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  1. JohntheBaptist

    Casas has a left rib fracture. He will be out "a while." (4/23 update)

    I love you Ras; there's no way we disagree--he's horrible. We can do better. We can't keep finding ourselves in need of his services as a major leaguer. They've had so many opportunities to get better by not having him around. Right now? No, of course you don't release him, and that's sort of my...
  2. JohntheBaptist

    Casas has a left rib fracture. He will be out "a while." (4/23 update)

    It's been years of it. I felt I was very clear. There should not be a situation in which the Boston Red Sox are relying on Bobby Dalbec. He was on the Opening Day Roster. Considering the offseason, all caveats about what is likely to happen aside, I will breathe easy when a major league...
  3. JohntheBaptist

    Casas has a left rib fracture. He will be out "a while." (4/23 update)

    They've been more than welcome to approach this shockingly simple task for nearly two years now. That he's still there is damning. I'm not advocating releasing him just to release him. But part of my point is that he is so bad this bar is nowhere near as high as you're suggesting. He's...
  4. JohntheBaptist

    Casas has a left rib fracture. He will be out "a while." (4/23 update)

    This is fair, and I have thought this in the past, but his continued presence in the organization has made for situations--of their own doing--where he is pressed once more into major league duty. That just can't happen. He's that bad. In an effort to be coldly rational I will join you in...
  5. JohntheBaptist

    Casas has a left rib fracture. He will be out "a while." (4/23 update)

    Eh. The increasing reaches in the former are starting to feel like the latter. He's bad enough that there's no excuse at this point, even with an ocean of injuries. It's not really sensible that he's still in the organization.
  6. JohntheBaptist

    Casas has a left rib fracture. He will be out "a while." (4/23 update)

    The number of chances the team has given Dalbec is bordering on infuriating at this point, but the leeway and acceptance of his presence by many fans should be studied somewhere. It makes absolutely no sense. He does literally nothing well on a baseball field. Nothing. He is, by every measure...
  7. 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.
  8. 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...
  9. 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...
  10. JohntheBaptist

    Following Former Red Sox 2024...

    Fair enough for sure.
  11. JohntheBaptist

    Following Former Red Sox 2024...

    This is a fascinatingly strange thing to post. Respectfully: its in the books. They goofed. Lol
  12. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. JohntheBaptist

    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...
  17. JohntheBaptist

    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...
  18. 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...
  19. JohntheBaptist

    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...
  20. JohntheBaptist

    Where the Red Sox have gone wrong

    Fair enough.
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