JoeC

It was worth a shot.

Profit.

I too am willing to donate, even if it isn’t enough to get rid of ads.

You mean while we flush one down?

In baseball history, I assume you meant?

Lottery ticket.

Speaking of which - when is SoxFest?

Thank you to the site admins for the proactive information. You guys rock.

Do you really want an answer to this?

Part of me wishes to say "well no s%*#, sherlock." But I completely empathize with you.

For how long?

You must be at least my age (40) if you consider Brian Anderson to be “recent.” …but yes - this team sucks at player development

You forgot the quotes around “baseball.”

If your goal is to win, sure.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

For some reason I thought we had lost 17 in a row in May / June.

Source?

Reminds me of the old joke… “you drop an accordion, a recorder, and an alto sax out of a 20th story window. Which one lands first?” ”Who cares?”

…and then you just have to develop them.

Even if you removed our two longest losing streaks of the season (17 and 14), our record of 27-50 (.351) would still be the worst in the MLB as of today (next worst - Colorado at 38-69 for a .355 winning percentage)

To some, that is the same thing.

“He’s too hurt to play and may have suffered long term damage, but he’s feeling good.” Did I get that right?

Or did he make some sort of transaction on the team that reset his cost basis to be super high a couple of years ago? So now he can tank the club’s value and capture a massive loss when he sells?

There's science to back up what you say: