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Boy we stink. I'm turning off now so maybe that will help us rally in the ninth.

I think this story lost its 15 minutes of fame about a week ago. Lasted a while. The outrage has lessened a bit.

Keep us posted on if/when he loses. Thank u.

Hahn has trained me to not even look at the standings anymore.

Are you a Madrigal fan? He's what u got for rooting for losses 2 years ago.

What a miserable game. And last night was so much fun. I love the fact they are talking about taking away draft picks of tanking teams in the future. Tanking is so un-American.

It'd be a better world and a better city if the Sox resisted signing Jay and donated the 4 million to public high school sports teams. That woulda been awesome. There's simply no reason a tanking team give Jay ANY at bats or reps in the field this season. Let Cordell play or Engel or anybody 25 or younger. Geez.

I just hope Jay takes it easy and sits out the season. I really don't wanna watch him perform for the Sox.

They pretty much conceded the game again in the early innings. They knew Nova had nothing after the third homer. It went from 7 runs to 9 and game ova. He shoulda been lifted after 7th run but that's still too many to come back from.

This Nova guy will be an excellent batting practice pitcher if and when the Sox give up on him. He lays it in there quite nicely.

I wonder if there's ever been 2 games in a row in which both teams pitched a position player in successive nights. One night the home team pitches a position player and in game two the visiting team pitches a position player. Who is this year's Davidson for the Sox?

This Nova guy is no(va) good.

Great great idea. Would the Cubs do it? He is 6-foot-2, 21 years old and almost ready. Man, this would be AWESOME. Odds of it happening?

He's not great at .192 of course, but he does have 13 walks. And 10 RBI. We've had worst hitters I guess.

Or the independent league. Those rosters need to be stocked too.

All I hear from Fathom and others on here is even at Christmasgift time you couldnt' find any Sox merchandise in stores, even at one big one on the South side. How come the mods are so mean on this board generally speaking?

How bout trading him to the Cubs for Montgomery and a Top 50/can't miss type prospect? Might as well trade him. We ain't winning the lousy Central so try to rob the Cubs again. Eloy Trade sequel, baby.

I wonder what sport he should have taken up. If he's that fast and athletic ... soccer? At 6-foot-2 a speedy wide receiver? Maybe a John Stockton clone? Seems a waste if he can't hit a baseball.

Last night was fun. My eye/memory test tells me we don't win a lot of blowout games. Me likey. Please.Keep.It.Up.

I just don't understand how the Sox make so much money. Horrible attendance figures. Bad merchandise sales compared to their competitors. All I hear is how bad the Sox TV deal is. How is baseball so profitable? Just cause of MLB?? I mean try to start a new sports league. They all fail and lose gazillions like the new football league that didn't even last a season. So it's not all sports that turn to golden goose. Again ... how are the Sox worth a billion when by normal standards they are a huge failure (historically low attendance; second class media TV contracts compared to Cubs, bad merchandise sales compared to Cubs)?

I actually don't think it's right. The baseball thrown 90 could kill a person. And you better believe that pitcher would go to prison. They'd get people to admit it was a purpose pitch. I'm just saying it will continue to happen to Anderson because of the unwritten rules. If he tosses the bat he's gonna get hit the next time up or screamed at as he crosses home plate and his reax would determine whether there's a fight or not.

I think baseball players have made it clear they will continue to enforce the unwritten rules. If Timmy does that again, look for him to get hit again. Then depending on how he reacts will determine if there's a fight or not and suspensions. I'm not sure why players allow guys who hit doubles to look in the dugout and do the horns on the helmet. I would think that's equally deserving of getting hit the next time up. One thing I noticed in the Robin era the Sox didn't do a lot of retaliating for one of their players getting hit. I haven't noticed in the Ricky era much cause I've pretty much lost interest and am wasting my MLB subscription money.

It will get pretty silly if all hitters decided to celebrate their home runs before running around the bases. Besides baseball said Tim wasn't suspended for throwing the bat, but for saying something while going to first after he got hit. In the NL, do pitchers get hit when they excessively celebrate a strikeout? There shouldn't be a double standard in the unwritten rules. If you don't hit the reliever who rarely steps to the plate, then I guess you have to hit the catcher to prove your point.

I was gonna say after looking at the box score it's a shame we have 3-5 good hitters and everybody else blows. This tank stuff really takes the heat off general managers. Let's face it, anybody can be in charge of a draft. The lists are out and everybody knows who the top 30 players are. Fathom could make as good a pick as Hahn and KW every year. Ditto the finding of foreign players. Not.That.Difficult with the lists available. The list of draftees is not secret. That leaves putting together a watchable team and like I said we have some pathetic players to go with some good ones. I hope Cordell is actually good; i haven't seen enuf games to develop a strong eye test opinion (thanks Sox, for making a true diehard lifelong fan like me finally lose interest in your team) but I like the box scores and highlight reels I've seen of Cordell, not Claudell (like Washington), but Cordell.

In baseball's unwritten rules the pitcher has to retaliate in certain instances. I'm not sure if the manager actually orders it or says "you know what you need to do." Cause if the player got seriously injured the manager probably wouldnt' want to go to jail for life if the pitcher turned him in for ordering the hit batsman. But it's not all the pitcher's fault. He's basically ordered to retaliate in baseball lore. If you hit Abreu after he homers, you better believe the Sox have to hit one of the opponents in retaliation (most of the time).