Vulture

I'm still trying to figure out if this is supposed to be a parody account, or what? I only started posting here a couple months ago, so maybe I missed out on the inside joke. Someone fill me in.

I don't see what good it does for the people of Buffalo since they can't go to the games anyway. Might as well be playing in Saskatoon, they'd have to watch on TV either way.

That is unbelievable. If he did catch back on, you'd think it would be with a bottom feeder. In 2018 he was playing for the independent Atlantic League Long island Ducks. Among his teammates, how is this for a blast from the past? 41 year old Lorenzo Barcelo. Barcelo last pitched in the majors for our Sox in 2002, during which he appeared in 2 games. I don't know how many remember him, but he showed some promise out of the bullpen after a mid season callup as a young rookie in 2000, before quickly fizzling out. He had quite a likeable demeanor. Apparently, he spent the intervening years bouncing around Mexican, Dominican and Venezuelan leagues before joining the Ducks in '18 for one last hurrah.

That's because the one game playoffs are among teams that failed to win their division to begin with. If it was a 100 win one seed losing an eight seed, it would be a travesty

I don't know about on average, but last year both national league divisional series were won by teams down 2-1, including obviously the champion Nationals.

Anybody remember fans bringing 'no wave' signs to old Comiskey? "Go to Wrigley" whenever people started the wave. For a couple years my dad had tickets in the Nancy Faust section, any attempt would be stopped dead in its tracks once it swung around there. The entire section would froth in anger in the face of such an indignity being imposed upon their beloved ballpark, and all the bottled up vitriol that comes with modern life would be unleashed upon the transgressors. Never had a better time at the ballpark than sitting in that section. Had to have been the best fans in all of baseball, a bunch of absolute nuts, and the view was incredible. Upper deck and had a better view than 90% of seats in the lower deck today. I'd rather watch at home than sit in the upper deck at today's ballparks. Man, what a place. I still dream of it.

Hate it. Makes both regular season and playoffs less interesting. The only interesting late season games will involve sub 500 teams. Then you'll have some garbage teams fluking their way past the best teams in a three game series. Would be better off just eliminating the regular season and putting all the teams in the playoffs with each series a best of nine. Then we'd be seeing meaningful games all year instead of watching the best teams coast half the year while sub 500 teams battle for playoff spots.

Maybe I'm autistic or something, but anyone else find it strange than 37% of the roster is comprised of players whose names begin with the first four letters of the alphabet, and 70% for the first ten letters? Makes me wonder if they have lists of players to acquire and they find someone they like before they get to the end of the list.

I think we're going to see some outlandish numbers. Some player or team gets hot for extended run smack dab in the middle of this 60 games, they're going to go way beyond these thresholds. Here's some of my predictions: 45(121 equivalent)win season 30 hr(81)season 70(189)RBI season .390+ hitter 9-0(24-0) season by pitcher

I don't see how he doesn't get a shot. Encarnacion and McCann will be gone next year. Vaughn and Collins step in. I don't think Collins is as bad behind the plate as you make him sound. Good enough to backup and go into 1b/dh rotation with Vaughn and Abreu

Yeah, I thought he was pretty much pencilled in all along

Yeah I know, but Id do it if I were in charge. I think he's at least top eight hitter in the organization already. Give him a hundred major league at bats and he'll be adjusted IMO.

Why's that? Not watching the game here

I think the Sox have got to go with guys like Dunning, Vaughn, and Madrigal. Maybe they're not quite ready, but better than leaving our top prospects to rot on the vine, even if to just get a few appearances. These guys should be primed for '21. Actually if it were up to me I'd just pencil Vaughn straight into the lineup. This guy is a can't miss with the bat. He might not be able to match Encarnacion level production right away, but, with no minors for him to get live action, Sox should still be more concerned about the future than the 2020 dice roll.

Seems more like this slinging mud at the Padres, since what is being revealed is that the organization must have at least tacitly endorsed it if minor league players were openly using it.

Madrigal didn't appear close to mlb ready in spring training, not sure how he would be now after four months off.

Talk about exploiting a situation to abuse the worker. Owners ought to be ashamed of themselves. Manfred has got to go, this guy is ruining baseball.

Firstly, it's not a conspiracy theory because it is not describing a secret plan to commit a crime. Secondly, it is the very height of fallacial argumentation to slap a conspiracy theory label on your opponent's argument, particularly in light of the first fact.

Ozzie Guillen, 29th in defensive WAR from all players in major league history.

Johnson career WAR: 30.6. Rivera: 6.7.

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a team whose payroll exceeds their revenue from mlb along with their local TV deals. Each team gets over 30 million from mlb merchandising, web, etc, 30 million from national TV deal plus their local TV deals. Tampa gets 85 million per year, for example. Pretty sure that exceeds their payroll. Not to mention the hoards of cash from what they have been raking in over recent years.

Also, the total mob payroll is around 4 billion, TV revenues around 10 billion. Whether they can afford it shouldn't even be a concern. These guys have been raking it in hand over fist and we have paid for it.

According to fangraphs, 90% of mlb TV revenue is from subscriber fees, only 10% from ad revenue. They pretty much owe it to us since we are paying for it either way. We've paid for it for a hundred plus years. If they have to take a hit, they take a hit. We the fans have made a ton of people richer than they should be. I think they know that. If the owners don't know that they're in the wrong business.

The contract puts it over the top. I'd love to see Robert play twenty years for the Sox but on the other hand we have already seen what a high value contract can do for the organization as well.

I wouldn't trade Robert for all the tea in China if I were the Sox.