Keeping Chaim Bloom’s optimism in perspective, and other thoughts
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Picked-up pieces while waiting for Joe Mazzulla to call timeout …
▪ At Red Sox spring training in 1967, rookie manager Dick Williams — inheriting a 72-90 team that finished ninth — asserted that the Sox would win more games than they lose. They wound up going to the seventh game of the World Series.
Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in Bloomville.
I put the question to beleaguered Sox baseball boss Chaim Bloom on Thursday morning at Fenway South: Can you guarantee that the ‘23 Sox will win more than they lose? Or maybe just promise they won’t finish last again?
“There are no guarantees in this game,” Bloom said. “And especially not in the AL East. So no, I can’t honestly give fans a guarantee. That’s what makes baseball fun. You don’t know what’s going to happen. I think this is going to be a fun team.”
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Always An Optimist
Shank, back for another round of Fort Myers fun, trackes down Red Sox GM Chaim Bloom, who's all rainbows and fluffy bunnies:
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Look at the preseason picks for the World Series winner each year, or even the division winners. Very often, these prognosticators get it completely wrong. Bloom is right; there are no guarantees.
Someone should point out to Shank that, as infamous as that '67 squad was, they finished a pedestrian 92-70, which was the best record out of TEN American League teams (there were no divisions at that time) as compared to other pennant winners from the 60s. "We'll win more games than we lose?" Hardly a guarantee of success...
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