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That is utterly hilarious and sad but man such a nice win today against a good team.

Somehow win an opening game of a series. Not expecting much so surprise me in a good way….

I don’t think we are perfect but doing well enough. This quote says it all (unless taken out of context). Just goes back to what I have been saying…the standard and time at the top is weak, what the coaching staff accepts is weak, and the players are soft and mentally weak (there own fault but TLR ain’t helping matters). They fire the mgr and they could have went on a Phillies like run.

Dibs on Camenetti, Gwynn and Hoffman!

The worse part in all of this is the fact that the Cubs suck right now…an aggressive Sox team had a chance to own this decade and put a real test on who the major market Chicago team really is. They can still do that but boy did they fuck up those odds big time. I go back to Harper…said it a million times…I would have rolled the truck up For him. He was a name, a face of baseball and the type of person people just go out to watch play and they legit could have had him. Manny is and was the better player but Harpers star power would have been huge in the battle for the media market but Sox are fine being small fish in big pond. They could have went for the kill so many times but never did…and it isn’t changing with this owner.

That is direct tv (with a satellite) not the streaming service.

It is contagious from top to bottom - but they are mentally weak. They give up too much and hitting more than anything has such a mental part to it. Watch the top hitting teams and see how much they grind from at bat to at bat. That mentality is completely not existent on this team and it shows. They give up so many at bats once they are down. You can see it in the body language, the half assed swings, etc. You see the same on defense and on base running. This team is so mentally weak. It has other issues - such as 2 DHs playing in the outfield most games but so much of this is on the entire tone - players to coaches. Why the Sox haven't looked at what the Phils did and how much they changed post Girardi and not realized they need to pull that plug on the coaching staff. What is the worse that can happen. Team is already playing like heartless dogs - it can't get any worse than it's s now.

Any relation to former Brave Marquis Grissom? But I do think the Sox need to bring a few of these guys up - if nothing else - create a spark and send a message to the hasbeens lining up every day.

Sounds like the team has taken on the life of its shit mgr. No one gets a pass. Kenny can step down and everyone else needs to go…but paddy. Start entirely from scratch. In meantime…jerry just sell the damn franchise if you are going to meddle and stick us with a well past his prime mgr and a secondary budget for baseball personnel.

There is zero reason for him to be around. Results matter and they have been putrid. Start setting a standard Chicago and start running yourself like a first class org vs the half ass org you are. Cheap ass Sox - under spend in all areas. I get having a lower payroll (not that there’s is low) but not having first class baseball ops and true depth of staffing, scouts, nutrional and development stuff is just piss poor. So far from being a world class org.

Such a shit GM…so fitting for this shit franchise. I am on my last nerve with how embarrassing they are and how pathetic their standards are. My son is already pivoting to the dark side - fairly certain he will end up a Dodger fan and I legit can’t blame them. The total opposite of the Sox.

They are poorly managed and the use of resources on this roster was pathetically deployed. But really a no power shit defensive team - not a good combination. Quite frankly I have no idea how a team with poor power can be slow and shitty defensively…it’s like the absolute worse extreme of roster construction. So done with everyone associated with putting this together from top all the way down.

Let me know or share the link my way. I’ll switch my stream between my wife and I’s name if it means I get free Sunday ticket. I can tell you I have never seen any Sunday ticket channels on my guide (and everything I have ever read said they were seperate - if you want Sunday ticket and have steam you need to go through the streaming version that allows one login. I would love for that to change so I can dvr the bears for the days I have a youth sports conflict.

Unless I am wrong sunday ticket doesn’t have any affiliation with direct tv stream. I have stream but use Sunday ticket app (student version). If I could get free I would but my understanding was stream was completely seperate and not part of the original Sunday ticket contract with nfl.

Yet another garbage offensive performance…nothing changes. The standard top To bottom for this org is just pathetic.

Just hit a bomb!

Extremely sorry to hear about your loss. Thoughts and prayers to you and your girlfriends family and friends.

Saw this somewhere else - but what about a trade with the Steelers for Claypool and maybe a pick.

I like Roquan - but I still say I would have traded him (and did say so) in the off-season. Get more picks / dangle him for one of the wideouts that was on the market. With that said - I still expect Bears/Roquan will agree and this is all part of the negotiation. I am perfectly fine and understand why Roquan is doing this but also really respect how Poles is tackling this in the sense that he isn't just caving and seems to understand positional value etc much more so than Pace who kind of just threw money all over the place and never seemed very shrewd / tight in terms of prioritization / big picture. If someone offered a 1st - I would do it, but I doubt he gets that much - but if you could get 2 2nd's (maybe one this year and another the following year) - I am fair game. I am also curious if you happen to see a player for player type of trade here.

Doesn’t it go by leagues or am I making that up? If so than this means Sox passed on him.

I am convinced no one wants to get rid of a coach on this team because of the stories that would come out on the sheer incompetence.

An absolute legend. Such a sad day in sports.

Maybe this was next level genius - TLR was demanding a left handed bat and more relievers, Hahn called his bluff and gave him nothing, with the hope that TLR is going to announce his retirement later today, which quite frankly, would be such a massive step in the right direction, I could leave with no other moves. But in reality - this really completes the 12 months of dysfunction that truly got real at least years deadline and have just steadily derailed from there.

With all this said - I fully expect Ian Happ and wouldn't be shocked at Happ and Contreras type of move.

There were signs - but they also had plenty of good moves and at the time didn't need to push all the chips in. Technically they made some good moves other than the mgr (Lynn was a good move at the time and they brought Rodon back). I never liked the TLR move. Reality is was they should have went harder for Machado and Harper - but there wasn't the same mandate that there would eventually be - but it increased future risk and they did nothing. Outcomes matter and the outcomes got a heck of a lot worse at deadline last year and basically everything seen has been a disaster (and they have essentially been a .500 team since last years trade deadline to now after playing ridiculous baseball for the COVID season and pre-last years deadline.