Autumn Dreamin

My post was effectively "huh, that's interesting" and there was no reason for this to be contentious at all if not for you responding like my personal interest needed to meet some random criteria set by you in order to be justified, and then not dropping it after I said it wasn't that deep. Very fun schtick to take snipes at my motivations over an entirely non-confrontational post that you supposedly didn't care about to begin with and then backtrack like you were just giving a little fun friendly feedback for the sake of healthy and productive public discourse though. I'm more than happy to have a good faith exchange of communication, but I truly do wish people would stop including me in the arguments they want to have between themselves and strawmen. Let's please just leave it at that.

I'm far from the first person to compare a present and former Sox here, most of whom were not traded for each other? I don't know why this would come across to you as some completely bewildering never-before-seen concept that demands explanation. But yes, the random small sample size comparison...which I introduced as a random small sample size comparison...was in fact a random small size comparison! Good feedback, making sure I knew the thing I already said. And "just sharing some feedback" completely explains why, when I again reiterated that it was a random small sample size comparison not intended to make any point in particular, your response was to say that I "didn't answer your question" and imply that I had some kind of underhanded motivation for not posting about something entirely different instead. Not that you care, of course. What a totally necessary exchange.

He almost looked like he regretted having the trainers out at all and would have preferred to just stay in the game lol Better safe than sorry though

Swallows and Sox fans have been forming a kind of beautiful kinship on socials since early in the season. After the first few games some Chicago fans were apologizing for not being good enough to deserve him, and Swallows fans were basically like "No, we get it" lol Don't know if it's something that would be possible with licensing and stuff, but some kind of event at the ballpark with Southpaw and the Swallows mascot would be fun

I don't get what you're trying to interrogate here. The literal only opinion I shared was that Luis is a player who needs to get his A-swing off. He's been in a slump of late, I looked at some of his underlying metrics and included them because they surprised me. He cooled off as Pereira was heating up, and I thought the contrast was interesting given preseason expectations for LRJ to excel in NY and Pereira to be nothing. That's literally it. I described it in the post itself as "funny small sample size theater", because that's all it was to me. If I compared Mune to something Aaron Judge or Cal Raleigh was doing, would you feel compelled to jump in saying they weren’t traded for each other and don’t play the same position and why aren't I compared Raleigh to Quero? I didn't say anything about the trade or Acuna, because that wasn't the subject of my post. If you want to talk about Acuna, I'm not stopping you. If the post wasn't interesting or didn't make sense to you, that's fine. Scrolling past it is free, and I already said it's not that deep. But you keep replying bringing up things I didn't say or even reference to make some implication of nefarious motivations you're imagining I have, and I don't know what I'm supposed to do with that. Not every post is a part of some grand “us vs them” narrative. The preoccupation here with finding a “side” to be on for everything for the purpose of manufacturing arguments is so tiresome.

"funny small sample size theater" It's not that deep.

Speaking of guys playing near their hometown, local product Nicky Lopez returns to Chicago

Assuming Mune also walks 100+ times, they could be the first pair of Sox to both record 100+ in a season since Frank Thomas (109) and Tony Phillips (125) in 1996. And 3 30 HR guys would be a first since Dye/Thome/Quentin in 2008.

I think losing Vasil for the season really took them off guard. He was such a weapon out of the pen last year, really stabilized things.

Very well played game to secure a winning series and road trip! 4-2 against two winning teams. Double digit wins on April 23. Date to beat for #11 is 5/9. Beni has been slugging in the leadoff spot, and also in late/close situations. Nice hero moment for the vet tonight, and a quick easy 9th for Dominguez. Sox are a pretty solid 7-9 on the road, even with a couple winnable ones left on the table. Need to bring this offensive progress back home. Since the poor 1-5 week to start the season, they are 9-10.

Will always have a soft spot for Sheets. Funny how Gio has always had a former Sox teammate since leaving. Reylo, then Crochet/Hendriks, and now Gavin.

There's my leadoff hitter

No runner for Quero, so need to keep it off the ground

Not an easy task to scratch something across against Sewald