WestEddy

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.

That Luis Robert money keeps on giving. Hudson was waived when Hays was signed.

Well, the Brewers finally won their World Series. Softens the blow of being the Dodgers' chew toy.

Dead arm period.

JFC, finally, a 1-2-3 inning. I can die happy, now.

They won opening day last year.

It would be cool for Kay to be bringing 95, then bring back some dudes in July if they're struggling to just drown close to shore. People are saying this rotation is worse than last year's - it's the same guys! Can't Kay and Fedde be better than Cannon and Bryce Wilson? (Martin Perez only threw about 5 starts.) While Shane Smith could be looking at an adjustment year, I think Davis Martin is primed to settle in and become the guy he's going to be this season.

If Fedde is noticeably cooked 3-4 starts in, I guess Cannon is first man up? Newcomb? Davitt's on the 40-man. Sandlin's still got that weak back, and I'd think they'd want McDougal to do a few cycles in AAA before he's throwing up here.

Unless the strip mall was an H&R block, Nails Emporium, Tire store and Tigers Den Strip Club.