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Nobody has been panic buying Sox for awhile now. We keep thinking Getz isn’t getting enough vale selling low, but that assumes there is some significant rehabbed vale in the future for Sox players. Maybe the reality is that there is only marginal rehabbed value out there to be had.

Oh, so you’re taking stewardship of the quality of baseball off the table as a source of pride. No doubt you’re probably right in that case. But we are talking past each other

I am positive Jerry feels embarrassed. But unfortunately he doesn’t feel humility, and lacks a self reflective gene. The guy still believes in himself, and seems to feel victimized by circumstances. The fool.

Certainly he would take pride if it was thought by him to be a barometer of the quality of his stewardship, which I have no doubt he does. His problem is, and always has been hubris and delusion about the quality of his stewardship.

It’s more a flex on their analytics dept and acquisitions than it is coaching. Getz is only adding certain types of players

Basically

It would not happen. I’m pretty sure Jerry’s billionaire peers love them some Jerry. Unlike the entire city of Chicago save for a few Soxtalk people.

Moncada is fixed!

Can’t be any worse. I say when they go back to bad swings, they will score more 🥹

What were the preseason odds the Sox would at any point be a .500 team? Pollyannaism succeeded.

He has carte blanche from ownership to tear it down yet again to the studs. Which Jerry said the last time that it had to be done, and done the right way even despite earlier concerns about Jerry not having much time left to live. The only catch is the “done the right way” part. I am from the camp that always wants to see a youth movement in Chicago, because the Sox version of paying veterans is paying meh veterans on affordable old school contracts and hoping for a treadmill team pop up sans superstars. Who likes that crap.

Not one Bond movie. Not even Young Frankenstein.

We just need to add some hitting guys

I am old enough to remember those halcyon days when the Sox were .500, and some guys were pumping this team up as better than we thought.

Pierce Brosnan was not even the best Pierce I have ever seen.

Everyone must be Schriffening. No?

We are tracking Gavin Sheets in a thread for some reason. Although he is interesting and different than our guy in that he has his glove on the correct arm for first base.

All true sentences!

It would actually be difficult to be as bad as they were last season. You would have to try pretty hard to be to accomplish that feat. Not sure where the hype train is going

If you’re out on that limb, that’s fine, I would not tell you any differently in a significant way. But before you count your money sitting at the table, it’s March pitching, against the Twins and Angels. And it’s a pretty decent bet guys like Robert aren’t going to finish the year as Sox. And the talent just is what it is.

Schriffen approved this message. Another BTW…”hater” implies unearned negative attention. That is not the case for our Sox, and our Sox fans. Earned negative attention is not, “hate”.

By the way, I wasn’t posting to derail the topic so much, or to say there was necessarily anything wrong with Sasaki. It was about selfish concerns that we could have been dealing with this as Sox fans. On top of our normal burden of being a Sox fan.

The more embarrassing, the more welcome it is. Sell the team