Wow, Theo's Back, Oh My God
Recently Theo Epstein was officially reinstated as the general manager of the Red Sox, and I'm already over it. I get why everyone loves him: he's youthful and therefore exuberant, he grew up here, he won the World Series, blah blah blah. But he's still a GM, which means he can do all the finagling and jimmying he wants and it still doesn't mean that Manny will remember what time the team bus leaves or that Clement won't get killed in the face by a line drive. I just think that in baseball, payroll is so much more important than your GM's skills (assuming he's not a complete idiot who destroys your team), and the Red Sox have bill$ and bill$ like they don't even know what to do with. Or uhh something to that effect. Every little thing about every sport is analyzed so much that I don't think it's really possible for a GM to have THAT much more of an insight on a particular move than your average Hardcore Fan. Some moves work out, some moves don't. It's hard to predict. End of story.
That being said, I'm glad he's back. Like every other Red Sox fan, a little piece of me dies when I see that a member of the 2004 squad leaves. Did you know that Bill Meuller is gone? What? He was kind of a key guy in that whole run, given that he gave us one of the best bottom of the order hitters in the league. And stuff. Plus he was nice and blue collar and people could relate to him, and he also provided one half of the "guys who are almost named Miller" combo (the other half is also out the door, coincidentally). Fortunately we've got Youkilis to fill in the HOT CORNER but you just hate to see those 2004 guys go.
Now we're going after Coco Crisp, apparently. Here is what I have to say about that:
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Sorry Coco Crisp, your name is too ridiculous for me to take you seriously at this point. I hear he's like kind of good and sort of a Hot Prospect Type, but everyone is sort of a Hot Prospect Type when they're 25 or younger so I'm not too concerned. Maybe if his name was like Blade Tankworth or Bullets Laserford or something wicked tough like that, then I'd be more excited about him. Coco Crisp is two breakfast cereals at the same time, not a real human man. Let alone a starting centerfielder.
That being said, I'm glad he's back. Like every other Red Sox fan, a little piece of me dies when I see that a member of the 2004 squad leaves. Did you know that Bill Meuller is gone? What? He was kind of a key guy in that whole run, given that he gave us one of the best bottom of the order hitters in the league. And stuff. Plus he was nice and blue collar and people could relate to him, and he also provided one half of the "guys who are almost named Miller" combo (the other half is also out the door, coincidentally). Fortunately we've got Youkilis to fill in the HOT CORNER but you just hate to see those 2004 guys go.
Now we're going after Coco Crisp, apparently. Here is what I have to say about that:
+ = Sorry Coco Crisp, your name is too ridiculous for me to take you seriously at this point. I hear he's like kind of good and sort of a Hot Prospect Type, but everyone is sort of a Hot Prospect Type when they're 25 or younger so I'm not too concerned. Maybe if his name was like Blade Tankworth or Bullets Laserford or something wicked tough like that, then I'd be more excited about him. Coco Crisp is two breakfast cereals at the same time, not a real human man. Let alone a starting centerfielder.
posted by Alex G at 1:37 PM
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If you mixed Cookie Crisp and Cocoa Puffs together would they taste better than either one separately.
Also is there someone in a parallel universe named Cookie Puffs?
So Alex you got even the cereal wrong -- let alone that Cocoa is much better than Damon -- which I am willing to bet at the end of the season we will see that he does much better for us than Damon does for the Evil Empire -- but more important back to the cereal -- it is Cocoa Puffs and Golden Crisps -- I mean he even looks like sugar bear which if your old enough will remember that they were called sugar crisps -- all for now from Bill the Wall Guy -- that is Dispatch Wall not the green monster --
um. there's a picture of it. right there. i've eaten it. it exists.
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