I highly doubt people living in La or San Fran have an interest in visiting Dyersville Iowa. Plus I believe this year only Iowa residents were allowed to buy tickets.
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I don’t blame MLB for milking this for all that it’s worth, but there will surely be diminished interest with each year.
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In the Midwest?
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Which helps with White Sox (and Cubs) fans.
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Red Sox might not be good anymore
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White Sox
Cubs
Royals
Cards
Twins
Brewers
They could rotate 6 teams through there on a regular basis.
Royals-Astros
Cards-Dodgers
Possibilities are endless.
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No they are not.
As a Red Sox fan I'm hoping you are an excellent contrarian indicator. Not going to the bank on it though. They are leaking oil pretty badly.
John W. Henry, Sam Kennedy Chaim Bloom failed the team.
Alex Cora has mismanaged several moments.
This team didn’t address its pitching staff or first base at the deadline.
Their were moves to make.
CJ Cron is a first base move that would have cost little.
Danny Duffy or Jon Lester were upgrades to the rotation.
They Didn’t even have to trade their elite prospects to get guys like I said.
Henry just looks at the team as a cash cow.
Sam Kennedy is one of the biggest pukes in baseball management. Bloom needs to realize this isn’t Tampa Bay. You can trade prospects and spend money in the off-season be like the Dodgers. Bloom lost a lot of goodwill with this meltdown.
Alex Cora has mismanaged several moments.
This team didn’t address its pitching staff or first base at the deadline.
Their were moves to make.
CJ Cron is a first base move that would have cost little.
Danny Duffy or Jon Lester were upgrades to the rotation.
They Didn’t even have to trade their elite prospects to get guys like I said.
Henry just looks at the team as a cash cow.
Sam Kennedy is one of the biggest pukes in baseball management. Bloom needs to realize this isn’t Tampa Bay. You can trade prospects and spend money in the off-season be like the Dodgers. Bloom lost a lot of goodwill with this meltdown.
I generally agree with your criticism of the Red Sox not doing enough at the deadline - no doubt. The inability to land Rizzo killed them. The failure to address the pitching was in the bullpen. The starters _Eovaldi, Sale, ERod, Houck and Pivetta - are a decent group and have done reasonably well. The bullpen has an ERA like 8+ in the last 20 games. They probably could have landed a 4th or 5th starter but not Jon Lester. He is completely shot and his stats are horrific. He has a quality start about once a month. He'd get mauled in the AL East.
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Yup. Hopefully the Giants can slip up a bit. Mets came through with a big win for us there.
It stinks we only play them one more time, but that early September series looms very large. I think that goes to show that the schedule makers weren’t expecting them to be good either. They’ve got us playing the Padres 3 more times, because they expected that to be the NL West race. IMO.
You should be thankful for that. The Padres are taking on water and your boys should be able to do damage against them. I fully expect Cinci to pass SD in the wildcard hunt.
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Care to make it interesting?
As in a wager? Absolutely.
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Excellent! This will be a fun one to follow down the stretch. I will direct message you to discuss terms.
There isn't
a starter on the team's rotation right now that I would rather pitch Lester or Duffy for. Quite frankly, it's not close. The Sox needed help at first and another set up guy or two. The schedule is promising for the Sox. I sure wouldn't count them out just yet.
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MLB Is Ending Its 70-Year Partnership With Baseball Card Manufacturer Topps
"Citing a memo from the Major League Baseball Players Association, ESPN reports an unnamed Fanatics-founded company will be the exclusive licensee "in the baseball card category." This license gives Fanatics the power to manufacture the only cards that can show team logos."
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Not off to a good start.
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What happens if the Cardinals win the wild card?
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Push.
