Chick Mercedes

Chris Getz is immortal

They’re still at it. Trade everyone for something Gaaaa!!!

I totally understood that

I don’t know why you stopped. HOF baseball Mt Rushmore legend

If it’s him, nobody should be shy about not mentioning that it’s him. Light im up! Light everyone up that allows him to still have an opinion

Exactly. Such a Sox thing to do is to empty out the minors trying to take shortcuts which always fail

Correct. Patience, grasshoppers

The Sox should keep their strength in the system for now. Don’t be shortsighted

If I had to guess the Sox are smitten with Lackey and his family as well. The relationship will be there. But actually the tipping factor will actually be baseball

Did I say relevant? I mean, determinative. Let me put it to you this way. I was semi engaged with who I thought was my always and forever girl. She moved to Texas for work. Over the next 4 years I met lots of other girls, and while I thought Texas girl was IT, and I conducted myself as such long distance, I bumped into my wife. The time spans are different, but if the Sox meet Mr Right, I feel pretty dang sure they’d not hold onto the past

The Sox are establishing new relationships and gathering new information that didn’t matter in 2024, but matter now in 2026

Then again, in baseball there’s the pitcher’s adjustment angle that doesn’t exist much in football. Unless your quarterback maybe facing DCs that did their homework in year 2

This is like saying they already did their homework, but the assignment has changed, and they’re submitting the homework anyway. That’s not going to work in 2026. All the options are different now. Including Roch.

They’re already winning..

It might be a better point if Roch was playing in Justin Lebron’s body

To that I’d say, there’s been a lot of water that passed under the bridge since HS. A snapshot in time for Shirley. There’s next to zero chance that has any relevance in 2026 imo

Dup

"They're the better team in Chicago, and we didn't think we'd be saying that at the beginning of the year." understatement of the year

IDK. Using the factor into a calculus that includes how long it takes to bring up a prospect doesn’t even enter my own calculus. Strict talent evaluation only for the 1-1. It gets murkier as the draft goes along. But at the very top, take the talent without compromising.

If it means the Sox get their dream pick in the second round, yuge. Imagine the decision.

-I’m uneasy with that concept of comfort level determining the #1 over all. -We don’t have knowledge of what’s going on with the Sox diving in to educate themselves on Lackey and his camp. How comfortable are they with Lackey? He seems pretty solid.

I get the infactuation with Roch. But not the idea of carving his name at #1 into granite while there are clearly legitimate emerging alternatives

Lackey has that A plus personality and leadership gene as well. Roch had the inside track from last season and the the familiar connection already established. But business is business for big time organizations