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It’s wild how unimportant accuracy has become. During the HR derby, ESPN was flashing incorrect season HR totals for at least Robert and Betts, maybe more. Like, dudes, all you have to do is not share incorrect information. It’s not that hard.

I'd say it's worse. Knowingly doing it feeding the fans BS and calling them stupid while doing so.

Completely disagree. I absolutely understand why you're saying this, but I just need "different bad" at this point. Hell, let Jerry himself be the GM, I don't care. I just need anyone not named Rick Hahn for a little bit.

Yeah I’m not following that comparison and the either/or logic for this at all. There’s nuance here. Charitable work is generally a public or community-centric thing by nature, so it’s kind of hard for it to be private. Also, it’s nothing new that good things are celebrated and people like to hear about them.

I keep thinking about this. He doesn’t have the big personality of some of the other participants. He doesn’t have the name recognition (yet). He didn’t have an entourage or any other teammates there with him. Hell, he basically had no storyline at all. And I wouldn’t be surprised if there was even a little culture shock going from whatever this Sox miserable existence is to…gasp…a fun environment?! Atta boy Pantera. Hopefully this was the first of several. He deserves to be showcased more on a national level.

There’s literally no way for you to know this. This is the definition of speculation, not reality.

Bat flips are also analytics

Yes to all of them. Although I’m at a point where I’m basically in favor of any trade. Churn the hell out of this roster please. Bonus points because these trades involve prospects I’ve heard of. Extra bonus points because you’re trading with three orgs that are great at developing players, so maybe they’re far enough along where the Sox can’t screw them up too much.

Another Jay Cuda banger

Put another way, I'm ready for new guys to be mad at.

No I get that. I guess I just didn’t have the expectations that he’d be humbled by this. Never really struck me as that kind of guy.

Well yeah, I'm pretty done with Tim because his play has been atrocious. Not because of social media posts.

But he's been posting these vague 'f the haters' things for years. Now that he sucks at baseball, people think he's talking directly to them? He's always been kind of tone deaf. I don't get why we're reacting to this stuff so much now.

Please just take the job

I see a guy who’s gotten worse each year since 2020 and then the Rays fixed him. Again, this is not a defense of the Sox. They clearly have developmental/coaching/organizational issues. I just think the Rays have a longer track record of turning pitchers around than the Sox do ruining them.

Dear god why are we actively looking for more things to be mad about? He’s always had this type of social media presence, even when he was winning batting titles.

As much as I hate to give the Sox a pass here, I think the Diekman things says a lot more about Tampa Bay than it does the Sox. I feel that most teams wouldn’t have been able to do much with Diekman. The Rays pitching lab is that good.

Eh, this is essentially the highlight of the Sox season. Might as well have some fun with it.

I mean, sure, but that hasn’t stopped him previously from looking like a fool at the plate. Was genuinely wondering if his approach looked any better.

Has Tim’s approach looked any better the past two games or have they been lucky/cheap hits?

Thrift store ass baseball team

Don’t get me wrong, Pedro’s been a huge disappointment so far. But to say it’s because he came from the Royals seems a little silly. Are you honestly saying he can’t tell the difference between a clearly rebuilding Royals team and a team that’s (supposedly) in win now mode? He might not be a good manager, but he’s not an idiot. Maybe that should have gone with Matt Quartraro as manager. He’s done such a great job bringing that winning culture from Tampa Bay over to the Royals.

Lol at walking Ruiz

There are about 14 different threads this can go in