![]() There will be plenty of tee times available on Oct. The good news is that the Red Sox won’t have to wait until January to start playing golf. The Red Sox owner doesn’t put baseball first. The Red Sox fall somewhere between Liverpool and the Pittsburgh Penguins, or Tiger and Rory’s newest golf entanglement, on the FSG Christmas card list. But as we’ve noted countless times in this space and elsewhere since the 2018 World Series, the Red Sox have become just another line on the Fenway Sports Group annual budget. Money cannot buy love or happiness in baseball. And who’s going to pay Rickie Fowler to lead off for the Boston Stickmen? That’s not going to change on the upside anytime soon. The Red Sox are 13th in MLB payroll this year, between the Cubs and White Sox. When the rose finally comes off the Bloom, don’t expect a shift in the prevailing Jersey Street financial mentality. And as he famously told us last winter, “it’s expensive to have baseball players.” Boston committed the most errors (51) and owned the lowest fielding percentage (.981) in the American League through 79 games. The Red Sox defense is an embarrassment to tee-ballers. Bogaerts started 60 of the Padres’ first 69 games at short. Boston has used five players at second base and six players at shortstop in its first 79 games. The loss of Bogaerts has been catastrophic, if not generational. What about Brayan “Baby Pedro” Bello? Well, he was signed by Dombrowski in 2017.Īnd someone is going to have to answer for Xander Bogaerts, in much the same way Carlo had to answer for the hit on Sonny. For every Justin Turner, there’s Corey Kluber. His signings and deals are a cauldron of hit-and-miss propositions. Dave Dombrowski didn’t even make it to October given how far he and ownership had fallen out of sync.īloom doesn’t have that problem. The last time the Red Sox fired their general manager it came after a Sunday night loss to the Yankees on Sept. Never mind the fact that they dropped four out of five to Minnesota and Chicago in the past week.Īnything to make us care beyond the over 77 wins and the +205 we got on the season series with the Yankees.īoston’s inconsistencies and lack of baseball acumen have become agonizing to witness.Ĭhaim Bloom’s seat is hotter than Taylor Swift tickets. If only the Red Sox could sink into the American League Central. The SS Bloom has been ripped apart by the ferocious currents in the AL East. The Red Sox are mathematically certain to begin the second half of this season in last place in the American League East. That’s the line between a literal or metaphorical definition of “mediocrity.” Boston has been swimming upstream since the team sailed north from Fort Myers.īoston will either be. What about signing Ohtani this winter? Sho-hei me the money and I’ll believe it.Īs the 2023 baseball season reaches halftime tomorrow against the Marlins, the Red Sox continue to flounder. The Red Sox? They have Pickleball at Fenway next month. Meanwhile, reports from across the Pond have Henry’s Reds of Liverpool flirting with soccer great Kylian Mbappe for a cost of $329 million. That’s also 122 more words than Henry has spoken on the record about the Red Sox since February. She was my second-grade teacher at Brackett School in Arlington and taught our class to count into the triple digits. ![]() That’s 122 words, according to Microsoft Word and Mrs. We are excited to reveal more details later this summer and fall when we’ll unveil an official name and team members who will represent this great city and region.” Henry and Werner said in a news release. We owe tremendous thanks to Tiger, Rory, and Mike for creating this innovative new league and allowing us to be present at its creation. Through this new, tech-focused version of the game, New England sports fans will soon have a team of world-class PGA TOUR players to cheer for and redefine for this community what it means to play the game in the modern era. “We are excited for this new journey as one of the six inaugural TGL teams in honor of a city whose love and passion for sports is unparalleled. Especially the folks who brought us 9-11. Thank goodness they won’t have to worry about getting through airport security with that crowd. No word if John and Tom will be hanging with the Saudi Crown Prince and Jay Monahan in the virtual owner’s box. ![]()
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