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That 1915 A’s team was the result of Connie Mack growing himself a crop of the best talent in the game, selling it directly for cash, which he stuck directly into his own pocket, as if he were some kind of baseball rancher taking his cattle to the market Kind of makes JR seem not so bad, but at least Mack delivered multiple championships. The teams preceding it were among the best of all time. He pretty much did the same thing again twenty years later, including selling Al Simmons to the Sox, along with all the other stars he dumped for straight profit

Point being, there’s got to be some sort of disorder akin to stockholm syndrome or battered spouse syndrome we all could be classified under at this point. There’s no other reasonable explanation

And even though the ‘90 team was very good, it still always felt hopeless anyway because there was no way they were going to overcome the A’s and we all knew it

True but I didn’t expect that coming at the time

As a young kid back in 1983, having no reason to know any better, the Sox might as well have been the ‘27 Yankees as far as I was concerned. Even after they lost to the O’s, I still thought the Sox had the better team. The shock of 1984 as I look back now, I guess I never got over it. ‘84-89 was total misery as a Sox fan to me. ‘85 was of no consolation to me, the one year they were actually decent. And now 40 years later I’m still following these bums. It must be terminal, or require some sort of intervention

The fact I’m sitting here thinking how the ‘89 team that caused me so much misery in my prime junior league baseball loving youth in retrospect actually wasn’t too shabby…that’s got to be something akin to stockholm syndrome, no?

Imagine the ‘89 Sox in a league full of 2024 Sox. Guys like Daryl Boston, Scott Fletcher and Dan Pasqua would have been perennial all stars. Ozzie would be the Ozzie Smith. Baines, Calderon and Fisk would have been like Ted Williams, DiMaggio and Campanella on the same team

92 losses? Sounds like a pretty good team at this point

I didn’t see the ‘70 team, but just looking at the baseball reference page I think its safe to say they’d wipe the floor with this team

1 pm on a Thursday. Is MLB just trying not to make money or what

Incorrect. Gaslighting is the new national pastime. I hardly ever see anyone out playing football

If a good organization dfa’s someone that means a good org thought they were good enough to have on their forty man in the first place. Just because the astros don’t have room for him doesn’t mean the worst team of all time doesn’t

If a good organization dfa’s someone that means a good org thought they were good enough to have on their forty man in the first place. Just because the astros don’t have room for him doesn’t mean the worst team of all time doesn’t

This sucks for Ramos at the moment, but they can just add him in a few days anyway. I don’t see what’s the big deal. This improves somewhat the young controllable infield depth

A .240/.300/.400 hitter would be an improvement with this team.

That’s always been the problem with the WC though

Why’s it a problem? Worked pretty well for Tiger Woods

Burger has a career .800 OPS. Eder was never ranked that high as a prospect, ever, not sure where you are getting that from. He has pretty much always been the definition of a B-, back of rotation ceiling type prospect

Tell Brooks to add another zero to that number and he’ll have a buyer over here

He doesn’t have a contract. Next year is his first arb year

Right, but why’s he still on the 40 man? Makes no sense

Yeah soccer limits substitution but it doesn’t prevent you from removing a player. Icing? Come on man! This is like having a rule that goalie couldn’t be removed until the third period

What sport doesn’t allow a player to be removed? The only one I can think of is Buzkashi, although you have at least a decent chance of being removed by death or paralysis there

I just don’t see how you can have a rule where a player can’t be removed from the game. I thought the three batter rule was questionable to begin with, but six innings? That’s ludicrous