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  1. Hairyducked Idiot
    Ricketts has done nothing but what he wanted to do from day one, and not given the slightest indication that he cares about how fans react in the short term. He didn't fire Hendry immediately. He waited well over a year and then didn't tell anyone that he did it. He didn't hire Sandberg. He's made most of his major investments, both current and planned, in something that most fans won't even notice: scouting and development. He apparently conducted multiple interviews and almost the entire GM search before anything started leaking. These are the actions of a man who will do whatever he thinks is best for the organization, fan reaction be damned.
  2. Hairyducked Idiot
    What gives you the impression that Ricketts cares about the reaction? The fact that he wants to sell tickets to a fan base whose interest was clearly waning last year? That's why he hired Sandberg and keeps talking about a major upping of the MLB payroll at the expense of long-term gains like the farm system. Ricketts has a long-term plan to bring back the fans. I don't think he particularly cares how they react in the meantime.
  3. Hairyducked Idiot
    Every organization cares about money.
  4. Hairyducked Idiot
    Eventually.
  5. Hairyducked Idiot
    What gives you the impression that Ricketts cares about the reaction?
  6. Hairyducked Idiot
    An ESPN article using a Boston source argues the point of view Boston would like to represent as truth.
  7. Hairyducked Idiot
    Unlike with Theo, these are presumably going to be lateral moves, so that makes sense.
  8. Hairyducked Idiot
    Which is why you know it's an idle threat. They are threatening to pay the money and get nothing in order to try to leverage out a slightly better prospect. "If you don't give us what we want, we'll take nothing and waste $6.5 million." There's no Cubs prospect that's worth making that threat over, so you know it's not legit.
  9. Hairyducked Idiot
    It's just idle speculation from people who enjoy the drama. The reality is a lot less extreme. Either the Red Sox are posturing or the real negotiations are about poaching staff.
  10. Hairyducked Idiot
    They paid $51M to hang with Dice-K and his agent. I don't think the money would even make them blink. They are still a cost:benefit analysis organization. What Cubs prospects are worth $6.5 million?
  11. Hairyducked Idiot
    Young, talented executives declining the opportunity to work in the most progressive, desirable FO in MLB. Uh huh. See how long they hold that reputation as "most progressive, desirable" when Epstein leads a brain drain after being held hostage for a year and denied the opportunity to more than double his salary.
  12. Hairyducked Idiot
    If all the information that has come out during this is correct (highly suspect, of course), the Red Sox owe Theo Epstein a $3.5 million conclusion bonus when he leaves the team, and that goes up to $5 million if he finishes his contract in 2012. He has a salary for 2012 of $1.5 million. Right now, the Cubs are offering to pay the conclusion bonus. So if the Red Sox choose to keep Epstein for a year against his will, they pay $6.5 million for that privilege.
  13. Hairyducked Idiot
    What does that even mean? Allow me to translate from my native language (trolling attention-seeker) to English. What he said roughly translates to "I'm bored, someone please argue with me so I can feel like I'm getting some attention in this thread."
  14. Hairyducked Idiot
    Can someone make a case to me why the Red Sox are in a terrific position here? Becuase they really arent, and it makes no sense to me why someone would think that. But they are. Theo is under contract for another year, and technically don't have to let him go. So they can torch their reputation with other young, talented executives and cost themselves about millions of extra dollars. Brilliant strategy just to coax a slightly better prospect out of the Cubs.
  15. Hairyducked Idiot
    Some people are ruiners. They ruin things.
  16. Hairyducked Idiot
    All the other kids with the pumped up kicks better run, baby, run...faster than my bullet. This probably belongs in rants, but good freaking christ is that song distasteful. Catchy? Yes. But I'm sorry that I can't feel comfortable enjoying a pop tune about a random shooting massacre. And get off my lawn!
  17. Hairyducked Idiot
    I could make a case for Larry Luccino tampering with my pants, too. They've been feeling awfully tight ever since he let Epstein talk to the Cubs.
  18. Hairyducked Idiot
    The idea that Boston is holding the "take with" number hostage for improving the haul makes a lot more sense than that they are holding Epstein himself hostage. Epstein is leaving for a nominal promotion, and the Cubs reportedly are agreeing to pay his $3.5 million exit bonus owed by Boston. That's plenty of compensation for a non-lateral move. But if he wants to bring some guys with him for lateral moves, and they want him to agree not to, then some negotiation seems more reasonable.
  19. Hairyducked Idiot
    Reputation. They presumably want to hire young, talented executives in the future. You don't jerk around employees like that. Also, millions of dollars. That's just a write-off. They can just write it off.
  20. Hairyducked Idiot
    Reputation. They presumably want to hire young, talented executives in the future. You don't jerk around employees like that.
  21. Hairyducked Idiot
    You can only dance and get drunk so many times in one life. You wouldn't want to waste one, I understand.
  22. Hairyducked Idiot
    The whole Red Sox organization thrives on drama.
  23. Hairyducked Idiot
    Is this right? http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/1121/harrytheo.jpg
  24. Hairyducked Idiot
    It is happening. That's really all there is to it.
  25. Hairyducked Idiot
    There is no chance it even comes to this.
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