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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have actually praised the Jays GM as the anti-Bloom the past four years for constantly adding quality big league pitching. Signing Ryu, trading for Ray and Berrios, signing Gausman, Kikuchi, and Bassitt -- among others -- were all good additions to a legitimate starting rotation. The Red Sox interns on the board will be quick to point out that Toronto hasn't won a playoff game with all those arms, and that is correct. I don't know why it hasn't worked out for the Jays, and I could care less (because I always root against Vlad and Monah). But no one can bash the efforts of a front office that continually upgrades a pitching staff with good MLB pitchers.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We all appreciate Jansen, even when he said the bullpen needed help at the deadline. And Cora deserves a raise the way he's kept this club over .500 with the pitching staff he's been supplied with. But there's no denying the reasons that in the first showdown with the team the Sox are chasing for the wild card, the first pitcher they had to bring in during a two-run game was Llovera. Even you have posted for years that -- as a fan -- you wished and expected the CBO of the Red Sox to add more quality pitching. Be honest, were you happy and confident when Llovera took the mound in the 6th? Did you even feel a sense of irony when Toronto brought in Hicks vs. the Sox?
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Speed of lightning, roar of thunder Signing one-year pitching blunders Underdog, underdog, underdog!
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Which team looks like it's trying to make the playoffs this year -- the one that just traded for an MLB closer and shortstop (to replace their injured regular), or the one that traded for a DFAed reliever and an infielder from the minors?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Was one name accidentally omitted from relievers... In the biggest series of the summer so far -- vs. the closest team we have a chance of catching for the wild card -- the Jays and Sox turned to recent bullpen acquisitions in the opener. Toronto trusted new closer Jordan Hicks and his 105-mph fastball. Boston brought in Mauricio Llovera... When Bloom labels his own team as underdogs, what does that say about the architect of those dogs?
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Cora can keep owning the putrid baserunning mistakes, and say it's his responsibility in postgame interviews. But eventually there has to come a time when a guy who constantly runs into outs is run out of town. Cora isn't running.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It's only music. Only juke box music.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Oh yeah, Urias got me now You got me so I can't sleep at night Urias got me, Urias got me, Urias got me
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Nope. I was obsessed with trading him as one of the Sox' surplus middle infielders while he had a top-10-15 ranking... Now that he's plummeted out of their prospects top 20, that opportunity is gone -- like an overrated 5'10, 165 middle infielder with a .240 batting average in high A. Bloom replanted the farm, propagated cuttings, germinated flats in hoophouses. But if he doesn't start harvesting soon, no one's going to want overgrown and unruly vegetation, and they'll be no more room in rows for new seeds.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Question: If Drohan, Fernandez, Gambrel, Perales, Gonzalez, Bastardo -- among the best pitching prospects in the org -- all need spots on the 40... or risk getting picked by the Washingtons and Dombrowskis of the world -- then why didn't Bloom trade other surplus... like Paulino, Lugo, Scott... at the deadline? On MLB.com's list of Red Sox prospects, Paulino is #9, Lugo #13. If we might lose guys like that in a few months, what harm would it be to swap them for even a rental to improve this year's club? For instance -- just as a numerical comp -- the O's got Jack Flaherty for their #14 and #16 prospects...
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Chaim said he's "pretty excited" to have Urias because of his intriguing upside... and of course, because he's under control. Do those two reasons show that Bloom is viewing this addition as someone who will give them that playoff push for this season?
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wait a minute, let me check the odds on one of the dozens of betting shows that have replaced real sports news on TV. Ahh... here it is: current odds are bad and worse -- it's a parlay, but if you place a bet now they'll match your first five dollar-bill, rolled up into a straw... and your first sniff is free!
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In baseball, it's not always true You Get What You Pay For, but... ... the middling market Red Sox' current record is 7th out of 15 AL teams... one loss away from 9th...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I live in New England, so I'm also close to both diehard and casual fans who have been very vocal this season. And the one thing even the casual fans can't stand, beyond relievers blowing games, is piss-poor defense. That can make a lot of viewers change the channel quickly. The general reason: If the Red Sox aren't going to be serious about who they let wear their uniforms, why should I devote any more time watching them?
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Like I've been saying forever, teams can't wait until they're good before adding good players. It all starts with pitching -- even a rebuild -- and reliable pitchers in their prime, signed and under control, give clubs a base upon which to build.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, just going by other forums, as well as this one, I read or post on. I doubt attendance will tank if the team does, because someone will usually take discounted tix to a day at Fenway... but we all know TV viewers will have plenty of options to click the remote in a month if things go south.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was just echoing what I've heard about impressions at the deadline from virtually all the ex-Sox-turned-media -- Middlebrooks, Merloni, Rice, Wake, Youck -- plus others from MLB channel. Reporters say it, too, based on what they've been told by other players, on and off the record. It's unreasonable to assume all those guys are full of crap, and just trying to contrive rumors -- especially when many work for an actual club like Bloom's Red Sox that never makes a significant trade. And before anyone here jumps to reply, I mean for a key piece at the time, beyond getting a Pivetta, who turned into a decent pitcher, or a power bat acquired while on the IL (who they let walk in two months, after his leg was healed, and then led the NL in HRs).
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have nothing against Paulino Walnuts... but Bloom is paralyzed. You doubted that his -- let's just call it "inability" (for whatever reasons) -- to help the big league club this week would have a negative impact in the next month on such a group of professional athletes. But I'm not saying it will all be mental, because already we have a bullpen that looks a bit tired (at least the fans are already tired of watching the castoffs that Cora is forced to put out there, doing his best to preserve the actual good pitchers at the back-end from total burnout before September).
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox finish last again, maybe after the season Bloom will make a few changes in the front office of the guys actually in charge of assembling his big league roster. Or at least make them recite the alphabet backwards, touch their middle fingers to their noses and walk a straight line... As chief officer, it's his call.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Brannon for Civale - yes Romero for Montgomery and Stratton - yes Homer for Montgomery Burns - no; don't trade power for over-the-hill, injury-prone rental cases
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The other day I posted the losing records of every Red Sox team in August after Bloom's petrified trade deadlines. Maybe that's just a coincidence and not a reflection of clubhouse/dugout reaction. As for fans, what is there to appease? The bullpen blew three games this week. And it's still only Thursday. Why would we want to see any legitimate pitching additions to the Big League staff?
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Jansen and Martin were actual quality pitchers on the free agent market. Maybe the "scrap heap" referred to by Randy comes from yesterday's column from a professional beat reporter for the Red Sox, headlined: "Bloom's constant search for bargains means Red Sox sign a lot of junk" The last time I read that about a guy in charge of Boston was... let's see... 19NEVER
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wha -- and let New York get a higher draft pick next summer? Bloom your tongue.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Song will not remain the same.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    CGs are like flip phones. But even a mediocre starter who can get big leaguers out one time through the order can aid in the preservation of the bullpeners. Imagine having two bulk guys in the same game. Just a righty not named Joe Jokes or Loservera to slip between Murphy and Walter -- turn those switch hitters around!
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