tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106257093107729484.post8516419794867545589..comments2024-01-10T07:00:57.766-05:00Comments on It is about the money, stupid: Reader mail: A Gammons rantJason @ IIATMShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11675184282951841175noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106257093107729484.post-74613634261251075922009-01-05T22:13:00.000-05:002009-01-05T22:13:00.000-05:00Jason,I like your blog. Good work.Maybe Gammons h...Jason,<BR/><BR/>I like your blog. Good work.<BR/><BR/>Maybe Gammons has indeed lost his fastball. Time for long relief, soldier.Jason @ IIATMShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11675184282951841175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106257093107729484.post-9024415612239401602009-01-05T19:29:00.000-05:002009-01-05T19:29:00.000-05:00joeorange covered the Gammons piece very well. I ...joeorange covered the Gammons piece very well. I myself have written about him recently as well. His recent articles have been all over the place, highly presumptuous, more than a bit whiny, and lacking pertinent counter-arguments.<BR/>Jason from The Heartland<BR/>http://heartlandpinstripes.wordpress.com/Jason from The Heartlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07373268281505280705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106257093107729484.post-34054607467942545582009-01-04T18:01:00.000-05:002009-01-04T18:01:00.000-05:00The Red Sox make an offer that winds up being a mi...The Red Sox make an offer that winds up being a million a year shy of what the Yankees put up for Teixeira. John Henry played Chicken with Scott Boras with that comment about being "out of it" with regard to that negotiation. Boras called him on it and beat him. <BR/>My rant was more about Gammons. "The Sox as an underdog" made me puke. Phillips, Gammons, Olney and all the loyalists at ESPN have glorified Theo Epstein and the rest of the Red Sox management for the better part of a decade. Now, all of the sudden, you want to turn them back into the "Olde Towne Team"? Sorry....we don't downshift that fast without losing three-quarters of our transmissions. You're a superpower, not an underdog; even without Teixeira. Don't cry me a river. Twenty nine teams in baseball wish that they were "underdogs" that way. Hell, the Pirates wish that they could be a quarter of the "underdog" that the Red Sox are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106257093107729484.post-11397265228326300002009-01-04T00:18:00.000-05:002009-01-04T00:18:00.000-05:00My take on this is very simple. Teams like the Ya...My take on this is very simple. Teams like the Yankees and the Red Sox can hide their mistakes. That is possibly where they have the greatest advantage over small market teams. That said, a big reason why the Red Sox are where they are payroll-wise is that they got lucky with 3 players - JD Drew, Mike Lowell, and David Ortiz. Those guys were pulled off the scrapheap and turned into star players. If none of them worked out, you can bet your ass you'd see a stupid contract for, say, Troy Glaus or Scott Rolen and they probably go after Carlos Beltran a few years back.<BR/><BR/>Have they made some smart moves over the past 5 years or so? Definitely. And their core is made of homegrown players which is great. But without getting lucky a few times, they would have shelled out more money or they wouldn't have won. The Kevin Millars of the world only take you so far.dinologic (Dean D)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14412884655658158190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106257093107729484.post-76059764596819683992009-01-03T17:05:00.000-05:002009-01-03T17:05:00.000-05:00Gammons...well, let's just say he lost his fastbal...Gammons...well, let's just say he lost his fastball a long time ago. I'd stopped reading his weekly page in the Sunday Globe long before he hithered off to ESPN, and since ESPN and Baseball Tonight are too stupid to endure, I haven't seen much of him since then.<BR/><BR/>Are we sure that was Gammons, and not some random posting from SOSH or the Boston Dirt Dogs?Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07449307677458423829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9106257093107729484.post-3121058879591597732009-01-03T12:04:00.000-05:002009-01-03T12:04:00.000-05:00If you count the $50 million signing fee for Matsu...If you count the $50 million signing fee for Matsuzaka, Boston has the #2 payroll.<BR/><BR/>This $50 million is often forgotten by fans and sportswriters of the small market, underdog Boston Red Sox.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com