WestEddy

The entire offense sucks right now. Maybe Detmers and Clay Holmes pick up a couple of wins for them, but they'd cost Bonemer and more. Beyond them, pitchers at the deadline are a coinflip. If Vargas, Colson, Meidroth and Mune weren't in the toilet for a few weeks, now, they're running away with the division. I understand why people are unhappy with the TDL, but "f@#$%^ up big time" is a bit much. He took on Castillo's salary. I think the restrictions he placed on himself were "don't spend on rentals, and don't give up top prospects". You know, you could just talk about a TDL that didn't work out as intended without shoe-horning in your favorite conspiracy theory that Reinsdorf gave orders to mess up so he could keep more money to rub all over his body.

I understand we can argue in theory, but getting "productive players to help these kids" would mean trading for a starting infield, adding two catchers and 3 starting pitchers. I suppose a good GM could just pick all that up for cash considerations and minor leaguers you're about to release.

Do you seriously not understand my comment, or are you just trying to get me to respond so you can argue with whatever I post? Plowing forward with the rebuild means they didn't trade any of their top prospects who most probably would have been the price for Reid Detmers. And unless Detmers is an .850 OPS outfielder, I'm not sure what difference he would make.

I mean, reality - Castillo has sucked, and Doyle's been such a non-factor, it doesn't even look like they're platooning him. It wouldn't have mattered if Colson, Mune, Vargas, Meidroth and others hadn't fallen off the table. A few have called it cocky to have brought in projects at the TDL. I don't disagree with any of that, but it looks like the plan was to ignore wherever this team was, and plow forward with the rebuild. It would be nice to still have Mason Adams and Boston Smith, but that's where we are.

When it becomes apparent. Suffice it to say, I'm judging the TDL on different criteria than you. I've laid out my feelings on this multiple times.

Castillo and Doyle aren't the reason this team is bottom 5 in offense in September. It's pretty much the first full season for everyone beyond Vargas. I think they're all just gassed.

I did not know that. It's like the Monty Python Bruces sketch. "Wilbur Santorelli? That's going to cause confusion. Do you mind if we just call you Dan Sullivan?"

Well, billionaires are evil. But reality exists. They want to increase revenue streams, and people want a gameday/game weekend experience. They won't be remaking Wrigleyville outside of the South Loop. But if they create space for year-round activities like theaters, galleries, shops, as well as bars and restaurants, the downtown backdrop will make it a wild success.

Is it Dan Sullivan, or the other Dan Sullivan?

The actual funniest part of this post is the supposition that I should dread the Angels and Rockies signing up the Benintendis for the next 3 years. Can you not get regular porn in China? I looked on PornHub, and they don't seem to have any "Oh Noes, My team is going to be outbid on Free Agents" Humiliation beat-off porn. I'd guess your phone has a video record option?

Ha-ha, Pittsburgh comes to town thinking they're throwing 3 perfect games. LOL. Now they can't throw more than two!!

Like "The Railmen"?

The only song I know by Mac Miller

In Fegan's defense, he was probably trying to tell a pithy joke. I'm not sure what being a shill for the organization means, anymore. If somebody points out that the team is in first place, is that shilling for the org?

Heh, I thought I was just being a drunken prick by throwing this out there. Apparently, I'm onto something...

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?