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Red Sox/MLB 2023 Off-Season - Red Sox-Yankees trade
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Just thinking about this Braves-Phillies series...get rid of the best of 3 wild card round, go back to single game wild cards and make the division series a best of 7.
Never let anyone tell you firing Dombrowski was necessary or the right move for a big market team like the Red Sox. Complete nonsense.
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My 12 year old self wouldn’t agree with (or even understand this) but, more often than not you don’t need to be the best team to win a WS.
You just need to be the the best playoff team for about 3 weeks out of 28.
You just need to be the the best playoff team for about 3 weeks out of 28.
Phillies are the least repulsive of the Philadelphia sports teams, but a Philly team winning anything is really down on my list of things I want to see happen, so hopefully Arizona knocks them out.
McGarnagle
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Phils are magic
Best bulletin board thing that happened that series was when Cleveland brought Beckett's ex-girlfriend to sing the national anthem the night he started game 5
Best bulletin board thing that happened that series was when Cleveland brought Beckett's ex-girlfriend to sing the national anthem the night he started game 5
And it cost them the game, because runner would have scored easily on the 1 out fly ball in the 9th if it was a 1 run game
quietbruinfan
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McGarnagle
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I'd have loved to have seen these two teams play a full 7 game series, but I don't think the Braves have much of a claim that it was the format's fault when Ranger Suarez beat Spencer Strider clean twice. Sitting for three days didn't ruin them, they were a good team but just had a tough matchup against probably the second best team in the whole playoffs.
I'm rooting for the Phils all the way, but Arizona is sneaky good and a fun team to watch as well. Really I'd be okay with anybody but Houston at this point. Rangers better come through in the Battle of Texas.
So should we change the NHL format too, after what happened last year?
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quietbruinfan
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I did not say that at all. Besides the NHL would have to add about three more playoff spots to be like MLB.
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Sean McAdam: MLB Notebook - Red Sox finding resistance in GM search but one target emerges
Interest in the Red Sox's front office opening across the game is not what the team had hoped for, but a potential candidate has emerged. Plus, examining the playoff format, Mookie's October problem and more.
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So a guy whose claim to fame is spending years working for an owner notorious for not spending money on the team, making the playoffs once in 13 years in charge, and for trading Stanton, Yelich, and Realmuto.
Be careful what you wish for...
ownership STINKS
just go with Eddie Romero if this is the best of what we can get
just go with Eddie Romero if this is the best of what we can get
Maybe so but seeing their park on a gamenight is incredible. They might be neanderthals but they care. And it's a fun watch. Ya know, sorta like when the Red Sox were good at baseball.
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Mattress Mack inches closer to $43 million as Astros vault to World Series favorite status
Your favorite mattress salesman is eight wins away from another multi-million payday.
nypost.com
I don't see any way some lapdog assistant GM somewhere is gonna turn down the Red Sox job if the money is right. Are they going cheap on the hire? Or are they being turned down by big time well established guys? Swing for the fences at least. These dork candidates are intimidated by taking over a good farm system and having money to spend? Intimated by having to improve on back to back last place, losing seasons? Give me a break.
Ludwig Fell Down
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Agree. Crazy to think that teams play 13 games in 14 days for 6 months, then have a week off before their first playoff game.
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I know I’m probably in a small minority here, but this years playoffs have me excited for the Sox next year.
I’m certainly never going to defend ownership, all I‘ll say about them is that they are not stupid people and I can’t imagine they didn’t get the message when there were 13,000 people at a home game vs. NYY in September.
Ownership aside. Whoever comes in as GM is going to want to put a quality team on the field. Of course if you asked 1,000 people how to do that, you’d get 1,500answers, but with that being said, next years team is going to be very different.
As we’ve seen this month….just make the playoffs!
I’m certainly never going to defend ownership, all I‘ll say about them is that they are not stupid people and I can’t imagine they didn’t get the message when there were 13,000 people at a home game vs. NYY in September.
Ownership aside. Whoever comes in as GM is going to want to put a quality team on the field. Of course if you asked 1,000 people how to do that, you’d get 1,500answers, but with that being said, next years team is going to be very different.
As we’ve seen this month….just make the playoffs!
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