Wednesday at 05:13 AM5 days Author 15 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:The Sox were fine right before COVID, then starting with TLR, ownership made every possible mistake after that, (including their stadium embarrassment) at least until talking Ishbia into coming back.Yep, it was a perfect s%*# storm for the Sox. Covid hit just as the team started getting good and made the playoffs and just as payroll started going up. Then, just as Covid restrictions lifted, the rebuild fell apart in 2022. Also, the RSN money was drying up at the same time. Add that JR's incompetence as you mentioned with bringing in TLR and with their stadium situation. The best thing Jerry has done for this franchise in years was help line up Ishbia as the next owner and to have him give the franchise some cash infusion now.
Wednesday at 05:50 AM5 days 34 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:Yep, it was a perfect s%*# storm for the Sox. Covid hit just as the team started getting good and made the playoffs and just as payroll started going up. Then, just as Covid restrictions lifted, the rebuild fell apart in 2022. Also, the RSN money was drying up at the same time. Add that JR's incompetence as you mentioned with bringing in TLR and with their stadium situation. The best thing Jerry has done for this franchise in years was help line up Ishbia as the next owner and to have him give the franchise some cash infusion now.Except as far as we know it's just paying off the pre-existing debt for an ownership stake, plus the shares he purchased from minority shareholders last year.Still haven't heard if anything is going into baseball operations and/or payroll expansion.Probably not.But Murakami would be the most logical of any FA moves this offseason that could potentially have a solid return on investment. Edited Wednesday at 05:51 AM5 days by caulfield12
Wednesday at 04:32 PM4 days 10 hours ago, caulfield12 said:Except as far as we know it's just paying off the pre-existing debt for an ownership stake, plus the shares he purchased from minority shareholders last year.Still haven't heard if anything is going into baseball operations and/or payroll expansion.Probably not.But Murakami would be the most logical of any FA moves this offseason that could potentially have a solid return on investment.The original statements were that this would include Ops funds. Now that could take different forms other than just payroll as that is a pretty broad spectrum of stuff. That could be the new analytics software, to the new equipment, to the DR academy, to Mune.
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