southsider2k5

Since this is the official signing record, I want to go back on record saying that with the injury history Japanese pitchers have coming to the states, and the fact he has already has some shoulder problems... I am glad this wasn't as at this commitment.

The process for superstars has always taken that long. We just never had the microrumors to make it seem this long until recently.

Yet here you are posting about the team and giving them free space in your head.

Pot, meet kettle. There is only one of us holding a four decade grudge.

Baseball is very different for two reasons. #1, their minor league system is super unique, and #2 MLB is the only pro sport with an anti-trust exemption.

And there is number one, right one cue.

The NBA doesn't have anyone to market, which is why you see Michael Jordan in commercials.

Now you are just full of it if you are trying to sell that the 70s were good for Sox baseball while at the same time bemoaning the results of the modern era.

And sadly the best examples are yet to post.

The misery index is where Sox fans shoot for #1.

So far the Strome deal has been an epic win.

Pretty sure that only applies to majority ownership and not to minority shares distributed by the ownership group.

Even at their peak of 05 to say 08, this franchise was never outside of the middle tier of revenue in MLB. The Sox are the definition of mid market according to the numbers.

Maybe at half that.

With his value at an all time low? Not in my plan.

Back fill the roster and play the kids as much as possible. Figure out what you have in Palka, Delmonico, Engel, Leury and the bullpen.

Nice rant, but you are 100% wrong on your attack of Jimmy.

In 24 hours literally no one has been willing to go on record to say that. Not even a qualified "As of now..." type of tweet has been made to disqualify it.

You Hipster, lol.

I hate him as a Plan B unless we are either given him for nothing to try to flip at the trade deadline, or he comes with a prospect to offset some cost.

I remember that. He turned us down for football.

I said from Day 1 this winter that we either need to land whales or stay the course. Past MM and BH, I hate the idea of guys who either aren't temp fillers, or guy who won't be on our next playoff team. Pollack and Moostaskis would be mistakes.

This has been the best post in a long time.

You are right. They should have sat out instead of coming out second.

I know it won't satisfy the torch wielding mobs, but in reality, the Sox always had an uphill battle for these guys. Hahn saying they would be aggressive in chasing them isn't the same thing as saying they would sign them. He even knew that which is why he talked about if they couldn't they could always stay on the former course. In these two specific cases, the fact that both players had a place they really wanted to go, and the fact that the Sox were in rebuilding mode was always going to be working against them. Most people wanted the rebuild, but this was the downside of starting that cycle.