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This post is great

Lives rent free in some Sox fans’ heads indeed.

I get this is all just speculation, but am I wrong to think if no one wants to sign him, no one will want to trade for him at the deadline? And if you can’t flip him, I don’t see any reason to sign him.

Sorry, just another one Grampa Simpson gif-ing my way through As you were

New level of Luis unlocked? ?

He doesn’t look great, but “questioning” him is clearly not the same as declaring he is washed 10 minutes into his first start of the season. God damn I hate hot take culture.

IMO Grifol has plenty of guidance, but it’s all from TLR ? And with him seemingly being a bit of spineless kiss ass, I think he’s taking any TLR guidance as gospel instead of being his own manager. Just my tinfoil hat two cents.

Yes. Not sure why people are surprised by this. Most pbp announcers are incredibly generic.

Eh a big part of his job is to try making an obviously bad team sound interesting

I can't believe you made me look at that

Letting Pete Rose in later this year feels like the opposite of covering it up.

Well you see Jason Benetti was a real corny nerd and math is for nerds. Must rid the broadcast of anything with even an inkling of personality.

Someone needs to start a "Fire The Weather" thread.

Mostly agree, and I also think he has no concept of communicating with the fans through the media, so everything he says comes off as smug and arrogant. Pedro, The Great Communicator.

Did we just write a Rick and Morty episode?

Man what? Are you pre-preemptively complaining about the preemptive complaining? My poor Monday brain can't handle all the layers.

Grossman as a guy that took walks and mashed righties, and Pillar as something more than a scarecrow wearing a Sox jersey in the outfield seem like they could have helped the 21-22 teams ?‍♂️

Getz signing all these veteran depth guys now who would have been useful to the contending Sox teams of previous years is the new Kenny signing washed up former all stars/future hall of famers.

The jokes write themselves

Brad Keller. I can't even tell if I'm joking or not anymore.

Absolutely. And that's why you won't see him rising through the organizational ranks anytime soon.

I don't disagree, but really what were your expectations with the shape the roster and org as a whole were in? I was resigned to this season being a lost year and one big shrug emoji before the offseason even began. Basically a year to just cross days off the calendar. The only truly important things this season are developing (and acquiring more) young talent. Oh, and getting Pedro fired. All of that can still happen, and will be way more interesting to follow throughout the year than anything involving the Pillars and DeJongs of the world.

Lopez and Maldonado obviously bad, but not exactly unexpected considering the way they were talking at the beginning of the offseason. Fedde is low risk potentially high-ish reward and I don’t see how this Lorenzen signing changes that. Should they have signed BOTH Fedde and Lorenzen? Probably! But speculating why they didn’t just feels like a waste of energy to me at this point ?‍♂️

Of all the Sox things to be upset about, I’m surprised you’re this worked up over the Fedde signing because Michael Lorenzen signed with the defending champs.

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