Red Sox: Dave Dombrowski rains on fan’s parade at Winter Meetings

While many Boston Red Sox fans hoped that Dave Dombrowski would make a move at the Winter Meetings, the president of baseball operations stresses patience.

Boston Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombroski can feel the heat from Red Sox Nation with everyone’s hair on fire about the Giancarlo Stanton deal with the New York Yankees and he’s dumping his ice bucket on it.

Speaking to reporters this week, Dombrowski pointed out that there is still a long way to go this offseason.

"“I didn’t really anticipate much different, actually…When everybody kept saying, ‘You’re going to the Winter Meetings, and a bunch of things could happen,’ I think I said to a couple of people, ‘Well, there’s a long time after the Winter Meetings before the season begins.’ I just know where we are and some of the things we’re talking about will probably take a while.”"

Dom The Don appears to be telling Red Sox fans, who are anxious for his reply to the Yankee blockbuster, so they will have a comeback to those smug Yankee fans at the Holiday parties, to take a chill pill.

His cool demeanor may be driving the worried Fenway Faithful nuts when he calmly says:

"“Well, I don’t know how to characterize [these Winter Meetings]… You gather a lot of information, you do what you need to do. We had a lot of conversations, it was busy, but you continue to move forward from here, and again, it’s not very surprising for me where we are at this time.”"

OK, we get it, Dave, you’re a putting on your poker face and talking with your poker voice and communicating in poker language.  But, are we really expected to wait for our present until after the holidays?

Some fans will be willing to trust and wait, but, Dave, it better not be a lump of coal in our stockings this year.

Can you give us some sign, some reassurance, a wink and a nod to wish on?

"“Well, you do your best job to try to find that information out…I think you make hopefully educated guesses on that. But I don’t think you ever really know that totally, because it’s just like their people don’t share that information with you. But I think, again, you do your homework and try to have the best pulse as possible.”"

“The best pulse possible”?

You sound like a man without a pulse reassuring a fan in mid-cardiac arrest.

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If somebody punched you in the gut, how long could you wait to inhale? There may be a long way to go before the 2018 season begins but if Dombrowski doesn’t start making moves soon then an anxious fanbase will continue to grow increasingly frustrated.