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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 17:38:04 GMT -5
Surely that's the only woman with allegations with him, right? Oh, he must be guilty of those too. After all, accusations should be all it takes to completely railroad someone’s livelihood. If you watch the evidence he presents, she is 100% dead to rights guilty. The other cases didn’t even get the traction this bogus one did…highly likely they were even flimsier. And he’s been ostracized for a year and a half now. Compare that to Ozuna and Chapman. Unreal how devoted people can be to this narrative about Bauer, even in the face of damning evidence she extorted him, while turning the other cheek against far more dastardly actors. No... Just no.... I would stop rooting for the Sox altogether if they signed that POS And thats all I am going to say on this topic
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 17:25:26 GMT -5
Now that it has been irrefutably proven that Trevor Bauer was viciously targeted and extorted by his accuser, I hope we will be bidding on his services. Trevor Bauer has many accusers, for what it’s worth. Regardless, he’s going to be 33 soon, it has been years since he’s pitched in the majors, and he’s an enormous asshole. He should remain as far away from Fenway Park as possible. Yup. I want nothing to do with that ass.
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 16:33:57 GMT -5
LOL...... say what you want about BOS ownership, but at least we dont have ownership like SD or CHW, who does not learn from their mistakes
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 16:29:24 GMT -5
If bloom is not what they feel is doing what they want to do then maybe they can grab A. J. Preller to go in the direction that they purport to want. buy every free agent possible and hope a couple stick. It is obvious that in order to produce a pipeline to keep yourself in the playoffs year after year you need a solid farm system to draw from for trades. they couldn't take the patient approach because it is unacceptable for ownership. Preller is your man. Just like DD. Eno Saris was saying in the recent 3-0 podcast that Preller is...difficult to work with. Often goes around his MLB and minor league manager and minor league development staff head to communicate directly with coaches and players. Leaves a lot of wreckage and distrust in doing so. Also, how many managers have the Padres had under him? I think it's more than 3 in less than 10 years. Melvin was not tendered a contract (yet) so maybe one more carcass in the road. Pass. yes, The Athletic also pretty much says Preller is a terrible person to work for theathletic.com/4874799/2023/09/19/san-diego-padres-disaster-season-preller/
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 14:36:08 GMT -5
he also cant really say much when potential targets (ie Ohtani) are still under contract with their current team....
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 14:33:38 GMT -5
Watching the Press conference and boy,Kennedy is the king of talking a lot without saying anything. which his fine.. less we get a Bogaerts 2.0 situation
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 14:16:49 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 14:16:15 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Oct 2, 2023 14:08:19 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 30, 2023 20:50:12 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 30, 2023 20:24:17 GMT -5
Tank time
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 29, 2023 20:58:31 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 29, 2023 17:19:59 GMT -5
throw another hat into the ring..A J Preller..That would be going in a different direction from Bloom as stated by Kennedy. god no.. I would rather have Bobby V be GM than him
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 29, 2023 13:41:15 GMT -5
It’s been 2 weeks how does this organization still have no leader. This organization is going down the toilet, you fire a head of baseball ops and have no one lined up what a joke Lol.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 28, 2023 22:02:38 GMT -5
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 28, 2023 21:51:06 GMT -5
Cora stinks as a manager. I would not have brought him back after the suspension. He makes bad decisions constantly. The Red Sox succeeded in 2018 despite Cora. The only thing he did successfully this year is get Bloom fired. Management is stupid if they bring him back. That said, IMO, when a new PBO/GM (whatever they decide the title will be) is hired, the FO will say Cora is out for ‘personal reasons’. They are allowed to change their minds. Oh, they're not just bringing him back. It's a perquisite that the GM have a positive relationship with Cora since he's going to be forced upon whomever takes the job. The most important role of an organization and they're going to make sure they get the best GM for the manager, not the best GM available. What a colossal disaster waiting to happen, but because they're going to spend this off-season (which I always felt like was the plan regardless of Bloom), they'll win games and make the Wild Card and everyone will think it's because of this new dynamic when in reality they just spent a bunch of money and likely traded good/great prospects to get there. Which I think anyone could have done (being a little harsh, would need to see the actual trades to fairly critique it). For the 10000th time we are all freaking out over nothing. CORA IS TECHNICALLY UNDER CONTRACT FOR NEXT YEAR! Just like bloom was. Until Bloom was no longer with the team. Good christ its like Weei here.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 28, 2023 20:35:08 GMT -5
“Im probably going to get fined for being right, again”
i need that on a shirt within 24 hours.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 28, 2023 18:52:32 GMT -5
Totally agree, so why would Cora say something like that? because there is no harm is saying it, but the idiots on the hot take radio isle are going to think this means the sox will have a payroll as low as Oak..
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 28, 2023 16:29:54 GMT -5
Passan tied the Sox to Soto today. I’m not interested in paying the price for him. Trout is the guy I wonder about. He’s got 7/$250m lef and is $86m underwater per BTV. Angels send the Sox $100m, the Sox send Verdugo, Perales and Johanfran Garcia. Sox get Trout at $20m per year, Angles get Verdugo who they can flip for more prospects or pay if they want, plus a couple upside lottery tickets Trout is not what he used to be..... Wayy to many injury concerns
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 28, 2023 9:32:26 GMT -5
It's not exactly recent precedent that the new GM/POBO is hiring their manager of choice when they takeover. 2003: Theo Epstein takes over as GM from interim GM Mike Port. Grady Little is retained as manager from 2002. 2012: Ben Cherington becomes the new GM after Theo & Francona leave. Larry Lucchino basically picks Bobby Valentine on his behalf. 2015-2016: Dombrowski is hired as POBO in the summer of 2015 - he retains John Farrell as Manager. 2020-2021: Chaim gets the POBO job in late 2019. Cora, who won the World Series the year prior, is retained. He gets fired before 2020 because of the Astros stuff, and bench coach Ron Roenicke takes over. And then before 2021 Chaim re-hires Cora. It appears that ownership may have heavily nudged Chaim to choose Cora... but the result a year later was a magical ALCS run with a team the consensus around baseball was wouldn't very good. From what I can recall, I don't remember this being a conversation point (the GM should be able to hire their own manager) with John Farrell when Dombrowski was hired. But Farrell had won a World Series literally 2 years earlier, and was also recovering from his battle with cancer in 2015. Firing the cancer survivor who just won your team a ring probably doesn't go over well... I think the big difference this time around is that Cora was not exactly subtle about asking for reinforcements from Bloom and the front office during the last two years - and largely has been more aggressive in flexing his influence in the organization than say, John Farrell did. In the modern front office-manager dynamic as popularized by Billy Beane, the GM and his front office (staffed with Harvard/Yale grads and a team of analytics guys) is at the top of the food chain and ultimately in charge of telling the manager what to do. Am I mistaken in thinking that is why people have this sentiment about "alignment" between the GM/Cora, because he isn't exactly comfortably fitting in with that approach? A model where the GM is basically chilling out in Worcester or Portland or wherever to look at prospects until Cora calls him and yells at him to go trade for a middle reliever is not some radical concept - it's what baseball had largely experienced for a long, long time."It's how they did things before Moneyball" doesn't strike me as the strongest defense. As i said in another thread. Cora is technically undef contract for next year. As was Bloom. So he is back next year. Until he isnt.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 27, 2023 22:55:12 GMT -5
Pete Abraham says Cora will be back next year. WTF? Pete Abraham @peteabe Follow It seems Alex Cora has been given a guarantee he’ll be back. “I’ll be here next year,” he said twice when asked about his status. Well. Technically he is under contract. So he will be here next year until he isnt. Like Bloom
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 27, 2023 20:12:03 GMT -5
And? There was literally one pitcher traded this deadline that has not blown up in the face of the new team. And that one pitcher wouldn’t have made a lick of difference with Bello and the rest of the rotation falling apart at once. I've seen this argument made many times - but too many variables for it to be valid. Any given player on a given team could perform very differently. So - I call bullshit on this excuse to not do something. But again. I dont buy it. And its just them being poor sports. And again. How would have trading for pitching helped our current offense which is literally hitting like 9 pitchers. And Bello running out of gas. Even if we traded for pitching, the team would have gone nowhere with an inafective bello
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 27, 2023 20:07:21 GMT -5
Regardless. What Jansen said is asinine. Trading for pitchers guarantees nothing post trade deadline. Especially the pitchers that were traded this year. And. Uh. Jansen. Not sure trading for pitchers would have done jack to help our offense which cratered the past month plus. Unless you were wanting them to also hit. And not trading for pitchers - well, we saw the results. Of course there is no guarantee, but when nothing is done and it sends a message, then we get what we got. And? There was literally one pitcher traded this deadline that has not blown up in the face of the new team. And that one pitcher wouldn’t have made a lick of difference with Bello and the rest of the rotation falling apart at once.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 27, 2023 19:52:50 GMT -5
The end of this season reinforces one thing - there is a human element to this game - you can't use advanced stats to explain it away. Teams can fold - not tank, but fold - down moods, bad moods - effort and performance is effected. We've just witnessed it. We witnessed the impact of the trading deadline. We witnessed the impact of the Bear Claw game. Another thing - When players speak, we need to pay attention. What Jansen said - if he said it, he isn't the only player thinking it. Last - the offense is not OK. I don't care about how many total runs we scored, or the batting average. It is not how much you score it is when. It is scoring runs to win games. We left a small city of runner on base this year. Every aspect of this team needs work. Every single one. 7-22 in our last 29. That's a pretty bad team. Regardless. What Jansen said is asinine. Trading for pitchers guarantees nothing post trade deadline. Especially the pitchers that were traded this year. And. Uh. Jansen. Not sure trading for pitchers would have done jack to help our offense which cratered the past month plus. Unless you were wanting them to also hit.
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Post by grandsalami on Sept 27, 2023 19:30:35 GMT -5
The Sox might as well just hire some guy on a message board because no credible person is going to want to inhabit what is basically a Superfund Site. I could name at least four teams more toxic than the sox without even thinking for a min. LAA chw KC OAK Also. You said you think the sox should have new owners. Question for you. Who do you think these “new owners” should be. MLB will never approve another Cohen as owner. So that means no Cuban or Steve Ballmer types.
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