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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I've said this before, in different iterations: Hitting a baseball is hard, and fans accept that even the best batters will experience slumps. Also, throwing consistent strikes is an art, and fans accept that even the best pitchers will have off days or nights. But nothing -- no aspect of baseball as a form of spectator entertainment -- turns off fans more than shoddy, erratic, piss-poor defense. Most of us acknowledge we can't catch, field or throw at a professional level... but that doesn't excuse the pros from not making the routine and even routine-difficult plays that are presented on a nightly basis. It's their job. The Red Sox are last in the American League in fielding percentage and first in errors (and that doesn't even count the confused/benevolent/on-the-take? Fenway Park official scorers). It doesn't matter who is coming off the injured list or when -- this team will never truly contend as long as the defense sucks.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least the Red Sox are keeping pace with the Yankees... New York throws a perfect game, Boston fields two perfect games -- ZERO ERRORS! Never mind what your eyes told you (if you were actually watching the last two nights, or at least viewed the lowlights) -- just ask Fenway's official scorers! ... really wish some reporter would interview a few Sox pitchers and ask how they feel about the perfect D behind them.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was a kid in the late-60s when I started rooting Red Sox, and they had a winning ballclub every year -- over .500 and usually contending through the summer -- from '67 through '82... They never won it all, but some of those teams were powerhouses in the Seventies when only two division winners in each league made the playoffs. The Sox were always entertaining with Hall of Famers and plenty of All-Stars, young studs who they usually made sure to keep in Boston at least through their primes -- except for underestimating the value of Fisk-Lynn-Tiant, which briefly led to the first fallow period. Then Boggs and Clemens put them back in contention through another decade, and after a few bad years, they got Nomar-Manny-Pedro and eventually rings. Nowadays, which Red Sox players do you look forward to watching? Which guy is a can't-miss at bat? Whose defense do you marvel at for its athletic excellence? What pitcher makes you want to wait in line to buy tickets to see?
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duz dumber rhyme with lumber... or qcumber?
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Wait -- what? Sign some decent pitchers? Before the Red Sox are good again? Why waste good money on good players for a bad team -- haven't you been paying attention to the plan? Don't you read all the logical posts on talksox?!?!?!?!?! In Boston, you get what you don't pay for -- unless you're a fan, who pays Fenway prices for tickets, parking and concessions in pursuit of entertainment...
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, the low bar is building the farm system... because that's a basic part of the duties for any chief of baseball operations. I can't give Bloom credit for just doing his job -- and it will be years before we know whether any of his many high school draft picks become big leaguers with potential (much like Bello-Casas-Duran now, as products of the Dombrowski days). Bloom defenders laud his work in replenishing the Red Sox minor league rosters that were supposedly ravaged by Dombro. But how much grief does Dealing Dave deserve, when his trades fortified a parent club that won -- isn't that the ultimate goal of a GM? And even revisionists realize there were no Bagwells swapped out; the best prospects and their combined bWAR -- Dubon 3.5, Espinol 5.4, Kopech 5.5, Margot 12.1, Moncada 13.3 -- equate to the career value of John Valentin 32.2 and Daniel Nava 7.8. Valentin was underrated -- 12th in Boston bWAR since 1969 (just ahead of Fred Lynn and Yooook) -- but what GM/CBO wouldn't trade Val and Nava for a ring?
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No doubt those players fill specific roles necessary on a big league roster. But when Bloom was hired, it felt like we were led to expect a boy wonder who would not only "win every trade" but land some superstars. Maybe not a Yordan Alvarez for Josh Fields steal, but at least a Joe Ryan for Nelson Cruz type deal...
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Look, I'm glad the Sox have some decent prospects in the minors. Some seem to have potential to become stars in the majors. For example, Bello dominated at every level, so it's reasonable to hope that will continue when many of those same peers from lower levels also make the big leagues. But for a GM or CBO, building the farm comes with the badge. Every club has the opportunity to draft and sign amateurs. There are zero bosses who build world champs solely by signing players from other teams. So it's hard to give Bloom too much credit for just recruiting prospects.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom is definitely not running the Red Sox... can't say he's walking them, either. Meandering? Certainly, contorting them... but after four years, it's not so curleycute anymore.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Can't blame it on Barnesy -- they ILed him and his 5.48 ERA
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    And any team that was sincerely "all-in, trying to win the World Series absolutely" Sam Kennedy -- would look to use a few vaunted prospects to swing a trade or two for young, up-and-coming pitchers with actual upside. That's what clubs do when trying to legitimately contend and build for the future at the same time. You have to give up something of actual value to get something of actual value... You can't just keep putting bandaids on wounds that need stitches, because when bandaids inevitably get wet, they're going to just keep falling off.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    The pattern hasn't changed with Bloom's rotation acquisitions: old, rehabbing, past-their-prime, liable-to-breakdown at-any-time starting pitchers. It was no surprise when Hill and Wacha spent time on the IL last year, or when Kluber and now Paxton are having issues this year. And not one single Red Sox fan expected Sale to stay healthy all season (ya, I know he was signed by DD, but Bloom chose to pretend he'd front the staff this year). We've beaten this path aplenty here, but this is the Fire Bloom thread - and I have no problem reposting and rehashing until we can mercifully close this thread once and for all... ... because it turns my stomach envisioning the next over-30 veteran starters that Bloom will sign next winter -- for just one year -- to slog through one more season in suckitude. Ya, Chaim, we "know what's coming."
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A Showcase line-up (except for Raffy and Yoshida)... ...on the last Sunday in June!
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    What are the hopes that the Red Sox in the second half will break any of those themes? Defense - no; old pitchers suddenly healthy - no; consistent hitters - this has the most potential... Raffy can rebound with a better second half... his best career month with the lumber is July: .304, .963. However, his worst career month is August: .238, .756 (Aug is usually when Devers is dealing with some nagging injury; hopefully his limbs will heat up and stay loose with the weather this summer). If one or both of Casas and/or Duran continues to adjust to league adjustments to their adjustments... if Yoshida doesn't wear down... if -- after Duvall is dealt at the deadline -- Story can comeback and contribute, more on the bases as a new-rules weapon, than the all-or-nothing swinging he'll be replacing... Obviously, the young pitching has to remain consistent, and Houck has to prove he's doesn't turn into Herb Score... then the Sox just might hang in there around .500 and stave off wild card elimination until October...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They should've brought in Papelbon or Kimbrel in a tie game. On the road.
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Duvall just needs to muscle a high fastball over an infielder...
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Here comes a change-up
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Single, please
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Make-up call
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, it's not
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yoshida, go to left...
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Turner, go to right...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom asked for a bucket of BP balls, but got laughed at. All the other GMs said the cost of labor was too high, sending employees onto the Mass Pike and the banks of the Charles Rivers trying to retrieve HRs given up by CK. The best offer was a case of brand new Spauldings in the wrappers (not gamers, but the kind they use for autos).
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Or ten times his amount of Hamiltons...
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Sometimes you're right. But good pitching is obviously the best defense, and great pitching can nullify great hitting. And if good defense isn't always the key to winning, few can deny this: good defense is often the key to not losing.
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