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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Who's a better company man than a new hire who implements a scheme devised by the analytics department exploiting the cutting edge fringes of an industry, and then takes the fall as a scapegoat for the entire organization? What big business owner wouldn't want to employ a stand-up guy who served his time and kept his mouth shut.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It gives me agita when I hear national media speculating that AC will get the next Craig Counsell contract... ... not just because I think Cora is the second-best Red Sox manager in my lifetime, but because we all know Boston ownership can afford to keep him -- and we suspect John Henry would prefer instead someone at entry-level salary to man an under-manned roster. We fans and our high suspectations...
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    FREE run! First team to 50 wins!
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The greatest player on the greatest team in the history of this year just missed the cutoff... and now the fastest foe is in scoring position with no outs.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    On that play at the plate, Fox announcers were the only ones in the park who saw space under Masa's shoe from a secret underground spy cam. How disappointing that challenge umps in New York couldn't see the footage in time to overrule the call.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    When I was young in the 1970s, the Red Sox often generated loads of excitement with good to great early records, only to crash at the end. The trend got so bad that Yankee fans grew to count on it. This week I was at an establishment in NY where someone noticed my Sox cap and said they're hanging in there, even with all the injuries. I noted that Arizona made the World Series last year with 84 wins, so who knows. An old guy in a Yankees cap behind me laughed and mocked, "Ya, keep dreaming." I replied, "Ya, and the Yankees are always good the first two months of the year." He shut right up.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Red Sox so far are spoiling the Yankee Show on Fox tonight. But they'll still show viewers thousands of more graphics that illustrate just how great NY is again through the first two and a half months of another baseball season this decade.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yes -- this forum has become a place where good people are just sick of rooting for bad teams. The Red Sox aren't terrible, but the front office has been terrible assembling complete teams the past half decade -- especially when we all know they have the resources to overcome terrible holes on the roster: one year it's the bullpen, the next it's the rotation, then it's the defense (which can make even the most casual fan stop watching)... ... but ultimately, it's been an offense that strikes out way too much up and down an unbalanced batting order to ever mount any kind of consistent winning streak that can boost a mediocre club into contention. I could care less if Bloom or Breslow deal veterans on expiring contracts in July for more farm depth. The Sox really need a blockbuster trade -- a deal for a foundational star position player or pitcher who can help turn the organization around, even spearhead a rebuild, and generate tepid interest into excitement again. Stop waiting for a future that may never materialize to make appreciable changes.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is easy to explain, even for John Henry: The Yankees are the most profitable team in baseball, so they can afford all the great players. The Red Sox are only third-most profitable, behind NY and LA... ... so Boston is only richer than 27 other clubs -- and even worse, only has a 1 in 30 chance to ever recruit and sign actual good ballplayers who aren't rehabbing, injury-prone or doomed by a higher power to career-risking malfunctions while performing athletic exercises like throwing or diving for a ball, swinging a bat, riding stationary bikes or walking down dugout steps.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'll always root for the players, because succeeding at baseball is so freaking hard. But considering this roster and how far away it has been -- and feels -- from actually contending these past few years... ... put it this way, if I agree with Yankee fans that the Red Sox SUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK, it's not those in uniform -- especially the manager and coaches who don't even play anymore... ... it's always the Boston front office.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No one believes a word you just typed because you posted it on an anonymous forum on the internet. But if you posted a phone video of a UFO, they'd give you your own TV show.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The reason MLB took away the fan vote is because the freaking Reds fans stuffed the ballot boxes in '57 and every player from Cincinnati made the starting line-up (except maybe Stan the Man). I think the commissioner inserted Aaron and Mays into the batting order to make the NL look respectable. The Reds stars didn't even win the pennant. Milwaukee went all the way.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    All Bichette's numbers are down, which could mean something physical is affecting his swing. You don't suddenly forget how to hit after three straight years getting MVP votes. At age 26, could be a good buy-low guy. At 36, maybe not so much.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What's worth it to fill one of Boston's biggest needs -- a right-handed power bat? I don't know if Toronto would trade Bichette to the Red Sox, but are we really going to just wait and hope Lugo and Yorke are ready by the end of the year, or Campbell and Bleis in two years, or just keep recycling through the Duvalls and O'Neills of the world until someday we're good enough again to add some serious pieces to the roster? Bichette is still only 26, already led the league in hits twice, and could be a change-of-scenery guy that becomes part of the next core. And he's not a prospect, but a legitimate big leaguer.
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I intentionally stayed off BTV, since it's now a pay site. Plus, we all know the Sox will never take any former All-Stars whose salaries are at actual market value at this point, so we might as well just start proposing trades that will never happen in a patient rebuild (because we are the patients of Dr. Henry).
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    True, they might be embarrassed: Hamilton and Abreu are a combined 3.2 WAR already... while Bichette's a NEGATIVE WAR: -0.1 Three more wins and the Jays leap over the Sox into 3rd place.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bo Bichette's Most Similar Batter: Dick Lundy, who starred for the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants a hundred years ago. Lundy also hit .381 for the Baltimore Black Sox, and played for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Newark Dodgers, New York Cubans and Newark Eagles. There's always a spot for a good hitter...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bo Bichette: having a blah season - .240/.635 - and is a free agent in 2026... if Toronto sells, the Sox have to look into acquiring a 26-year old All-Star hitter with a swing made for Fenway Park. He's not a good shortstop, but neither is anyone else in Boston this year, and can move to second base when Mayer takes over or Story comes back. Three of the Jays top five prospects are middle infielders, including two at Triple A, so Bichette just may be available. Toronto's outfield is getting old, and can use a guy like Abreu. Throw in Hamilton (having a better year than Bo) as a stopgap SS. Who else?
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I won't even be surprised if Duran is picked as a reserve and winds up starting, when the all-in Yankees make Judge or Soto go visit Manny's gramma (morgue or less).
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shirley, you're basing this entirely on what has been a rather inept Red Sox organization the past half decade... and not what most other teams have done since the minor leagues were invented. (giving you the benefit of doubt, because I know I'm due to type a statement soon that multiple posters will jump all over, and make notin's day -- even if he didn't wake up in the mood for a bench-clearing rhubarb donnybrook donnyosmond)
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I get the tanking part of it -- though budget forbid we win the lotto and have to pay #1 overall slot money -- but does John Henry seem like the kind of boss who encourages his highest salaried employee to use all his paid sick days?
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Westburg has played one-third of his games at second base. Not sure if that helps or hurts his dWAR...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Unless you're the guy paying him $300 million. Then you might tell him to get his ass back on the field and earn it.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Agree with all this, but regarding the promotion of Yorke: does anyone think he's a better ballplayer or more deserving than Mayer this season? All their Double A counting stats and BA/OPS favor Mayer, except Ks. Is it that Yorke provides bench depth -- replacing Barrel Man, now in the Show? Obviously, Mayer plays a more demanding skill position -- and it makes sense for him to start at SS every day -- but here's another query: is he already better at short than anyone in Worcester or Boston? If so, on other teams or in other years, he may already be in the majors, or at least called up for the second half. But on the at-best .500 Red Sox, no need to rush anybody...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Fan expectations have become too low. We have to be realistic and realize the Red Sox can't always finish in last place every season. Some key guys could even return from the IL and replace the replacements on a razor-thin roster. In the meantime, we have to be impatient. After all, bad ballplayers are inexpensive.
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