JoeC

The comments to the new social media posts, on x, have been almost universally positive. The social media users have reacted positively to the social media posts, even while acknowledging the fact that the team is historically awful. How is that a bad thing?

The AL Central has 4 teams over .500 (out of 5). The division is a combined 39 games under .500.

This thread aged like a fine wine

Dumb decisions can prevent that one win.

Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

We had a Leury homer. What more did you want?

I'd hope so. His trading (and player acquisitions in general) still leave a lot to be desired.

With this org, it's 100% believable.

I love that nobody's realized that this is yesterday's game thread.

They should fire the guys responsible for developing those non-established guys. They should also fire the guys responsible for bringing in the established guys.

All JR needs to do is just hire someone (competent) to take over all daily operations and give the keys to the kingdom to that person. he or she can then hire a competent FO, overhaul everything, and eventually make JR millions more through smart baseball investments ….so, we have to wait for death, thus making Sox fandom a personal moral quandary in addition to the ultimate misery as a sports fan.

Sox need to fix natural stupidity before artificial intelligence.

I like the hires Getz is making, at least on the surface. Trades and player personnel is a whole different matter, but this seems like a good hiring.

…and never had their credentials taken away.

…except for a lot of this board after watching the team for a few weeks in spring training.

It’s an infatuation with the abomination.

I am still having issues quoting posts on mobile browsers. The ads on the bottom of the page (sometimes just blank white boxes) cover the "quote 1 post" box about 95% of the time. There is no "x" button to be able to close it. Ever. Please let me know where I can send a screen shot if anyone wants to take a look. Thank you!

Nice of you to think that a player like Santander wouldn't just crater like everyone else who signs here. Also, nice of you to think that someone like Santander would be interested in coming here for any amount of money.

That too. But even then, building some semblance of confidence in Crochet's ability to keep this up in 2025 is in our best interests.

I think you're confusing "impossible" with "irresponsible." What the Sox are doing with him is pretty uncharted territory. He's proving us wrong in September. Maybe what the Sox are doing with him, in terms of easing off his workload (but keeping him on a routine) is working. Hopefully this means that Crochet doesn't flame out in 2025 like a lot of the Sox rotation seemed to in 2006.

Yeah plenty of time to act scared and deflated later.

@Lip Man 1 so you’re saying they’ve performed better in 1-run games than the rest of their record?

No, and seemingly no. Then again, everything is fine, per his brain trust, so why should we care? </sarc>

I think that if they let the Sox leave for some reason, they'll just let Chicago be a 1-market team. After enough time, the 1/3 of the metro area that pulls for the Sox will just drift over to Cubdom, so, outside of a few hardcore fans a) whose Sox fandom will follow the Sox out of town (supporter-wise); or b) the casual fans who don't contribute much financially anyways and just drift away from baseball altogether, it's not like MLB's TV market is going to shrink considerably. I think it's an asinine move to move the Sox out of this market, but if it does, I wouldn't count on MLB replacing the Sox in Chicago.

To be fair, that could have been anyone sitting on the bench contributing literally nothing.