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I totally see the irony. I also see them doing at least part of what fans have been asking for, hiring from outside. Now if we could actually hire from winning franchise that would be great. I said Sox fans will complain. I'm a Sox fan. I complained about how they hire from the outside. Doesn't that make sense? It seems consistent.

I think the only job the ownership should do is hire a president of baseball operations, tell them the budget, and get out of their way.

I think they would win more games.

I'm exactly with you. I do think JR wants to win, but by his rules.

Gotta love this https://www.masslive.com/redsox/2024/08/red-sox-alex-cora-confirms-history-will-be-made-monday-at-fenway-park.html

He put together a group of investors and bought a business. He increased share holder value at a tremendous rate. In America that's the only yardstick that matters. We're just consumer pawns. Hell, they made money with cardboard cutouts of fans.

Lol After all of his years of ownership I think JR really understands Sox fans. Even when they do exactly what fans have been begging for, bringing in people from outside the organization, Sox fans complain. The Royals must be wondering who were going to take from them next.

Excuse my ignorance. I thought cops are paid to enforce the law. They have proof a violent crime was committed and they don't want to be a "tattle tale". And these are CPD? That's really fucked up. Wow.

Too bad they won't go on the record. Why won't they testify and end the law suit?

How do you know that? I thought it was never proven?

That always sounded great to me until I filled in the names. Which young stars in the past ten years would you have locked up? Which ones would have settled for team friendly extensions? Moncada? TA? Robert? A strategy that is based on picking young players to underpay on long term contracts might be an improvement. I'm not certain this front office could pull it off.

It's the same model for fifty years. Tear down one thing to fill a hole. Average is the dream.

I see a huge problem with how the do business. It's one or the other with them. I think they should do both, invest in the minor league and spend at the MLB level. Would you rather they be the Dodgers or the Rays?

You're not trying to hit a specific target. That would be extremely difficult. Are you thinking the victim was targeted? I'm thinking they are trying to hit a quarter mile opening from half a mile away. I have shot thousands of rounds on private ranches at various targets.

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Ridiculous physics? While I agree with the rest of your post the physics aren't ridiculous. Dropping a shot into the stadium from outside is actually easy, especially with a big of an opening. We try to land them in stock tanks, that's hard.

For this to make the most sense to me the victim must believe she was shot from outside the park or that it can't be proved that her friend shot her. Also, JR must believe the shot was from her friend and they wouldn't file the suit or if it was from outside and they wouldn't be found negligent. I know this is serious and it could have been tragic but it seems so surreal I can only think of the magic loogie from Seinfeld. I'm still on the fence. I can visualize the shot from outside the stadium based on experience and believe it's possible. I also watched the reactions in that section and it seems possible it was from outside. But the simplest possibility is a smuggled gun.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-shooting-woman-injured-gunfire-during-chicago-white-sox-game-guaranteed-rate-field-2023-files-lawsuit/15219761/ If her friend shot her they must be very confident that it can't be proven. Nice dollar amount $50,000 to go away? Jerry is going to write the check. Will this become the third most embarrassing stadium moment?

The athletic periods are part of the problem. Changing kids schedules around when they switch sports interrupts the academics. At least in my district we focus the off season training in the other muscle groups and skills. They might not be competing in that other sport but the conditioning and training is for that variety. Well except tennis. They have team tennis in the fall and individual in the spring. Swim kind of breaks it up with water polo in the fall and swimming and diving in the spring. I just told a freshman today that you can play golf all your life, your baseball career is going to end in high school. When baseball has tryouts give it a try, we'll keep fitting golf around it. Now for my players who have college and pro aspirations, the margin of success and failure is so slim they have to be all in. They need to be working out and hitting balls everyday. The folks that survive win. It's ugly.

Exactly. Taking money from salaries to do what is necessary in the rest of system is an idiot Jerry move to protect his profits.

Not a troll at all. We never build. If we have something of value we use it to fill a hole. The answer of course is to invest in the system WITHOUT taking money away from the payroll. The reason we suck year after year is the constant taking away from areas that are barely good to eliminate the problem areas. It's literally rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

And what happens when we have to pay those better players? They leave. My point is taking money from one area to fix the other just digs another hole.

And what would that minor league money go to? How would they spend it?

So the key to success is less money to spend on players? JR approves of this message.

How big of a raise would it take for someone from a top organization to leave to that over the Sox in the same role? That's one person. I think by the end of the process of hiring many more it would be a considerable amount of money. We're not even a good stepping stone for talented people to fast track their careers. There is a high price for being an historically bad franchise. Then the next problem. Explaining that after we invested all this money on FO talent there is no money left over to pay for top players.