Red Sox have an axe to grind against Iglesias, per Felger.
If anyone knows about having an axe to grind against someone, it's him.
If anyone knows about having an axe to grind against someone, it's him.
Corsi said:Felger: "The Red Sox still don't have a closer."
RedOctober3829 said:Now Felger ripped Bradford and Speier for their analysis of the deal. Wow.
Edit: Mazz calls the AL Central crap lineups after saying how good Detroit has been all day.
Felger talks about Stanton like he's available and the Red Sox could fill a need in their lineup with him.
Corsi said:They're both in agreement that Detroit won the deal. Of course, neither of them has ever heard of Avisail Garcia, so why bother including him in the analysis.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:And from when I listened, Mazz wasn't against this trade; he thought that they should have added a bullpen arm. Which, I guess is acceptable, but he keeps ignoring that Workman is going to the pen, which is essentially the same thing. Yet, he glosses over that as if it doesn't matter. In the 5:00 hour a guy named Mike called up and ripped Tony for at least a minute pointing out the hypocrisy of his argument. They let him speak, but Tony didn't say too much after that.
John Marzano Olympic Hero said:The thing is, Felger and Maz would be killing the Sox if they did nothing in the last two days. Killing them. So the Sox get the best player in a depressed trade market (there was what, four moves in the last 48 hours? And there's a pretty big reason for that, but why would you want to discuss that?) selling high on a player that has fallen out of favor with the organization and this is supposed to be a bad thing?
And from when I listened, Mazz wasn't against this trade; he thought that they should have added a bullpen arm. Which, I guess is acceptable, but he keeps ignoring that Workman is going to the pen, which is essentially the same thing. Yet, he glosses over that as if it doesn't matter. In the 5:00 hour a guy named Mike called up and ripped Tony for at least a minute pointing out the hypocrisy of his argument. They let him speak, but Tony didn't say too much after that.
My point is this, you can dislike this trade--it's not a slam dunk but you don't need strawmen to make your point. Like I said, I think that Mazz has a legit point of view about adding a bullpen arm, but Felger wanted them to get this invisible unicorn (Lee, Stanton or another "difference maker") that wasn't there. Would I have liked Stanton? Of course, but where are they going to put him (not to sound like Lou Gorman)? Do you empty your farm system to fix something that isn't a problem, the Sox are number one in runs. That's not a good use of resources. And yes, I would have loved Lee but Amaro wants a king's ransom for a guy who is 35 and has something like +$40M left on his contract. That's not a good use either.
To be fair he was saying it toungue in cheek in response to his rant about JWH's interest in buying and controlling the Globe.RedOctober3829 said:Felger: "John Henry controls WEEI.com."
He has never been afraid to rip into Speier and Bradford in the past, so this is consistent with his thinking.HomeBrew1901 said:To be fair he was saying it toungue in cheek in response to his rant about JWH's interest in buying and controlling the Globe.
RedOctober3829 said:He has never been afraid to rip into Speier and Bradford in the past, so this is consistent with his thinking.
smastroyin said:I can kind of deal with Mazz's idiotic rants when he is talking about hockey (about which he has zero clue) or basketball (where he has like, a 25% clue). But when he is willfully dumb about baseball it irritates me, because that is the sport he was paid to write about for years, and he should be capable of holding his own opinion without being a Mike Felger echo monkey and without taking a contrarian view just because.
As well, between the "celebrity" callers, the "hot sports takes", "Wiggy Wednesday, Wiggy Tuesday, Wiggy Thursday, etc.", and the "Final Minute" they are taking on more and more of a Big Show feel.
True but there is a difference. In one he is ripping a couple of reporters who he feels are carrying the team's water and joking that Henry owns EEI, in the other scenario Henry actually owns the hometown newspaper.RedOctober3829 said:He has never been afraid to rip into Speier and Bradford in the past, so this is consistent with his thinking.