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Like I’ve said before I’m not the HOBO, and Bloom is, and if he is as good as some tend to think on here he should have been able to find someone to play 1B better than Franchy Strange Glove, and if he couldn’t then he shouldn’t be in the position he is in the first place. You want me to do his job for him, and like I said before I’m not doing that. How do you know that no 1B were available? I don’t do the BTV stuff like some of you do. He’s the HOBO, and like I’ll say again act like it, and make a deal even if it means somebody goes off the 40 man, because that was a time of having a need, and nothing was done.
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Right, or wrong he is, but 30 innings is a lot of innings for a so called closer. He would probably be gone if not for the contract.
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That to me would be constructive criticism to make the Red Sox better.
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To be honest, and I have said i didn’t like Bloom’s hiring the day it was announced I will say yes. To me he made the team worse, and didn’t do anything for 2 months when he knew this team had trouble spots back in May. I have no faith that Bloom can put Humpty Dumpty back together again, so right, or wrong that is my opinion.
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Just because something is simple to you doesn’t mean it’s true, or would have happened that way. No one knows for sure one way, or the other that the Red Sox would still have zero rings if. John Henry hadn’t been the owner. Also who also hasn’t said that the players have just as much a part in the lack of success than JH, Cora, and Bloom. There is plenty of blame to go around for this season, and like I’ve said before even if the Red Sox would have won a ring last year it still wouldn’t have made it alright this year. You like to use bash, and bashing a lot when it comes to any part of discussing Bloom, Cora, and JH, but I like to call it constructive criticism.
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8-10-18 8 games under 500 10th place in the AL as a whole 18th place in all of MLB Not something to be proud of, but a 9-1 finish will get them to 500. This has what $200M+ has gotten you.
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If you want to look at it that way you can, but to me the Owner, the GM, and the Manager all are part of the team, and all have different jobs. You are also leaving out Larry Lucchino, who JH himself said ran the Red Sox, and did more to bring Theo aboard than JH, and who hired Tito? You can break it down anyway you want to, but like I said before too circumstances that transpired on the field all these years had more to do with any success, or lack of, and I didn’t see the owner on the field.
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The owner, and GM are far from being the same thing. JH may have the checkbook, and didn’t want to open it any further for Mookie, and the jury is still out if he will for Bogey, and Raffy, but Bloom is the one for picking the players, or not picking the players.
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9/25 Last vs First
Old Red replied to SPLENDIDSPLINTER's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
To sign Wacha I think it will take more than a year, and I’m not sure that will come from the Red Sox. -
I could have listed every year, but I think MOST got the point.
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Okay once again, and I’m not saying JH has not been a good owner, because I think he has, but some of you have your take, and some of us will have ours as usual.I think circumstances on the field in just the years I listed had more to do with the Red Sox not winning than who the owner was.
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I could have said in the last 100 years, but these are just a FEW examples.
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I don’t think the Red Sox didn’t win in 1946, or 1967, or 1975, or 1978, or 1986, because JH wasn’t the owner.
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100% agree on this. This has been one of my major complaints about Bloom this year. It was pretty well known that another OF, and someone who could catch the ball at 1B early on, but Bloom did nothing for 2 months until the trade deadline in Aug to do something about it. Talk about little league play that was Franchy at 1B. I’ve heard excuses that you don’t make trades in May, and June, and I think that’s wrong especially when the Red Sox were desperate for help, and the bad D at 1B did cost them games. I don’t know what was out there, but I’m not the HOBO, and Bloom is, and he should have acted like it, and made a deal even if it would have taken someone of the 40 man roster, and no that wouldn’t have been classified as going all in. Bloom failed big time in this area.
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Nice win for Notre Dame, and on the road even. When you can run the ball like they did yesterday it makes everything else easier. Of course having Mayer helps too.
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11 games to go, and 7 games under 500. 9-2, or losing team for you.
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Diekman?
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I have hope, but not counting on him. If he comes back great.
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I thought we had a great relationship, and even talked about doing a talk show together. It doesn’t get any better than that.
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I thought we were moving on like you said?
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Really? Really? You want to come back with Kike? For all I know Bard may be having a career year this year never to be seen again, and at his age that’s quite possible, but to put Kike into the conversation is really like wow, and I’m not even going there.
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Boy you are really grasping at something to be pinning any kind of hopes on Barnes? You want to go back before 2022 to help your case for Barnes go for it. We do agree at 37 Bard might not be reliable for the next two years of his contract, but I still take him over Barnes. Moved on.
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Your optimism is more tied to 40 man rosters, and the farm system, and if the team has gone all in on any certain year, and that is good for you. On the other hand like myself I’m more concerned on here, and now, which is good for me. Once again two entirely different philosophies, and the old different strokes for different folks.
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57-32-63-32 57 inn-32 hits-63K’s, and 32 saves. That’s pretty good for me, and Barnes is as reliable as that? I’ll take Bard to be the CLOSER over any of the 4 Red Sox pitchers you mentioned. I’m not saying Bard is better than Whitlock, but Whitlock hasn’t proved he can be a closer which is what we’re talking about. Your just assuming that Schreiber will be as good next year, and i wouldn’t take that chance. I know you wouldn’t spend money on a closer, and I would. Two entirely different philosophies just like you saying Bard is not anymore reliable than Barnes. You got stats that show different? I talking now, and not then.
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Not reliable enough for me, and I think he’s more suited for long relief. The Sox can do better.