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I think this was mentioned numerous times by posters back when the Cease trade went down, but it seems even more likely to be the truth now. You had two good organizations with good scouting both willing to deal away a top rated pitching prospect in Thorpe, even though his minor league numbers were excellent. It’s almost like both the Yankees and Padres knew while Thorpe could dominate hitters in the minors, his stuff simply wouldn’t fare well against major league hitters so they sold high on him.

I spoke too soon. But this is usually how ST games go once the starters take a seat. Although Paez has to last on the active roster for a bit to remain under Sox control.

The score isn’t really ugly. The offensive performance however…

His meatballs right down the cock of the plate were painful to watch. I’m sure they look like beach balls to opposing batters.

Probably more like it. I just remember Getz kept praising Brooks for selling Jerry on Murakami, so it may be a mutual thing between Brooks and Getz.

He sounds like a total boot licker to both Jerry and Getz.

Boom. Thanks for the inside info.

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.