JoeC

Rafael Furcal?

Kopech showing he wants to stay on the south side.

Giving credit for a shitty job done = holding them accountable and making sure they know they failed. 70% done is an F in the baseball industry. “Credit” can be good or bad. In this case, it is bad, because the result was only 70% successful.

So who gets credit for getting the team close? Also, please note that he got the team 70% there. That's not good enough and is a failure, so I don't want you to get the idea that I'm giving him a pass. My point is that he took a shitty system, tore it down to the studs, and got the team temporarily into respectability. If he doesn't get credit for that, who does?

Kenny inherited a core of valuable assets and a decent farm, and he did a remarkable job of stretching that window of contention. Hahn inherited a disaster of a core and a barren farm, and I will at least give him a credit for getting us to the table (2020 / 1st half of 2021). He's since turned it into a bigger disaster than he started with, but IMO he did get us about 70% of the way to legitimate contention.

Like this classic SNL sketch?

We’re really good confidence builders. We can get teams into challenging situations, then fail to execute / encourage the other team to come through. a nice team to face in September as a low-pressure playoff tuneup

Because we’re dumber.

Burger still hovering around .800 OPS right?

Shut Crochet down. Why rush him back at this point?

Looks like Lynn is staying put.

I’ll bite… who is saying that…? And prefer you whiff as opposed to what other outcome?

Efficient.

Enjoy! Doom and gloom, pessimism, etc., aside, there’s not much better than taking a kid to their first ballgame.

Nvm - contract signed after 2019

They signed him to that massive extension right away though, basically.

And Moncada.

Let's think outside the box and go for Gary Sheffield.

The only optimism I'll have is either if the Sox end up in 1st place with a record above .500 after the 4th of July, or if Hahn is fired and replaced with a competent GM who is ready to rebuild and retool the organization from the ground up. This means scouting, player development, talent evaluation, on-field coaching, injury prevention... the works. The Sox need to tear it down tot he foundation and start over, or they're bound to make the same mistakes. Get with the modern times and create a comprehensive player development strategy from draft day until the day the player leaves the organization. I also feel the need to say that this strategy needs to be good (not "trot them out there and hope they figure out how to play at this level"). Until then, it doesn't matter if we have the 1st or 30th ranked system in baseball - we're going to continue to churn out players who are only good enough to consistently produce glimmers of hope, but nothing more. We'll get the occasional Luis Robert, but for every Luis Robert you'll end up with a half dozen Vaughns, Moncadas, and Eloys - all good enough to give hope, but too flawed to sanely be able to build around.

"Terms I'm afraid to Google for $2,000"

...so basically half the lineup is all that needs to be fixed.

So this is what we've come to... arguing about which source best supports the conclusion that we suck.

You’d think there would be some way for a human to be involved in that process somehow…. Like a way to telm the computer what to do or check the computer’s work.

I'm guessing this is going to be filed under "Tradition" at this point.

It's getting harder to distinguish between sincerity and satire around here.