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Praise God the four got out. Too bad they ran out of oxygen tanks and need to refill or something. Now the monsoon is coming and rescue may be delayed I read. In a perfect world they'd have had so much oxygen they could just send in wave after wave of Seals to get the kids out. I hope they will be OK.

I'm just saying if you have to move him off ss, put him somewhere his bat will be above average for a ballplayer: Catcher. He's got a good arm and is lanky. No way the guy is an outfielder either. That's just as silly/ridiculous. TA is NOT an outfielder.

I turned it off after the squeeze cause our bunt in the last half inning ruined the game for me. We played for one run. Only way we were gonna win that game was to 'somehow' explode that inning after getting two on and no out. Astros just laughed at us. Got a double and ultimately bunted him home so easily, even with two strikes. I hate the fact we are not even a great AAA team.

Heaven forbid we discuss things here. He doesn't remind you of Alomar size wise? How bout the fact our organization has sucked at catcher forever? His stats project great for a catcher. Forgive me for living and breathing. Excuse me.

They shouldn't let every team have one guy. But this is like a lifetime service award for Abreu. He deserves that.

I am a mortician; got something against it??

Congratulations to Jose Abreu. He is everything that's good about baseball in Chicago. Too bad the team blows.

Sox are an embarrassment to a great city; wish some famous folks would call them out publicly.

Advanced stats are cumbersome and boring. http://m.startribune.com/index.php/twins-broadcasters-ponder-how-much-analytics-is-too-much-during-broadcast/487461201/

Adam is a good bunter but that was dumb. Take that pitch.

Avi needs a personal trainer. All these hammy problems are going to be his undoing.

But why would the tank/rebuild people approve it? I think the Sox got 3 million in salary relief so he's only 6 million, but still, the tank/rebuild people don't like to pay current players, "allegedly" stockpiling money for the future. They didn't need either reliever they got. Poor Jake Peter is having a terrible season as well.

There was absolutely no reason to sign Soria. I don't care about Jerry's profits but that was money down the drain. Take that 9 million and give it to the fans or something. As far as money goes, think of all that wasted cash going to Shields and Soria. Little surprised as cheap as the Sox are why they acquired Shields in the first place and why they'd pay Soria. Weird.

I'm not in love with Moustakas or anything. Not demanding we acquire him. I do think this offseason assured the Sox of being a pathetic team. After all the moves were made, we had embarrassing bullpen, embarrassing rotation and a lineup with a lot of outs. The team was built to lose. Moustakas for pennies would have actually given us an amazing infield of Moose, Anderson, Moncada and Abreu. If Avi's healthy and Davidson hitting like he is, that's six good hitters to go with an horrific outfield and catching situation. We'd still lose but Moose could have been had for pennies.

Did that Avi home run escape the stadium? I did not see it land??

I think RR should be fired at the all star break and let Coop be interim. Think of how fun it would be just to see Coop's head explode after games, blasting everybody. Then in the offseason hire Omar or Girardi.

I think if you copy and paste from somewhere all our pitchers from the last 5 years you'd see a lot of Coop success stories.

I'm serious when I say we shouldn't take the field against the elite teams. I'd bring up AAA players for a weekend, the ones we don't care about number of callups/calldowns. It certainly hurts all aspects of the Sox and their individual player getting shown up like this. I wish the Sox brass or some veterans would use the "e" word after games like this. Just call over a media member and say you're embarrassed for our city.

Covey was pretty good a while there. He fixed Soria (reliever though). He fixed Humber for a while. He fixed Shields. He failed with Shark. I'm thinking he fixed a lot of pitchers still. He needs to get Lopez, Gio and some other guys to quit walking batters.

I disagree. I think he was red hot and had time to take the country by storm had he gotten the nomination. The reason he didn't get it? Cmon. You all know it was fixed for Hillary. Remember the coronation talk? It was her turn, her time to be awarded a lifetime achievement award. Bernie was a pest, a deterrent and the DNC refused to acknowledge he was anything but a pest. Bernie was starting to draw huge crowds. I think he'd easily beat Trump in 2020. The problem? The clock. Poor Bernie is a bit too old. The Millenials can save him, though, if they continue to love him and support his run.

The Sox have wanted Avi to excel for a long time. He did last year and he's raking this year. It would be fricking asinine to trade him. Just keep him and let him be what he was supposed to be. That said a rival GM should try to "steal" him from the Sox. Deviously package 2-3 guys you've given up on but who are still on a top list of prospects. Avi could be stolen via trade IMO. I wonder which GMs are trying to concoct such deals to offer Hahn. Our front office is in a stretch where they are heroes at Soxfest when they make deals. They are gonna deal some of these guys. Bank on it.

Not a bad take. It's either that or my theory of a broken spirit.

Closeups of him show a sad sad man. Sad as in almost wanting to cry IMO. I hear what you are saying. I wonder who should be the Sox all-star? I do know Palka should be in home run derby. My gosh. Our all star probably should be Moncada just because he might have a helluva at bat or two in that game.

When and why did you reinvent yourself as a poster? You suddenly are MVP of the board after blah status.

But according to the Trib, he's going to get a nine-figure contract from somebody. I just think he looks like a guy whose spirit has been broken.