WestEddy

I thought they'd be slightly under, but that was with Baldwin and Teel in the lineup. Tristan Peters, Antonacci and Romo have been revelations.

Fletcher ended up being a move. What it looks like Getz does is groups in a bunch of post-hype, last chance, shot at 1-WAR guys and lets them fight it out for spots. Fletcher, DeLoach, Pillar, Pham, Julks, Colas, Grossman, Ortega - Julks had a nice two weeks, and Pham was...okay. Everything failed. They weren't bad "moves" per se; that's what was available at their price point. I'm guessing scouting was spotty, and Grifol's staff s%*# the bed. With the current group of outfielders, Kelenic and Acuña aren't bad moves, they're depth. Not everyone turns into a 5-WAR titan. My point was there was dudes showing up all day to post, "Oh, so you're saying..." and then append some BS I wasn't saying that I, in my idiot-ness, felt compelled to respond to. You aren't getting that, now. There's a big difference between a troll mob, and two guys saying, "oh, where are all the detractors, now?"

I'm not even sure what that means. Big odds on the Twins to win?

Weird, also, that the negativity was often directed at some people as personal attacks. Nobody was stopped from saying negative things. "This team sucks, as constructed". Nobody pushed back on that. "This convo on a newly acquired pitcher shouldn't be able to have anything positive because Getz has no concept of what a baseball even is, and If you don't believe he should be fired and never work in the game again, you're fellating him right this actual second," might have gotten a retort of "You know, this pitcher did have an entire season of success before his injury", which isn't quite jack-booted thugs telling you to shutcher face or else.

I find it funny that there were people who took victory laps after every single loss, after every error and strikeout by Dominic Fletcher, spent their entire days looking for any comments that weren't screaming for Getz to be fired to accuse those people of performing sex acts upon Getz. Every spring outing by Cristian Mena drew proclamations that he gained 5-7 mph on his fastball just by walking out of Sox camp. Now, those of us who were the recipients of that are pushing back a little. Like, you, WS23, don't have 8 people making up BS for you to defend for literal pages, then 3-4 drive-bys of dudes showing up just to tell you you're s%*#, and your thoughts don't matter. You have to read one or two comments of people crowing that they weren't actually wrong. Maybe SoxTalk should have a special Crisis Counselor String for the mad-heads to get support in the face of the rush of good news.

DSNB!

I would have been fun to put up another 5-spot, but at this point, just get off the field and stay healthy.

I'd love for this to carry into tomorrow, and October.

Joke's on us when Mad Mad Madrigal gets those 2500 hits before October.

I perceive that game threads become a competition to spew the most extreme invective the quickest. We seem to forget that the best hitters in the game make outs 7 out of 10 times, and the best pitchers still give up more than a baserunner an inning.

I agree with you. If we held onto him, we'd be doing the same kvetching next off-season about whether to pick up the option, or not.

I thought the kid was supposed to have a wet noodle for an arm. Prospect scouting reports were a lie, or other teams think he can pick up a ball at the wall and have a problem making a throw to the outfield grass.

I initially believed the BS that she said things about his mother. (I really don't think women will say s%*# about a dude's mother.) It comes out she may have said he sucked, and his response was way disproportionate. That team still has a pretty potent lineup, but their entire pitching staff's in the sick bay. They should learn from Chris Getz how to build orginasational pitching depth.

I'm just amazed at how wild PCA is. I know we're seeing cherry picked videos on Twitter, but the dude cold probably stand to have a good week of solid, defensive games.

I'm so done with worrying about Yoan, Eloy and Robert. There's another option in that contract. Seriously, we'd be doing this again next winter. Dude, buy a sailboat.

Okay, Sandlin 87-pitch perfect game. I'm calling it!

I know you're in Wuhan, but is Rikuu a thing? They were mentioning that the Sox were only the third MLB team to have 2 Japanese born players in their starting lineup.

Gelding should be part of the protocols for umpires.

Well, that's the habitual attitude of fans who always lecture everybody else for rooting for a team that's lost a lot.

But seriously, does she "suck", or is she hesitant and not loud enough? Everybody gets strike/ball calls overturned. Does she initiate arguments? You ever read Ron Luciano's books? Everything's about positioning.

Who was the Sox manager who'd get mad at a player missing two bunt opportunities, and just leaving the bunt sign on for two strikes? Was that Ozzie?

You.