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I hate that stupid ejection of Willson Conteras. So uncalled for. He didn’t deserve that at all.

If anyone else wants to write one I used this email address

MLBExecutiveRelationsCS@mlb.com

Feel free to write your own. I personally don’t want to see another game where the umps become the show like that.

Not sure if you have to be Scottish but thought I would share in case you are there 🤣

Thought I would let you know!

Hello friends!

A little background - the Red Sox are having the shittest season ever and we are even more shit at home (long story but shit front office and owners taking their focus away from the Red Sox).

That being said since the Scottish fans started showing up at Fenway we actually won!

We love it so much that we have started saying in our group that you all have to stay here for the rest of the season!

If you are there or have been there - thank you!

Let’s go Scotland! Let’s go Red Sox!

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Came across this listening to ‘Red Sox Nation’ could literally be

‘Too bad he was born without a personality. Breslow isn’t just humorless, he is bloodless. It is as if John Henry went into a store specializing in robots and came back with a CBO model.’

So I’m reading Feeding the Monster and it has this gem I never knew about

‘By October 2002, the Sox had asked for permission to speak with Toronto Blue Jays general manager J. P. Ricciardi, a Worcester native and former protégé of Oakland A’s GM Billy Beane. The Jays, instead of taking any chances, quickly signed Ricciardi to a five-year contract extension. The Red Sox next turned their full attention to Beane himself.’

Ricciardi wasn’t a perfect GM, and his Toronto run had real flaws. But the argument for him over Breslow is that his background is more balanced.

He came out of the same Oakland/Moneyball ecosystem that Henry admired, but he wasn’t just an analytics guy. He had been a player, coach, scout, crosschecker, player personnel executive, and then GM. So he had the analytical training, but also the old-school scouting and evaluation background.

Bres’s experience is just much narrower. His reputation was built around pitching infrastructure, player development, and process. That might be valuable, but we don’t just need a pitching systems person running the entire baseball operation. We need a whole-roster architect who understands scouting, balance, identity, and the pressure of this market.

Ricciardi also has had actual GM experience in the AL East. He had already dealt with payroll limits, roster holes, public criticism, and competing with Boston and New York. He also would understand the market growing up here and from watching him on TV - he knows what we need. Compare this to Breslow who came into Boston as a first-time head of baseball ops.

So it’s not “Ricciardi is definitely better.” It’s that his profile may have fit Boston’s problem better.

Ricciardi understands that Boston cannot be run only as an efficiency or a pure stats project. He is a New England guy, a Worcester native, with Oakland training but a more traditional baseball résumé. In theory, that combination fits Boston better than a narrow “smartest guy in the room” model.

Ricciardi is Moneyball with dirt on his cleats organization wide including GM. Breslow feels more like pitching infrastructure turned into an entire organizational philosophy.

Boston needs balance, not Breslow’s narrow pitching theory applied to the whole roster.

I say let’s get J.P. (If he would take it - at this point I’m not sure anyone would)

I know it is a small sample size but since Mayer is back starting at his natural position (finally) he seems more comfortable at the plate.

6-for-18, .333/.333/.333, .667 OPS
3 R, 6 H, 3 RBI

When he came in as a pinch runner / hitter, he was:

0-for-2 with 1 BB, .000/.333/.000, .333 OPS
2R, 1BB

Overall a 6 for 20 overall batting .300

I’m excited to see him come into his own offensively now :)

I just watched the Phillies call of Schwarbers AB. There were TWO strikes that were called a ball but Narvy couldn’t challenge because well they used the batters used them up. 🤬

The Phillies announcers even mentioned both of them! Well that’s another one they should have challenged.

It would have flipped that AB.

So so dumb.

I’m reaching out to you all as I’m struggling to find a consistent rule regarding goalkeeper safety for youth soccer. 

My daughter was playing soccer last weekend and the opposing team were extremely violent and aggressive - like kicking it / charging when she was down and had possession. Multiple times. The referee finally called it towards the end of the game but it was ridiculous. My daughter also has been a goalie for 4 years and knows how to avoid this but if it was an inexperienced goalie the results would have been so much worse.

On top of that the opposing coach was encouraging the girls to do this and basically kick at her head. I have never even seen this level of aggression in the many professional games I have watched. 

I’m so upset that this coach will literally cause an injury to a goalkeeper because he is encouraging the team to literally kick at the goalies head when they are down and have the ball. 

I want to find youth soccer rules that clearly outline goalkeeper safety and I want to send it to the league so this can be enforced. They have heading and concussion guidelines for overall safety but nothing outlining goalkeeper safety apart from FIFA rules and talks about can be modified for youth. Nothing specific.

If you know of anything please can you send my way! 

It’s cool - check out Otto reviewing Tolle’s outing. Started about 10.45….

Just wanted to pass along the good news :)

…I’m listening on Audacy if you are out of market