Well hello there MLB offseason. I didn’t see you after the World Series where the Giants won. Mainly because I was too focused on other things like Lebron’s explosiveness in Miami where they still can’t sell out an arena. Or maybe the great shows like the League, Always Sunny, The Walking Dead, etc. were just too much to pass up. To be honest, I was just too damn busy with work and stuff earning money for the holiday season.
So as of right now, I am a little concerned for the Red Sox. Mainly because of the things that have occurred in the last 60 days or so regarding the team ownership.
1. Re-Signing Big Papi – I liked Big Papi when he was hitting home runs in the playoffs but there is no way that he is still doing it now. We have to remember that there was a steroid era and that Ortiz might have been juicing and might’ve had a little extra kick. I’m not so sure that there could be a rekindling of such a main aspect of the championship teams. Ortiz just isn’t as good as a player as others out there. I’m sick of hearing about how he is thought of as the best player in the clubhouse and is loved so much by pink hats and yada yada yada. I don’t think spending the $12.5 Million on him was a good idea. He plays a position that is meant for lazy people.
2. Not Re-Signing Victor Martinez – Letting one of the only good hitting catchers go to a team that is in the Central is awful. Did we just put our destiny in the hands of a guy who has a history of getting hurt, hiding those injuries, and then hitting only .248 after never playing a full season? This being Jarrod Saltalamacchia. And we didn’t want to pay an extra year and $12 M for a stud catcher WHO CAN CATCH A KNUCKLEBALL AND HIT FOR POWER?!?!?!?! This might be the downfall for the catcher position on the Red Sox. Oh, breaking news, we might be interested in Rod Barajas. Jesus H. Christ. I think I might throw up if I see him in a Red Sox uniform.
3. Not knowing the Opening Day lineup like I used to – We paid for Bill Hall. We paid for Mike Cameron to pass kidney stones. We paid for players who I didn’t know existed. If you asked me who was playing catcher after V-Mart and Tek, you would not get an answer. We had 4 hurt catchers last year. Our entire team was just an hospital ward last year. Then we go out and say we want Rod Barajas. I suspect we just like getting players from Texas. Think about it. Barajas, Salty, Max Ramirez, the list goes on. Any more of this junk shipping over from Texas would lead to be an absolute garbage heap.
4. Buying Liverpool FC and not buying Mark Teixeira – If money were an issue, which it isn’t, I could understand. But this is why I don’t like the John Henry group right now. It’s like they love to acquire things that will make them money, but they don’t want to buy players that will win championships. The first thing wrong with their strategy is that John Henry has to approve everything before Theo makes a move. Sickening. It’s like there is nothing stopping them from becoming this group of buyers that are going to spread out their portfolio and then make money off of it. I am not a baseball fan that was meant to be treated like a bottom-line. Remember the days when you would go to any event near Boston and people would start a “Yankees Suck!” chant? Do you think John Henry and Co. want us to start singing Liverpool’s fight/drinking song? I don’t think so.
Here is what we should do to throw off the Yankee’s entire season.
1. Offer Derek Jeter a Contract that the Yankees Won’t – I’ve been hearing this from Clark Booth and Shaughnessy, that they should just take a chance and offer Jeter the money that the Yankees won’t. The Red Sox should make an offer for 3 years, $60 Million and then maybe toss in a player option for like $17 Million or something. Throw incentives at him. Give him the keys to the Jet/Helicopter/Speedboat/Whatever John Henry owns and bring him to a town that will love him because let’s be honest, every Red Sox player is just secretly jealous of Jeter because Nomar didn’t pan out like we all thought he would. Also, there is no reason the Yankees shouldn’t be offering him bigger money since they just gave A-Rod a 10 year deal worth $275 million after he admitted to cheating with steroids. The Steinbrenners will be the laughingstock of baseball if they let this happen. I’m rooting for it. To me, I think the Steinbrenners are Sonny and Fredo Corleone without Michael Corleone and Cashman can play Tom, the little errand boy who really has no control over anything. This has to happen just to bring back all the fans that NESN and the Red Sox lost in the past season. Screw Beltre, sign Jeter and move him to 3rd. We could have the best middle infield in the history of the sport! Just imagine it and pray to God that Theo and John let make it happen.
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