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How dare you. Don't rush players is the common stance of baseball today. Kidding but Robert is way too inexperienced if you go by today's front office executives' opinions.

Burger is one of the reasons I dismiss the MLB draft ... total crapshoot.

I can't believe runs scored and RBIs means nothing to the advanced stat people. I mean I understand those who understand advanced stats are so advanced in their knowledge of modern baseball, but an RBI means you actually knocked in a run. Runs win games. Yet the ability to knock in runs at a rapid rate -- at one of the best rates on the entire team -- means nothing. Baseball has passed me by.

Yes! I feel vindicated again. Congratulations to one class act ... Mr. Jose Abreu, one outstanding baseball player and by all accounts, team leader. JOSE BABY!!! Good job, sir. Have fun at the all star game.

It's hilarious how some people are so afraid of rushing prospects. How old is Tatis? Glad to see most in this thread are in favor of bringing him up. I can't wait for baseball to change its mindset to that of the NBA and start playing guys at 19 years old. This system of wasting 4-6 years in the minors makes no sense.

It's funny how the Sox wasted all that money in the offseason and it doesn't matter in the big scheme of things. It's all monopoly money, but I sure would love them to give the fans 1 or 2 million instead of those stiffs they signed. It's like grabbing millions of dollars and just throwing it in the shredder. They should have just taken a couple million and paid the corned beef stand owner and said give out free sandwiches all season, or for a few months til the money ran out. Alonso, Jay, the starting pitcher whose name I already forgot (that old stiff who got lit up), and Nova who is also sub-par to lousy. That's why the Sox falling short in their bid for Manny (whom I did not want) is so silly. All that money they spent on stiffs could have been added to the Manny offer. To be honest I did not want Manny because of all his antics. I wanted Harper. Anybody gonna pick up Alonso? Will he report to the minors? He was designated for assignment.

I think we rebuild regardless. It is the current "thing to do" in sports and it assured Hahn year after year on the job. Losing is/was something to be celebrated which helps the GM's job status. Don't get the idea I'm criticizing Hahn though. His acquisition of Eloy makes him a genius in my book. Eloy is that electric. If he stays healthy he's going to wind up with 30 home runs minimum.

Eloy hits a bomb. Leadoff Leury getting closer to .300 mark. This is about the score you expect when we play Minnie. I'm always surprised when we get a win off them. Why is Minnesota so good? Did they do some rebound/tank job to get to this point?

He really would look good in the Sox lineup with Eloy and Moncada.

Glad you are so confident of that as they sit on the shelf healing. Why are you so confident of this? PTATC are modern pitchers guaranteed to be stronger than ever, better than ever after arm surgeries?

Yes, but ... If Colome helps them win another World Series, why not trade with the Sox. If Cubs can get 2 WS titles out of this run with Theo that's an all-time successful run in Chicago sports history to go with Jordan's Bulls which is No. 1 and the Blackhawks winning 3 of 6 or 3 of 5.

Wayne Causey and Wayne Nordhagen also played for the Sox as did Dave Nicholson. As well as Cisco Carlos.

Exactly. There aren't many players who can or could survive 3 or 4 seasons with the same team on message boards. There's always somebody who allegedly is better. Take a good hard look at almost all players with the exception of a handful of the all stars and you'll see failure after failure in the eyes of fans. Very few can survive the advanced stat avalanche over the course of 4-5 seasons.

Did anybody go see Rocketman? Is it good or do you have to appreciate Elton John to enjoy it??

If it's six weeks I think it's reasonable to suggest he's done for the season if we are way way behind in the standings. That's one thing about tanking. If we ultimately really start dropping games in bunches,, why would you play Timmy on a weak ankle? He doesn't need the at bats for his development. He is who he is. A free swinger who is not going to draw walks but flail away and have a good game more often than not.

I didn't see it. But if it was that obvious I bet they change it.

Yeah I never liked him but tonight I'm giving him props. He does a nice job for the most part and that's all I can ask on such a lousy team. I tip my cap to Leury. Seems to me he has a lot of multi hit games. He's like a modern day Lance Johnson (in a good Lance year).

And a nice dig on the DP. People seem awfully mad after a fantastic win.

Damn just examined the box score and watched highlights. This whole page of this thread is negative. Geez. We beat Minnesota. My guy Abreu with the nice dig on the double play BTW. I guess those plays are expected. Beautiful bomb by Eloy. As much as our leadoff hitter is meh to me, I won't argue if somebody wants to call him a nice player. He gets a lot of hits. Always nice to beat Minnie. I assume that guy we started is just another guy. At any rate, we win. I happy.

Who isn't getting hurt? I'd like to see a list of all major leaguers and the percentage who have missed a least a month on average every season.

Is everybody pulling for Palka or do some of us just plain despise him no matter what? Cmon Daniel, have a good second half.

One thing I always thought odd. In Little League, high school and college, they pitch kids til the game is over. 140, 150, 160 pitches in college. Coaches don't care. Then in the pros fans and everybody start getting worried at 92 pitches; time to get somebody up to get the pitcher outta there soon. Weird how they are brought up throwing zillions of pitches then in the bigs and minors they get babied.

Weird things pop into my head sometimes. I was just thinking after reading this ... can you imagine if Robert is a true star as predicted? In a year we would have true stars in Moncada, Anderson, Eloy, and Robert in the everyday lineup together. Add Tatis if we still had him and arguably no team would have had as many true stars in an everyday lineup at one time as the Sox. That's five of baseball's most exciting talents. And one could still envision us having a losing team in that scenario. Weird.

I'd trade Colome and some lousy prospect for Quintana now. Would the Cubs do it or leave them a starter short? This would please the flip-happy fans. We can easily afford his contract and there's one less starter we have to acquire for the future. If Lopez can figure it out we may be getting somewhere with our future rotation. We can worry about the bullpen this offseason as modern fans tell us is the proper thing to do.

If we're going to sign McCann to a three-year extension, Collins' future logically doesn't seem so bright in a Sox uniform. He's not projecting to be a good nuff hitter to play 1B or DH is he? Thought not. Why not do the fabled flipping of McCann. Would please the fans as they always like to flip guys and if Collins is ready it's time for the Collins era. Collins is 24; he has to play.