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If Grandal is 100% healthy and hitting like this, then he's cooked and things aren't likely to get better. If he's battling injury even a little bit, stop having him play through it, IL him, and bring Zavala up for a while.

The big IFs are Grandal and Moncada. At the very least one of them needs to start hitting consistently, if not both. The other IF is the team adding a lefty bat for 2B or OF via trade.

Burger has a .700 OPS overall and .602 vs RHP, so let's not get carried away. Yes, he's been clutch recently and seems great compared to what our other 2B/3B are doing, but Burger at 2B is not a move that wins you anything. This team is going to get things turned around by having Moncada and Leury/Harrison start producing better, or replacing them externally. Burger is fine to spell Moncada or even DH vs LHP, but he's not an every day player nor a 2B at this point.

Who was that guy pitching the 9th? Didn't recognize him.

Who's this guy pitching? Don't recognize him.

. . . and the 8th inning begins

Platoon advantage is the most important thing and if you were a HOF baseball person you'd understand that.

Grandal at DH. The default now is to shove every LH hitter into the lineup vs RHP, no matter how bad they are. Engel and Burger have hit RH far, far better than McGuire, Moncada and Grandal but not in lineup

At this point I'm not sure there's any amount of money someone could offer me to live in Florida.

Sox have been really bad against TBD so far this season.

It's not going to be JR selling, it' going to be his kids.

Mark Cuban would buy the Sox

People are still watching this?

I've switched over to the NCAA baseball tournament.

Jose Abreu

Substitute abortion, marijuana, or anything else whose legality is debated and the same argument gets made. What people fail to realize is that in every case, making something illegal makes it harder to get than if it's legal, and a certain percentage will not succeed or just not try if it's illegal. Also, right now the guns are legal to manufacture, so once you shut down the manufacturers, supply starts to get scarce.

Pollock was the cost of trading away Kimbrel and freeing up as much salary as possible, but overpaying Leury, signing Harrison and failing to address LH hitting and 5th starter were awful. What we don't know is how much say Hahn had compared to Tony.

I hear very, very few people saying that nobody should own guns at all. Mostly the far, far, far, far left types. Since I've never owned or even held a gun, I have a serious question: Is there any realistic situation that the real estate agent or the trucker could ever be in where a gun with 30 rounds will sufficiently protect them but a gun with 10 rounds won't? (if the numbers 30 and 10 don't represent actual numbers of rounds that get fired by guns, then substitute the right numbers as needed). I imagine if someone breaks into my house and has a gun, if I haven't hit him in the first 10 shots (if not sooner) he's probably killed me by then. It seems to me that if we 1) raise the age to buy to 21 (possibly with some sort of process to get an exemption if a specific situation warrants) 2) limit the number of rounds a gun can fire 3) ban body armor and tactical helmets 4) have comprehensive background checks that are required before a purchase can be made and 5) have thorough red flag laws, then law-abiding people without a mental illness won't have their rights infringed in the least.

Nobody is being demonized for being a gun owner. They're being demonized for being a gun owner with really bad takes on gun rights.

Well that's unfortunate, but even so, I think management makes more significant player moves if the Sox aren't a playoff team this year vs if they are. We all saw glaring holes in left-handed hitting and the #5 starter, but management saw a team that "just missed" advancing to the ALCS and didn't feel upgrades were needed. I fear an 88 win division champ that gets bounced in the Wild Card round causes the same line of thinking.

Within the context of a single season, yes, but if making the playoffs carries a < 10% chance of getting to the World Series, not making the playoffs at all might prompt the team to make the needed wholesale changes that greatly increase the odds for the following season, whereas making the playoffs my not do that (see 2021-22 offseason for reference).

There's literally no justification for #9 being that good when your lineup as a whole has been so bad.