WestEddy

Here, watch how easy this is: "No, actually, Boyer has been burning up the phone lines, and is pretty close on a few major sponsorship deals and broadcast rights in Tokyo." It's easy to just make things up and act like they're true. They targeted Caruso, Foulke, Howry, and thought Barcelo was the actual prize of the trade. Caruso was a top 40 prospect, and they immediately jumped him from A+ to the majors. He started for two seasons until he fell out of favor with KW. Just calling a trade a salary dump doesn't actually make it true. The white flag trade actually did what you're suggesting, trading guys in their walk years to salvage any value.

1) The Sox are closer to first place than when they traded Alvarez, Hernandes and Darwin. 2) And Murakami is part of a young team that beginning to look exciting. 3) Why am I catching strays? The team is competitive. I doubt they make the playoffs. They're a year off. They'll get close a time or two, but they're way too inexperienced to make a legit push. 4) You're suggesting that Murakami has a problem staying on the field? If that's how they hung onto Robert too long, then they should be trading every single player with value, including Colson, Schultz and Ant-man. 5) And then they'll be worse than a 70-75 win team without Murakami. 6) Nobody has suggested that. Well, I might have, but sure, guys like Gonzo and Bergolla look like good utility players, and they're kind of blocked here. If somebody wants to start them, has a #3 starter to let, and the Sox feel they're that close, why not? 7) No it isn't. They dealt Tatis due to some combination of KW being way too aggressive, and Hahn not knowing what he had in the farm system.

1) The Sox aren't trading Murakami this year. That would be a PR disaster, destroying any good will the signing created in the Japanese market, and among Asian players. 2) Trading Murakami next TDL is not the same thing as trading him this TDL. 3) This team is on the verge of being competitive. Why should they trade Murakami? 4) A QO draft pick isn't "nothing". The extra pick they received from Seattle in the Santos trade turned into Blake Larson, and they had extra money they used to sign Bonemer and Antonacci.

I think by "everybody", you mean "Caulfield".

None of that has anything to do with the question I asked you. This stuff goes on for pages because the 4-5 of you guys keep pulling this garbage. Every string devolves into whining about the Robert trade and making up BS about Reinsdorf NEVER extending players.

Do you ever want to take a crack at analyzing even one of your sentences? You're saying that not picking up Robert's option was the better course of action. Why? They didn't pay a penny of it and got two lotto tickets in return. Acuña doesn't seem to be working out, but the thought is to amass a bunch of prospects, work with them, give them playing time. Pereira and Peters look like good gambles. Pauley's an arm to work with. Seriously, the glum mob will go on for pages over somebody mentioning Mantle and Maris when talking about a HR race, and you spew stuff like this in every post of yours.

...And you know this ... how? Because it's certainly not based on JR's history of extending young players to buy out a year or two of free agency. You continually post disinformation, over and over. It's not "power and influence". It's the firehose of BS.

Beckham's nickname would be "Trip".

I want Benintendi DFAed because I hate base hits and I hate winning!!!

Tonight will be known as the Acuña game...

Angels Neto - SS Trout - CF Schanuel- 1B Soler - DH Adell - RF Moncada - 3B Grissom - 2B Rivero - C Lowe - LF Aldegheri - P

It's up. Have at it.

Well, comment boards like this one were holding the front office's feet to the fire to trade Robert as soon as possible, and they demanded he play to increase his value. I think both Robert and the front office were victims in this scenario.

"wild"

He's a regular denizen of the off-season Sox plans over at SoxMachine.

No, I'm me. This is who teams pick up to be a 5th or 6th OF. Nobody trades for the 22-year-old #1 prospect in the game to park him on the bench and be a defensive replacement. Nobody has their top RF prospect skip a level so he can pinch hit for a platoon advantage in the 9th inning. Prospects get developed and promoted when they're deemed ready. Older dudes trying to hang on bounce from team to team, catching on as a defensive replacement.

You literally posted an article that serves as a confession by Robert that he strong-armed the team into letting him play. Maybe he didn't hold a gun to their heads, but he certainly had a bat. You're claiming he went to the plate, basically with one arm in a sling, and pulled a Pete Gray, swinging, only using one hand, for an entire season, which is ludicrous. That didn't happen. Was it after the season that a one-armed Luis Robert was being marched to his at-bats at bayonet point that Chris Getz was supposed to get a boat-load of prospects in trade for their patient/prisoner? Maybe other teams read this blog to find all the "reporting" of how Robert was really just being tortured by having to play baseball from his death bed, and decided they wanted no part of that, real or not. It's weird that in a string where we should be celebrating finally getting a guy in a Sox uniform that you people have literally been screaming for a decade to obtain, it's turned into yet another diatribe on one of three players who could never stay healthy. You finally have Randal Grichuk on the White Sox. Your Holy Grail. Enjoy the moment.

I'm old enough to remember when signing Anthony Santander to a $200M contract was going to save the franchise.

"inmates". So pro athletes are actually insane prisoners? Hyperbole, indeed. Welcome to the world of 21st century sports. Maybe comment boards should use their oversized, immense power to tell the truth and not engage in conspiracy theories at every turn.

"Heard for years", from people like yourself who try to ruin any good will by shoehorning talk of trading a player having a breakthrough into every single string? Getz had nothing to do with trading Burger. Maybe if Burger was on the 2024 team, they don't set the loss record. Yet another feather in KW's hat. Congrats.

"Ridiculous non sequitor (sic)"? You mean, like, quoting you? When TLR told players to slow it down, this board and other sites who exist only for clicks and likes demanded 110% from their players. Robert, in turn, ADMITTED he made the decision, right there in your article. We've all seen the video of the manager coming out to pull Mike Mussina, and Mussina yells at him to get his ass back in the dugout. What does the team do next? Call the police and have him arrested for trespassing? Robert demanded to bat. He said so right there in your article. Reluctantly, the Sox didn't call the police and have him restrained. My recollection was that he had both hands on the bat, and like Vilehoopster accurately relays, let go with one hand on the follow-through. He wasn't pulling a Pete Gray, for heaven's sake. As we've already established and agree upon, Merkin engaged in hyperbole for likes and clicks.

People here still mock TLR for telling players to "slow it down". Just a quick note, people on this site blurting out negative things isn't "reporting". You should probably learn the meaning of that word. A negative nellie having a podcast where he engages in hyperbole for clicks and likes isn't "reporting".

So all of the zero people who have played AAA baseball on this board wept at their computers? I heard the same story, except the pirate captain then grabbed the protagonist, tore off the flimsy gown, then ravished our hero in an afternoon of brine-swept heavenly love-making. LOL.

"Just shut up". We all know Merkin will sometimes report openly negative things to maintain access with grumpy chatboards. But sometimes, when he doesn't realize, he accidently reports the truth: So we have a player who overruled the team and demanded to be put in the lineup because he wanted to feel important.