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If the Sox don't come back to win this game, we will have lost the season series to the Rays.

Rick Hahn takes full responsibility.

I'm probably dreaming, but perhaps JR tells KW that he needs a head to keep the other owners happy and to throw a bone to the fans.

Those sycophants around him who enabled this crap for so long saying "Right on, Rick" is comedy in itself.

Absolutely comatose.

Nothing that I can see. While this is the bottom, there have been numerous cases of egregious incompetence, lawsuits over some gnarly stuff, et al that have resulted in no consequences to the perpetrators. Maybe KW will decide to retire. At that point JR announces that he will hire a new VP of Ops. When that new VP comes aboard, then he dispatch Hahn, Haber, Getz and the rest of the clowns.

Man there is no life at all. Never seen anything like this.

In Hahn- speak, that is "A seat at the table."

This is a vivid depiction of what has happened. I never thought Hahn was much of a GM, but a) in June 2016 when he trades for Shields and then drafts Burdi to rush to the pen; and then b) a month later announces that it's time to rebuild, that was it. How could any normal organization not kick this guy after that dog and pony show?

I don't think you can build around any of these guys. I would keep these 6 more for strategic purposes: Vaughn: I would trade him, but I don't think that he has a ton of value; better coaching and some state-of-the-art analytics could improve his trade value or keep him as a cornerstone. Same with Kopech Crochet - there's something there, so I'd keep him and hope he can get healthy Colas - Rookie Moncada and Benintendi: it would cost a lot more to trade these 2 than to keep them.

It's been 9 hours. That, I can't abide.

Sure and with Hahn in charge, with point-man Haber, it will be a give-away train. It's not like we could expect these 2 to actually start prepping for that possibility and position the scouts. Emphasis will be on salary dumping to curry JR favor.

Nice outing by Cannon.

Thanks for the chuckle. It was so bad that I thought it was a sketch comedy show...until Lawrence Welk waltzed out.

I just looked up the stat on mlb.com. Which pitchers are #s 2, 3 and 4 in Pitches/inning? Cease, Lynn, Giolito Sox take it to a new level.

Starters' inefficiency, using c. 90 pitches to get through 5, isn't helping matters; it just necessitates more reliance on a questionable pen.

In retrospect, it probably would have been best to get stuck; now they're tied to an average outfielder for 5 seasons.

Good point. Jimmy Lambert - the pride of the 2016 draft and of the 2023 bullpen!

The Sox frontline team looks good on paper and should win if everything goes right. But roster construction (top heavy, singles hitters, poor defense, pitching dependent on the strikeout) and lack of depth makes them susceptible to variance.

Good luck in the surgery and in recovery, Matt (the pride of the Sox 2016 draft).

So did we.

No. It will mostly be a salary dump. And Hahn generally naps in July and it devolves into a give-away train (except for Quintana, whom he had peddled for 6 months).

Check my math on this, but if don't win any series', they will not even finish at .500.

To say otherwise, would be to disrespect Rick Hahn. That he won't even approach that is why he was hired.

As Rick has explained, no one feels worse about this than him. And if he didn't think that he could rectify it, he wouldn't be here.