Comments on: Price Check: Dude, Are You Okay? http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/08/09/price-check-dude-are-you-okay/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: Binyamin http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/08/09/price-check-dude-are-you-okay/#comment-8163 Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:58:46 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=6432#comment-8163 Walt
I think it’s the media who pushes the championship or failed season two-true-outcomes mindset. Especially sports radio personalities and certain older guys writing for the Globe. I think a great many people would be very happy this year just to make the playoffs after two consecutive last-place finishes. The media plays up the Papi retirement to make it sound like winning the WS is the only possible positive outcome this year. It’s ok to say wait until next year as long as the current year isn’t a dumpster fire like 2014. And I’m a Sox fan for more than 50 years — my first game at Fenway was in 1961.

]]> By: Walt in Maryland http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/08/09/price-check-dude-are-you-okay/#comment-8156 Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:04:53 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=6432#comment-8156 Excellent analysis. As a Sox fan for nearly 50 years, I can tell you this “win it all or be labeled a failure” attitude among some fans is a fairly new development. It wasn’t always that way.

But Price has to do better. The Tigers and Blue Jays were 24-8 when he started last season.

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