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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Old Red replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Playing for the Red Sox, and living in the area has nothing to do with giving him more perspective on how the front office works. I was referring to the whole Boston experience in general. -
I’m all for trading Jansen if they could come up with someone younger who would be around longer.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Old Red replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Lack of experience is a big concern. I have no idea who the Red Sox were interested in after firing Bloom, and if Breslow would have still been in the mix had not so many slammed the door in the Red Sox face, and declined to interview. At any rate he’s here now, and living in the area, and playing for the Red Sox he must have some idea what he’s getting into, where I don’t think Bloom ever did, so I’m all for giving him a chance to see what him, and Cora can put together. -
I don’t believe that will be a problem in 2024, and the Red Sox will be strictly BUYERS.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Old Red replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
After listening to Sam The Sham’s great introduction at the press conference today, and Breslow answering questions is everyone all in? -
Given up on 2024 already? The only reason you should trade him is if the Red Sox are sucking again, and are out of postseason contention. For the 3rd offseason in a row it’s fire sale talk, and trading pieces off, before the season even starts. Always worrying about the future, and getting more prospects instead of the present. Bloom’s gone, and I expect things to be better this year, and there will be no need for any sell offs at the trade deadline, and maybe doing some buying instead.🙈
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Great job by Nate, and glad it happened for him.
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I remember the Yom Kipper saga with Koufax. Like I mentioned earlier the SP in those days like Koufax, Drysdale, and Gibby had as big a name as the sluggers. I became a Dodgers, and Cardinals fan in the early 60’s, because they played against the Yankees in the WS. Didn’t care so much for Gibson though in 67.
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Imagine for all these years I thought I skipped school a couple of times in Oct of 67 was because I wanted to watch the WS.
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Neither does thinking, or saying it’s true.
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That to me would be on the bottom of the list of solutions for most fans.
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That’s funny I never heard that theory anywhere else, or from anyone else. You must have scooped everyone else all these years.
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You didn’t have a point to begin with, or at least a good one.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Old Red replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
Breslow will get introduced Thursday by Sam The Sham who will tell everyone this is the guy the Red Sox wanted all along. It’s taken awhile for the press conference, because Sam is still working on his speech, and is making sure all the I are dotted, and all the t are crossed. -
Is that the best you got on why watching the WS was a bigger thing back in the day? Everyone knows that the WS was played strictly in the daytime back in those days, and the shows you mentioned were nighttime shows. Good try though.
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I got that point, and the weren’t s*** part punctuated that, but that didn’t change my response.
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That’s your view from your era, and that’s fine, but different eras may have differing views, and that’s fine too. I guess the older you are the more you have seen, and have more you have to pick from, which might give you a different perspective.
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I’ll agree with that. I just don’t hear much, or anything about them anymore.
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I wasn’t talking about sales, but if you think the cards are as big a deal today, as back in the 60’s, or so that’s fine.
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WOW! F’n bench!🙈😂🤭🤮
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Getting in the WS helped back then too, because everyone watched a lot more than they do today.
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That’s another good example of how things have changed. Baseball cards used to be a real big thing, and now they’re not. I’d probably be rich right now if I would have kept all the ones that I had instead of putting them in some bike spokes.
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It’s just not as simple as marketing. To me the interest just isn’t the same as it used to be. Yes there are future HOF playing right now, but even if Mookie put up the same career numbers as Mays he would still not be held in the same esteem as Mays, and no marketing is going to change that. The game is held in a whole different light today, and even the stats are looked at in a whole differently light today, and the analytics of today aren’t held in as high esteem as the old BA, HR, and RBI did back in the day, and once again no marketing is going to change that. It is what it is. No one is being taken for granted it’s just not viewed the same, and as important.
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I understand we’re older, and things have changed, but that doesn’t change that names recognition is still nowhere near the same. All of the players of today are on TV all the time where stars of yesteryear were only on the game of the week, or mostly weekends like the Red Sox were yet Maury Wills was a lot more well known then than Cory Seager is now.
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The stars of today don’t come close to the stars of yesterday when it comes to household names. When I started out as a fan the SP had as big a name as the sluggers. Koufax, Gibson, Mays, Mantle, Aaron, and Clemente just aren’t around anymore. The names you mentioned just doesn’t register against with the greats of the past.