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I don’t even necessarily disagree with the overall point of your whole post, but I always laugh when the kid’s game line is used. It almost always feels like it goes against the overall point trying to be made. ”I’m booing because I paid a lot of hard earned money to watch them play this relatively insignificant children’s game and they’re not playing it right.” We talk about kids looking up to professional athletes, we talk about professional sports being a business, but then in the same breath we downplay its importance by calling it a child’s game. Again, I feel what you’re saying overall, but I just find it all kind of amusing. If anything, it just illustrates the weird complexities involved with being a sports fan.

Meant more of the circus that came with TLR and his national headline making terrible decisions. The current team barely even exists.

As awful as the TLR era was, at least there was some entertainment value with him around. There’s just nothing there with this team. Completely dull, completely irrelevant.

I’m watching the Dodgers broadcast because it’s much more enjoyable to watch a Dodgers game than a Sox game

Per Fangraphs, they are also 30/30 in O-Swing% aka chase rate aka swinging at pitches outside the strike zone. Pitch as well as you want, you can’t win with this kind of offense.

Oh no. That’s awful. James is great.

Because it’s a stat and it’s his job to share things like that. But sure, him talking made the Sox give up the lead.

Are we blaming Grifol for this meltdown as well?

It’s almost impressive how they seem to both rush guys back, but also play guys injured.

Look, you’re gonna get a lot of shitty or Sunday lineups when you just don’t have many good players on your roster. Frazier for sheets is a lateral move and as far as I can tell most people want TA off the team, so it’s really just Yaz missing. Doesn’t seem like a that big of a deal.

Interesting stuff on some changes the Rays made to Diekman. Their pitching lab is ridiculous.

No, plenty of others here judge him as a person based on watching him play baseball on tv.

Most of the regulars are in. They should be able to manage more than two singles.

They should simply move the games to Madison Square Garden.

You make it sound like it's impossible for someone to get a point across with tact and empathy, so they need to resort to debate class tactics or some uber alpha nonsense.

Bronx AQI currently at 324. Yeeeaaahhh these games ain't that important.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

This offense continues to be such a disappointment.

Who are the current duds we need to know about?

This thread is way more interesting than anything team related at the moment.

Solid dunk on the sox terrible roster aside, Robert has MVP potential regardless of what team he's on. Sadly, though, his chances of meeting that potential probably increase greatly if he was on another team.

You keep making comments like this, but exactly what kind of discourse are you looking for right now?

Hell yeah Rick, you jumped the trade market by getting all these injured guys back, you sneaky little genius.

It’s hard to get excited about a draft pick if it’s these same knuckleheads doing the drafting and developing.

Yep. Worst case scenario is they play .500 or slightly over the rest of the way. Not bad enough to force change and not good enough to make the playoffs. Just sort of existing. Exciting stuff.