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  1. JimD

    The Fenway Park Experience

    This. I get the frustrations about the poor state of MBTA services these days, but the Fenway/Kenmore Square area is just not suited for large inflows and outflows of automobile traffic. Part of the experience of seeing a game is crowding onto a Green Line train at Park Street, climbing the...
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    Wrexham? I hardly know him.

    Robert Irsay moving his team out of Baltimore in the middle of the night and taking the Colts name and history with him remains the U.S. nadir of these types of franchise moves. I know there are many other examples of teams moving and keeping the nickname in the new city, but taking the Colts...
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    Shohei Ohtani’s attorneys accuse interpreter of ‘massive theft’ tied to alleged gambling

    I'm sure MLB will investigate this matter thoroughly, if for no other reason than to cover themselves by ensuring that they aren't duped by any of the parties involved and risking having a later s***show ensue that makes Manfred & Co. look like idiots. Assuming that Ohtani was in fact not an...
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    Yoshinobu Yamamoto signs with Dodgers for 12 years, 325M

    He'll be fine once he unleashes his gyroball.
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    2024 Red Sox Spring Training

    That is the fun part, isn't it? So many 'can't miss' studs flame out across MiLB while less-heralded prospects grow to become solid major-league regulars. I know we can never count on that, but it's a big reason that I refuse to join the doom-and-gloom parade who this offseason have been...
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    2024 DSL Red Sox

    Fantastic work by Jen and The Athletic. It's really great to see that our Sox are running a class operation in the D.R. Money well spent in not only a baseball sense but also in improving lives.
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    A Reunion: Brissett back in New England. 1 year, $8 million

    Signed a veteran backup quarterback.
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    A Reunion: Brissett back in New England. 1 year, $8 million

    Nice, boring, no-nonsense move - love it. If Bill had done this a year ago, he'd probably still be here.
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    Offseason rumors

    The owner you describe is only slightly less mythical than the unicorn. If John Henry gets tired of being a local punching bag and decides in the next year or two 'I'm out', the likely next majority owner will be Redbird Capital. Bonus points to anyone who can tell me who Redbird's managing...
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    Stacy Wakefield has passed away from cancer

    Just gutted. My heart breaks for those two children and all of their loved ones and friends.
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    Eliot Wolf will be in charge of the personnel department,

    The 'Poodle Pete' stuff lands flat to me, because Carroll grew from his failures with the NYJ and NE to craft a Hall of Fame-worthy career in Seattle. That, and the fact that Bob Kraft enabled a dysfunctional front office setup that allowed a hack personnel guy like Bobby Grier to kneecap...
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    Craig Breslow: Red Sox CBO

    Seems like a bigger indictment of Cora.
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    Court enjoins NCAA rules, allows booster groups to pay recruits

    Just like the MBTA during his governorship, Charlie Baker is going to leave the NCAA far worse off than it was when he arrived. Maybe he's done a lot of good behind the scenes that I've missed hearing about, but Baker seems like the very definition of an 'empty suit'.
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    Offseason rumors

    Kennedy has had an ownership stake since 2015, he's not some middle-management flunky. Besides, Sam is doing exactly what Henry and Werner want him to do by taking flak so they don't have to.
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    Sox trade John Schreiber to KC for minor league right-hander David Sandlin

    This is my thought exactly. These are the kinds of move I'm hoping to see from Breslow & company.
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    2024 Red Sox Spring Training

    Tomase is a Shaughnessy-wannabe hack who does not deserve the clicks, never mind any contemplating about what he might have meant in his writing. Taking shots at a highly-paid dark-skinned athlete who doesn't speak English very well is just so easy for lazy writers like him.
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    Offseason rumors

    Breslow has also brought in some high-end pitching evaluation talent (Bailey, Willard, Boddy), so yeah, this is not remotely the same group who decided that $10 million for Kluber was a good idea.
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    Offseason rumors

    Maybe Craig Breslow sees something in him that he doesn't like (or at least doesn't like at the salary Scott Boras is demanding). It's still financial, but minus the mustache-twisting nefarious intent.
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    Theo’s back????!!!!

    It's a nice thought, and maybe Theo is the rare example of someone with the fan support and gravitas to pull it off, but realistically, I just don't see it. Take the current sh*tshow with John Fisher and the A's - would the other 29 owners just stand aside and do nothing if Theo told Fisher that...
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    Theo’s back????!!!!

    I'd argue that it's more like any prospective new MLB ownership group has five years to convince Theo to join them. I think being Commissioner is strictly Plan B for him, he's smart enough to know that he'd be doing the bidding of a bunch of rich owners and wouldn't have the power to do what's...
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