The Sox have been ****ed for 82 years because of a GM decision. About time the Sox have had a glimmer of hope.
I posted that the Red Sox were given permission to speak with Beane. Two different situations drapg. And Rule - 82 years ago a New Yorker owner ****ed the team over because the yankees couldn't get it done on the field. Not a GM decision. Get it straight.
While Beane to Bean-town might be a slam dunk, he would have a lot of work to do. Beane needs to rebuild an empty farm system, and he needs to get rid of A LOT of bad contracts. They have a team that can win right now, but their long term prognosis doesn't look good.
Owners were GMs back in the day. Posting another thread for this is like posting a game thread before gametime, and then an entirely different thread stating, we won! And it will take awhile to recover from the Duke.
And now, a brief advertisement from the CC.net chat. $85,000 - the price Charlie Sheen bought the Bill Buckner ball for $250 - the cost for 4 people to attend a game and eat at fenway park Watching the Red Sox get screwed again... priceless. There are some things money can't buy, even for 84 years. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
Why isn't it good for major league baseball? A high payroll team finally was stopped from buying a small market team's most important person or player. I'm glad he stayed in Oakland. It's bad enough we have teams with 100 million dollar payrolls.
Sorry nomar, but every part of my statement holds true. Billy gets to watch the team he built dominate, the A's keep on kicking a**, and it gives other small market baseball teams a glimmer of hope. If he left, it all but guarantees the demise of the small market team, and that not is something I want nor baseball in general, needs. That far outweighs the benefits of him going to boston, in my opinion, granted I'm not a redsox fan, so I understand your perspective, nonetheless.
Tough break for Boston, Billy Beane is quite a genius. If he had the resources of a large market team, I shudder to think what would happen. Good thing the A's managed to keep him, without his genius, they would probaly collapse into a Kansas City-style tailspin.
Watching Chris Simms prove how bad of a QB he is - free. Watching Mack Brown lose to Bob Stoops again - free. Watching Shaq and Kobe be the most dominant players in the history of basketball - free. Watching the Lakers kicking ass HARDCORE - free. Watching OU slam the **** out of UT - free. Watching TheCat screw up a simple parody joke... priceless. The price goes after the item, dumb****.
I think I have just cause to be frustrated when the best baseball mind in the game is too much of a p***y to take a risk and try to make a legend out of himself.
