The coup de grace for the Red Sox
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With 8 games left, all hope is beyond mathematically possible to have a microscopic shot at a WC. Now having sunk to 4th place in the AL East, Red Sox Nation will suffer another hope-filled season gone. The team never gelled, pitching was woeful, and they set a team record for errors. Devers season is over with a nagging shoulder issue. and the remaining games are inconsequencial.
The only bright spot is that it's unlikely that they'll reach last place for the trifecta, but it's still possible if Toronto wakes up.
John Henry, the prinicpal owner, who owns a ton of other stuff, and who's net worth is $6 BILLION, is now asking front office staff to take a pay cut in order to keep their jobs!! YES, take a pay cut to salvage their jobs!!!! Henry could quadruple their pay and not make the tiniest dent in his wallet.
One does wonder why he would not allow the purse strings to be opened (within reason) and sign, or tender players that have left previously, that might have otherwise stayed. The team is being treated like a cut above AAA, but not quite full MLB level in terms of trades. Now facing a guaranteed 3 in a row losing season, yet somehow the geniuses in the front office have signed the inept manager to a 3-year, $12 m deal. It really is a head scratcher. It all began when Mookie flew away from Boston.
All the vacation plans have long been made, the end of season can't come soon enough for the players. Red Sox Nation will be left wondering what happened and lame comments abound with "wait till next year". The link kinda says it all.
I'm off to Utah for 10 days.
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Its finally over for the Red Sox this year.
My final word this year is For Al and all the other Red Sox fans to stay safe from this very dangerous storm hitting Florida and many other States including Georgia !
Well they actually won more games than I thought they should
Maybe next season Story will be able to play a few games and Sox ownership will take a little interest in the team.
Doubt it but maybe?
Cold weather cities have more difficulty when their teams do poorly. The winters seem longer. It will be springtime before ya know it.
Damn...I did it.
As an ex Red Sox follower, it seems like the ownership bore down, won a couple championships and turned into Tom Yawkey who just played out the string. At least it’s not like Harry Frazee who in essence sold the team, Babe Ruth the most obvious, and continued to own it.
Well...there is no need for me to rant over the dismal performance of 81/81.
What is puzzling to me is the going forward contract of 3yrs/$21m given to Cora. They should have jettisoned him and brought in some new blood. I doubt I'll be too excited over next year or the two after that. No doubt Cora is livin the high life in Puerto Rico till Jan or so. It's a head scratcher to me, it really is. I struggle to say "wait till next year", Cora is totally soured me on the Red Sox and team in general. We'll see. Esprit de Corps is so lacking!!
Steve...stay well in ABQ, hope you and the wife can enjoy life as best you can. I know the team disappointed you, hard to explain with all the talent they had going for them.
I got out of GA just 2 days before the storm, lucky for where I live, the thing took a little jog further east, and the eye pretty much went right over us and we escaped the nightmare those in NC and Augusta, GA, (just 80 mile east) and of course FL are enduring.