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Would be amazing if Goldstein is hired as GM.

I'd wait until sox can prove they can make the playoffs before declaring the yankees can't even step on the same field as them.

just watch, guy is going to join patriots org.

glad this happened. I wonder if it was part of the negotiation.

but it didnt

I think the one thing I wanted more than any other was Luhnow just had to be forced out of Astros. The one year ban that is a season long ban is a joke. He'll probably be whatapping the crap out of everyone anyway.

I am shocked the one they all pointed their fingers at was the one...no longer in their org.

What does this mean? Dotson is still here, so if he died going from Zalesky to Dotson ...

That isn't particularly rosy.

I would really like the author of Astroball to go back to his chapter of Beltran bragging about him picking up Darvish's signs and follow-up with whether this was actually just him looking at a monitor and communicating it to players.

Then they should just force the pitcher to announce what he is about to pitch before throwing it. Fans would love it.

The integrity of the game being in question is much more detrimental to the pocketbook and product than financial happenings in international free agency which the casual fan can't even really fathom.

And they were not allowed to participate in intl for what, 4 years?

And this was a punishment within the game, so...I don't see the issue.

so second round we pick are one pick higher ?

The penalties handed out to ATL were harsher.

If I was John C I'd be appealing the shit out of this now. He created issues that messed with some teams budgets, this was systematic in game cheating.

I am disappointed in this, this is hardly anything at all.

Either fired or not retained. The optimist in me will believe we are seeing the slow motion move to align the minors toward a more centralized front office set-up. Johansen gets hitting coordinator role. Jirschele continues to move up, older school managers see the door.

That's correct.

I do not know that sox believe in Mendick as SS. As it stands sox do not really have a backup 3b or SS. I know the answer is "leury" but I don't think sox believe that.