Red Sox/MLB 2019 Season Begins - Bogaerts Extended 7Y $132M

[EverettMike]

This is my number one reason for waking up every day. I want to live to see all the Bobby Bonilla Days.

 

[JRull86]

This is my number one reason for waking up every day. I want to live to see all the Bobby Bonilla Days.

Bobby Bonilla deal just keeps on giving, I love it.

 

[KesselBuiltMyHotrod]

13 years is insane but I guess the aav could be worse.

 

[Centrum Hockey]

The Redsox play four games vs Philadelphia this yearand Blue Jays get the braves in the yearly interlegaue rivalry game mlb does. The sox and jays have alternated with the phils and braves since the expos left

 

[sarge88]

Mookie Betts and his agent must be drooling right about now.

Yankees are going to offer him 65x10.

Lol

 

[EvilDead]

He signed with Toronto for one simple reason - the PED's he was alleged to be using WERE LEGAL IN CANADA.

MLB didn't have a drug policy in place for much of his career and he never failed a test. He risked jail by fighting the charge of lying to Congress.

Will McDonough figured him out before anyone else did.

You still need the talent. For every Roger Clemens, there are millions of players in the minors who couldn't hack it in the majors and that's even with all the PEDs they pumped into their bodies. Also, most players used PED for recovery from injury which I can sort of forgive, considering the grueling 162 game grind baseball players go through. Clemens cheated, and it's a shame that he did. It also doesn't help that he was so abrasive with the media when he got found out. All of that said, it's a crying shame that an above average pitcher in Mike Mussina can get in the Hall of Fame over him. And I say that as a person that's not all that big on Clemens.

 

[BigGoalBrad]

Please don’t answer Kimberls agents calls no matter what.

 

[Fenway]

You still need the talent. For every Roger Clemens, there are millions of players in the minors who couldn't hack it in the majors and that's even with all the PEDs they pumped into their bodies. Also, most players used PED for recovery from injury which I can sort of forgive, considering the grueling 162 game grind baseball players go through. Clemens cheated, and it's a shame that he did. It also doesn't help that he was so abrasive with the media when he got found out. All of that said, it's a crying shame that an above average pitcher in Mike Mussina can get in the Hall of Fame over him. And I say that as a person that's not all that big on Clemens.

Of course, Roger had the talent

The only thing I am certain off is after the 1996 All Star Break - Roger was hitting the radar like it was 1986 again.

You can't accuse him of cheating if MLB has no rules in place in those years. When MLB finally got around to testing in 2003 he was never flagged.





Joe Jackson was banned from baseball for trying to throw the 1919 World Series. During the 1919 Series, Jackson made no errors and racked up 12 hits, a World Series record that stood until 1964. His batting average for the series (.375) was the highest on either team.

Pete Rose - For all his warts NEVER has he been accused of betting against his own team.

 

[DKH]

This is my number one reason for waking up every day. I want to live to see all the Bobby Bonilla Days.

Bobby Bonilla Day is July 1 and runs to 2035

Bonilla was owed $5.9 M and was released so he didn’t even play that year but because of Wilpon issues I believe dealing with the Bernie Madoff scandal the Mets owner agreed to pay Bonilla 25 payments of $1.19 every July 1 thru 2035 totaling $29.8 M for a year he didn’t even play

And MLB players now have a right to be upset analytics and conmon sense is eliminating this from the game. Fear not players the Red Sox are still writing checks to Pablo Sandoval and incredibly Rusney Castillo

Between the insane decisions to entrust Bernie Madoff as the Mets owners financial guru and restructuring Bobby Bonilla contract it’s made the Mets a small to middle market team and kept @LouJersey up at night

While baseball fans laugh at the Bonilla payout every July 1, poor Lou puts on his Matt Harvey 50% off from Modell’s jerswy and weeps in a rocking chair out on the porch

 

[LouJersey]

Bobby Bonilla Day is July 1 and runs to 2035

Bonilla was owed $5.9 M and was released so he didn’t even play that year but because of Wilpon issues I believe dealing with the Bernie Madoff scandal the Mets owner agreed to pay Bonilla 25 payments of $1.19 every July 1 thru 2035 totaling $29.8 M for a year he didn’t even play

And MLB players now have a right to be upset analytics and conmon sense is eliminating this from the game. Fear not players the Red Sox are still writing checks to Pablo Sandoval and incredibly Rusney Castillo

Between the insane decisions to entrust Bernie Madoff as the Mets owners financial guru and restructuring Bobby Bonilla contract it’s made the Mets a small to middle market team and kept @LouJersey up at night

While baseball fans laugh at the Bonilla payout every July 1, poor Lou puts on his Matt Harvey 50% off from Modell’s jerswy and weeps in a rocking chair out on the porch

Ahahahah omg this May be the best post ever. You aren’t too far from the truth on me and my Matt Harvey Shirsey.

 

[The don godfather]

Can he buy an nhl franchise?

 

[SPV]

Of course, Roger had the talent

The only thing I am certain off is after the 1996 All Star Break - Roger was hitting the radar like it was 1986 again.

You can't accuse him of cheating if MLB has no rules in place in those years. When MLB finally got around to testing in 2003 he was never flagged.

Joe Jackson was banned from baseball for trying to throw the 1919 World Series. During the 1919 Series, Jackson made no errors and racked up 12 hits, a World Series record that stood until 1964. His batting average for the series (.375) was the highest on either team.

Pete Rose - For all his warts NEVER has he been accused of betting against his own team.

Each of those guys should be in the Hall, IMO.

I'm sure nearly every great player from nearly every era would have used any advantage they could find to improve their game.

 

[EvilDead]

Of course, Roger had the talent

The only thing I am certain off is after the 1996 All Star Break - Roger was hitting the radar like it was 1986 again.

You can't accuse him of cheating if MLB has no rules in place in those years. When MLB finally got around to testing in 2003 he was never flagged.

Keep in mind, I am basing it on the Mitchell Report and the words of Brian McNamee so...take that for what it's worth. I will also say that the ex post facto application of these rules to Clemens is unfair.

 

[EverettMike]

Of course, Roger had the talent

The only thing I am certain off is after the 1996 All Star Break - Roger was hitting the radar like it was 1986 again.

You can't accuse him of cheating if MLB has no rules in place in those years. When MLB finally got around to testing in 2003 he was never flagged.

Joe Jackson was banned from baseball for trying to throw the 1919 World Series. During the 1919 Series, Jackson made no errors and racked up 12 hits, a World Series record that stood until 1964. His batting average for the series (.375) was the highest on either team.

Pete Rose - For all his warts NEVER has he been accused of betting against his own team.

Steroids were illegal in baseball before testing.

Joe Jackson was horrendous in every game the White Sox were trying to lose. His homerun came late in the last game, a blowout.

Pete Rose betting on his team, which he definitely did, is easily enough to keep him out of the Hall of Fame.

 

[EverettMike]

f*** Roger Clemens every way possible.

Same with Peyton Manning who also blamed his wife.

 

[Fenway]

Aye yi yi

Baer spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle on Friday, saying the matter was "resolved."

Video shows San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer pulling his wife to the ground

"My wife and I had an unfortunate public argument related to a family member & she had an injured foot and she fell off her chair in the course of the argument," he told the publication. "The matter is resolved. It was a squabble over a cell phone. Obviously it's embarrassing."

 

[McGarnagle]

Wife - You couldn't beat the Phillies' offer for Harper?
Baer - ::T-Bone Suplex::

 

[Fenway]

Steroids were illegal in baseball before testing.

Joe Jackson was horrendous in every game the White Sox were trying to lose. His homerun came late in the last game, a blowout.

Pete Rose betting on his team, which he definitely did, is easily enough to keep him out of the Hall of Fame.

But MLB had no punishment before testing.

A few years ago I went to the Joe Jackson museum in Greenville, SC that is next to the park where the Red Sox A team plays. Granted they try to show Jackson in a favorable light but still, the stats speak for themselves.

No 'Solid Front of Silence': The Forgotten Black Sox Scandal Interviews | Society for American Baseball Research

 

[CDJ]

**** Roger Clemens every way possible.

Same with Peyton Manning who also blamed his wife.

I mean the wives needed to be shredded for wine and Pilates, obviously

 

[EverettMike]

But MLB had no punishment before testing.

A few years ago I went to the Joe Jackson museum in Greenville, SC that is next to the park where the Red Sox A team plays. Granted they try to show Jackson in a favorable light but still, the stats speak for themselves.

No 'Solid Front of Silence': The Forgotten Black Sox Scandal Interviews | Society for American Baseball Research

I once wrote a paper looking at every single at bat he had in the World Series, so I know them. He took money and then sucked in the games they were trying to lose.

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

Clay Bucholtz back with Toronto

 

[PB37]

I wonder if I'll be alive to see baseball's first 1 billion dollar contract to a player.

 

[ON3M4N]

Clay Bucholtz back with Toronto

100% forgot about Buchholz. Talk about a guy that never lived up to the hype. I remember Buchholz and Hughes (Yankees) coming up through their respective systems at the same time. It seemed like they would be the "aces" continuing the Red Sox/Yankees rivalry....neither guy panned out

 

[Ozamataz Buckshank]

Bucholz was actually pretty good last year for Arizona in limited innings.

 

[Alicat]