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Everything posted by 5GoldGlovesOF,75

  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    He's still sore about the night someone in the front office told him they were about to re-sign Bogaerts -- and when he woke up, Xander was a Padre.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I never lost $100,000 dollars (the cost for a Rule V pick) on a lark, but any time I forget to eat leftovers, the owner of my franchise gets really mad.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Hawk was a good color man when he began in the booth with the pro Stockton. He shared insights, like McCarver or Remy did in their primes, knew the players, and was a "homer" for a club with a lot of star power. He didn't develop his obnoxious shticks until he worked for Chicago. The preceding was a totally subjective assessment from a kid still scarred by the Red Sox' Hawk trade in 1969.
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Probably, but back in the teens -- in the old minor league parks -- food and drink were as proportionately cheap as the seats. But to be Fenway frank, the dogs weren't as high quality as the nitrate sticks wrapped in plastic toxins soaking in roiling Charles River water...
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Mondesi might be back before that... (though he has never played an inning at short for the Sox, like some other teammates).
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    My experiences at minor league games lately is that the tickets are still bargains, but concessions cost big league prices (ya, ya -- that's why they call them concessions).
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least they have Rojas. Imagine if the Sox lost Bogaerts; they'd have to move players all over the field.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But in Gm 7 '03, he was "finished" after the 7th... we all saw Pedro labor through that last frame with the lead, then walk off the mound tapping his heart and pointing to the sky like he always did at the end of a hard day's night, before getting glad-handed in the dugout. He was done, body and mind shut down. In subsequent interviews, Pedro admits Grady then asked him to go back out in the 8th just to get Nick Johnson, the leadoff batter -- which he did (pop-out to short). Then Grady changed his mind again and left him to face Jeter...
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You mean this Tiant? AL Pitchers WAR 1960-80 65.9 Tiant 62.4 Palmer 51.4 Wood 49.5 Blyleven 46.7 Lolich 46.3 Kaat 43.8 G.Perry 42.9 McDowell 40.7 Stottlemyre 40.0 Ryan 36.3 Hunter Is two decades a large enough sample size? Hall of a career...
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    In the 2003 Red Sox Postseason, Timlin, Embree, Williamson combined: 24.1 IP, 1 R (homer by Ruben Sierra off Williamson). Boston led by three runs with six outs to go.
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But the World Series ended five days before Halloween that year.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A lot of us remember Kim in the regular season, but forget these three in the postseason: Timlin 8 G, 0.00 Embree 8 G, 0.00 Williamson 8 G, 1.13... 8 IP, 1R, 3H, 3BB, 14K -- saved all three wins in the ALCS, finished and won two elimination games in the ALDS, zero blown saves. It was Williamson's only postseason. Twenty years later, and he might still have nights where he thinks of Game 7 and asks himself, Grady... WTF?
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    At least the Sox won a playoff game vs NY this century. Correa better leave his watch at home next October.
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    '03 they were one manager away; '21 could've just been a first-half Barnes away...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Changing the narrative again. The whole debate was about losing young pitchers for nothing in the Rule V draft... while instead keeping older players with little promise (except that they promise to get to the game on time).
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    They can't even come in last bad enough to get a higher pick?
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    On the mound in Game 7s for the Red Sox, I'll take Lolich in '67, Fingers in '75 (in the 7th, 8th and 9th) and Mike Scott in '86...
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I have been from the beginning. Losing any young pitchers of promise is inept for a last place team with last place pitching and a front office constantly telling its fans "Wait til next core..."
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Don't assume -- it's almost guaranteed that it any of those had . one. more. top quality impact pitcher
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    No, Bloom will actually make $50K if he takes him back. I'm not sure how much the Sox have sunk into the three young pitchers selected in the Rule V, but the guess is it would be worth it to them to only make an additional $150K on the trio and welcome them all back into the system.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Ok, but this narrative just shifted from a Luis Castillo type blockbuster -- which would include trading several top prospects -- which Bloom has never made in Boston.
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    A lot of tombstones of Sox fans from last century that never saw one championship...
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the drafting team has to pay the losers $100K, and then if they decide they don't want the guy, can offer him back to his original club for $50K? Peanuts to a guy like Dombro, but not to someone hired to pinch every penny...
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This is entirely the point. All those advanced college degrees in that office, and nobody knew what apparently Dombrowski did? And my point has always been it's reasonable to question losing any young pitchers for this franchise and its constantly stated goal of looking ahead. I'm happy and surprised someone decided to sign Devers, and intrigued to see which of Ward, Song or Politi winds up back in Boston's system. But if Braiser and Ort become the Beastie Boys and close out the World Series, I'll start an Extend Bloom thread.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Do you honestly think Bloom will still be around when the Sox are just one player from another title? Will even we be?
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