Well, this thread title doesn't have troll written all over it? Seriously, please post examples of people "crying poverty on behalf of our owners".
Even if its spending on players who suck? (He wouldnt be the first fucktillionaire sports owner who saw a guy on TV and demanded his underlings sign him)
Sarcasm from me. I endorse the build up the farm to supplement the deep pockets versus spending lavishly. So happy the Sox have young exciting player with a cohort in the high minors knocking on the door.
Maybe "cry poverty" is the wrong term but people defend the owners all the time in here even though they seem checked out as they've moved on to soccer and racing. My stance all along is that the Red Sox are a top-5 fanbase and that comes out of the (excellent) fanbase's pockets so I expect them to have a top-5 salary.
Go read the discussion from the first time this graphic was posted, I linked it above.
I hope they spend smartly. Want to avoid a disaster signing like Xander. Go for the Yamamoto type but stay away from the Snell and Montgomery guys that are the best available for huge dollars but are not worth it.
Why is this thread being flattered enough to be open? The OG post was pretty close to ban-worthy on its own merits.
I imagine a man in a powdered wig, flourishing a digital feather in ink, dictating this post.
You're taking a chance locking this thread. Les jeux d'argent et de hasard peuvent être dangereux!
I've got a lot of problems with you people and now you're going to hear about it! Until you pin me Festivus is not over. Let's rumble!
Following the dictating of the post, Cassvt2023 found the nearest fainting couch, declared, "Why I never!" and proceeded to flop so spectacularly that Dick Fosbury himself rose from the dead to give our highly insulted friend a round of applause.
I've supported ownership/management of this team quite often (just for shits and giggles, let's call it 65-70% of the time) since the start of the Bloom era and have also been critical of them. I've been as disappointed about the last places finishes as the next guy, but I also understand that there are several ways of going about building a team and having a top 5 salary is no guarantee of success, let alone sustainable success. At the end of the day I think you need a blend of young, cost controlled talent as a that has REASONABLY SHOWN that they may be ready to take things to the next level if surrounded by free agents that fill the team's deficiencies. This team has been in flux for the past couple of seasons. Contracts of aging players have expired or have been moved. If the first 90 or so games of this season haven't been a mirage, that young, cost controlled talent seems to be coming into it's own and forming what could be the core of this team for the next 5+ years.
Well probably not, since Durst is dead. But I bet Jeter Downs wouldn’t mind being Connor Wong at this point.
Yep and the top 4 teams on the list of revenue % spent on payroll look like this....
I've pushed back on "checked out ... soccer" as a statement of fact because it's just some fans' guess as to what's happening in the black box. They don't do anything in public, so it's hard to know what they are thinking. It makes a lot more sense that they are withholding spending for baseball reasons than they've just moved on from their $5b asset. I guess that counts as defending the owners? But I think of it as just not catastrophizing the situation.
Sorry, didn't know there was a designated crying thread! And a lot of people always say they want more threads not fewer (41 pages is a bit much)
There was a lot of discussion in the offseason about how we were waiting for our competitive window. I generally thought this logic was dumb, since teams get better quicker than you think and we had 3 top-50 prospects starting the season at AA, so I argued the "window" was already "open".
Sorry I didn't read every post in a 41 page thread. Thought it was an informative post and happy to see updated data to the contrary!
It wasn't designed to, but nice to see that you agree with my thought that spending these past few years might not have been the right path to take.
