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You've been less pessimistic and more realistic of late, but your disdain for Moncada will never stop being weird.

Yoan plays more games than anyone not named Abreu on this team damn near every year. 149, 132, 52 of 60, 144. This narrative that Yoan is always hurt, when guys like Anderson, Robert and Eloy are hurt way more often is another odd one.

I actually think Crick could be a big surprise this year, and I'll never give up on Foster mania. Also will never ever understand the hate for Ruiz. Some of the weirdest and most misplaced anger on all of Soxtalk.

I'd have no issues with this if he also didn't take after Ozuna according to reports. The locker room was rifted between Freeman and Ozuna. Ozuna is a complete piece of trash, and I wouldn't blame anyone for not liking him. Still appreciate the honesty.

I'm not big on paddack anymore, but if someone feels they can untap a third pitch and rework his fastball a bit, his ceiling is better than Rogers. Rogers is a 31 year old reliever who is good but not in that elite class. If you can get a controllable starter you think can even be average for him, you do it 10 out of 10 times.

No chance they send Ober down. Edit: guess I should say no chance they should. He's their 3rd best starter.

Guy threw 65 innings with an era of 3.05 last year.

I have a hard time believing they're going to trade Gore.

If they were both involved in some trade talk Burger wouldn't have started the game at all. Hopefully neither one are injured.

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Correct-o-mundo.

Yeah, he plays the music pretty softly which I appreciate it. That clip is awesome. One thing MLB is so brutal on is their copyright nonsense. That's why you don't see MLB highlights with calls on twitter for long. It's so dumb. Social media is the way to the younger generation. Get as much video and audio out there as possible and let it be permanent. Don't be so obsessive over your distribution rights.

Sox had lost 8 of 12 games going into that game; they went on to win 8 of 12 games to close the season after the home run and then did what we all know they did in the playoffs. There will NEVER be another Joe Crede in White Sox history. Statistically, his production was more improbable than anyone in MLb history when the lights shined the brightest.

@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