Where Did The Sox Improve In The Off-Season???

[BigFish]

Don....you are a fool if that is fine with you! We could have gotten some aging relic to win 14 games or some wet behind the ears kid for that matter for alot less money! That money would have been better spent on buying the fans free hot dogs all year than on this "talent".

Still not one reply to my initial question....man you "Sox Fans" love to bask in mediocrity!

[afterhours]

i'm not expecting mediocrity- i'm expecting much more. we must up our bet . skd - revoke his bus pass... in todays game i'll take a 14 game #3.

[Squid kids Dad]

Off the bus with you Bigfish!!!

[BigFish]

Fishsmith....I don't hear you offering up any predictions and/or answers to my thread as to how the Sox made any improvements in the off-season? As wrong as I may have been in 04'.....you guys were all going to the World Series last year and were positive the Sox were going to make the playoffs......what happened? I will tell you this Fishsmith......I make my calls and right or wrong, I stand behind them and take the heat when it goes bad and I admit when I was wrong.....how many others do the same? They always seem to shrink out of sight! Its all fun and as always.....I hope I am wrong! I prefer Turkey but if the Sox win the World Series, crow will do! However I don't think its on the menu this season!

[BigFish]

Strike King....Dice-K is costing the Sox in excess of $20,000,000.00 per season over 5 years! We paid the Japanese team over $50,000,000.00 just for the rights to him and then we paid Dice-K over $10,000,000.00 per season for 5 years......$20,000,000.00 dollars per season!

I would rather have paid David Wells 13-14 mil to come back.....he could still win 14 games!

[BigFish]

And Fishsmith.....when I am down on the Pats its due to the fact that I know they are better than they are playing at the time.....such as last season when they were s#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g air, I was whining......but I was proven correct when they stepped it up and went to the Playoffs! This Sox team I do not believe to be better than an overpaid sub-500 team! You got Big Poppy and then......what?

[fishsmith]

Here's my prediction for the Sox = World Champs '07 same for the Pats (but in '08) .

I do appreciate your honesty and calling them like you see them, but if the Yankee's took dice-k, why do I think we'd hear "Sox don't spend the $$"

Dice-K isn't a 100 million dollar man, I think he make 8mill a year, which in todays market is a bargin, the big $$ spent on him was to get into the japenese market, and that money will come back 10 fold. You gotta spend $$ to make make $$, that was all business.

JD Drew is a question mark, but hey I love our home teams and instead of hammering them, I just root for em.

I'm off to fill some easter baskets full of fishing stuff.

Go Red Sox!!!

[fishsmith]

Bigfish are you Ron Borges? you love to stir the pot don't you. I'm not going to do the search but if memory serves me right, you ate crow on your prediction of the 2004 Sox losing, and the Pats losing in one of their superbowl winning years, I hope you kept the crow recipie, and keep complaining, it a good read and always bodes well for our teams.

Here's an idea for a new plug - the bigfish crow, all black with a yellow beak. oke: