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@chitownsportsfan And I'll add, I'm not bitter... surely, I've let this go... but Konerko being the ALCS MVP was a joke... not that I'm upset. I'm totally over it... right? no I don't have some picture/graphic I saved years ago to explain this absurdity of award given. No I haven't sulked over this laughable result for a 17 years because I loved Konerko and certainly could get over such a lobsided unfair result.

Gotta give him the crown, although it's with no disrespect to Mike Schmidt who had some decent career numbers and accolades, he just wasn't Joe. If you told Joe we need a homer here or we're not winning a World Series, Joe would say "ok... I guess I can do that" and then do exactly that. It's a shame no one asked him for more World Series so us Sox fans only got one. Kind of a waste of the clutch goat's talent. Never forget Aaron Rowand tried to tell everyone that Joe was the best clutch player in the game and it wasn't close. All those stat nerds denied clutch existed until Joe Crede came along.

Let's all just admire Joe's homer vs Cleveland in 2005 in the 10th inning, a HR to this day that I'd argue led to the Sox winning the WS and without it I feel confident in saying they don't win it all. It turned the entire September spiral around and propelled them to dominating the playoffs. People forget that was Joe's second homer of the game too. Goated. FTR, my shit stinks pretty bad according to my significant other.

Show me someone who was more pedestrian statistically who was more incredible in big moments than 24. It's a trick question, because no one in the history of the game exists comparatively. If only we could convince Joe it was a LIPS moment every single time he came up.

This means I'm not offended or upset about what someone posts, not that I don't care enough to respond to others opinions.

I think this might have been a broad ranging take and I agree with it, but I think you misread this sometimes too. I, for one, love being disagreed with, it's in my nature and part of my enjoyment of these places. There's a reason I rarely make one of those "I agree" posts which I think lends very little content. Sometimes I think you mistaken being an unrelenting transparent no-filter dick at times with catching feelings. Only thing I'm catching feelings over at this point in my life is my family and my dog.... and Joe Crede highlights. God bless this youtube creator. This video has 47k views, and I think I'm 46k of them.

I'll say this too, if it wasn't clear, I don't care what anyone posts. If someone wants to post that joe Crede wasn't the greatest 3rd baseman in MLB history, they can do that. They'll be wrong, and completely ignorant worthy of immense disdain and hatred, but they're free to express that blasphemes opinion

gotta say, it's weird as heck how upset people get about the opinions of strangers on an internet message board. "I won't read if the things I believe isn't the dominant voice!" People that complain about people complaining are worse than the complainers lol

The hate for Jose Ruiz is some of the weirdest, most irrational hate, held by Sox fans on this forum.

There's only 21 games in April. It's about 3.7 million, but that's semantics (i'd also guess it takes him about 2 weeks to get ramped up). I'm very well aware of how budgeting works and projected values work. The fact that there's a non-zero chance that he costs 3.7 million means that amount of money will be required/set aside. While the projected allocation may put that number at a lower level, you can't offer the 3.7 million if you're not prepared to spend it all and it is all being accounted for in the budget until it's not. The Sox offered him the money, whether it's guaranteed or not has very little impact on the total liability at the time of the offer. All it does it protect the investment and prevent it from being a 100% sunk cost should they release him. You got the medical side, I got the budget and cost analysis/risk assessment side.

So the money isn't a part of the budget? Having a hard time following here. The Sox offered someone 4.2 million dollars to play. While the 4.2 million isn't guarnteed, there's a non-zero chance they pay out about 4 million of it. When building budgets out, you're not ignoring a value because it might not be paid. It's a part of the total cost until it's not; that's how that works. So they clearly had 4 million to offer to someone, and they chose someone who it's not gauranteed too but still potentially being paid to. The fact that there's a safety valve that says if he sucks, we don't pay it, doesn't take away from the fact that it was a part of your budget when you offered it. The money had to be there to offer it.

The point is the money was offered and is a part of the budget. Whether they spend it or not is kind of irrelevant

So the Sox made the offer with the expectation to not pay him? Trying to figure out the logic here. I get that it's prorated. If they had that money to offer to him then surely that money was a part of their budget, no?

Yeah, the "shocked face" we needed more starters bit is what the issue is here. The Sox were reactionary to an injury when they knew they were light on starters. They waited so long that this was their "best option." I also just don't think it's there best option and I realize it's all junk out there. Cueto's profile just does not fit the ballpark and the Sox seem to never consider things like that. This move is Mat Latos but worse. Maybe they can get some batted ball luck for a few innings, but I just don't see how Cueto helps them win or is reliable in anyway. Like Johnny though so hoping I'm wrong and he can put together a couple decent starts. I don't think the Sox will leave him down regardless of how bad he is down there though.

No way. I'd take keuchel over cueto 10 times out of 10 which is saying something.

Man, I hope I'm wrong but cueto just doesn't fit the ballpark at all. I think he's going to get absolutely torched. Sox have spent 7.5 million on cueto/Velasquez and 11 million on harrison/leury. It's just an absolutely terrible allocation of 18.5 million dollars.

Can't agree with cueto being a good move at all.

Jack, I for one welcome all points of view and find a nice balance between you and Vafan and jerksticks. I also think you should be allowed to post whatever absurd overly negative Tarik Skubal might win the Cy young while giolito is DFA'ed mid-season nonsense you want. That said, I really wish you'd enjoy the team and squad more for your own health. It's rare for this organization to be this talented and fun and I'm afraid you're just wasting this fun and enjoyable time by being miserable and waiting for some collapse. I worry you'll look back and regret not enjoying this. Fanhood really isn't worthy of being miserable. If you can't enjoy the good teams you'll just be miserable 24/7 too.

Duran is a reliever. Imagine looking at skubal, mize and singer and being envious/worried after spending months being critical of cease, giolito and kopech.

Jack sees butterflies and rainbows when he looks at other rosters and sees doom and gloom when he looks at sox roster. Pretty amazing honestly.

yes, which is where beede's velocity has been since he came back from TJ surgery which I've said 100 times. You literally made up a story about Beede velocity in a fake fall instructional league that he wasn't playing in, and throwing 99 MPH there. He was throwing 97-98 in relief LAST YEAR when he came back from TJ surgery before he was demoted. he was sitting 94-96 as a starter in AAA where he got lit up. He will not sit 97-98 as a starter, and never has. He has been bad with velocity. I think he has some talent, I said as much, but I think I found someone more irrational and delusional about beede than me.... making up random stories of velocity growth in fake leagues to boot. "Beede sat at 97 mph with his fastball while striking out three in three hitless innings against the A's." that quote is from an article I posted from 2019. Nothing is new about Beede velocity.

there hasn't been a season. there's nothing showing his spring velocity. here's an article from 2019 talking about him sitting 97 in spring: https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/giants-tyler-beede-continues-open-eyes-during-impressive-spring nothing has changed about Beede's velocity this spring. fall instructs... lol, going to assume you're joking, beede isn't pitching in fall instructional. please stop dude. have a good one.

i can't believe i'm having this many back and forth posts about tyler beede, but not it wasn't. Where are you seeing this made up velocity add for Beede this off-season? It's no where. HIs velocity hasn't changed. He was throwing hard in AAA last year. His velocity was up once he came back in 2021 from his rehab. He hasn't added any since then. He's been bad with the velocity.

sign me up caufield. My wife is less than enthused at the bald and fat goal, but we all gotta make sacrifices to achieve our life goals.

Moncada is signed through 2025. If he doesn't get any better and settles at 4.5 WAR average over 4 years, Moncada would have accumulated: 32.8 WAR in his time with the Sox. Chris Sale accumulated 27.1 WAR in his tenure with the Sox. If anyone expected more than 32.8 fWAR at the time of that trade they should have their head examined.