WestEddy

If you don't have the ability to watch the trajectory of a rebuilding team and set your own expectations, I'm not sure why you need me to do that for you.

Why do I have to give you a timetable? We all watch and read the same things. You proclaim regularly that JR has "thrown in the towel" and is no longer interested in winning. So then, you expect every single game to be a blow-out victory for the Sox and are screaming when it isn't. That doesn't line up. Getz's first full season set the loss record. The team improved by 19 games in his 2nd. The team definitely looks better on paper than what broke camp last year, and there are 3-4 top prospects poised to make this team in the 2nd half. A bunch of people here are saying the Sox won't have a winning season until 2030, and nobody pushes back on that. Looks like Getz is well ahead of that curve.

It's almost like you're not on a comment board where this is discussed every day. The Astros got 6 losing seasons before this current dynasty. You guys were calling for Getz's head the day he got the job.

No, two games against the team with the best record in the game last year is not encouraging. I don't watch a guy overthrow a base and think the owner made him do that. It's a 162 game season. You've been a fan for 93 years, so I'd think you'd understand it's a long season, and no team is as good as they look on a winning streak, and they're not as bad as they look in a slump.

And I have said that Hahn didn't do a good job, but I thought he was hamstrung by KW's philosophies. It's silly to ignore the players they extended for what they thought was a run of dominance. They all collapsed, and there was nothing in the minors. Ignoring inconvenient facts doesn't make your point.

Pereira has played two games. They're playing against the team with the best 2025 record. I can see these guys pressing. We get to stop saying they're in a rebuild when they're no longer in a rebuild. Acuña, Pereira, Baldwin, Peters, Kelenic - they're all young talent that need reps.

They extended Robert, Moncada, Anderson and Jimenez. Locking up young talent sure doesn't look like "throwing in the towel". They didn't have any Plan Bs. Too often, plan A was crossing their fingers and hoping Avasail Garcia finally figured it out.

He certainly relied on his front office and signed a bunch of top prospects to contracts to keep them around a while. KW was not a big believer in building out the minor league system. JR's at fault for keeping KW/Hahn on for that long. I believe the work Getz is doing is a night/day difference.

They're still in their rebuild. You scream you want younger players instead of solid, older vets. This is what that looks like. Aside, the Sox are one of the youngest teams in the bigs, right now, on average. Who joked about Kelenic? It's a perfect, cheap gamble. If the coaching took, his ceiling looks pretty good. It didn't. He didn't make the team.

Thomas, Ventura, Konerko, Durham, Buehrle, Dye, Thome, Lance Johnson, Raines, Abreu - they were all re-upped at one time or another. You can do better.

I did do better. The Vasil injury wasn't "incompetence". It's trolling to treat it as such. The Sox went to the playoffs in 2008, so 2007's a weird cutoff. So, apparently, making the playoffs and being competitive is incompetence. I'll admit that Hahn did a horrible job of building depth, and I believe KW hamstrung him in his efforts. I feel this team's on the right path. It's a tough way to open the season. Nobody's asking you to be a cheer leader. The issue at hand is rolling into the game thread after a loss and vomiting. Do you boo death at funerals? It's like being at a job, and the air conditioning goes out on a hot summer day. One guy complains loud and long about how hot it is, and when others tell him it's not helping, he exclaims that nothing will change until everybody's complaining, and he's doing noble work. "What, do you like sweating your ass off?"

I think Jake Bauers is a clear upgrade from Andrew Vaughn.

It's Sox related. Old Friend Alert, and all.

What's the matter with Peters? He's a legit CF and actually got a hit yesterday against a pretty good pitcher.

They're probably hard to run accurate projections because a lot of key players are so young. They sure look like a good team who takes advantage and executes well.

Liptak is trolling everybody who doesn't share his views. He rejoices over Vasil's TJS, and chalks it up to incompetence. Everybody's angry, yet the angry people who are generally positive get told to shut up when lashing back at the trolls. "Being angry" isn't a reason to be lashing out at Sox fans. As DoUEven points out, it's tiresome. Say the team sucks, Fire Getz, Venable, every single player's a bum, how dare they platoon or rest a guy a game, but Jesus Christ, trolling us is stupid. And seriously, if Liptak's been watching Jerry's s%*# show longer than anybody and hating every minute of it, then he's the dumbest masochist of all. Instead of mocking Sox fans, he should just be saying, "thank you, master, may I have another?".

Burke looked okay his last two innings. Benintendi didn't do him any favors. Bad send of Monty, but Jirsch was probably just trying to get momentum going. It's the Brewers. They won the most games in the league, last year. Would like to see Acuña and Preira get going.

These trades keep evolving. Cease brought back Thorpe, Iriarte, Sam Zavala, now Tanner Murray and Everson Pereira. Adrian Houser for Boston Smith, Ben Peoples and Duncan Davitt.

Oh, and Jake Eder was DFAed by Washington to make room.

Boston Smith's from Dayton. If you want a catcher actually from Boston, that would Tallahassee Smith, who plays for St. Louis

With Korey Lee clearing waivers so quickly, I'm guessing Curtis Mead is getting claims.

Did some entity just upgrade their database to be able to search for "first of all time"?

The "screw the old guys, play the kids" and "why is this young nobody starting" guys all seem to be the same people.

It seems like he's got strikeout stuff, just that his walk game is pretty dominant. I'm guessing they know he should just start his windup two inches over on the rubber, and he'll be golden.