JoeC

Well, still deserves a win thread

10-5 over the Rox.

Blackmon for the cycle? He’s got the hard 2 out of the way.

I’m watching the game for some reason. is there a reason they aren’t showing the score or any other on-screen graphics? Is this kind of like how they stop putting up scores in little league games when they’re super lopsided?

MLB free game of the day. a nice discount bin game apparently.

I hereby once again request for the mods to add a “crying because I know it’s really possible” reaction.

I would only take this seriously if they brought in a proper baseball exec (like an Epstein) and that new exec would be doing the interviewing. This could be a genuine effort, but I’m also still waiting for Elisha Cuthbert to return my email from 15 years ago to ask her out.

Hey guys, I'm starting to get the feeling this team isn't as good as we were promised they'd be. What do you think?

The one saving grace with GRF is that, since it started as a blank slate, it's one of the only ballparks that has consistently improved with its age. That speaks more to the starting point than anything else, but you get the idea....

Probably some combination of both. Gotta have the right combination of analytics and scouting to identify holes in their games that are contributing to a performance deficiency, and those holes have to be fixable. In other words, you have to have analytics and scouting to filter out the chicken s%*# from the rest of the chicken. Then you have to have the culture that allows (or forces) the players to buy in to the message and makes them open to fixing the hole in their game. You can't teach players to give a s%*#, but you can make them want to give a s%*# by having a good culture.

Awesome news!

A geriatric rookie would be so on-brand for this org.

Not sure if this even warrants discussion if not for all the other crap surrounding this organization.... Would be considered a big fat nothingburger on its own, but this is the Sox we're talking about here....

"No! Don't shoot him! That'll just make him mad!"

Still trying to figure out why this necessitates moving the franchise as opposed to just having JR's heirs selling the team.

Fans of comedy.

Ramirez instigated it, but TA escalated it. It takes two to tango.

With a buyout, what are the luxury tax hit considerations? Specifically, $15M applied against 2024? Or $1.5M applied against 2024 - 2033?

It’s like the world’s worst and longest running infomercial. ”…but wait! There’s more!”

Slap Shot is the most realistic hockey movie ever made.

All time classic. “I’m listening to the fucking song!”

To paraphrase a co-worker, "the dumpster fire is contained to a dull roar."

"Mr. Chairman, they're chanting 'put-out! put-out!' They must really like the defensive effort."

Yeah. Just funny given the timing… and one of those “because of course” things

Maybe Grifol is smart enough to know that he and his staff will f*** up the kids' development and give them bad habits that will ruin their careers, so he is brilliantly shielding them from his and his staff's incompetence. Next level genius.