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With any other owner but Jerry, it’s probably a key trade if the Sox are willing to eat money because that would have improved the return. Even without eating money, Acuna is probably going to be their starting CF to start the season, replacing their outgoing starting CF.

Yes, he was pretty skinny when he talked to my company but I just assumed it was because he was finishing up a round of chemo.

Brutal. Last June, he gave an hour-long and in-person discussion for my company about being an advocate for health, awareness, and community. It was shared live with the entire company via Teams. He seemed like a cool dude and was extremely humble about his successful career. I remember him saying that he was feeling better after treatment. He is survived by his wife and six children. RIP.

Perhaps the other female posters were scared away by you calling another poster “RubRub”?

Quintana is very arguably a better pitcher than Fedde, signed for $6 million with the Rockies, and will more than likely be traded by the deadline, which is the very definition of a stop gap. I can’t imagine he wouldn’t have signed with the Sox considering home games at Coors are going to destroy his stats this year. I also don’t think that $6 million for a year should have been unrealistic considering the Sox needs.

In modern terminology, “guy” can refer to women as well. Regardless, how is everyone supposed to know that Autumn is a female? She isn’t exactly stating this fact in all of her posts, even if she ever stated it in the past. Perhaps Ray Ray missed the post in which she stated this? Regardless, not trying to be sexist but I think most would assume that the majority of posters on this site are males.

Yep, this just further cements to me that the return for Robert (outside of Pauley) was well-known for some time and it was more of a take it or leave it type offer from the Mets. Getz didn’t have to research much regarding the main piece since Acuna is simply what the Mets were willing to give up, hence the errors.

C’mon… If I call my nephew by the wrong name, that could be misspeaking. If I call my nephew by the wrong name four times in a row, that’s because I don’t know it or can’t remember it.

That’s the bigger issue. The concern is that no one on the brand new staff Getz assembled corrected him before he repeated his error three more times. If that’s more on the Marketing team, then Boyer needs to figure it out, but the stats of a newly acquired player would seem to fall under Getz’s purview.

Would it be crazy to expect a GM to look at the Split stats of a player he is acquiring?

The annual T-Mobile special?

That’s more of a wife thing to do (trust me, I know), but there were a few articles talking about his inevitable divorce from the Phillies. 🤣

I like him even more now. Let’s sign him for the veteran minimum difference.

Does it really matter at this point? BRUUUCE LeVineLine is a parody on his own.

As usual, BRUCEEE gets it completely wrong, with at least one typo at the minimum. Hey Bruce, why aren’t you questioning why no one that he hired corrected him? Who wouldn’t love a boss that can spout incorrect information and you don’t even have to pay attention or step up and correct him/her?

This is the real problem. Apparently, Getz still hasn’t hired someone that will assist him with getting the basic scouting facts on players correct or will step up when he says something completely boneheaded like he did four freaking times in a row. This is seemingly no different than the Kenny and Hahn era where either no one beneath them was worth a damn to know that they made a mistake and/or they were too afraid to correct them to their faces. Just think about it — our GM said the same erroneous thing four times in a row in public and had to be called out by a Twitter post before he “corrected” himself. How did no one on Getz’s great new staff not notify him of his gaffe after the first or second time he said it? He said it four times!

The rich get richer.

I hope even more that that’s Mune’s music, but I’m a bit doubtful. 🤣

BR gets their state championship rings next month. A BR alumnus agreed to donate the entire cost of all the rings for the team and coaching staff. I guess the cost of each ring is $235.

I remember your original post on this. You noticed the first time Getz made the flub in that hour-long Kaplan / McGuffey interview. I can forgive him but he basically outed the truth on the Robert trade, that many had already thought but couldn’t be sure of. That is the bigger story that this tells me. He pretty much took the Mets best offer (that had been rumored for months) and never had any intention of eating any part of Robert’s salary to improve the return. If Getz had much of a choice on the return from the Mets, he probably would have done a lot more research on the players and not made this flub. My guess is that the Mets offer was always Acuna, and perhaps Getz held out for the additional prospect (Pauley). The flurry of moves immediately after the trade and Robert’s $20 million being freed up is pretty much the proof in the pudding.

Trying to deny it would have been far worse, but I guess after saying it four times that would have been impossible anyways. I still want to know how no one under him stepped up and informed him of his mistake after the first or second time he said it…

I do kind of feel that Hahn could have very well made the same mistake and would have handled it similarly. Didn’t he make a joke about “that dumb GM who traded away future superstar Tatis Jr.”?

How are you guys going to go 29 and not just give him an even 30 HR? 🤣

The dude needs to get healthy. At this point, if he can just pitch, even if he’s only a #4 or #5, the trade could be salvaged.