Executive decisions, clinical precision

Bill:
Ben Cherington wins the Executive of the Year award, deservedly so.

 

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Mike:
I appreciate his brains and his humility in saying "This [award] is for everyone who works for us and went through a tough time in 2012, and committed to making things better, getting things right."

 

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Bill:
Yeah, big brain.

 

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Mike:
Way biggah than mine. I scoffed at the offseason moves featuring names like Victorino, Gomes, Uehara...

 

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Bill:
Are you kidding me? Those moves were so unimpressive to me that I actually have no specific recollection of them occurring I was so brain dead and bottomed out.

 

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Mike:
Yeah, this was me a year ago.

 

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Bill:
Thank you, Ben Cherington and the Red Sox organization for caring.

 

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Comments

[Harwich Rich]

Now,let's keep that formula going.

[louclinton]

That pool was chockablock full of people last year.

lc

[cmdrflake]

I am still basking in the moment. I think I can do that before the Chairman gets after me. Emi does not get after me, unless it's for what I have in my pocket. She's a lot like a first time eligible free agent, sniffing the air and looking to get noticed before Daddy gets involved.

[Steve in MD]

Until I read that article, I didn't realize how dramatically run differential improved from 2012 to 2013 (-20 to +240). That's even more impressive than the difference in won/loss records, since it speaks to pitching, defense and offense. And to just how bad Bobby V. was.

[Bob]

You know what? I wouldn't turn down a $14.1 million qualifying offer. I'd take it, I just would. I guess I'm just that kind of guy.

[Steve in MD]

@Bob, I'd take a measly $1.4 mil and retire after the season...

[yazbread]

Nomar turned down $60 mil over 4 years. How did that work out?

[SAC]

All that, plus a name that could have been created by Charlotte Brontë. "Rochester, meet Cherington. Ben Cherington."

[Chip]

Cherington should get $14.1M!

[COD]

I don't blame any of them for testing the market. All 3 coming off good years - why not see if somebody is willing to grossly overpay them for the next 4-7 years?

By the way, this is me taking a swing with an actual David Ortiz game used bat this weekend.

http://odonnellweb.com/photos/?v=pd&d=2013+Eastern+Nationals&img=10

I also took 9 swings in the batting cage with a Dustin Pedroria model bat, and made contact all 9 swings. I think the last time I hit a baseball with a wood bat was Little League, back when Fred Lynn was still a Red Sox.

[cmdrflake]

COD, are there any Sox who use ash now, since it is ungodly expensive? I had to do a repair and find matching hardwood for the door I had to fix- OUCH! It worked out to $125/ounce UNFINISHED. So, goodbye old door, hello new one. I ought to play Ash futures, forget gold or silver, man, Ash be where it's at.

[Chairman Meow]

Oh, shit, he's bitching about what things cost again. NO generic liver snaps or salmon, you cheap human!

[da kine]

I went through all the strips from November and December 2012 and found three questionable ones where the Soxaholix seemed to be shitting on Cherington's acquisitions a little. Link and money quote for each.

So much for the 'discipline' thing:

Mike: Shane Victorino?
Mike: Are you shitting me?
Doug: Yeah, I heard that and threw up my mouth.
Mike: Is Ben Cherington actually a zombie created from the brain of Lou Gorman?

Gomeskreig:

Al: Hello Jonny Gomes.
Doug: Nothing like dropping $10 mil on a guy who just turned 32.
Mike: I dunno, Pinto thinks Gomes gives the Red Sox "a low-cost insurance policy on David Ortiz."
Al: Yeah, and if nothing else, we've really had a void in the bat shit crazy stomp the shit out of you department.

We don't need no stinkin blockbuster:

Bill: Hey, look the Blue Jays just got Jose Reyes, Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Emilio Bonifacio, and John Buck...
Bill: But the joke's on them because we got John Friggin Farrell.
Bill: Hahahhahaha....
Doug: That's right, bitches, Ben Cherington is the fucking man with the fucking plan.

There was also a rather balanced discussion about Dempster and a weird Christmas headline about Uehara, but nothing negative.

[Ghengis Ortiz]

Is 'Big Brain' a veiled reference to 'Big Bri', one of our favorite scalawags?

[h.b.]

Well done da kine. As usual, I have absolutely no memory of having written any of that.

I think I may be the zombie created from the brain of Lou Gorman.