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  1. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I suggested trading Devers last winter -- but only if they were going to keep Betts. Of the two -- because of the latter's insistence on testing free agency (oops) -- Devers would've brought more of a legitimate haul, like good pitchers. I also felt Mookie was a better longterm investment because of his consistent conditioning and production. Now, the team is so bad that Bloom may have to consider anything and anyone. I trust he realizes -- as should we all -- that this historically bad pitching has been decimated less by bargain pick-ups and more by bad luck: Sale's TJ, and the virus casualties. After all, Covid sidelined our 2019 ace and two best young relievers.
  2. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    It was a joke to 75, because I'm actually on his side about schools. But I'm also glad he and Kimmi won't be going back right away and will be safe. I know you agree, too, but I hope you get to go back to live classes and live football soon. I really believe this MLB summer, and whether they finish, is actually a test case for a lot of what happens in the fall. I hope they make it to September... and not just so the Sox can reset and spend more money. Take it easy.
  3. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We all knew this staff would be Risky Business. Rutherford: "You've done a lot of solid work here, but it's just not Ivy League, now is it?" Tom Cruise: "You know, Bill...there's one thing I've learned in all my years. Sometimes you have to say, 'What the f***.'"
  4. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Thanks for making it your business to announce to the forum that it's ok to discuss college, but when educators see parallels to middle school or elementary school in a thread about the pandemic, that's too "political". I never realized two teachers weren't allowed to post to each other about their profession... until I was called childish by someone with the maturity to type "shut the f*** up."
  5. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Yup, but since I totally expect Boston to shell out big bucks for someone to compensate -- after a few years of damage to the turnstiles due to suckitude -- I'd rather they go all out on a true star. I'd rather not replace Pedro with Matt Clement again. The thing I worry about with Devers longterm isn't so much his D but his LBs -- which already seem to have an affect on performance, even at his young age. An eventual shift to first, and maybe Prince Fielder status, seem to loom.
  6. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I was responding to 75, who happens to be a teacher. Maybe if you were a teacher like 75 or Moon or Kimmi, and could relate to the task facing them, you could better appreciate how connected everything is. Meanwhile, others on this thread post about college sports and the NCAA, which are also totally dependent on whether schools reopen. This isn't political s***; it's reality.
  7. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    You misspelled July.
  8. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Imagine being a teacher and trying to enforce wearing masks and social distancing with pre-teens all day, every day? This sprint season may be the best time for the Red Sox to tank, but the next draft may be the worst to have the Number One pick, considering no one knows if college or high school sports will even happen before then. Hopefully, the wily Bloom has been monitoring some Little League ace pitcher with a mustache the past five years.
  9. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    We'd only be 4-3. We'll never catch them.
  10. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    But... JBJ leads the AL in hits, batting average and on base average!
  11. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Deal Devers for legitimate young pitching, shift X and sign Lindor -- the morbid Sox will really need a jolt, and who could change the culture more than a top-5 talent and future Hall of Famer with a bigger smile than Mookie's. Signing Lindor will also keep him out of pinstripes or LA blue.
  12. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Especially -- we may presume -- folks who enthusiastically hired Bloom... (to do their bidding). All should reserve judgement of Bloom until we can properly assess his current and near-future changes, including the development of draft picks, trade acquisitions, and yes, free agent signings; the Rays, after all, inked one key free agent in 2019: Charlie Morton, who turned out to be a better value than Sale, Eovaldi, and Steve Pearce combined.
  13. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    How can they even huddle? Just everyone go long...
  14. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Let's say you're your 20s, strong and virile, and make six to seven figures playing a sport. And one night after a game in Atlanta, you and your teammates visit an establishment noted as "the Southeast's most renowned gentlemen's club and home of the legendary CheetahGirls"...
  15. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I dunno... some of us fans have actually heard of Folty; he may not be obscure enough. But if you throw enough crap against the wall, hoping to see if any sticks... uh, the wall will still stink?
  16. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Shifting every batter is obnoxious, and teams deserve to get burned when analytics over-analyze. Boston shifting on the Orioles' unproven rookie leadoff man was just obnoxious; he smirked and hit a grounder to the wide open right side into right field. Some clever upper management type must have thought they found the next Jim Thome.
  17. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Bloom confirmed your first sentence after the Betts trade. But if this sprint somehow makes it to September and a reset, do you see him splurging on free agent arms next winter for '21? As for trading for a good pitcher in his prime, the only Red Sox player that would bring back a haul might be Devers -- if he can keep his value (with Bloom, no one is untouchable). Assuming Eovaldi stays healthy (a big if), we don't know if ERod will ever be the same, but we do know Sale won't be contributing much in '21, even if he makes a full recovery a year from now. Boston may need an entire new rotation -- just to compete, much less contend -- at the MLB level.
  18. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    If the Red Sox ever start hitting again, at least Bloom has plenty of inexpensive BP pitchers.
  19. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    if Cora was still here, he'd have Adrian Beltre march into Fenway tonight to kick Devers in the ass. Somehow, the kid can't seem to relate the same way to Roenickie, not even after a phone call from Ron Cey, "The Penguin" himself.
  20. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Alonso just killed a cardboard fan. Bloom keeps signing change-up pitchers; he must have hoarded all the fastballers while working for Tampa.
  21. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Beni still leadoff? Old School Skipper: "Well, you know, we're not gonna run from him. We're gonna need him in the long ru--" "NOW WAIT A MINUTE..." Otis Day and the Knights, "(you been so good to me)...You Make Me Wanna -- SHOUT!"
  22. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    Glad you're making the most out of it. Far be it for me or anyone else to tell you how to deal with what for many of us has been a struggle. Venture out, but safely, keep the faith, share the positives, post arguments on threads you disagree with, even crack a joke. No one has the right or the power to tell you not to.
  23. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    This baseball season has, as this year has, and the name of this thread refers to a question we all have to ask again today... all because of the same issue that keeps dominating the world. If someone wants to talk baseball history -- games, players, seasons past -- I'm in.
  24. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    I know -- why do those scientists have to keep relying on science, and facts, like ERod's resultant heart condition. Something like that might happen to the Red Sox best pitcher -- a healthy, 27-year-old professional athlete -- but all the bus drivers, custodians, cafe workers and middle-age teachers I know should be safe.
  25. 5GoldGlovesOF,75
    ... for the health of the entire planet. As for the health of the Red Sox pitching staff: no September = no reset = no new, good pitchers = no better pitching in '21... but, there may not be a '21, anyway, and/even if, after which there will definitely be a new CBA -- and maybe, a reset reset.
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