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somebody post that pic of pedro grifol saying "today we got our ass kicked"

lot of this just feels like s%*# luck.

stop talking about food, they just scored 6 runs

chase meidroth isn't an every day second basemen >:(

are they talking about cum cake on the broadcast?

I thought you were doing a bit. He really is. That's fucking awesome. How can we acquire this guy?

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check out my arrighetti impression: eyyyy whoaaaa i'm walkin' guys here!!!

I reckon we all get dumb clickbait articles shown to us on our cellphone lock screens, but I had to click the one about 'Blue Jays cut ties with catcher' thinking they DFA'd Valenzuela for some reason and we could pick him. Turns out they were talking about Adam Hackenberg. Thought he had a pretty nice 2023 at Charlotte then he just disappeared off the face of the Earth.

but what if you got a pitcher with a career 5 ERA in return?

I think he had it under control until that lady came in "to help". She didn't even really do anything, just got in his head. Who among us hasn't had the nacho sombrero yips? What a bad idea for a promotion though. I'm imagining far drunker people trying to wrangle this thing and the mess the crew has to clean up afterward.

Cleveland's offense versus Minnesota's bullpen. Some are calling it "the stoppable force meets the moveable object".

Unfathomable that the Twins bullpen went 5 innings without giving up a run (including 3 ghost runners). Our old friend YoYoGo is having a really nice season for them.

Taylor is a beast.

I will absolutely be at the Ja Rule concert though.

He was beating the s%*# out of women during sex, who cares if it's "consensual" it's barbaric and weird. One of his accusers also still has a pending case. I dunno about you, but four to five different women have never sued me for sexual assault. This isn't a thing that happens to most people including rich and famous athletes. He also sucks at baseball. His teammate last year Anthony Kay posted a 1.74 ERA in 155 IP to Bauer's 4.51 ERA in 133.2. Bauer has translated that performance to a 4.86 ERA in Mexico. How do those bad stats translate to MLB? He did have a 2.36 ERA playing against guys who flamed out of single-A, so maybe that's something. It's baffling that a non-zero amount of people want a bad baseball player on the team exclusively because he's 'blackballed' for assaulting women. It's weird, frankly. Like what a hill to die on. Maybe if he wasn't complete garbage at baseball, but he is. I'm sure the primary reason he's not in MLB is because he's bad and has a reputation of being a terrible teammate in addition to the beating up women part.

Was just thinking, what's going on with Bergolla? He hasn't played since he collided with Antonacci in April.

Really like both of those dudes but I'd be surprised if Salvy ever moves. A trade for Wacha is a lot more appealing than for Detmers imo. Now this guy would be a get. Fits the timeline and can actually hit. Easy to move to DH. Wonder if the Sox could do anything for Brenton Doyle, I bet Colorado would just dump him at this point.

Andrew Painter has a 7 ERA if it makes anyone feel better

Who are some useful catchers that wouldn't cost much? Keibert Ruiz is having a nice year and I bet Washington wants to get out of his salary. Of course, then you're stuck paying him through 2030. Caratini could be a pretty good get. Jonah Heim was picked up off the scrapheap and he's playing pretty well. I'd trade for nobody though. This team was doing fine with Quero and Jerkoff playing there. Romo has caught 4 shutouts. This team is still rebuilding, don't give up assets for a guy who will only be useful for a few weeks.

It is with a heavy heart that I retire ‘Lenyn Sosa Scared of Ball’. Maybe a Blue Jays fan can put it to good use. Another contender for avatar was ‘John and Gordon Share a Glizzy’.

I'm partial to Indian Standard Time since the time adjustment is to the half hour rather than the hour. Or Calcutta Time which was determined to be 5 hours, 53 minutes and 20 seconds ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. Don't even get me started on Madras Time. Speaking of India, I feel like Kumar Rocker has been in MLB for a decade but I've never actually seen him pitch.

They're 'roommates' like how my uncle has invited his 'roommate' to the last 20 years of family functions and sometimes they kiss each other. Just guys being dudes.

It isn't and he wasn't. There are at least 14 better shortstops with better power on this team. Sox fans have been destroying this pick since he was drafted, then he did a Tim Elko impression for a month and he's suddenly a star? It fits a narrative but not necessarily the facts of reality. Gonzalez isn't Tatis or Semien. Even at the time of their respective trades, everyone knew how good those guys could be. Gonzalez though, he's just some guy. I think he'll be a pretty good regular 2.5 WAR kinda guy which was, IMO, the pick to make in that pretty bad draft. With hindsight, there are several better players we could've selected after him. Still not a terrible pick like some on this board made it out to be, but he's also...not really a difference maker and he certainly has no role on this team. I've been loling for a week reading that Gonzalez thread wondering why anyone actually cares all of a sudden. I think it relates to some notion that the Sox rarely have quadruple-a talent to call up and so now we're overvaluing our injury reserve, Zach Remillard type players (I miss Zach) and we forget that a proven path to sustained success is to consistently inject talent into the system at the lowest levels, even if it's risky and means...losing a couple more games at Charlotte. Getting a first round pick and slot $$ for 'some guy' is terrific value in any sport, particularly good value in a sport like baseball where you can't typically trade picks. Of course, this is one of those things where you can't actually make a judgement for several years, but I have been collecting Sox fan receipts since I started looking at this board, and there's enough evidence that Sox fans are typically wrong and overly emotional. I would be very interested in looking at a perspective on Gonzalez from someone who was as high as me on him when he was drafted. I liked him better when we didn't have a million guys playing his position who are better than him. I think there's a very good probability that the two guys we were able to draft by trading him will be better MLB players. Does Prosek get overslot value if we don't make the trade? Ignoring Thome's surname, he's a better raw talent than Gonzalez was. It's hard to think about the future, but replacing a bench player/guy who shuffles between AAA and MLB with two potential major talents is just what organizations should be doing even if it doesn't work out. It's the sort of thing that good organizations do. Another thing that good organizations do is make players like Jacob Gonzalez look like trade assets a couple of months after looking like they'd never make MLB. Anyway, let's reassess in two or three years. Somebody will inevitably necro this thread like they did with the Vargas one and it will be another lesson into the notion that SoxTalk posters have no clue what the f*** they're talking about.

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