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  1. JohntheBaptist

    Feats of Mookie - 2024 Angst & Awe

    Yeah, no I agree--sorry I can't tell if you misread me or if you're using my post as a jumping off point. We are in agreement down to your punctuation here, completely. I just had to push back on the Lakers Shaq 2.0 stuff in the post I quoted. Its laughable.
  2. JohntheBaptist

    Feats of Mookie - 2024 Angst & Awe

    This is basically fiction. I live here. You never, ever see pictures of him out at this event or that, or hear his name in the news, or really read anything that would suggest he's some Los Angeles-specific character beyond his just enjoying where he's at. What are you even referencing here...
  3. JohntheBaptist

    Following Former Red Sox 2024...

    Yes. Having good players on your team is always a good thing. It is never bad. You have one, the team is then a better team, and boom there aren't ten million mind-numbing Sosher rationalizations to not go get the other good players and before you know it you're not a garbage team. I know...
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    Following Former Red Sox 2024...

    Fair enough for sure.
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    Following Former Red Sox 2024...

    This is a fascinatingly strange thing to post. Respectfully: its in the books. They goofed. Lol
  6. JohntheBaptist

    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    What you don't seem to be addressing, ever, is that this issue that has finally come to the point of needing to be acknowledged started a few years ago. They traded away Mookie Betts and have not made efforts to field a serious team since. They are in this spot where they have a thoroughly...
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    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Not for nothing but the QAnon/ "payroll truther" stuff coming at the gaggle of reporters reporting a fairly believable thing was on the shortlist of the dumbest things I've ever read here. The media literacy in this group used to be really strong; that was like taking that strength and oddly...
  8. JohntheBaptist

    Yoshinobu Yamamoto signs with Dodgers for 12 years, 325M

    I am a rank amateur at this I will admit. Maybe I'll bring 'em this post and they'll throw me a sympathy bobblehead. Oh I've been. Its brutal. Still a great stadium. Tickets will be impossible, but I can scratch out some bleacher seats against the Pirates I bet and they're free on TV, so. I'm...
  9. JohntheBaptist

    Yoshinobu Yamamoto signs with Dodgers for 12 years, 325M

    Am I a Dodgers fan now? Mookie is my favorite baseball player, I'm obsessed with Ohtani, I was so excited to watch Yamamoto this year and was praying I wouldn't have to watch him do it with NY. I d'know, man. You gotta be impressed, they're not f-cking around. (I live in Los Angeles, fwiw) I'm...
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    Betts/Price to LA for Verdugo/Jeter Downs/TBA

    Well but what is that but another kind of epic mismanagement? Nine years of Mike Trout and they couldn't field a team around him good enough to make it out of the AL West. But sure, it could end bad. Anything in life could. The clear signs to me are that this is a player you bend over backwards...
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    Betts/Price to LA for Verdugo/Jeter Downs/TBA

    I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything but this is, to me, a really bad day. I don't want to be a fan who accepts downgrading or voluntarily shedding generational players because of money or some bigger picture view. If you do, that's understandable and perfectly normal, it just seems to...
  12. JohntheBaptist

    2019 WS - Nationals vs. Astros - Gamethread

    Some day someone will have to explain to me why everyone here hates him. He is one of my all-time favorite baseball weirdos. I love that he has a ring now, it makes his vaguely hilarious career--peaks and valleys--all the better a story. He still (kinda) gets outs at 42! I would have killed to...
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    Mookie BBetts - 2019 Campaign

    Yes. I've seen them win four times. I'm honestly content if they end up mediocre for a few years if it means I get to watch him play his whole career here. It could happen anyway no matter what path you take--this year is great proof of that. That's where I'm at. Wouldn't say that about...
  14. JohntheBaptist

    Where the Red Sox have gone wrong

    Fair enough.
  15. JohntheBaptist

    Where the Red Sox have gone wrong

    No they didn't "100% take the rest of the season off." You're welcome to provide our discussion with some facts beyond your own gut level hot take. This is the second invitation to give that a shot and all we're getting is bluster and anecdote and evasion. This is embarrassing to read...
  16. JohntheBaptist

    Where the Red Sox have gone wrong

    I did; every one of them. It seems like a few people have answered your claim with some facts, you're welcome to do the same. You're the one making the claim. What you're saying just isn't accurate. I don't think anyone is claiming they weren't as good as their record. The difference between...
  17. JohntheBaptist

    Where the Red Sox have gone wrong

    They definitely did not take their foot off the gas whatsoever until after they'd clinched home-field, which was game 158 (I believe). The day after that they started the B lineup against Baltimore and lost, then started the regular lineup in the first two against NYY with early exits for some...
  18. JohntheBaptist

    Game 5 - Bruins v. Leafs

    Hey stay strong, @Haunted, sending good thoughts your mom's way. To you too, hope the Bruins step up for both of you tonight.
  19. JohntheBaptist

    W.S. Hangover Cures: The Devil is in the Details...

    When I said this: It was in response to this: That's the context of my post. The words I chose were a response to these words, not the tangent of nonsense you've jumped in with. I was responding to the sentiments expressed in this post. If you're interested in going to bat for it, go for it...
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    W.S. Hangover Cures: The Devil is in the Details...

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