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I'm in a great mood. I didn't read anything.When it just sits there and spins I know it wasn't a FB. Sorry I was just correcting you without any malice intended. You did ask why they threw a FB .I assumed it was you seeking knowledge and not rhetorical.

Big 4 run inning !

Vargas !

Meidroth !

Wilson might pitch another inning. All righties coming up and no LH on the bench.

Wilson had been pitching well. He made quick work of the righties after De la Cruz.

Sure looked like a hanging breaking ball to me

De la Cruz hit a cement mixer.

I'm resisting the urge to make a prediction of doom .

Cannon ERA dipped below 4 now, 3.83 .

Nice DP started by Vargas and the turn by Sosa.

Beautiful piece of hitting by Quero !

Let's go bats . No more slumber for the lumber.

Nice play by Taylor to run that one down. Through 3, No score.

ROSTER MOVES: Prior to the start of this morning's game at Gwinnett, the Charlotte Knights have made the following roster moves: Oh Slater is back in action just when I thought he might be gone for the year with that meniscus tear.

I know where you got it from. In almost 25 years on Soxtalk no one ever looked it up . I rarely used it. Didn't care enough to delete it.

I like my home town team . So does everyone here. I want them to be good but at least I'm not blind to whats really happening here instead of blaming a puppet . I can still enjoy my team take smalls amounts of joy at individual moments in games. It does not make me miserable enough to try and hunt down your social media posts. Was that some kind of gotcha moment for you ?

I wouldn't call not dying "dilly dallying" . The guy loves to play with money. And he's pretty good at it. Not a good owner but he sure has decent luck. He forgot what it's like to be a fan. He just has higher priorities that don't coincide with rewarding the fans. It's more like using them as a means to an end.

I'm not enamored with Getz. I think he was a hire of convenience and a Fall guy. The stunt double to take the fall because a real GM wouldn't take the role because you can't look good as a GM under the current situation. He had very little to trade off compared to the 1st rebuild. Crochet appeared out of nowhere. That happened on Getz' watch with help from the pitching guru he hired and Katz. That has brought the most talent into the organization. Most of the time many of the complaints are about the process and not even necessarily the results . Most moves have been inconsequential and without much money involved. Pretty much the bare minimum it takes to stock AAA and the Sox with a very low budget for doing so. I didn't like the Fedde trade I thought it a player short like most did. It's looking little better this year. In 2 off seasons. Fedde had been the Sox biggest FA signing 2 years $15M . Compare it to signings the Sox made during the 1st rebuild. They actually put too good a product on the field that the draft picks during that rebuild weren't ever at the top like when the Astros were tanking. The Astros really knew how to suck . Now Getz is working under anti tanking rules the league instituted which hurts the Sox more than any other team because they operate like a small market team without the benefits that small market teams get. That's on JR not his puppet. Add it all up and we're likely making the same complaints because JR would've hired a different puppet working with the same restrictions in the transition years before hopefully the Ishbia's are the new owners. Or Jerry outlives the Ishbia's patience and they pull out.

It's a rebuild after the old rebuild died and Reinsdorf estate planning for his death. I've given you the benefit of the doubt that you actually know this. But I guess I'm wrong . You actually think Getz matters and think things could magically change to IDK what if only JR fired Getz and was replaced by IDK who . You always leave that part out. Oh wait you said a monkey. Your X must be so popular .

Have you ever consider sports talk radio ? All you need is people to listen and bravado .Don't need facts just meatball soup.

There goes the marketing department. Their whole job is to do that for us and to get us to believe it.

Eh everyone was saying the bullpen is worse, the starting pitching is worse, the hitting might be a tiny bit better if Robert, Beni, Tauchman Slater , Rojas and a couple rookies play OK. Defense was a wash too. Maybe slightly better . Point is there was a lot of talk preseason that the Sox were worse because we lost Crochet and Fedde. Still a long way to go and anything can happen but it's not like Robert has hit much better than Vaughn. He does more to accumulate WAR in other aspects but he hasn't been carrying the team offensively. We still may have some other surprises in store. Shane Smith ,Meidroth, Quero and more to come . Not too bad considering all the pitching throughout the organization that got injured.

Or if Detroit buys him back for $50K they break even or made money on him if they paid the Cubs less for him or they know Detroit won't pay for him, no one else claims him and they get to keep him. Or someone claims him and they get paid cash like they paid the Cubs and now they're off the hook for him and break even ? I'm putting way too much thought into this 😋.

You always make it sound so simple. Riddle me this . What's Getz supposed to do ? Seriously asking if you are the GM and your owner says we need to lower the payroll even more than last year, when you could at least take a shot on Fedde, who are you suppose to sign? You can't just say we don't want to spend any money so we're forgetting the major league season and only want to play our minor league seasons. You have to field an MLB team and pay for them. You have to pay AAAA talent to play in AAA to back them up. It's easy to rant and rave about wasting millions but how do you still try to rebuild but also field a team bad enough to be in the running for the No 1 draft pick ? How do you fix scouting and development or R & D ,hire new people, buy new up to date tech, built a new complex in the DR ? How do you continue to make 2 other Rule 5 picks that have turned out pretty good so far ? Maybe you can help me understand what you're talking about by creating the budget Getz has been working under and making a list of all players you would have TRiED to sign, All the people you would have hired and all the tech you would have bought and compare it to all the money Getz has spent and show me where the waste is . I'm sure in your plan the players never get injured. Your bums would all perform well and your vets would all be traded for high draft choices. Get a clue .You have no idea. This is what happens when you're signing players to be bad on purpose. You hope a few of them do decent enough to get you a few minors leaguers who turn out to be something. That's it. This is the process of rebuilding right after your 1st rebuild didn't quite manage the sustained success that was envisioned by the architects of the 1st rebuild including the same owner who is clutching the purse strings even tighter now that he's prepping his sons to sell the team in such a way that will make them the most money with as little debt and taxes as possible . Yes it's ugly, a very ugly process. You hate it. I hate it. As fans it sucks going through it. You want to wave a magic wand and make it all better and until it is you will keep throwing tantrums acting like you haven't got a clue to the things I just told you. This is just JR estate planning. Sooner or later you will get it . You, me , us, the fans we are not a part of this process.