YY plus maybe a couple more pitchers go off the board and full throttle is going to look pretty mid. Still time tho’.
Perfect, if I’m paying him for 10+ years $40 million then I want him home in a freaking hyperbaric chamber by 1030. Plus everywhere is your oyster if you are young and loaded and famous.
Oh, the Sox can make it very difficult. Everyone has a price and enough money can bridge all sorts of gaps. I am not suggesting that they should pay up but presumably the Sox FO knows that they have to compete with what NY has to offer.
Well, you can go full throttle but if the car is in neutral all it does it make a lot of noise.
What is Yoshinobu's "longstanding connection and affinity" to the Yankees that Morosi reports here? I've never heard anything about that.
JWH on the phone to Liverpool: "Coach Klopp, if you want to keep your job, you'll have a new quarterback for this weekend's games. Name's Yamamoto."
Show him a mashup video of every Sox-Yankees playoff series of the last 20 years. End it with the World Series celebrations. He will understand the point. The Yankees are the Yomiuri Giants. Yamamoto wasn't a Giant.
Play that '04 montage set to "Dream On" and Judge playing Sinatra at Fenway in 2018 followed by Cora's address (feel free to jump to 6:36):
There were some reports that he's always been a Yankees fan and coveted playing for the team. There were also similar things said about the Dodgers.
I laughed. But really, baseball is rarely a sport where championships are won on the back of a single player. It might sound like BS coming from a Yankees fan but flexing financial muscle is my least favorite way to get better. 2017 was one of my favorite years because a bunch of nobody kids almost made it to the WS in a year we weren’t supposed to. The last couple of years have sucked, not because we didn’t win a WS, but because any excitement is coming from basically 1 or 2 players. Whether we get Yamamoto or not, I’m excited to see year 2 for Volpe paired with Soto a couple of other new outfielders with energy.
100% agree. Of course, that will never satisfy the folks who think the only offer that can possibly count as "serious" or "legitimate" is one that is at least a dollar more than the next biggest and results in signing the guy. A player choosing somewhere else or another team offering more is simply abject failure.
Unless they offer $50 million more. The Yankees weakness is they have a lot of money tied up in big contracts. Boston has Devers, and the rest of Sale and Story. If we blow them away in total money, they may not match.
When I saw your post, I was interested to see who ChatGPT thought the front runner was. Asked it to analyze any internet data about YY, and based on what his personal preference might be - and if all offers were equal - make a prediction between the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, Red Sox.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Go to any country outside the U.S. and amongst non-Americans basically every baseball cap is NY or LA, whether the person is a fan or has never even seen a baseball. They have unrivaled international brand awareness.
We could show him that sweet '23 AL Cost Certainty Trophy. Its on the mantle next to the '22 AL Launch Angle Award.
I remember when this board mocked Larry Lucchino after Feeding the Monster came out. He didn't understand that Sox fans were sophisticated, we howled, and didn't need shiny objects to keep us entertained. He wouldn't allow Theo to rebuild two years out of every ten in order to be sustainably competitive. He was an idiot for believing that Sox fans would never stand for that. Well if the past two years have proven anything, it's that we were wrong and he was right.
With as much money it costs to go to Fenway these days and how much the Red Sox make as a whole, yes they need to invest that money heavily back into the team and be among the highest spenders in the game. That includes superstar-caliber talent being brought in and/or developed and kept. Fans have a right to be pissed with the overall results of the last 5 years.
Yes, as Lucchino understood, fans have the right to feel however they feel.
Five year championship droughts are unacceptable. Same sentiment exists in the football forum too, where fans are calling for the head of the most successful coach of the modern era x2. But as himself would say, it is what it is.
This is such an interesting point. As the most casual of football fans, i was actually going to ask the board whether this is just a Sox phenomenon, or whether it's more a Boston thing. And the way I was hoping to get at that was to ask whether Pats fans have turned on that organization as well. Your post makes clear they have.
I don’t agree with this. I think Sox fans, and fans of any team in general, want to be given realistic expectations.
This is a quite reasonable take. I have said many times that I wish the ownership group would just say it already! I don't see how anyone can look at what they've done for the past few years and not see clearly that they've been rebuilding, but then again, I probably pay more attention to the day to day than some fans who just want to enjoy the games.
