Given the Yankees’ offseason spending, is there satisfaction in being ahead of them after a winter in which the Sox spent their resources on short-term contracts and extensions for homegrown players?
They are definitely two different approaches. No question about that. We don’t rule out the significant free-agent signings. Make no mistake about that. We were out there trying to sign Teixeira. We look at the best free agents to come onto the market every year. It’s just not our primary course of action. It’s not the preferred way to operate. But you should never, and we never, foreclose any options to make our team better.
I do like the fact very much that we have a different approach. The Yankees seem to do things one way. We try to do them another. They’ve built the eighth wonder of the world as a ballpark, as a grand stadium, a grand edifice. We just have a nice little ballpark here. They’re also in the largest market in the world. We are in the most avid or passionate market in the world. There are real differences between us, and I like to be reminded of those from time to time.
Would you be surprised if a team with the resources of the Yankees made a run at Jason Bay in free agency this winter?
They have a track record of doing exactly that: signing the best players to come onto the free-agent market…Jason has the kind of track record that will establish him as one of the better free agents on the market as a position player. I think that it’s quite likely that they may do that, as a general rule. But who knows? I don’t know how rich their farm system is in terms of coming outfielders, but that doesn’t seem to deter them in most years.
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If what you're asking for is the total reconstitution of RLYW as a BTF sub-site, as I said in #90, I think that would be pretty great, but I also imagine it would take a ton of unpaid work on the part of Jim and SG, so I can hardly reasonably ask for it, even if both of them thought it would be a good idea.
EDIT: If by a "link", you just mean a hyperlink, here you go. If you mean that RLYW should be a BTF blog running under BTF's software on BTF's server, that's the thing that would take a ton of work. (And I don't know whether SG or Larry or Jonathan would want to give up their blog's identity.)
I don't understand. So long as RLYW is its own website with its own software and everything, and so long as BTF Yankee fans chatter over there, it will be necessary to go off the BTF site to find a game chatter. No link will change that.
We're obviously just talking past each other here, probably my fault because of my techo-ignorance. But all I mean is, Why doesn't the homepage of BTF provide the sort of link (or "hyperlink") that you just did? The fact that anyone clicking on that hyperlink is directed "off" the BTF site is neither here nor there. It simply would be a way of one clicking your way from BTF to a site with Yankee game chatter, just as Red Sox fans can already do during any Red Sox game. And whatever technical distinction there is between a link and a hyperlink is immaterial, since in this case they both would achieve the same end.
EDIT: Perhaps I just should have said in my original post that "It would also mean that Yankee fans wouldn't have to go off the BTF site [to begin with] to be able to find a game chatter site with more than a tiny handful of visitors."
I suppose the alternative is just to snark the Red Sox threads, which can be fun if the Sox are having a bad night, but the trouble with that is that snarks don't pack a whole lot of punch when for the season you're ought and eight and counting.
Well, obviously. But the transition would be more seamless if it could be navigated directly from
Red Sox CentralBTF.They were offered an equal footing, as mentioned there was Count the Rings, the "equivalent" to Sox Therapy. That the crowd went elsewhere was their decision. Jim could add RLYW via a prominent link tomorrow, and for any number of reasons the site could be kaput next week.
There are those of us who like to navigate among various BTF threads, and who don't want to have to go outside BTF and open another window just to comment on a game.
That's fine, but a RLYW game chatter is *not a BTF thread*.
Oh lord.
Red Sox Central BTFFrancouer-Chass Industries.So you say. Good luck getting 75% of the BBWAA to agree with you!
They were offered an equal footing, as mentioned there was Count the Rings, the "equivalent" to Sox Therapy. That the crowd went elsewhere was their decision. Jim could add RLYW via a prominent link tomorrow, and for any number of reasons the site could be kaput next week.
But what of it? You might say the same thing about any number of sites.
There are those of us who like to navigate among various BTF threads, and who don't want to have to go outside BTF and open another window just to comment on a game.
That's fine, but a RLYW game chatter is *not a BTF thread*.
You can call it whatever you want, but if you provide a direct link to it from BTF, it becomes functionally equivalent.
This is the most longwinded, passive aggressive, and baseless accusation of bias I've seen in awhile.
Whatever.
So you say. Good luck getting 75% of the BBWAA to agree with you!
Touche, Gonfs.
...which is exactly why you don't *expect* the person who runs *this* (free) site to provide the handiest links possible to all of them. If he wants to and gets to it, great. If not, FCS is it that hard to bookmark another site?
You can call it whatever you want, but if you provide a direct link to it from BTF, it becomes functionally equivalent.
You can't possibly be this obtuse.
You can't possibly be this obtuse.
Don't bet on it. I haven't hit bottom yet.
You can call it whatever you want, but if you provide a direct link to it from BTF, it becomes functionally equivalent.
I have no idea what your internet use looks like, but I can imagine a style of internet use for which this statement makes sense. I would bet a large amount of money, though, that this statement makes no sense to at least 99% of BTF's users.
Evidently. And so I'm left with Grand Marshal Cabrera and Private Gardner to slake my implacable vengeance. Be afraid. Be somewhat afraid.
*Sigh*
You're essentially saying you want to go into a Toyota dealership and have the salesperson drive him back and forth to the Chevy dealership. BTF and Replacement Level are separate sites. They are, in many ways, competitors. The people who run BTF have no reason to want to make your leaving their site and go to RLYW to participate in game chatters and content that are in direct competition with their own. BTF does not exist to make life easier for lazy Yankee or Red Sox fans.
Now, the accusation that Sox Therapy makes BTF biased towards the Red Sox is pretty ironic. The area was created in reaction to that very charge. Yankees fans and other teams were complaining that the people who ran the site (particularly Gary) were posting too much Red Sox content. They moved the Red Sox stuff to Sox Therapy so that they could keep posting whatever they wanted there while leaving the main site for general discussion. And when Yankees fans wanted their own version, Count the Rings was created. But the people who ran that area stopped doing so. I'm sure Jim would be happy to give you "the keys" if you wanted to reinvigorate the area. If you're willing to put a lot of time and effort into, I'm sure you could make it a viable portion of the site.
If SG could be persuaded to use the same URL for all Chatters, I think it could probably work.
You know, this reminds me, do you know school has a great divinity program? University of Chicago.
I don't know--ask Andy. He's the one who wants the Toyota people to drive him there.
It doesn't help that I agree with your initial statement. :)
You're essentially saying you want to go into a Toyota dealership and have the salesperson drive him back and forth to the Chevy dealership. BTF and Replacement Level are separate sites. They are, in many ways, competitors. The people who run BTF have no reason to want to make your leaving their site and go to RLYW to participate in game chatters and content that are in direct competition with their own. BTF does not exist to make life easier for lazy Yankee or Red Sox fans.
Now, the accusation that Sox Therapy makes BTF biased towards the Red Sox is pretty ironic. The area was created in reaction to that very charge. Yankees fans and other teams were complaining that the people who ran the site (particularly Gary) were posting too much Red Sox content. They moved the Red Sox stuff to Sox Therapy so that they could keep posting whatever they wanted there while leaving the main site for general discussion. And when Yankees fans wanted their own version, Count the Rings was created. But the people who ran that area stopped doing so. I'm sure Jim would be happy to give you "the keys" if you wanted to reinvigorate the area. If you're willing to put a lot of time and effort into, I'm sure you could make it a viable portion of the site.
Your implication seems to be that Yankee fans are lazier than Red Sox fans. Could be. I should probably just ask Hal or Hank to set up a parallel site to BTF, only with porn, and then buy out Jim when the G-rated BTF quickly goes into Chapter 7.
Huh? Not my point at all. I stopped doing what it took to make Sox Therapy a good blog a while ago, so I certainly can relate to what happened at CTR. Sox Therapy just happened to last a bit longer than CTR.
I'm just trying to explain the reasons for the disparity that you see. CTR and ST only exist because people volunteer their time to post content in them. The only way for CTR to get the Yankee content on this site to equal the Red Sox content (or what it once was) is for you or someone else to decide it's worth their time to write it. But RLYW is just not going to fill that void.
Huh? Not my point at all. I stopped doing what it took to make Sox Therapy a good blog a while ago, so I certainly can relate to what happened at CTR. Sox Therapy just happened to last a bit longer than CTR.
Well, my original semi-tongue in cheek aside, you seem to be saying that the CTR people didn't put in the energy to keep that site going. That sounds like laziness to me.
It's a good thing Sox Therapy doesn't have it's special red coloring anymore like it did on Old Primer - Andy would be inconsolable.
The truth is that I always thought that the coloring was a nice touch. And the real reason I wish that there were still an active Yankee game chatter here is because I enjoyed the trolling and the snarking and the woofing that used to be part of it. There's nothing like a good mix of Yankee yabbos and Red Sox lunatics to put a little juice in all the second guessing of when Joe should have brought in Bruney or whether Terry should rest Ortiz against lefties, etc., etc. And when Papelboner or Mariano blow one in the ninth, I want to see some honest sadism, and not just some goddam community cryfest. In the words of You Know Who, is that wrong?
This is what happened, though. They stopped updating it. You may attribute that to laziness if you like, but I certainly didn't (and in fact made quite clear that I, a Red Sox fan, had done the same thing).
This site provides a location for Yankees game chatters, just as it provides a location for Red Sox game chatters. Whether it is populated with more than a tiny handful of visitors is ultimately up to the visitors.
This is the internet, but despite the fact that almost anyone can join in a discussion almost anywhere, this site tends to have activity from baseball fans in general while others tend to be much more focused on one team. IMO, if one wants to have an online baseball discussion among many fans, not just those who share one's rooting interest, this has been, and still is, the best place for it.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the solution if the problem is "nobody goes there because nobody's there".
As for your technical points about links, I think I get it now. Better to admit it now while I'm only about ten runs behind.
This is indeed exactly what happened.
This is the internet, but despite the fact that almost anyone can join in a discussion almost anywhere, this site tends to have activity from baseball fans in general while others tend to be much more focused on one team. IMO, if one wants to have an online baseball discussion among many fans, not just those who share one's rooting interest, this has been, and still is, the best place for it.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the solution if the problem is "nobody goes there because nobody's there".
Yes, it does appear for the time being that Red Sox fans are the more strenuous race. There's a little of Kevin in all of them. Must be all that pussy that they're eating.
I don't think I've read a DRB game chatter since my first go round writing for the site (2005) but from what I've heard from others that's not an inaccurate statement.
I think the last truly good Rays game thread occured sometime in 2005 on RaysBB. The game threads there have gone steadily downhill over the years as the board grew in popularity.
Um...never mind.
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