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Glad you asked. Let's say for the sake of argument you and I are fighting to win our argument regarding Avi. You can't blanketly erase his production this season by simply suggesting he wouldn't have been putting up the same numbers in his old locale. That's not an argument that makes any sense. He got hurt a lot in Chicago. Are we to assume there is something about right field in Chicago that would have caused him to stumble and pull a hammy or the basepaths are watered such he'd pull a hammy? No, we can't assume that. If what you are saying is true, and you quote, win this argument, people should shut up about Tatis. Cause we can only assume he'd have stunk had he been in our organization; or we couldn't assume he'd be worth anything if he were still a Sox. Your argument cannot be implemented. It's Avi's current production to be looked at, not a hypothetical that he might be hurt in Chicago. That's not how arguments work.

PTATC I think you are my favorite poster and I respect your medical ability and knowledge. Very surprised at this take. Wake up call? Just 2 seasons ago didn't he hit .335? He hustled his ass off. Wake up call? I disagree he needed any wake up call.

Thanks Harper! Great post. The guy hits a monster homer tonight. Bless u Avi!

With all due respect this is unfair and in greg's opinion, a very poor take. We're to the point we hate Avi so much we just decide, 'Ah he was no good he wouldn't be doing that in Chicago.' That was a BOMB. I worship Avi and congratulate him for that blast. The guy was run out of town by a front office that didn't respect him and fans who don't respect their own (not everybody, but many). I mean Avi Garcia when healthy is a very very very good hitter. Yes he gets hurt which seemingly a lotta players do. Love you Avi Garcia. You don't make a ton of money but enough you and your family are all set for life 10 times over.

Suns tanked the whole season! To get the No. 6 pick! LOL LOL LOL. I wish baseball could penalize teams for tanking like this. Good luck at No. 6 in one of the weakest drafts ever. LOL.

Was there really 18,000? That's a pretty damn fine crowd for a Tuesday afternoon.

Ozney Guillen and Kenny Williams, Jr.

I think this all matters not. Rodon's injury throws him into the category of "Just Another Guy." Doesn't matter where he was drafted. There's no reason to trade him. Why would any team acquire him just to help him through rehab time?? You just thrust him into the background of a player that "if he ever gives us something, fine." He's certainly no longer to be considered a can't miss prospect or even a good prospect. He has to come back from surgery. He's one of those guys now, not worth discussing anymore. Who the heck would want him via trade? That's just absurd to think another GM is thinking, "I know, I'll trade for that Rodon guy just in case he recovers well from surgery and gets good again."

This Banuelos guy is not MLB caliber IMO. Sox should issue refund tickets for today. Why not? Give out some tix for September games if you sat through today's borefest.

No way they are going to cut him. He's getting paid a lot of money and also he's a veteran. A lot of vet sluggers aren't cold weather hitters and it'd be stupid to just release him before he has a chance to go on a tear in hot weather. (Caveat here: not that I'm an Alonso supporter. I do not want him on my team, but I see no way Sox just cut him; I mean I know we got money to burn but that's outright dumb after a month and a half).

I'd have thought greg wrote this sentence. I usually write that type of sentence.

Were there really 19,000 fans there for a Tuesday day game? And why did we play a Tuesday day game in mid May? Weird.

I need to spit out my 12 dollar soft drink. Only in baseball can a rebuild be done as cheaply as possible when the owner is swimming in cash. Ah the non sequitirs of life (sell it, Jerry, you can get 1 billion for it; sell to somebody).

Machado has 21 RBI this season, but I guess there'll be some advanced stat saying he's having a way better season than Abreu. We're already six weeks into the season. I don't want to be part of a sport if that sport tells me Abreu is only average. Oh well, I need to stop responding or I'll get banned. Just remember when Abreu hits his next home run I am a big fan.

I'm glad I'm enjoying every minute of Abreu's career. Not the team, but his individual career. He is one class act. Pay him. Enjoy him. Respect him. Thank u.

Why not try to win it? We got the $$ to spend.

Moncada! He's special. Abreu has 10 homers and 36 RBIs. Most underrated Sox player in years. All the guy does is produce. Give him some money, Jerry.

They only listed 2 categories to pick from. Being a whiner or a dude. Whiner seems wrong to me.

Cmon. It's not cut and dried. Your categories are wrong. The categories are: 1.) Anger door. Anger at all aspects Sox baseball starting with the product and performance of the front office. 2.) Go ahead and call it the dudes door but I'm not sure what it takes to be a dude. Just "whatever will be will be; I'll always love baseball and the Sox and am OK with everything going on." Is that what a dude is? I don't see how anybody can be OK with this organization. To say we're all whiners I think is inaccurate. I'd say anger and disgust, not whiner.

Cause he wants next year's money too. No team will be dumb enough to pay him next year's total. That's what I meant. He won't care about this year. He still gets that money. To abruptly cut him just to not pay him next year's haul should bother him I'd think.

Baseball has an injury problem. Ugh.

No. 3 pick in the 2014 Draft. OK the rebuild fanatics are safe here. We weren't exactly tanking yet when we took him No. 3 overall so he doesn't count as a flop in the rebuild era, just a bit before. But it still is a horsebleep draft pick in hindsight. Somebody should pay for what turned out to be the wrong pick. That said, injury wise, I wish him the best. He had some good outings and I wish him well in his recovery and comeback.

There is no reason to sign him. None. If the Sox can't afford a surgically rebuilt Rodon, then they have major problems.

We didn't win many clean games like this on the road last year so maybe we're getting a little better. Hopefully. ...

Kind of a good sign we win some road games this year so far. We shall see. At times our lineup looks so awful. If I didn't know better I'd say we have a much better record than we should under Ricky.