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  1. The Red Industry

    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    I wasn't born in Boston nor do I live there currently, I'm more than 1000 miles away. You sound like someone that refuses to acknowledge that it's actually a great place to live and work, yes even for sports stars. Seriously, remember when Randy Moss refused to play in Boston because of it's...
  2. The Red Industry

    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    This seems absolutely unhinged. Do people actually believe this? Let's say the media sucks and the fans are whiny. Let's say the park is a dump. Ok. You think the weather in Chicago is so much better, the weather in Houston? What about the weather in NYC, San Fran? Somehow they are able...
  3. The Red Industry

    Revised contract predictions for Snell and Montgomery

    I think youre seriously underselling him as a "5 inning starter". Check his game logs from the last 2 years, it's better than what you are making it out to be. Additionally, I wasnt saying he should get a massive contract like Cole, or even that he deserves that, but I was saying that among...
  4. The Red Industry

    Revised contract predictions for Snell and Montgomery

    Do you really think those three guys are emblematic of the current state of the game? I dont.
  5. The Red Industry

    Revised contract predictions for Snell and Montgomery

    You dont see "wins" as metric to not sign a pitcher very often anymore. The 2010 AL Cy Young winner is spinning in his grave right now.
  6. The Red Industry

    Offseason rumors

    I may be in the minority but I can go see a losing team and have a perfectly good time. It's not just the outcome that concerns me, I enjoy baseball. I also go to minor league games. It hardly makes me a "dumb fan" because I don't enjoy the game in the way you prescribe.
  7. The Red Industry

    Red Sox Trade Deadline 2022

    Before he became Barry Bonds Matt Carpenter's last three years OPS+ were 92, 79, and 63. At the beginning of this year he was going to turn 36. Last year his bref WAR was -1.1 and his ISO was down to .106. It currently sits at .470, double his career best. I get that Shaw was terrible but...
  8. The Red Industry

    Red Sox ‘22 offense: offensively offensive

    Why do you keep on hammering on this point? Good teams lose series to bad teams all the time and have entire bad months even. 2004 Sox lost the season series to the O's who were 78-84! 2007 Sox lost a series to the O's who were 69-93. 2018 Sox lost a series to the Twin who were 78-84 that...
  9. The Red Industry

    Red Sox in season discussion

    It's been gone over a million times here so we don't need to belabor the point much further do we but really though, do you think these kind of risks are not already on the team? Or that the Sox wouldn't sign someone solely based on that consideration? I'm vaccinated mysefl and I think other...
  10. The Red Industry

    Red Sox in season discussion

    I don't think I was suggesting that Xander to Simmons isn't a down grade at short offensively, of course it is. But it seems to me Yo La Tengo has it right If you think Simmons views outside of baseball would ruin the team I disagree. There are weirdos on any given championship team.
  11. The Red Industry

    Red Sox in season discussion

    The Sox won 92 games and made it to the ALCS last year with JD and his personal views. Simmons might not be peak Simmons anymore but his babip was low for his career last year and as noted above his defense was actually pretty damn good. If he does continue on his offensive downward trend you...
  12. The Red Industry

    Chris Sale 2020 - TJ Bound and Down

    I agree that that is what you may want out of a pitcher for that amount of money but is that really the direction of the game right now as a whole? There were 4 pitchers who broke the 210 IP mark in 2019 and 15 who got above 200. Syndergaard pitched 197.2, I'd be pretty happy with that from Sale.
  13. The Red Industry

    Alex Verdugo, new Red Sox star!

    Why are you trying so hard to lock him up? You may not like him on a personal level and no one is going to ever extricate Mookie's amazingness to this kids lack of it, but really as far as you know he is not actually a criminal.
  14. The Red Industry

    No Game Today

    In Madison WI it has rained for a month, or more. Today the sun came out and the Red Sox stopped playing. I dont know what that means.
  15. The Red Industry

    Are you worried about the Red Sox?

    It is weird. If I look at the numbers I'm totally cool to roll with them. The reality seems so much different. I don't get it either.
  16. The Red Industry

    Are you worried about the Red Sox?

    According to Fangraphs the Red Sox relievers have the 6th best xFIP in baseball, thats hardly "Meh".
  17. The Red Industry

    This is the best Red Sox team...ever.

    He's about the same size as Pesky, I'm on board.
  18. The Red Industry

    This is the best Red Sox team...ever.

    He's had a total of 13 PA's. Sam Travis is more on this team than Pedey, he also had about 150 more points of OBP. I love Pedroia as much as the next guy, and he can have all the personality in the world, but rehabbing a knee in Arizona doesn't get him much cred on this team.
  19. The Red Industry

    What’s it all about, Rafi?

    Very little of this makes sense.
  20. The Red Industry

    We're halfway through the season

    My favorite review of that lineup: "That’s not a lineup. It’s a natural disaster of biblical proportions waiting to impose itself on opposing pitchers like some sort of Apocalyptic Incarnation of Holy Vengeance. This is AC/DC, circa 1979, showing up to play your high school battle of the bands...