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He was pretty durable up to that point. Additionally, the Sox in the 2000's were pretty well known for their durability under Herm.

Keep it up @flavum!

Just shows how hard you gotta work to earn the title.

Before Pham: 3-22. On pace for 19 wins. With Pham: 3-0. On pace for 137 wins and 0 losses. It's just math.

That’s a horrible take, and I won’t sit here idly and watch you spew this nonsense.

Yes

Maybe not the whole org, but at least Steve Stone’s Twitter seems to be.

Plus he'd have been one of our better bullpen arms this year.

You know - the one thing that I want to give Getz credit for is that "Project Birmingham" experiment he did 2 years ago. I'm a huge critic of the Sox's minor league development program basically treating the minors like a warehouse rather than a factory... but that Project Birmingham thing, to me, was the right approach. Identify things to work on during games, then shift your focus to developing your game through deliberate practice and training. But generally, I completely agree with you on this quoted portion.

Trying to model us after the Cleveland Browns may be the darkest suggestion yet.

That was when you were still pretty active on worldcrossing, too.

Ha. It's not like putting wilson in there was a bad move or anything (he's actually been good), but the bullshit quote to try to justify it and make excuses like thisil is just embarrassing.

The joke writes itself with this '24 Sox bunch.

By my calculation, the Sox should lose the next 2 before winning one more. Started the season by losing 4, winning 1. Then lost 5, won 1. Then lost 6, won 1. They've now lost the next 5, so we have 2 more to go.

I mean, they could just try to bullshit us that he's in the booth, and there'd be a compelling case to believe them.

I'm surprised it's that many. It implies having scored some runs as a prerequisite.

There was a lead to blow today, at least. that’s progress.

Lots of confidence in AV’s ability to make hard contact.

Without context, Maldonado?

Oh, I have played quite competitively (though not baseball). I've played on championship teams as well as hockey teams who didn't win until after Christmas (including the intrasquad scrimmage lol). I've also been part of teams that were almost as bad with coaches who were bad, but we had players who stepped up as leaders and set the cultural tone for the team. I'm not saying Pedro needs to stay (quite the opposite) - just stating a fact that, if you're trying to build a positive culture in the organization, you need players who are willing to take a long, hard look at themselves and try to make things better.

Intelligent reckless spending is the key. It's hard... it's challenging... but with some of the younger "core" (if you want to call it that) coming up like Montgomery, Ramos, Zavala, C Edgar Quero, Nastrini, Schultz, etc., it's not 100% outside of the realm of possibility to hit a few metaphorical home runs.

Maybe. If we get a reckless owner who doesn't give two craps about profit and is willing to intelligently spend through his / her teeth and above their means, I wouldn't rule out a quicker turnaround.

Whoever that GM was who brought ReyLo into the Sox organization probably deserves a raise. </sarc>

My point is that it's a "both" problem. It's a player problem, too, and if the players don't recognize that, they don't deserve to play big league baseball. It'll be interesting to see someone like Tommy Pham come in. Any bets on the first fist fight in the dugout?