Old Red
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Agree, but the original comment was going all in from 2016-2018. The two you mentioned were very questionable, and did take up $40M of payroll.
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Bill brings a lot of that on himself for his eloquent press conferences.
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Exactly! Going All In at any time had nothing to do with this year. Signing Sale to that extension especially since he still had a year left on his contract was mismanagement at its best. Going all in so called from 2016-2018 had nothing to do with all the injuries this year, or the less than stellar performances from so many players this year.
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I guess it depends on if you think clubhouses chemistry means anything, or not. Sometimes just changing the manager can make a big difference. Remember Morgan magic? And wast it in 78 that the Yankees went to Bob Lemon, and the Yankees took off on a big winning streak?
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Actually they have been after Bill for two years now. He gets blamed for Brady leaving town, and the team being not as good. A 20 year run, and 1 losing season is all it takes. Of course Bill didn’t major in public relations either, and makes it harder on himself with the media.
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Now why would the Boston media don’t like Bloom?
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16 games left in the season. 4 games from 500 5 games back from the O’s, and from sitting at the kiddie table, and a last place finish in the Div.
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I think being a leader on the field, and a leader in the clubhouse are two different things, and don’t necessarily lead to the same results.
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You can be a good clubhouse leader, but that doesn’t mean that results will carry over to the playing field. I think you could win a championship, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you are a good clubhouse leader, and you could be a good clubhouse leader, but on a last place team. I don’t think results on the field automatically carry over to the clubhouse, and vice versa, so if you are saying the club has a losing record this year, because the clubhouse leaders are bad, and the team needs new ones the you could say the same thing about the manager could you not?
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This coming year will be the big tell on the spending starting with Bogey, and Raffy.
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Ahh judging the old John Henry to think he will follow past ways.
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Not necessarily none of the above.
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JBJ was well liked, and there wasn’t a big uproar when he left except for why he was traded for in the first place.
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It’s all part of the equation. Like I said earlier go, and ask any player in any team sports if clubhouse chemistry matters, and I think most would say yes.
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Bloom, and Cora are the team leaders.
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And I’ll remind you that most fans don’t care about the tax like you do.I don’t care if the Red Sox had a $500M payroll. Let’s go all in with, Bogey, Raffy, and let’s land The Judge too.
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Of course there is no reason to bitch about the guy in charge after this overachieving year? Everything but I suppose. What goes on in the clubhouse is the important piece, and not what goes on in this forum, so that was not to stifle anything, but to make the point that what the players think is more important than what we think.
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Neither did Bloom’s, or Cora’s.
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When was the last time you were in the Red Sox clubhouse? There you would have gotten your answer, and not on here.
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It’s not the first time, and I’m sure it won’t be the last.
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You don’t know what Vaz would have done if he would have stayed in Boston now do you? Vaz got a lot of big clutch hits in his career in Boston. We know Vaz wasn’t good enough for you, but at any rate to me not doing the fire sale at the deadline was the right thing to do at the time. It looks worse now, but nobody knew Raffy would go into a power outage also.
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I thought next year is only 2023.
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To me you should never give up on a season, and still make the high paying customers at Fenway pay the big money to watch it.it’s never guaranteed the next year will be any better.
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If they are all still here in 2025, and beyond I would think that would mean some success in the meantime, so that would be a good thing. Even I would rather see Bloom, and the Red Sox succeed, than Bloom, and the Red Sox fail like this year, and be gone, because of it.
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I agree mostly, but I don’t blame Bloom mostly for this one. Yes they could have let him finish the season, but if the players had played better to make the team more competitive, and still be in real playoffs contention he probably would still be here. I know most on here don’t think so, but I think clubhouses chemistry does matter. Of course it doesn’t show up on any kind of stat sheet, but ask most players, and I think they would say it matters.