Old Red
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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.
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You will always have stuff like this as long as you have divisions, and just don’t put teams in by the most wins. At this point I’m not counting on 84 wins for the Red Sox next year anyway, but I hope things change on that senecio.
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You wouldn’t take the Red Sox getting in with 84 wins? Luck, or not I’d take it.
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The DBacks are playing good ball when it matters most, and have knocked off the Dodgers, and Phillies. It doesn’t matter how they got it done, or by whom.
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Fortunately the DBacks aren’t in the AL East, and unfortunately the Red Sox are where they have been since Day 1 of divisions coming in to play.
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Chapman is NOTHING, but a pipe dream like it was with him, and Gallo, and he liked the JBJ trade.🙈
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I not saying they shouldn’t. It’s just that recently they haven’t had much success in developing their own.
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Craig Breslow hired as Head Of Baseball Operations
Old Red replied to Tedballgame's topic in Boston Red Sox Talk
I agree on the pitching part, but I don’t think you need to rest every day players the last month if the team is out of it. Should Raffy been rested? Like I said fans pay big bucks especially in Boston, and want to see their best team on the field when they go watch them. -
ND already talking about the transfer portal for a QB in 2024. Wow!