thedoctor

sox cleaned up in this divisional stretch. well freaking done.

that and it's one of those debates that has clearly-drawn lines here and folks who are always willing to restate their opinion as soon as they have evidence in hand. this thread will be 150 pages by the time the season is over. but yes, i think it should be expected that the guy has ups and downs this year and probably next, too.

i'm just still pissed we had to go in this direction with this effing guy. this should be a great time to be a sox fan. most compelling team we've had in quite some time. young talent all over the place. instead, they had to introduce this variable to ruin it. it's cast a pall over everything and just didn't have to be the case. ffs.

hope luis was in the 90 percent.

between this and trubisky instead of watson/mahomes i feel like i’m being sports punished.

yep. probably a better team but could end up with a worse record. the 60-game season to 162-game season is an interesting variable that i'm not how to account for in terms of how i feel people will perform.

*wails/gnashes teeth*

i honestly don't feel the approach the sox have taken this offseason is entirely unreasonable. they've spent more money than most, addressed some needs and generally been active. right now i feel there are so many unknowns both financially (what is this season going to look like) and from a personnel perspective (e.g. what do we really have in guys like kopech, cease, madrigal, etc. and what does our farm really look like once these guys hopefully have a more regular minor league season). from that perspective, i don't think some degree of caution is unwarranted. that all said, jerry deserves a ton of criticism. his lack of desire to "go for it" and be bold financially has always been there, but it's frustrating to see after all these years of cutting payroll and promising tomorrow. even worse, at a minimum he's generally stayed out of on-field considerations, but hiring tlr marks a change and not a good one. i can take a cheap owner. most teams have them. i can't take a cheap owner who knows little about baseball and wants to meddle in the on-field product.

posts about rumors>posts about the veracity of rumors

never would have thought a radio pbp guy joining the team could generate so many impressively bad takes.

these are the good times. ain’t we lucky we got em? next year we deal with EXPECTATIONS.

lmao that's amazing

badler has mt. carmel ss ed howard as the top high school shortstop in the 2020 class.

i’d say 82 wins as a middle and wouldn’t be surprised with five wins variance in that (87 or 77). outside of that is either over or underperforming, imo.

oh no! this is certainly worth getting pissed about.

i doubt the goal is second place but this is a second-place strategy and very much how the org has operated during their windows of contention.

i wonder where they’d be without their three best players missing significant time and their opening day starter missing essentially the whole year.

i’d prefer they actually be aggressive instead of just talking about it.

i don’t think it’s moncada and jimenez that taught us that.

“dandy chickens” is a troll. a poor one at that.

it would be great if they’d stop talking.

wouldn’t surprise me if they are checking in, but if they weren’t willing to make the top offer for the guy they wanted more it’s hard to conjure optimism they’ll offer a bigger number here.

with every tweet, heyman pours another gallon of boras’s water into his bucket.

/sentiment wave turns

i’m here for a source who declares himself “wack” if it reflects what i want.