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Homegrown stars to me make more of a difference to me when following a team when you have followed guys from the farm We’ve heard about Mayer for 3 years, and if he lives up to all the hype that’s even better. I hold Yaz, Rice, Lynn, and Pudge in a higher regard than Manny, and Ortiz even though Manny, and Ortiz won a WS, and the others didn’t.
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The only thing that Bres probably got by being a player in Boston is how the media, and fan base is. I doubt that will help him any when it comes to making moves, or not making moves.
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You are 100% correct. Yaz is where it all started for me, and then Tony C came along, and many, many have followed since then.
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You threw a hissy fit before, cried, and took your toys, and went home. That’s a fact. That was your best work.
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YOU are the one who used the word dumb.🤭🙈🤮, so you must have been looking in the mirror. OMG, OMG!
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Hibernate.
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🙈🤭🤮.
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Or you especially. Wow!
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Who said the Red Sox were expected, or wanted to have the highest payroll in the league? The top tier payroll that the Red Sox once resided in has gone up, and up in just a few short years. JH who was once one of the big boys is no longer that. Got to get better with what you have to work with, but that should have included Mookie.
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He did not sacrifice any of the future that turned out better than what they got, and the BEST part was he did it for the here, and now, and was successful at it.
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That was talked about a lot too on the MLB network, and ESPN when candidate after candidate would not answer the Red Sox door, or take a call. Kind of an joke around the league.
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🤭🙈🤮!
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Nearly traded Sale? 🙈🤭🤫
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👍👍👍.
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The report was he spent a lot of the time working remotely.
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And farm rankings are all over the place depending on which one you want to believe is gospel.
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And you keep thinking JH is going to continue his spending trend like he has in the past despite how much things have changed just in the last five years.
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Bloom’s main purpose should have been to have a winning record, and a trip to the postseason in the here, and now. Like Cora said it doesn’t matter what your farm rankings are, but what you do, or don’t do in October.
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How many Red Sox fans wouldn’t take a trip to the WS, and a postseason appearance the last two years like the Phillies have done? Trying to say the Phillies haven’t been much better is ridiculous.🤭🙈
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I was all over DD the second he gave Sale that extension, and I think he could have done better with the Bogey, and Mookie contracts. Boston had 4 winning seasons under DD, and a WS title. What DD has done, or hasn’t done with the Phillies has no bearing on what he would have done with the Red Sox, but if the Red Sox had done what the Phillies have done the last 3 years I think most Red Sox fans would have taken that.
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Bloom still had many faults with, or without JH help.🤭
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To think that no one else could have done better than Bloom is like so many on here saying the Red Sox couldn’t get anyone better than Kike for $10M. I didn’t even say how much better DD would have done than Bloom, but only he could have done better. Bloom didn’t set the bar very high.
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If DD was still here we wouldn’t have gone through 4 years of Bloom, so I’m not just talking about this year. I don’t subscribe to the theory like one on here that no one else could have done better than Bloom under the so called budget, and restrictions.
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Yes I have no doubt a more experienced CBO with a little bit of competency, which Bloom had neither would make the Red Sox better. Budget is just one of the Red Sox problems, what you do with that budget is the biggest. The jury hasn’t even convened yet on Bres, but if DD was still there even with the same budget I believe the Red Sox would be better off.
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The problem is the experienced ones didn’t want any part of the Red Sox, and wouldn’t even interview, which is a bad look in itself.