WestEddy

But that's not the discussion. It was about people predicting more than 90 losses, which is half of the sample.

Well, I've proven my claims, you haven't done a thing except declare nonsense. Until you have receipts, my work here is done.

Prediction thread. Half of respondents had the Sox with at least 92 losses. 8 with 100. Official 2026 win prediction thread. - Page 4 - Pale Hose Talk - Soxtalk.com me: you: @southsider2k5 Did you lock the prediction thread for a reason? Can you reopen to bump it?

Weird that nobody's had #16 after this guy

No, your narrative doesn't fit my narrative. I'm sorry SoxTalk told you that upon becoming a moderator, everyone would fall in line and think what you want them to think.

Oh, well. Then maybe they bump Hagen Smith up to 4 innings, and they have a playoff starter. I'm thinking Imma gonna trust the guy who took a team everyone here assured me would lose 90 games, and most probably another 100 - and has them on the precipice of the playoffs.

I've already said I thought all 4 deadline trades seemed like overpays, and I was underwhelmed with whom we got back. That said, I understand the premise of the Castillo and Doyle trades. Castillo hasn't been good. If it turns out he's injured, we should have seen the injury before executing the trade, and he's hampered by that injury, then yeah, maybe it was hasty. I understand people being mad he's not shoving. I don't think they expected him to walk on the mound, throw more change-ups, and deal 7 scoreless each time out. Pretty much none of the 2024 moves Getz made worked. That doesn't make something like Fletcher for Mena a bad trade, we either just didn't have the infrastructure to bring him along and support him, or it was a huge misread by Barfield. I'd bet on the former. Fletcher just hit .300 in 64 games at AAA.

I think a defensive sub changes the field. Does Tristan Peters make a catch, then we all run over to statcast to see if Antonacci would have made that catch? No. But I think when you weigh positioning, ground coverage, experience, fundamentals, maybe Peters is able to pick up a ball in the corner and hold a guy to a double that Ant-Man would kick around and give up the base. Maybe Vargas scoops a throw a bit cleaner than Mune does. But those small additions allow other players to cover their own positions better if they're not cheating over to cover Ant-Man. Vargas at 1B maybe allows a quicker bounce throw with the confidence Vargas will trap it.

No, I have no need to declare a trade "bad" this early, Getz s%*# the bed, etc. I've explained my reasoning. The FO said what they were going to do, then they did just that. If you're mad they didn't change their minds and do something else, I'm not sure how that makes my reasoning become word salad crap. I refuse to buy into the narrative of "this guy had a bad outing. Bad trade".

Doesn't Doyle have a much better arm than Peters, also?

Avenue L or bust.

Those sound like pallid excuses for why you can't prove anything you're claiming.

And you are making up BS scenarios that teams would be DFAing players in December that Getz could pick up on waivers, then go back in time and have them play in September. At least my claims work on a normal time/space continuum.

I guess it really convenient, then, that you get to spout any BS you want without spending any time proving any of it.

Receipts, or you're lying. 2026 Bold Predictions - Pale Hose Talk - Soxtalk.com

I'm sorry, I had to un-ignore to read this crap. Can you prove that Castillo and Doyle had NO trade interest? If you can't reference a single twitter post or an article, then you're wish-casting.

Maybe not. I was taking from the posts you guys were mocking the Sox because Castillo and Doyle would be non-tendered after the 2026 season. Maybe they would have been. But the Sox wanted them now. I'm guessing that Chris Getz isn't so stupid that he traded Mason Adams and Boston Smith for guys that other teams WEREN'T vying for. I mean, we can pretend that he's so stupid he's trading for the rights to Mordecai Brown, but I doubt that's what's happening. There were markets for Castillo and Doyle.

I've always been at 75+. Maybe your nickname for me is "nobody". I was regularly mocked for explaining that the 25 Sox played at a 70-win pace from the All-Star game on. I extrapolated that to a 75+ prediction, considering that Meidroth, Colson, Vargas, Teel, Quero, Brooks Baldwin would improve on their 25 performance. Seriously, you could just not lie and mock me, instead of lying and mocking me for the s%*# you make up, Holden.

No, you and others keep saying that Castillo and Doyle would be available on waivers AFTER the season they're being acquired for. I think I'm too inebriated to understand the joke or the dis.

I didn't, but I didn't mock and post laughing emojis on the people who said more than I. I can think of RubRub and Caulfield who regularly called me out for being too "exuberant". I explained, multiple times, how I thought this team was good for 75+ wins. I showed my math, multiple times, and was mocked for it. In the "bold predictions" thread, I picked 82 wins. A couple "predicted" 90+ wins, or playoffs, and I didn't think that was serious, but I didn't post laughing emojis. I'm calling out the people who gratuitously predicted win totals in the 30s to troll. Those who mocked a 4th 100-loss season. Those who mockingly countered with, "oh, so they'll lose 99...so what?!?"

Well, if they're working with Doyle, it's slow on the uptake. I apologize. The game threads get rough, even in a White Sox rout. They're in a pennant race, and we're all edgy.

No, it doesn't end there. The paragraph should continue on to say: "And I had no fucking idea what the f*** I was screaming about." People do this, "well, yeah, I ate crow, so what?" Admitting reality doesn't erase all the BS you made everyone live through every day of the last two seasons. Just as you screamed how much Vargas sucked every single day of 2024 after we acquired him, you should be screaming how stupid and wrong you were and are every day he OPS's above .800. Every time Tristan Peters hits a home run, you should be all over every single string on the site telling everyone you have the same credibility as a car alarm. Do that. Be as vociferous about how wrong you were when a player succeeds as you were negative when they were trying to get their footing. Be careful. You might get suspended. Castillo was a project. Projects cost prospects. Castillo has not been good. See?? I admit reality. I don't need to "eat crow". I didn't guarantee he would mow down every team he faced. He hasn't been good. If you know anything about me in the last 3 years, you know I'm not going to bail and scream about a trade until I get to see it play out. He's on the team. Maybe they'll fix him. Maybe they won't.

Well, you're the one who believes that we can just grab guys off of waivers in December 2026 to fill needs in August 2026. Maybe Reinsdorf has a DeLorean parked under the stands.

Okay, Ron. I thought your thread was mostly in jest, but I'll take this seriously. The Castillo acquisition hasn't worked out. I understand what they were going for, and it still might work, but the clock's running out. They stated what they were going to do. They weren't going to break the bank, and they were going to try to get mid talent to eat innings. Maybe they were cocky, tried to thread a needle, and it's not working out. I've already said that if one of Castillo or Urquidy turn into Fedde, the experiment worked. I don't watch baseball to b**** at the top of my lungs how somebody else fucked up and now my life is over. I have my own real life to do that.

Maybe you need Neil DeGrasse Tyson to log on and explain how time works to you. The needs a team perceives on July 31 aren't the same as the needs you perceive on August 31. Gee, we might need a home run hitter in 2047. Maybe we should start drafting babies right now.