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I doubt they are. They dumped the guy getting multiple high profile national gigs for a guy best known for SlamBall. 🤣

I wouldn’t necessarily trust Brooks either if it was his decision to reduce Faust’s role. Perhaps @Lip Man 1 talked to Nancy as well? I would be curious if she said the same thing, but even then it could be a matter of her not wanting to out her former employer and ruin her relationship with the team.

Her role was reduced to part-time. She never wanted a reduced role and would have stayed on full time. It was allegedly Brooks Boyer’s decision according to the first link below.

I wonder… I read that Dalman’s retirement should free up $10 million in cap space, although they will obviously need to replace him. But that’s $30 million in cap space freed up between Moore and Dalman.

Hopefully a 3rd. Probably a 4th due to his contract and remaining money. Nice to free up that money before Moore ages out. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/25119/dj-moore

LF, 1B, and DH could all open up within the next two seasons. I doubt it will be a problem.

Well, some Sox fans’ parameters are that Schriffen would be qualified to replace Benetti as the team’s play-by-play announcer. The fact that you admit he is “learning on the job” sort of proves the point that he wasn’t. Being a nice young man has nothing to do with being qualified for a job.

I’m pretty sure caulfield’s point was that it’s a privilege to be able to attend a college with a tuition of $90K+ a year these days. Not sure what the tuition was when Schriffen attended, but I’m sure it was still relatively expensive. Either he earned a great scholarship, his parents had some money, or he had some nasty college loans to pay back after college. I noticed in this article that Schriffen’s grandfather was the NAACP president of North Philadelphia, so it’s possible he had a nice connection as well.

Where do you see the EV listed?

What a fun schedule. Mt Carmel and Fenwick back-to-back is rough. At least they are both home games. 2026 Brother Rice Varsity Football Schedule Week 1 @ Lincoln Way East Week 2 Open Week 3 vs St Francis (5A State Champions) Week 4 @ Loyola Academy Week 5 @ Notre Dame Week 6 vs Mt Carmel (8A State Champions) Week 7 vs Fenwick (6A State Champions) Week 8 @ DePaul Week 9 vs Marist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Dombrowski GM Hawk at 1986 Spring Training. 🤣

Meanwhile, Steve Stone takes entire series off and avoids west coast trips altogether.

Schriffen did in fact attend Dartmouth. Benetti attended S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University which I believe is still considered the best communications degree money can buy.

You know Schriffen has fantasy dreams just like this, and is all pissed off when he wakes up from them.

I’m not sure how your follow-up question even relates to the Simpsons gif Tony posted or why you are specifically calling him out. This is from Jason Benetti’s Wikipedia page: While I’m sure Benetti would rather not have to live his life with cerebral palsy, it sure hasn’t stopped him from being more successful than many people without a disability. Schriffen has no disabilities that I am aware of and he’s still a worse baseball announcer than Benetti.

To be fair, he did say “yearly 3+ WAR player”, although I think most people are hoping for a yearly 5+ WAR player.

What? You don’t think the great Schriffdawg will ever be the voice of Sunday Night Baseball on NBC?

By water taxi.

I think the Sox would prefer to free up a position player spot on the roster rather than adding another similarly bloated outfielder contract for the next two years, just to save a few million. More like a trade for a similarly bloated starter/reliever contract like the Hicks trade. But I guess Jerry is still the owner, so I’m sure he’d love to save even up to $5 million if the Red Sox are sending up to $10 million back to the White Sox with Yoshida for Benintendi. But I’m not sure Benintendi is that much better than Yoshida for Boston to even want to make that trade.

I’m still not seeing how any team would be interested in Benintendi, even if the Sox were actually willing to pick up half of his remaining contract which would mean the acquiring team would owe him $15.5 million over two years. The Sox just signed a similar quality veteran outfielder in free agency for just $6 million for one year. Unless Benintendi has a big first half and/or 2026, I think the Sox are stuck with him until they are willing to outright cut him and pay out his deal.

So my son gave me a new custom Brother Rice / White Sox cap. This thing is 🔥.

I’m guessing he won’t even or will barely wrestle. He’s on the R-Truth gimmick plan. Mostly used for comedy, just for the merchandise sales.

It looked good on paper. Starting catcher, 2B, and RF, with a possible back end rotation starter or reliever. And it was at a time when we needed to fill a lot of positions. But Meidroth may just be a backup infielder.