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WHy you keep trying to give me homework? Who are you, my third grade teacher? Well, let me tell you something, mrs burnett..... I would assume the answer to your trivia question is Dombrowski. Listen bro, Im on a campaign. And that campaign is justice for the dude who Bresbot fired for saying "what a stiff" about Bres when he thought he was on mute. Maybe a little reflection on why people think that. Maybe a little less thin-skinned , shoot the messenger. Unless he fired the guy for not knowing how to mute on a call , which is more justifiable to me I want Alex as President of Baseball operations. It will be up to AC whether Bres stays. But I want AC to be Bres boss, not reverse.

Being okay with capable is how you get stuck in mediocre land. I can see them doing this, but I hope they dont. I wanna trade for Brent Rooker but Oakland isnt Oakland anymore. They are Vegas now and prob not giving him up.

Fair, but most unathletic dudes are either pitchers , catchers or homerun hitters. Maybe a couple quick twitch 3b athletes. Like chubby but great reaction speed. But casas isnt my guy. Hes , to me, none of those things. There may be some power that we havent seen, but Im going to want to aggressively make the team better this offseason and so hes going to get competition for reps. I prob bring in 2 big bats if its me and let the chips fall where they may. One is prob a middle infielder, so there should be a spot open (either DH or 1b). But I am NOT using a bunch of in house guys to justify a boring off season.

It didnt feel like AC to me, to hold there.

Half these games Im yelling "SWING ON HIM" We need like Joe Kelly to be our manager or something

I know, man. Terrible. Whatever happened to take the fight TO THEM. Make them make the play. At the poker table, you want to keep your opponent uncomforatble. IN hockey you wanna force the goalie to make the save. Make the dude make the throw with the game on the line. Put him in an uncomfortable decision. That wasnt ACs call I bet, but if so, then maybe Im too quick to promote him. Whatever happened to the human element? Wheres the competitiveness? WHeres the fight? Im 41 and have a desk job and even Im down to fight.

Yeah, that would be a double benefit. Like how when they promoted Brad Stevens , a nice perk was that he was no longer coaching. AC isnt a great manager. BUt I think hed make a great GM.

My rule is that if I am more athletic than you, you shouldnt be a professional athlete. Casas is a waddler, he cant even pump his legs. Donezo. Id make an exception if he could ding 40, but I dont see that either. I care not that he draws walks and then clogs the bases.

im a math nerd and bresbot is too much of a math nerd.

If we want to make Cora president and he chooses to keep bresbot, ill give bresbot a fresh start.

I say its time to promote Cora. Hes what we lack. A human. A person. Not an algorithm.

Bresbot lies to me like Im dumb and fired the dude who called him a stiff when he is so obviously a stiff. That being said, a lot of people were saying we needed a bat. I dont look at position players through the lens of their position. I say position shmosition. We need a bat means get a bat and work out the position. Im not like well we are fine at 1b because of this dude, and this guy could be a decent DH....When you need a bat, you find a way. And Im not alone in that, these days , the new school line of thinking is find a way to get your best nine hitters on the field. Defense is important so dont completely disregard it, but optimal defensive alignments are just so far from everyones radar. You want your good defensive players to be versatile so you can move them around and play some all bat, no gloves at easier positions. I think good defensive players can play anywhere and bad ones cant play anywhere. I dont think mid season adjustments are hard for dudes who just "have it" So I dont think we needed a DH, or a 2b or a 1b but I think we needed 1-2 bats and I would have found a way to fit them. I would have sent Mayer down before his injury and moved Breg to 2b if I had to. I would have played Duran at 1b if I had to. I do like team but I dont like Breslow. I want AC to run him over.

Okay but just because you can justify inaction, and use a lot of "if"/"then"s to say that we have some options there....We could really use a homerun hitter and we should not let rookies and retreads stop us from bettering the team. We dont have a masher. There are some mashers out there. Granted I realize I am arguing with Bres through you as a conduit, not you.

point is this: right now baseball is a bad product full of bad owners and bad GMs who care too much about the business side. Im no purist myself, but teams are too content to sell tickets right now. Very few teams are actually trying. So we could win. But the only team that deserves to win is the dodgers. They dont care who they have if they can get someone better.

i agree. I dont think we should compare ourselves to the other poorly run teams that arent trying either. the business side of baseball has grown and the competitive side has watered down. Thats why all my friends think the dodgers are big evil when really , um, blame all the other GMs who arent trying. BUt when you say that we are definitely finished this year, you are wrong because the other teams are just as incompetent whether you care or not. Win the world series or dont. We botched the deadline. But we still could limp into the playoffs and ride crochet to a championship. It wouldnt be deserved but it could happen.

and i think we still may win it all this year. doesnt change, however, that breslow botched the deadline hard. Toro at 1b and masa at dh and who is even at 2b? Thats a third of your lineup and Nav is a catcher , so thats pushing 50%. We have half a lineup and still primed to potentially win. But the odds would have been greater had we added just a decent 2b and a DH.

The people talking about how much they love the future are more negative than i am. I think we let a championship slip through our fingers.

I am not a negativist in the slightest. I think we were looking like a world series favorite at hte deadline. I was arguing with Fred then when he was saying we were so bad that we should punt on the next 3 years. I think this was the year. I fully expect the dodgers, phillies and nyy to add 6 all-stars each this offseason. The juggernauts were looking beatable at the deadline. We went into the deadline needing so much more than we got. We have three holes in our lineup. We dont have a ton of bullpen depth. I wanted a #2 pitcher like Ryan I honestly think you make a couple key trades at the deadline and we could have been champs. But i think we blew it and i think its only going to get harder from here. Im willing to be patient, but as we're being patient other teams are getting stronger too. ANd i hate wasting the year that crochet is giving us by not trying harder at the deadline. They really couldnt pick up a slightly overpaid DH at the deadline who would give you a more potent bat than masa or toro? I was saying even before his injury that mayer was NOT going to be on our playoff roster. Cuz hes not there yet , even if healthy. You trade for an average 2b and a slightly overpaid bat who cant field and I think we win THE WORLD SERIES But Breslow, the stiff, botched it. Cuz hes gun-shy and too rigid. And do you even listen to the guy? Hes just lying to you. "Nobody wanted our players" thats literally what he said. I think every GM in baseball is BAD. I think the sport is full of dinosaurs waiting for a meteor. Like GS in basketball. Everyone was trapped in dated thinking and then some fresh outside the box thinking and boom dynasty.

I traded for Brent Rooker in my video game. Could the real red sox not do this? Hes prob fine enough 1b defensively.

Why would you say that? How about replace Devers with Alonso.

Ill take it.

preach! like i said earlier - you are focusd on the lack of results (what they are getting), I am focused on the lack of effort and urgency (what they are doing). Those 2 things dont always align. You can do everything right and fail. Its possible and it happens.... But in the red sox case....5 years of mediocrity (and counting) is 100% related to what they have been doing. Lack of urgency. TD indecisiveness. Rudderless. This team is the epitome of buying AND selling. Who even made that a thing? Of course, you cant do both. And our "buy but yet sell" big plan this deadline didnt even manifest because it was always dumb.

ANd I dont want casas healthy, I want him off the team. I wont go as far as to say casas is the new verdugo but only because of my undying hatred for verdugo. ANd it has nothing to do with him being involved in the betts trade Hes a bad person and the most average of baseball players and for years people liked him and he cant run or hit and he is soooo the paradigm of "well we had him here last couple years, so i guess we'll trot him out there again" Telling my friends for years that we need to move on from teh verdugos and the paxtons and the rich hills is 90% of my identity.

I dont believe in positions in basketball either.

I meant Breg at 2b I dont believe in positions. If Varsho can go from an elite catcher to the best cf in the league in 1 month, you either got it or you dont. Bregman can play anywhere, but I agree is wasted at 1b.