Chick Mercedes

I am a youth movement guy by default. But these are generalities. It depends who is running the youth movement. Either way you prefer to build, it doesn’t matter if the architects are Moe Larry and Curly. People like to claim there is an actual smarter way to go one way or another. But there isn’t.

There’s no reason Ben Johnson cannot be a dual threat in Chicago.

It is 4/19/25, and we still have the stamina to post these threads.

This thread’s creation reminds me of scenarios in college late on a Friday night off campus party. Not being a smooth operator, almost everyone is gone, and my target(s) all told me in so many words..no. But I was still bound and determined to hit on what was left. My roommate usually, thankfully pulled me out of there if he was around. Rinse and repeated. Some people on Soxtalk remind me of me.

Not as bad as we thought. Worse.

Pro gaslighting

Damn, what happened to our good swings?

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.