Full Throttle!
…the Red Sox introduced Craig Breslow as their new chief baseball officer, team chairman Tom Werner promised that the Red Sox would go “full throttle” in their efforts to improve the roster this winter. It’s still (relatively) early in the offseason, but so far, the Red Sox have mostly sputtered and stalled out. SOURCE
I won’t sit here and pretend I am Boston’s biggest baseball fan anymore. I openly boycotted the team last year because of a combination of things.
The team sucks
The owner is not invested
The owner has intentionally taken their spending to middle of the pack while still charging the highest ticket prices in the game and still increasing them year after year
The team sucks. Last place finish 3 of the last 4 seasons.
The GM was a mouth breathing nerd serving up trays of bullshit
And Lastly, I boycotted the team because they had the audacity to present a piece of technology that would have been laughed out of the dot com age, in that piece of shit NESN 360 - and charge $35 dollars a month!!! To watch this Red Sox Team?!?!?!? And only if you’re in market!!! It sucks, blows, and doens’t even make sense. How ‘bout I full throttle by boot up your ass Warner!
So, excuse me if I am less than convinced this ownership and management group is “full throttle” in an off season 2 months old with $1 million dollars spent in free agency. Oh, they have a $300 million offer in for Yamamoto? Is that a similar offer that Betts got in his extension conversations or the John Lester was shoveled before walking out the door? One of these offers that was “fair market” value. Something beyond it just wouldn’t make sense from a team building stand point? The kind of offer you can prance around as a good faith effort as Yamamoto meets with the Mets and Yankees a second time each to actually hash out a deal? How on earth could you maintain your competitive balance from the basement of the AL East if you “over spent” for a 25 year old generational talent? That’s not the kind of Full Throttle John Henry’s Red Sox are into.
The only guy the Sox have signed
I’m certainly looking forward to plan B though. OR C, D, E whatever plan the Walmart bins of Bruce Willis DVD’s and compromised pitching arms is in.