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I will pay some attention only to root for gio's trade value. It's all We have anymore.

TA batting second at his current level of production tells us everything we need to know about Grifol as a manager.

This will not be a complete rebuild. JR had to be sold on the last one and it failed. That being said you need to keep Robert, Cease, Kopech, Burger, and Vaughn. Colas should be up asap. And get what you can for Gio, the relievers, maybe Yaz and maybe Eloy. Package deals would prob net higher quality prospects. And they need to be major league ready....ideally middle infield that show some power. Texas and Baltimore have some impressive youngsters that fit that bill. Also a nice arm or two to rebuild some starting pitching depth. Should Hahn and KW do it? Absolutely not. Will they? I think Hahn gets canned at some point but when is the question. KW has a job as long as he wants it. If Rodon pitched with the sox last year I think they make the playoffs and I think Cease, Rodon 1 and 2 might have gotten us through at least one round. This front office f'd this up almost every way they could have. It's impressive incompetence to be honest.

I know 4 folks were hit. One in very critical condition. Isp had 4 detained from vehicle with at least one in custody. Sounded pretty gnarly. Hit happened at 35/shields. I was a little surprised game wasn't delayed.

All good points. Grifol doesn't really have the tools. But he is also misusing the tools he has.

This right here. It's been clear for some time that Reylo can really only be used when the game is out of hand to eat up innings but Grifol continues to throw him into high leverage situations. I know why he does it, and why he sticks with Anderson at lead off. He's trying to show his guys he "has their back" so that they don't play so tight. But that only works when guys have defined roles. Lopez does not, and Tim just kind of fell into the lead off role when he had batting champion numbers. This isn't a.....Hendricks blows 3 saves in a week but he's a closer and he will stay our closer....situation. This feeds right into Grifol just really not having a feel for the game or his team and the negative reverberations are plentiful.

If they can't score here this will be another brutal loss.

TA at bats are just brutal lately.

Cease was done. Couldn't get the fastball over. I wouldve rather seen reylo just start the inning clean but oh well. Dude is a head case. It's the Dodgers they weren't going to go quietly.

Gordon Beckham

Say what you want about Tendi but I love watching him at the plate.

I've never booed either. However I'm not gonna clap and cheer for them simply to take the field. That has to be earned imo.

It's referred to as a child's game because the vast majority of those playing it are......young. There are only a privileged few getting to play the game professionally, as adults. It does not downplay it. It illustrates how fortunate these men are. At least that's how I assumed most people interpreted it.

I tend to agree. Hell trade more than that for some ready, or almost mlb ready talent and they prob play nearly the same. Or better since the younger guys will presumably....care.

There's definitely something more to his story.

Sorry. I work my ass off at a dangerous job for a fraction of the paycheck they bring home. If I'm going to spend my hard earned money to go to a ballpark, pay exorbitant prices, and watch a game I'd give my left arm to play for a living, then I expect effort. Not jogging on ground balls, not sloppy lazy mistakes, not lethargic overall play and mentally lazy at bats, not flipping off fans. If this team was busting its ass constantly and still failing I'd stand and have their backs every time. The effort put forth by a good chunk of these players on this team is disrespectful to fans like me and kids in the stands as far as I'm concerned, so we have every right to expect better. I don't think it's too much to ask of grown men playing a child's game for millions of dollars. They don't want an angry crowd, do better.

It's clear the problem here is that we're all not being positive enough.

It's not Pedro's fault, but also he's been horrible so far. Both things can be true.

His performance is literally part of the reason they're not competitive.

Haha what a horseshit team

I'm okay without him

This organization has been coddling most of these players since they got here. It's why they are the way they are.

It's always pretty obvious when Joe doesn't have it yet Pedro constantly leaves him.

At this point TA just needs a defensive replacement in tight games.

RACISM! .....speaking of tired acts. One can differentiate between a player who has trouble coordinating defensively and a player who chooses to jog down the line consistently. Sox fans like watching players who bust their ass. You're the only one constantly focusing on race. Nobody ever dogged Abreu on effort, because he gave it.