JoeC

To be fair, Crochet only had slightly more than a 0% chance of being as good as Crochet last year, per most assessments (mine included)

I mean, seems like this is the org to do it in to get your best path to the big, no?

Late to the party, but his .624 career OPS is technically a step up from the 2024 Sox team OPS of .618. Yay progress?

Thanks. Brain fart

Even that 20% is subject to capital gains.... and massively at that. Assuming he's had 20% since 1980 (which i believe is not the case), at a sale price of $20MM, that's $4M in cost basis. If the team is valued at $2B now, that gives him about a $200M stake in the team... that's capital gains tax on $196M of gains.

Come on, man. At least put some more effort into a portmanteau. Even something like Mar-Chi-Cago would have been acceptable.

I’ll watch you watch the games. Will maybe be more entertaining than watching the games.

Beat me to it.

Because it would basically be an admission of failure / "someone else's way is better."

If JR kept his shares and handed over the day-to-day control of the team to Ishbia, that would garner a s%*# ton of respect from me pretty instantly.

Do you really want to ask that?

I'd take Kimbrel over Clev 11 days out of 10.

Majority or plurality?

Depends on the disambiguation of the word "that" in the boldes sentence.

I interpret those comments more as “we’re going to try to be Cleveland.”

Coop’ll fix him or something like that.

A GM who was competent, and, as a side note, unceremoniously let go earlier in his career by Ken Harrelson?

Half wondering if a player will sign a $100M+ / year contract before a JR-owned team signs a player to a $100M+ total contract. I mean, Ohtani is (deferred, but still) making $70M….

How (or where?) should he be wearing it instead?

Sure, but look at the context.

Highly underrated post. I had to unlike it so I could like it again.

Missed opportunity on a "diminished skills" reference.

No love for Darren Dreifort?

A spiritual stomping ground of Billy Goats?

Hey, at least they’re moving up the injury reporting.