The Red Sox are on the clock.
Tick. Tick. Bust.
100 days from right this moment, they’ll be swinging picket bats within the playoffs or 3-woods from the primary tee.
Perhaps a couple of gamers will be a part of the brand new Fenway Sports Group staff in Tiger and Rory’s indoor quasi-virtual TGL golf enterprise. A press launch/information story asserting the deal first appeared within the Pizzuti-Henry Post on Monday.
John Henry and Tom Werner heralded “Boston’s” entry within the new golf entity. It performs on 15 consecutive Monday nights after the Super Bowl, will make the most of a venue in West Palm Beach, Fla., and is linked with the PGA Tour.
Werner appeared on CNBC to hype TGL.
The league will characteristic “the best golfers in the world,” Werner stated.
That means LIV and let dwell.
No phrase if John and Tom will probably be hanging with the Saudi Crown Prince and Jay Monahan within the digital proprietor’s field. Thank goodness they received’t have to fret about getting by airport safety with that crowd. We wouldn’t need to profile anybody. Especially the parents who introduced us Sep 11.
“We are excited for this new journey as one of the six inaugural TGL teams in honor of a city whose love and passion for sports is unparalleled. Through this new, tech-focused version of the game, New England sports fans will soon have a team of world-class PGA TOUR players to cheer for and redefine for this community what it means to play the game in the modern era. We owe tremendous thanks to Tiger, Rory, and Mike for creating this innovative new league and allowing us to be present at its creation. We are excited to reveal more details later this summer and fall when we’ll unveil an official name and team members who will represent this great city and region.” Henry and Werner stated in a information launch.
That’s 122 phrases, based on Microsoft Word and Mrs. Fitzgerald. She was my second-grade instructor at Brackett School in Arlington and taught our class to rely into the triple digits.
That’s additionally 122 extra phrases than Henry has spoken on the report concerning the Red Sox since February. Silence is compliance.
Meanwhile, studies from throughout the Pond have Henry’s Reds of Liverpool flirting with soccer nice Kylian Mbappe for a value of $329 million.
The Red Sox? They have Pickleball at Fenway subsequent month.
What about signing Ohtani this winter? Sho-hei me the cash and I’ll consider it.
As the 2023 baseball season reaches halftime tomorrow in opposition to the Marlins, the Red Sox proceed to flounder. Boston has been swimming upstream because the staff sailed north from Fort Myers.
Boston will both be .500 or near it after 81 video games. That’s the road between a literal or metaphorical definition of “mediocrity.”
The Red Sox are mathematically sure to start the second half of this season in final place within the American League East.
Thank you once more, Mrs. Fitzgerald.
The SS Bloom has been ripped aside by the ferocious currents within the AL East. If solely the Red Sox might sink into the American League Central. Never thoughts the truth that they dropped 4 out of 5 to Minnesota and Chicago previously week.
Anything to make us care past the over 77 wins and the +205 we received on the season collection with the Yankees.
Boston’s inconsistencies and lack of baseball acumen have grow to be agonizing to witness.
Chaim Bloom’s seat is hotter than Taylor Swift tickets.
Or a minimum of must be.
The final time the Red Sox fired their common supervisor it got here after a Sunday evening loss to the Yankees on Sept. 8, 2019. Dave Dombrowski didn’t even make it to October given how far he and possession had fallen out of sync.
Bloom doesn’t have that drawback. He is executing the plan. He’s simply not that good at it. His signings and offers are a cauldron of hit-and-miss propositions. For each Justin Turner, there’s Corey Kluber.
What about Brayan “Baby Pedro” Bello? Well, he was signed by Dombrowski in 2017.
Belichickian genius.
And somebody goes to need to reply for Xander Bogaerts, in a lot the identical means Carlo needed to reply for the hit on Sonny.
The lack of Bogaerts has been catastrophic, if not generational. Sure, Trevor Story has been harm. But the most effective capability is availability. Boston has used 5 gamers at second base and 6 gamers at shortstop in its first 79 video games. Bogaerts began 60 of the Padres’ first 69 video games at quick.
The Red Sox protection is a humiliation to tee-ballers. Boston dedicated essentially the most errors (51) and owned the bottom fielding proportion (.981) within the American League by 79 video games.
Henry isn’t going to fireside himself. And as he famously instructed us final winter, “it’s expensive to have baseball players.”
When the rose lastly comes off the Bloom, don’t count on a shift within the prevailing Jersey Street monetary mentality. The Red Sox are thirteenth in MLB payroll this 12 months, between the Cubs and White Sox. Second-city all the way in which round. That’s not going to alter on the upside anytime quickly.
Mbappe isn’t low cost. And who’s going to pay Rickie Fowler to guide off for the Boston Stickmen?
Money can not purchase love or happiness in baseball. Just ask the Mets. But as we’ve famous numerous occasions on this house and elsewhere because the 2018 World Series, the Red Sox have grow to be simply one other line on the Fenway Sports Group annual funds.
The Red Sox fall someplace between Liverpool and the Pittsburgh Penguins, or Tiger and Rory’s latest golf entanglement, on the FSG Christmas card record.
The Red Sox proprietor doesn’t put baseball first.
Why ought to we?
The excellent news is that the Red Sox received’t have to attend till January to start out taking part in golf. There will probably be loads of tee occasions out there on Oct. 2.
Bill Speros (@RealOBF and @BillSperos) will be reached at [email protected]
Source: www.bostonherald.com