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Relish this unique voice that belongs to Bill Walton.

Walton is priceless. This is amazing.

Good article. Thank u.

No, it is not worth paying any starter mega millions. This goes against my motto of making Jerry pay until it hurts for players but no pitchers are worth 150 to 200 million over 5-6 years. They are too brittle and we're going to a new era where we're going to have openers on all teams before long.

Amen Bama, it's why I said the Hall of Fame might as well close its doors to players of this generation and beyond. Nobody's going to have the numbers even close to worthy of admission. Well maybe a couple, but very very few pitchers and only a couple hitters. For when they hit 30, the retirement watch will be on. Nobody's going to want "old" players and pitchers will only be going 3-5 innings max.

They should at least give the fans free popcorn and peanuts after enduring that horrific baseball game. Or show Halloween after Field of Dreams. Horror.

I pity anybody who went to that game. It's what you'd expect though. A good team beating the bleep out of a bad team. We really have some bad baseball players to go with a few good ones. Sox are going to have to spend a lot of cash on the free agent market for suitable depth and suitable pitching. Good luck, Rick. We need it.

Not really. It sounds like when he told them they didn't care. No need to talk in person. They are racists and upon being told off they said goodbye and didn't care about losing Jack's friendship at all.

Yeah it was also a bad word 10 years ago that's for sure.

I tend to agree more than disagree with your rash of posts in here on this topic. It all boils down to this: I'm not sure where the American workplace became a place in which the man/woman at the top, the CEO, makes 12 to 20 million dollars a year and everybody else makes pennies so to speak and told they are "lucky they have a job." Anyhow, these CEOs simply are not worth the kind of jack they are making and the little guy so to speak should not be paid so little and terrorized daily on the job by supervisors who are scared to death of the CEOs. In short ... CEO's making way too much; corporate little guys/gals are making way too little and are being terrorized. HR departments are a joke; they are there primarily to prevent management from getting sued. Just my opinion. interesting posts, Jack.

1.) I agree that Harper was a nice fit. Machado had too many red flags IMO. 2. Horrible blunder by Hahn; nullified though by Eloy acquisition. 3. Me too. 4. Me too. 5. Me too. 6. Me too; I predict Madrigal is just another guy, though. 7. Me too; don't really want one. I want 3-4 starting pitchers acquired for 3 years, 30 million apiece. 8. I think we'll stink next year cause I think management will not upgrade our pitching and our defense blows. I predict we'll be out of it early summer again. 9. Me too. NICE POST.

If they used the N word and were calling people "Jewish" and you told them to cut it out you and they still did it, you absolutely did the right thing. You probably did the right thing even without warning them. I mean what animals are using the N word today and calling people Jewish for being cheap?? I mean I'm flabbergasted your friends would say the N word around you. It's animalistic behavior and uncalled for and you had to discard them as friends. I'm surprised they haven't been shot or attacked in public if they are saying it that much, surely somebody will hear them in public settings and attack them. The question is what are you going to do when they apologize to you? You still can't hang around with them if that's how they feel deeply abut African Americans and people who are Jewish. p.s. How old are these guys? If they are throwing around words like that, they need to knock it off. I remember when I was in college I had a friend who in a group pulled a "Flounder" in Animal House and tried to give me a nickname I didn't like or want. After they all got a good laugh I said immediately, "If you call me that again, I'm done with you and anybody who calls me that. I've got enough going on I'm not going to accept that name." They told me to calm down and never used that name again. I was prepared to change my social life and who I hung out with over that issue it pissed me off that much. At some point words matter and you did the right thing. I mean by using those words they ARE racists. Can't hang out with racists. Congrats to u.

A lot of what fans feel makes no sense. There's this weird optic that calls for not paying out any money to players unless they are Machado/Harper types then it's give them whatever they want.

The Royals are so bad and they took us 4 games to 0 recently. It's baseball so we should savor the wins against Detroit since we went 0-4 vs. KC which is very hard to do.

Dan of Steele with the A plus post. Keep 'em coming Dan. Nice post! Greg agrees.

I'll give Nova credit. Nice win for him.

I feel like it's very very weird I'm the bad guy on this issue (Jose) when I'd think logic would make me the good guy since there's really no reason at all to be criticizing Jose Abreu right now. Like I said, it's silly at best; the movie Major League parody working overtime here. Yet in a bizarre world I sense a strong segment in the anti Jose group. Personally if I had power here instead of trying to not get banned again, I'd be telling some people to lay off Jose until he's actually worthy of deep criticism. I'd call it player bashing; others may disagree. It's just kind of sad a guy can go 3 for 5 and knock in two runs and score two runs and the best he can muster from his own fans is "yeah but ...." Oh well, just my opinion. I wonder if people would like Jose if he was 24 and having this season or if they'd still dislike him for some reason. To the fellow Jose lovers on here, or those who at least think he's worth being on the team, I don't mean to lump you in. I realize some of you are silent on the issue which is fine. I cheer you and toast you with a can of Miller Lite tonight over Jose's fine game. GO SOX GO BEARS

Me thinks If I blasted Jose like several others on here do, I'd be shipped away. It's very repetitive from the same people. The mods really should consider whether criticism of a guy who is actually having an all star season is acceptable. It borderlines player harassment. At least that's my opinion. If he's at .190 with 7 homers and 42 RBI that's one thing; this guy produces and has to put up with unrelenting criticism sans me and 2-3 others who sometimes join me in defending him. It's kind of silly, really. Rather than back me, I'm the one invited to leave. That is hilarious. Peace out. I gotta run; hopefully Sox have this one wrapped up.

I wish I had 10 dollars for every time my fave player gets bashed on here. I love u Jose Abreu!! Keep it rolling with the Sox. There's a silent majority on here that loves you. Nice game so far. (Does anybody have any suggestions how I can calm down when people bag on Abreu? It really bothers me; thanx in advance). p.s. some of you really do act like that fan in Major League who is always complaining. You realize that, don't you? Your act can be as laughable as the Quaid character. GO SOX GO BEARS GO HAWKS

I'm not sure that's a good strategy either. It's definitely against good business practices to figure a guy might be productive four years of the 7 year deal and reek the rest. Also you are assuming he will guarantee one or two WS titles. It'd be nice if the Sox could have an owner and front office that uses the fact the rest of the division is small market and finds a way to dominate and not just have a 2-3 year window of potential excellence.

I'd just as soon they not give a zillion dollar contract to a pitcher. I know I want Jerry to spend so much money it hurts his wallet, but I'm kind of against the 300-500 million dollar deals I'd rather sign some "very good" starters for say 60 million over 5 years. Or sluggers for 80 million over 5 years. I just feel like the minute we give that kind of money to a starter he'll turn into the bad version of Humber. or Covey.

Beckham seems like a good dude. Is he set for life financially? Did he make it big enough? I wish him $$$. He paid his dues.

Eloy needs to relax and go up there hacking. His talent is too immense. No need for Eloy to ever struggle or doubt himself. He's made to hit.

Very sad at what has become of baseball. No action except when the hitter connects for the home run. I mean homers are fine, but let's just play home run derby if that's all fans care about now. Pitchers are getting awfully fragile anyway. Home run derby might be worth exploring. A home run derby league actually might be interesting to average fans. There's a 3 on 3 basketball league.

Good article on Cruz and age. Question: If all of a sudden it was announced we'd have Cruz as our DH next season would you be happy or upset? The implication is from 39 to 40 he's going to completely forget how to hit. Interesting. https://www.mlb.com/news/nelson-cruz-late-career-power-nearly-unmatched-in-history