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Except Getz acquired Lopez to be the starting 2B from the beginning, not a bench piece. Also, why would you be surprised if Lopez is DFA? His $4.3 million salary is a sunk cost already and Baldwin, Sosa, and Amaya should get most of the at bats in the infield over a guy the Sox are going to non-tender anyways.

DeLoach just turned 26. He is definitely an aging prospect for what the Sox need. It’s the same reason Fletcher was a bad acquisition — too damn old for a team that won’t be competitive for years. And it doesn’t really matter that Santos hasn’t pitched this year. That’s using hindsight. He had value last offseason. If we all knew the future, Getz probably keeps Cease and gets a better return for him than he did last year, because as of right now it looks like he got back a backend starter that may need TJ, a bust outfield prospect, and a decent pitching prospect. The idea to trade these guys was right, but Getz got back a questionable return as usual.

Exactly. Even if a starter has a good outing, the putrid lineup won’t score him any runs.

One more… 🤣

Are you sure? The draft pick was nice but the player return look like trash. DeLoach is an aging outfielder who apparently has no power and Berroa has a 6+ ERA in the minors. A good GM gets a better return than that for a good flamethrowing reliever with a low ERA, good strikeout rate, and 4 years of control. Like you said, just because the Sox are terrible and didn’t need a quality closer doesn’t mean we should get back sh1t for him. Santos had value, and it seems like only the Sox knew about his injury issues.

Seems like it could be an awesome continuing concert hall and soccer stadium, but not enough people care about soccer.

I don’t get angry anymore. I expect failure. You can name one no doubt successful Getz trade — Robbie Grossman for Anthony Hoopii-Tuionetoa. I challenge anyone to tell me another no doubt good trade that Getz has made. And even amongst his two good offseason signings (Fedde and DeJong), he traded one of his best trade assets for possibly the worst hitter and fielder in baseball in Miguel Vargas. Like I said, a blind, drunk monkey simply throwing darts at pictures of players taped to a wall would be more successful than the players that Getz supposedly scouts and chooses.

Some more hype pictures for the Brother Rice offensive line led by my son, captain of the OL.

Who knew that kids wouldn’t think they could get away with anything without repercussions for their actions at a young age? Remember, you are the one calling about half the US population child abusers, not me. I have two teenage sons and I did employ spanking when they were younger. Just curious, how many children do you have?

Better than your kid turning into a spoiled brat or even worse, some psycho narcissistic school shooter because his parents never gave him consequences for misbehaving.

Doesn’t matter. Sox will still be eating it all. No team will claim his sorry ass.

How to burn $7.3 million dollars, with one stupid trade… Trade a reliever with value for bums like Lopez and Soroka. Maybe Getz has this documented in his diary for future reference?

Tearing it up in AAA, as usual.

Any irony to the fact that 3 of the 4 players mentioned in the tweet were all on the Sox in the beginning of the season?

I don’t think a 33 year old fourth outfielder is a priority for our terrible team, regardless of his amazing catch last night.

A good GM never trades for him and pays him $4.3 million in the first place.

Second hit of the game!!!

1 pitch, 1 out. Nice effort, Robert.

Because the law doesn’t recognize a non-excessive spanking to one’s own child to be the same as a punch to the face, which may be assault and battery.

Wasn’t there a rumor that Getz was telling Grifol who to put in the lineup but he wasn’t listening? I assume Getz would try to do the same with Sizemore, but I would be surprised if Sizemore wouldn’t follow the plan since he is so green.

Sure, but the original post is a tweet that mentions domestic violence/sexual assault so this was always a legal discussion from the start.

Agreed. I assume Crochet will be traded in the offseason, as long as he stays healthy to finish this season. Also, I assume Getz will pass on trading Robert so low in the offseason and will opt to see if he can jack up his trade value prior to next year’s deadline.

Spanking is legal in all 50 states as long as it is not considered to be excessive. Also, unless it is specifically stated in a court order that Clevinger is not to spank his child, your point about him not having primary custody would not matter and it would still be legal for him to spank his child. Assuming there is no court order with this language, none of this would constitute child abuse in the eyes of the law, which is why I thought it was strange that the video in the tweet was even shared by whomever the “Goblin Gobbler” is. My guess is that this is also why the White Sox did nothing with this video, as it proves nothing. Finally, no one mentioned using a belt until you did. That may be considered “excessive” which could be deemed child abuse by the courts, rather than legal open-hand spanking.

The problem is it’s obvious the Sox need to trade Robert to bring in prospects for the future when they could possibly be competitive but he is completely tanking his trade value.