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Post by philsbosoxfan on Sept 12, 2019 7:11:07 GMT -5
I think it had to happen during the Yankee series. The warmup to that was when Sabathia and Sanchez visited David at his home before the series began.
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Post by redsoxfan2 on Sept 12, 2019 8:55:03 GMT -5
Well, that's what I mean, and if they had any inkling they were going to fire Dombrowski that day then they should have pushed it off. It's great to see him out there and it's great that he's alive and looking well. It's just sad seeing him come out to a half empty stadium and then not really get talked about because of everything else going on. It was just like another day at the park for him. Some of that park emptiness wss controllable. Have you read the reports? They all say pretty much the same thing. The only reason this happened right now is that DD pushed Henry & Co that night for clarification on his future. And even when he was given the answer it still wasn't going t be revealed quite yet, but they felt they had to when leaks started getting out and they wanted to get out in front of this. They had no inkling this was going to be timed as it as. Honestly, if Ortiz felt like he was a pawn, a distraction, don't you think he would have pulled the plug, rescheduled? He knew this was in place before the DD news. He knew what it was about. That you are so hurt over this is really mind boggling. A. Even if the report is true, which this organization could very well be lying about, the report also stated that they were supposedly going to plan to release a statement Monday morning, but then upped the time table to beat the report being leaked. ASSUMING it's true, I'd ask Ortiz to reschedule even if it wasn't exactly planned that way. I do believe they planned to bury the Dombrowski story behind the Patriots game so having Ortiz out there for that night was just bad optics. I mean, does it make a difference Monday morning or midnight? B. Again, assuming everything was "planned" for the best intentions in mind. The first pitch and him going out there was a complete and utter joke and was laughably pathetic. The stadium was half empty. The broadcast team didn't know what was going on until 30 minutes prior. Everyone's attention was on the Patriots as the Red Sox were out of contention while the Patriots were hosting a banner. So not only did you have a major distraction going on from another event, no one even knew what was happening. If they had said, "Ortiz will be at the park tonight" at the beginning of the day on Saturday and threw out the first pitch on Saturday, then great. Even it he wasn't being used as a prop to help bury the firing story the moment was incredibly forgettable, mainly because no one saw it or experienced it.
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Post by James Dunne on Sept 12, 2019 9:04:08 GMT -5
Even it he wasn't being used as a prop to help bury the firing story the moment was incredibly forgettable, mainly because no one saw it or experienced it. Stop it. Come on.
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Post by fenwaythehardway on Sept 12, 2019 9:16:26 GMT -5
Well anyway the plan worked, no one is talking about Dave Dombrowski at all.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Sept 12, 2019 9:37:27 GMT -5
Have you read the reports? They all say pretty much the same thing. The only reason this happened right now is that DD pushed Henry & Co that night for clarification on his future. And even when he was given the answer it still wasn't going t be revealed quite yet, but they felt they had to when leaks started getting out and they wanted to get out in front of this. They had no inkling this was going to be timed as it as. Honestly, if Ortiz felt like he was a pawn, a distraction, don't you think he would have pulled the plug, rescheduled? He knew this was in place before the DD news. He knew what it was about. That you are so hurt over this is really mind boggling. A. Even if the report is true, which this organization could very well be lying about, the report also stated that they were supposedly going to plan to release a statement Monday morning, but then upped the time table to beat the report being leaked. ASSUMING it's true, I'd ask Ortiz to reschedule even if it wasn't exactly planned that way. I do believe they planned to bury the Dombrowski story behind the Patriots game so having Ortiz out there for that night was just bad optics. I mean, does it make a difference Monday morning or midnight? B. Again, assuming everything was "planned" for the best intentions in mind. The first pitch and him going out there was a complete and utter joke and was laughably pathetic. The stadium was half empty. The broadcast team didn't know what was going on until 30 minutes prior. Everyone's attention was on the Patriots as the Red Sox were out of contention while the Patriots were hosting a banner. So not only did you have a major distraction going on from another event, no one even knew what was happening. If they had said, "Ortiz will be at the park tonight" at the beginning of the day on Saturday and threw out the first pitch on Saturday, then great. Even it he wasn't being used as a prop to help bury the firing story the moment was incredibly forgettable, mainly because no one saw it or experienced it. Have to totally disagree with you here. Hell, the Red Sox fired GM Pinky Higgins just hours after Dave Morehead threw a no-hitter, pretty much the only highlight of the 1965 season. What's the big deal here? This isn't Buddy LeRoux doing a corporate takeover on the very night in 1983 when the cherished 1967 teams was finally reunited at Fenway to honor Tony Conigliaro who had suffered a stroke and was lying in a coma in the hospital. Ortiz throwing out the first pitch the night after Dombrowski got fired is nothing like that. Besides, did you consider that maybe it worked out best for David Ortiz to throw out the first pitch Monday night? Maybe he had other life commitments going on and he wanted to do it to show, "Hey, I'm here. I'm alive and well and thankful for everybody that supported me and my family during the big crisis of my life". Maybe he didn't feel like waiting until next April to say it? I mean, I don't think for one instant, that the Red Sox brass thinks, "These foolish sheep...we'll flash their hero in front of them and they'll forget about our diabolical scheme to get rid of Dombrowski and everybody will forget that we ever fired him. The perfect masterplan of diversion.....hahaha (insert evil laugh). David Ortiz throwing out the first pitch the night after Dombrowski was fired was a coincidence, a happy one, because thankfully he's alive and it's great to see him back at Fenway Park the same season that he almost lost his life - as it was it was exactly 3 months earlier. The whole Ortiz thing had nothing to do with Dombrowski.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Sept 12, 2019 12:01:41 GMT -5
Even it he wasn't being used as a prop to help bury the firing story the moment was incredibly forgettable, mainly because no one saw it or experienced it. Stop it. Come on. Video doesn't exist?
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