Boston’s taxing pursuit of Juan Soto is over. (Mets)
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And, the thread has now moved from tax talk to grammar talk...help us Juan Soto! Sign already!
it is one of the most bizarre of English's many bizarre features that "adding S at the end of the word" can mean at least 4 distinct, unrelated things:
1. Plural (Trumps = more than one Trump)
2. Possessive (Trump's = belonging to Trump)
3. Conjugating verbs (Trumps = third person singular of verb "to trump")
4. Contraction of "is" or "has" (Trump's = Trump is)
Okay, carry on.
Yes, I apologize for that and I can explain. Every time that I typed trump in that post and even just now in this post, auto correct capitalized the word and left me with Trump instead of trump. When I typed trumps it left me with Trump's. I change the T to lower case, but missed the apostrophe that auto correct added.
I’ve given up on trying when it comes to possessive apostrophes when applied to words like Red Sox, Boras, Valdez. I just forgo the extra “s” for all of these and don’t care if I’m right. Red Sox’, Boras’, Valdez’.
I’m also remaining optimistic Soto is coming here. He wants it. Plus I get to tell you all “I told you so”.
Spelchkr probably ends up giving us more misspells than folks’ inability to spell.
The latest from McAdam and Cotillo
https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2024/12/where-red-sox-pursuit-of-juan-soto-stands-as-winter-meetings-begin.html
I guess I'm delulu because I still think the Sox are the most logical landing spot for Soto.
Best farm, biggest Dominican connection, most cap space, best park for his hitting style, best place to hide his defense (left field), team he can be the big boss star, City he can be the biggest star, cheaper taxes.
I can hardly find a reason for him to stay in NY.
To what hang out with Aaron Boone and cringe Gerrit Cole?
To go be culturally irrelevant with the Mets?
He's coming to the Red Sox.
Best farm, biggest Dominican connection, most cap space, best park for his hitting style, best place to hide his defense (left field), team he can be the big boss star, City he can be the biggest star, cheaper taxes.
I can hardly find a reason for him to stay in NY.
To what hang out with Aaron Boone and cringe Gerrit Cole?
To go be culturally irrelevant with the Mets?
He's coming to the Red Sox.
Ok, so if the Red Sox land Soto, you're not allowed to complain when that new car feeling fades and you realize there was no reason to buy it. You also can't complain when we have no cap space in the future.
I want to revisit the whaling chapters in Moby Dick. I don't think they got enough run in this thread.
Re Milliken’s X post about the Sox doing an A+ job going after Soto, at her speech at Howard University the day after, Kamala praised her campaign team for doing a phenomenal job too. Don’t have the ton of bricks falling on your head emoticon here anymore.
Getting into Ricky Lafleur territory with that one.
I mean, it’s not rocket appliances…..
I was kinda hoping the tax stuff would go on a bit more. At least long enough that I could learn of some new deductions I hadn't thought of.
You don't even have to though? Nobody should be offering more than 14 years / $550 million. Shohei Ohtani got $700 million, and he's an absolute unicorn. He's the best hitter in baseball - possessing all five tools and then some - and is a top-15 starting pitcher when he's healthy. In no world should Soto surpass him.
They’re assembling a team…they’re calling it the Close But No Cigar initiative
The marginal utility of the dollar on the delta between the offers is basically zero.
In dollar terms the offers are basically equal.
It has to come down to intangibles.
Get everyone into the same building to do best and final offers, make a decision, and have a press conference.
Poke fun all you want but we both know that 90% of this fan base will do it within the first three seasons of him being here.
I am part of the fanbase that doesn't care about ownership margins or profits. I want them to pay up to field the best team possible and then a bit more for good measure.
Also, I have been on this board over two decades and people have screamed "overpay" at every transaction across every sport yet the deals continue to escalate. When do fans start to wonder why all these horrible deals continue to get done but at increasing dollar amounts that even outstrip inflation?
The greatest trick sports owners ever pulled on fans was convincing them that their interests are aligned. They are not. If ownership cannot foot the bill to compete with big market teams, maybe its time to let someone else try. Hopefully they are still committed even after Soto
If they were truly in this per reports, that's good but its not enough. Its been years since this team is relevant. Would this fanbase tolerate a player who hasn't produced in half a decade?
Hyperbole much? Ohtani is probably the best player the sport has ever seen, but two of the five tools are 'glove' and 'arm' and Ohtani is a DH. He obviously would have the 'arm' tool checked if he ever played the field, but he doesn't.
Whitlock is going to ask for $40M for the number -- I would.
An underrated aspect in the event that the FO fails is that they did help drive up the price so it hamstrings the Yanks moving forward. That's all I have for moral victories here.