to go for it again.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Phanatics and pundits alike may be counting a bit too much on overnight sensations generated by our mop-top lads. The future's so bright, but it's not made in the shade: Triple A Worcester, last stop in 2024 for most of our great hyped hopes, had a fine second half, with the second-best record in the International League; Double A Portland -- where Boston's top prospects starred most of the summer -- was also the second-best team in the second half in the Eastern League; But the org with the best second-half clubs in the IL and EL? The New York Yankees... Neither Portland nor Woo finished first in either half-season, but the Sea Dogs did have the overall best record, 18 games over .500. Worcester had the second-best overall record, 8 games over .500... ... the Yanks' IL affiliate -- Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders were 29 games over .500 -- but so what; they can't even fit their whole name on a t-shirt! (I may be an unrealist, but never a fakest).
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... which is most Sox' fans problem with Yoshida -- the best contact hitter... by far... on the team. Maybe Red Sox Nation, so conditioned to watch and root for a vastly overrated, all-or-nothing offense, just can't handle a batter who doesn't wow them with an occasional longball in between hot nights of swings and misses that fan their overpriced, shoehorned seats. Yoshida doesn't do much to help a lineup of historical whiffers like Boston's. He'd be a better fit on clubs built on putting the ball in play to create and maximize rallies.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We don't have a lot to discuss yet since no moves have been made, but DH is maybe the least important issue; ... by default, DH is the only position that doesn't affect the defense. Yoshida might bug some fans, but he and his salary aren't going anywhere. His big league bat may stay in the rack in the dugout half the games next year, but Masa is not going to make or break the season. Even if Brez finally lands Teoscar as his righty power hitter, they'll deal with him in left field part time and let whatever good glove isn't traded in center to cover the gap.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I wouldn't either, but the Bloom Sox sure paid him like one. And we all know Story wasn't signed to play 2B, but SS as soon as Bogaerts left -- because they didn't want to pay Xander the same amount for those same years.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Get forward, Jojo...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Chasing down star players has worked for the Red Sox lately. They chased down a star infielder in Colorado and a star outfielder in Japan, and have since moved from last place in 2022 and 2023 to third place in 2024.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's nice of them, but the only true value of anything is what someone is willing to pay for it.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ARod eloquently summed it up on the pregame: "The Yankees' using Weaver and Holmes every game showed their fatigueness."
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    For any kid who almost grew up half a century ago, the following declaration is non-negotiable: the dragon teeth skeleton seeds in Jason and the Argonauts produced the most intense TV battle scene of the Sixties and Seventies, right up there with Wolfman vs. Dracula in the castle balcony with Frankenstein stumbling around Abbott and Costello.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I knew I could count on you to point out my typos, but can't believe you didn't catch my spelling on the arsenic tonguesten Verdugo compound resulting in poisonous tung.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In evaluating any trade, there is also qualitative data to consider. I'm not a scientist, but in regards to overall clubhouse chemistry, the addition by subtraction of Verdugo may be represented by these elements: C - (AR + T) = HeP Translated in guinea pig latin: Carbon (element that forms the most compounds; in other words, team) minus Arsenic and Tungsten (poison tongue) brings Helium and Phosphorus (uplifting glow!).
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sam, body-surfing again: "Not this one, the next one!"
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My forehead is passive recessive... ... suspecting MLB sneaking juiced balls back into the playoffs -- again.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nope, but it gave me hope. Still needed three more... and then we'd never have to watch Fox clips of Babe, Bucky, and Boone again. OOPS -- I meant Fox would never again show Brock Holt's CYCLE in YANKEE STADIUM in '18, and the Nunez-Pearce ALDS-clinching play, and Eovaldi beating NY AGAIN in the '21 WC!!!!!
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's ok. Someday our ancestors will read Tom Warner's memoirs, where he'll say he was, too.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Not surprising: the seven best players in WAR since 2020 play today in the Final Four. https://www.mlb.com/news/shohei-ohtani-aaron-judge-lead-star-studded-mlb-playoffs-slate Also, it's not surprising that all are also well-paid, earning current market value for their stardom.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In the past year, I saw a Bellhorn who became more aggressive towards the front office, and more decisive with posts. MVP, notin, Old Red, Max are more regressive, as oppressive to each other as they are to Sox ownership. Moon is depressive, finally giving up predicting another John Henry Wave of winter spending... ... but we've all lost our buoyancy, waist-deep in the ocean, peering expectantly at the horizon for that perfect body-surfing wave -- "not this one, the next one!" -- sorry, boys, it's low tide. Time to head back to the beach and dry off (5Gs hiding in the realm of digressive).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But can Sam Kennedy convince you that adding Kikuchi, Hoffman and Treinen will make the Sox a winning club again? With those three in '25, they could go 82-80!
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom was at least smart enough to know what he got himself into. Declaring the Red Sox wouldn't be as good after trading Mookie or calling the club "underdogs" to justify not making any major deadline moves weren't the words of a CBO proud of his actions or inactions. Maybe it was Bloom's way of speaking in code to the fans and admitting he was just following orders. Ultimately, ownership got sick of his smartmouthing and gave him the axe.
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