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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We all want to cheer for the Red Sox -- that's why we boo when we can't. Most talksox posts are wishing and hoping and discussing ways Boston can be better, from the top down. Everyone has an opinion, but no one ever tries to plan ways for the Sox to get worse. Posts should be up and down -- and dumb jokes come with the territory for fanatics who spend time every day dealing with their addiction by typing to anonymouses they'll never meet ; if this was all just "Yeah, us! Gimme five!" the forum would be boring and cease to exist.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fans are entitled, and not just Red Sox fans. All sports fans who devote their time following, watching, rooting -- and especially, paying money -- for and on their favorite team should be able to expect or at least anticipate experiencing a quality product of entertainment. No one ever mocks movie viewers or music fans for complaining about a bad film or offkey concert by artists who were once great. If they didn't get their money's worth, they deserve to be disappointed.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Those that watched the end of last night's game saw a sign that just might be the turning point on the defense. SHORTSTOP Ceddanne Rafaela fielded a ground ball on the run and deftly -- and athletically -- whipped a strike across his body to nail the runner at first base. It was the kind of play fans are accustomed seeing from big league shortstops... even once in Boston, from Story to Nomar. If little Rafy stays at short, and O'Neill rebounds from his concussion (where expediency is never guaranteed) -- and the likes of Abreu, Duran and now Refsnyder continue to contribute in the OF, the D should be vastly improved.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    .500 is a good SLUGGING -- like careers of Fenway Rice .502 and Coors Story .502. I like your other stat better, but it's a counting number: Totality Total Bases (on H + BB.. but not HBP or Catcher Int).
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ceggonne!
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Your Red Sox Number Three batter Rob Refsnyder bats with a runner on base and goes deep in PuGaaH!
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Beat the PGH Pirates. Big PGH on chest and cap -- three letters, all part of the same word? Or do are they pronounced PuGaaH? Or are they initials for something else? Pit Gold Hats... Pit Glad Hands... Pit Gear Heads... Pit Ground Hogs
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When they decided not to pay Mookie, I predicted they'd soon blow the same money on a lesser mug -- but it didn't take a Nostril Dumbass like me to make such a claim. Look at Sox history: Matt Young, Matt Clement, Matt Barnes -- is it any wonder they're habitual doormats?
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Optimistic post of the day. Another: MLB just can't and won't stop messing with the damn baseballs, so it's very likely they'll juice them up again like 2019 before Raffy's prime is up, and maybe by then the Sox line-up with surround him with other stars like Betts, Bogaerts and Martinez -- so he doesn't have to put himself on the IL every other month trying to hit 5-run homers... ... and we'll get to see that Devers again who uses the whole field to bat .300 with 90 extra-base hits.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I know you didn't mean Mookie is also overpaid, because he leads baseball in WAR yet again -- already with 2 bWAR, more than half the Sox players earned all last season. But I'm glad I looked it up, because Crawford leads all pitchers with 1.5 bWAR... What I think you meant, Max, is that most free agents are paid for past accomplishments -- especially those past their primes (cough, Giolito, yak). They're all paid for their potential to repeat past success, but obviously some are better bets than others: Silver Slugger/Gold Glover/speedy runner superstar athlete 300-game bowler who wears a hoodie to feed the homeless incognito... vs. Silver Slugger/kinda thick in the middle grounder-jogger who leads MLB in errors at his position every season.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is a great post. Thanks for breaking it down. An actual playing payroll of $74M explains a lot.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Disposal -- you just coined the theme of the season. Remember 2024, Year of the Disposal? When everything Red Sox went into the garbage disposal: gloves, bats, bases, bullpen gates, great starts by the rotation, TV remotes, season tickets, yellow jerseys, and a roster full of interchangeable bodies. Feel free to add to the list... just don't touch that Neil Diamond 45-rpm hit single from 1969!
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The Red Sox front office Assistant VPs walk the beaches like a search party, looking for valuable sea shells (they had to sell the metal detector they once used when digging up loose change). But if they find any interesting stones, they are instructed to collect and send directly to Andrew Bailey for further polishing.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The same old go-to for the few who dwell on budget numbers elicits my same old How much of it is dead money?: paying Sale to pitch for someone else, paying unavailable players to rehab on the IL (some yet to wear the Sox uni: Grissom, Fulmer, Hendricks... Mondesi last year, Paxton the year before), paying mistakes to ride the pine? And all GMs have them -- DD's Sale, Bloom's Story and Yoshida, Breslow's Giolito; it doesn't matter if it's bad luck or poor decisions -- the difference for fans in some cities is they know that their teams' front office and owners will fill in roster needs with acceptable or better substitutes... so fans can continue to justify paying to watch them. You complain about today's worst infield in history, but won't acknowledge that the fans are stuck with what the Red Sox paid for?
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Posters on Cleveland's talkguards site (if it exists) maybe aren't quite as concerned, since their MLB club starts more than five legitimate big leaguers daily -- and they don't have to worry about two of them getting knocked to the IL on the same play... ... with an ownership that has refused for years to spend market prices to supply roster depth with actual talent that can contribute wins above replacement players.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    According to Tom Werner's front office source, if the Sox just had normal defense, they'd win 10 more games -- that means they'd be undefeated!
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If... if only Cora could manage them into being better fielders!
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But what's their NO PS?
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In baseball, it's never early. But it's always still early...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Only love can bring the rain. That falls like tears from on high.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Reese's Pieces -- McGuire is the only guy in the starting line-up who literally wasn't a minor leaguer in the past two years. But it's Getaway Day, so AC must be counting on the Guards to being going through the motions and hit the road. We all know how cooked the bullpen has already looked this week -- and yet, Bernardino's the opener, with no Pivetta to eat the bulk innings. Another sign from Clever Cora to ownership as a big thankyou for the absolute lack of talent depth?
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom will always be remembered as THE guy who traded Mookie, and he deserves it -- if he accepted the job offer as CBO with the understanding that his first order of business would be dealing Betts and Price. Maybe someday he'll publish memoirs that swear he had no idea, until some secret meeting in his first week in office. Meanwhile, there'll only be one Yale grad CBO who looked misled (at least publicly) by ownership since the day he was hired.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The question is: Did John Henry hire him to do it ?
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You mean, including Breslow? When an owner makes a bold statement to his customer base and employees, he'd better be telling the truth. But don't be so surprised by what you see on the field -- even the ex-players up in the booth are starting to accept and explain the nightly spectacles as a mere matter of talent... or lack thereof.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Reliable glove, cannon arm, respectable bat (8% K-rate), four times receiving MVP votes, four-time All-Star, known as "Burly" on my vintage 70s Sox painter cap, admitted Yankee hater... ... the answer is: yes.
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