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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yup, the majority of Red Sox Nation could care less that Fenway used to host a top five spender. This site may be rife with longtime fans, but there are plenty of younger ones across New England and beyond. Imagine college-age Sox fans who maybe became fanatics in 2018, and then have been in a state of shock or dismay most of the time ever since. Many young Red Sox fans have never even heard of Dice K or even Moncada... or that their team once outbid every other club in the world to have them wear Boston uniforms.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Save the money! Trade the prospects! Remember, bodies have a shelf-life... once most ballplayers actually make the majors, their value just plummets (can't believe I just typed that -- BTV is a bad influence in the Cold Stove League).
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is the new regime. No more mound mediocrity signed for one year at $10 million. Brez will trade for it! Remember: if you really want to deal for blah, you've got to give up something meh...
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Us -- The Enablers. They know we're such fanatics we'll still post daily, even if they suck... at least to complain. But we don't like being miserable; we'd rather cheer. I was gleeful watching the game Diekman struckout three Yankees to save the day. And then in his next 10 outings vs. the first batter he faced, he hit the guy in the toe.
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That same winter, Boston also added an outfielder who once had a WAR season of 8.3, plus two key pitchers from Japan! It's all happening...
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Last time Lugo was the Sox first big offseason signing, they won the World Series.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I'm leaning towards a trade for our #1, and signing a #3 for our #2. I hope I'm wrong, because after Yama, Snell and Monty go, the clubs sitting on the best trade options will be calling the shots. And the cost will hurt more than just losing an expendable outfield prospect with a flaw or two in his game...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    That's booty, yo
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let's compare. Pros: all have multicultural options for dining, shopping, entertainment; each is part of the United States. Cons: all have climate issues -- conflagrations, floods, winds, raw or crappy playing conditions; each is part of the United States. But without a doubt, Boston has the most Red Sox fans... except sometimes when the Dodgers or Mets invade Fenway -- but Yo Yama can change that!!!
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Feinsand on X: "will meet with the Red Sox in the coming days, per source."
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Breslow should go all stealth and fly right past Yamamoto to Chiba City with a briefcase full of posting fees they can't refuse, and sign Roki Sasaki this week. Imagine the uproar if the Sox snag Sasaki, three years younger than Yamamoto. Brez can probably lock him up for less than what NY, NY will overbid for Yama, too...
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... because this isn't raystalk, jaystalk or lasvegasnomadstalk
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The obvious miss was letting Beltre become a Hall of Famer for someone else. The subtle miss -- that some of us predicted at the time -- was not resigning Lowe, who went on to lead the NL in games started four times. And the Pedroia extension, as much as budget fans complained about it, was initially a win. Pedey continued to star at what was a below-market rate (compared to his contemporary, Cano)... until being assassinated by Machado.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Even if Ant-Teel-Mayer are all up by '25, rookie years like Lynn-Fisk-Nomar aren't automatic (just saying the Sox can't assume they're going for it with 1/3 of a line-up going through normal growing pains)... ... however, that can make establishing the stability of the top of a rotation even more vital now. Like we all keep saying, it all starts with starters...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    There's a different vibe on the board today. Almost everyone getting along, hoping for the best. It's like separate nations forgetting petty disputes to support each other during the threat of an alien invasion.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Just read today's Red Sox Beat by MLB.com's Ian Browne about O'Neill... and got Deja Boo. The following bold-faced excerpts were directly copied and pasted (no keyboard mice were harmed in the process): could be a bargain -- and a low-risk, high-reward one... to be motivated in walk year... needs to stay healthy... ... and those were just comments about me, as a Red Sox fan.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sitting around waiting to lose another offseason, I make a bad pun, and within minutes three guys reply, taking me seriously. Shows you how edgy old Sox fans are getting these days. And I haven't even had any eggnog yet today...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Inexplicably, the Red Sox still employ some of the same folks in their front office that traded a Hall of Famer in his prime, and last week gave up the key piece in that deal for the main return of a Double A pitcher. Irony? Execs who can't find a way for Betts that fits plans for sustained contention spin him for a guy who actually Fitts...
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We know all the big-time players in these free agents sweepstakes: big markets determined to outbid each other, and legitimate postseason contenders looking for additions to put them over the top. We'd all like to think the Red Sox ownership and front office is rejoining all their rivals' intentions this winter. But none of us will believe it until/if it happens...
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    With Bellhorn's revelation from the Atlantic -- "someone in the Sox organization as saying the approach under Breslow is remarkably the same as it was under Bloom" -- Sox fans now have to question if the new CBO is really just another mouthpiece. Even eternal optimist Moon is starting to accept we're all being duped. If we go back to one of the reported reasons Dombrowski was fired -- that he ignored or dismissed the longtime voices in many departments -- it's worth wondering now if Bloom was ever really in charge. Does it really make sense for a company to hire an inexperienced young man to outrank veteran execs, many of whom were pushing two decades of company service? Does it really make sense that the Red Sox have now just done it twice in four years -- while keeping all of the same front office staff who have been there forever?
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's not that Sox fans are upset they didn't get Ohtani. It's just watching other teams -- competitive clubs serious about upgrading year after year -- improve their chances ever winter by adding available talent. Ohtani can't pitch, but any batting order is better if it features the MLB leader in OPS... ... and now we face the reality of all those legitimate big market teams he didn't sign with that have lots of money to spend on players the Sox actually need.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I could be me, but I doubt there are any fans of any baseball team that would be upset today if their club just signed Ohtani. I know there are some who "can't believe someone paid that much money to a guy to play a child's game" -- just like every single time an athlete breaks the all-time contract record, since the beginning of free agency almost half a century ago (and even before that when owners showed gratitude to stars during the Reserve Clause). But Ohtani's not just the greatest two-way ballplayer of all-time... he's one of the most famous people on the planet. He's Elvis. The Dodgers aren't always right, but they always make a plan and are decisive. They knew exactly what they were doing when they traded for Mookie, and when Ohtani becomes an over-priced DH, they'll cut their losses. And move on to the next marketing target for their sustained winners... while the sustained losers gripe about their record, wishing they at least had stars to root for and give them hope.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've been inclined To believe they never would
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Except Werner is on record that we're now going full throttle, and Breslow has more than once mentioned trading prospect capital to improve the team. He couldn't mean victor santos... my keyboard wouldn't even let me use capital letters to type his name.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Half of them won't be ready to pitch until mid-summer, but Sam swears they'll be better than any old trade acquisition we can make at the deadline.
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