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    Best Red Sox achievement you watched in person

    I was 10 years old at Clemens' 20K game in '86. So who knows, maybe I'll be the last living person to see when the record was broken? My dad and I also just missed a piece of history. If you look closely, when Dewey hit his game winning homer into the net next to the camera in center field...
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    Did Schiraldi really crumble under the pressure?

    Re: Playoff bullpen usage, where McNamara was beyond hopeless. Yeah, there weren't a lot of options past Schiraldi, Stanley, Sambito, and Crawford. However, guys like Lollar and Stewart are on a postseason roster for blowouts and "break glass in case of emergency". In the ALCS, he used...
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    Not Just a Pole

    Lefty Grove's Red Sox career gets unjustly overlooked. He was a monster on some otherwise nondescript teams. From '35 to '39 he led the AL in ERA+ and ERA four times, FIP twice, and WHIP twice. He was an All-Star all five of those years and received MVP votes in four of them. All of that...
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    The Loathsome Brothers - Players You Loved to Hate

    Machado has been lauded as a clubhouse leader at every stop in his career, especially among young Latin players. None other than our WS MVP Steve Pearce said Machado was the best teammate he ever had. The public perception of him is far different than the reality.
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    Sox Players that moved on....

    Clemens I was just getting into analytics in 1996 and that "twilight of his career" argument was such a joke. He had a chance to win the CYA in '94 if the season was completed - 2nd in WAR, 2nd in ERA, first in ERA+, first in h/9, third in WHIP, second in k/9. He was a lot better in '95 than...
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    The Loathsome Brothers - Players You Loved to Hate

    Rodrigo Lopez From '02 to '06 he sucked against everyone EXCEPT the Sox - and they couldn't touch him. Every single fucking start against the Sox he'd throw 75-82 mph garbage and go six or seven shutout innings. It got so comical that one year ('03, I think) Schowalter juggled his starters...
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    Most Disappointing Red Sox Team of Your Lifetime

    You're right, that pitching staff looked great on paper. A rotation with Clemens, Viola, Hesketh who was 12-4 the prior season, Dopson who was finally injury free, and Gardiner who seemed to be finding himself heading into his peak years. The bullpen was full of steady gray beards Darwin...
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    Most Disappointing Red Sox Team of Your Lifetime

    Not true at all. They went 16-10 in September.
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    2024 MLB Offseason News

    Amazing how the idiocy starts with the first response. A) Teams keep signing him because he still provides 165 league average innings. B) Name some minor leaguers who could duplicate that.
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    Mets sign Juan Soto for 15 year, 765M (no deferrals, opt-out after 5 which can be voided by Mets for +40M)

    Only surpassed by your lack of economics comprehension. If your "alarming clarity" statement applies to the world in general, then as much as I disagree with it, I apologize because I thought you were referring to me. If you were referring to me, then yeah, my barb stands.
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    Mets sign Juan Soto for 15 year, 765M (no deferrals, opt-out after 5 which can be voided by Mets for +40M)

    He's saying that millions of teachers should be paid more than a tiny handful of elite athletes (which is economically impossible), yet my logic is flawed? Ok. This is spinning away from baseball quickly.
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    Mets sign Juan Soto for 15 year, 765M (no deferrals, opt-out after 5 which can be voided by Mets for +40M)

    We're saying the same thing in a different way. The OP made his statement in the context of a Soto thread, implying that large salaries are responsible for his complaints. They're not.
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    Mets sign Juan Soto for 15 year, 765M (no deferrals, opt-out after 5 which can be voided by Mets for +40M)

    You said "teachers". That's plural. Therefore, your argument applies to the entire profession, not just the top earner, making your statement invalid. And how many of those elite are generating as much revenue as Soto? You don't need to be a condescending dick just because I disproved your...
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    Mets sign Juan Soto for 15 year, 765M (no deferrals, opt-out after 5 which can be voided by Mets for +40M)

    Not related. - Player salaries are paid almost exclusively by the huge media contracts for radio, television, and streaming. - Tickets are priced according to supply and demand just like any other product and have zero to do with salaries. - Concessions are priced by outside vendors and are...
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    Mets sign Juan Soto for 15 year, 765M (no deferrals, opt-out after 5 which can be voided by Mets for +40M)

    Not remotely comparable. There's one Juan Soto. There are millions of teachers in the world, and none of them generate billions of dollars in revenue. The next time Mrs Jones from Little Rock can sell thousands of jerseys and fill a stadium with chanting fans, then maybe we'll talk.
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    Mets sign Juan Soto for 15 year, 765M (no deferrals, opt-out after 5 which can be voided by Mets for +40M)

    How so? You'd rather the players earn less money? You'd rather more of the profits stay in the owners' pockets? You don't support the labor side of the equation? Juan Soto is in the top 0.0001% in the world at what he does, and is paid accordingly just like the elite in any other profession.
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    Daily Walkoff (another online game)

    Was injured at the end of the '99 season? He had a 122 ERA+ for the year and aside from one September blowup he certainly pitched well enough down the stretch to be a better choice than running Ramon Martinez and Kent Mercker (twice!!!!) out there in the ALCS. Or was he in Jimy Williams'...
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    Report: Justin Wilson to sign with Red Sox

    Ridiculous .338 babip in a hitters park. His xFIP was 3.99 and Steamer predicts him at a 3.62 ERA. Not an All-Star, but he's certainly useful with those numbers.
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    We're gonna need a bigger 'Pen: 2025 Bullpen Thread

    Being a bit hard on Winckowski, no? He pitched with an injury all year and still provided a 103 ERA+. His '23 was pretty stellar when he was healthy (158 ERA+). With his age 27 season on the horizon, he would seem an ideal candidate to take a step forward, wouldn't he?