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Love seeing this kind of stuff . I think Brooke will get hired away from the Sox maybe Connor McKnight too .

You can always read the thread but I think it was locked so people couldnt edit predictions or predict after the season started. That's my guess, not a fact. I also think it was locked to avoid getting called out if you were embarassingly wrong.Last year we could see how everyone voted.I dont think that was the case this year. And not everyonewho voted posted how they voted.

Maybe do an updated prediction thread like how many wins by the All Star break or Trade Deafline and how many we expect at the end of the season. We' d have to let people know how many games are in each time frame since its not an equal split of the season. All previous predictions would be wiped clean in the preseason thread will be figuratively expunged . Or you can stick to any previous predictions. It's to get a bit carried away and the 2nd half record will mainly depend on a lot of current unknowns such as who gets traded at the deadline which corresponds to where the Sox will be in the division when to TDL rolls around.

And our level of fun comes with a bunch of prospects doing well which includes winning and hitting bombs. But in my case it came with watching the kids come up and perform well which was as they started to trickle in, in 2025 and some of the pitchers like Martin and Burke late in 2024 . I also advocated getting Murakami in the off season thread about if you could sign 1 Free Agent. But I figured it wouldnt actually happen because of the projected price tag at the time which was well over $100M from quite a few places. And why wouldn't he get that amount when you look at what he had accomplished at such a young age. He had to be a special bat. But the industry spread the fear of the K with him which goes to show that many many scouts and data analysts can make mistakes on high level talent. No knock on them, it's baseball after all, where, if physical talent is No. 1 then the ability to evolve is No. 1A and having a good eye for the strike zone is 1B. He was the main reason my preseason win total was probably higher than 85% of fans. I envisioned somewhere betwern 70 and 80 HRs between Mune and Colson and those numbers are in my past posts. Still a long way to go before that happens. Injuries always play a part in how things turn out. After all , the trade of Robert upset people who were still stuck on his upside even after all his injuries and especially after his good start . But that soon started to fade and no telling how long his latest injury will keep him out. I was thrilled they could dump his whole salary and get a prospect and used that $20M to sign multiple players. The baby steps of adding talent to boost winning in a rebuild is a fine line of balancing the evolution of youth which also involves some effort at winning so the stench of losing doesnt get too deeply ingrained in them so upgrading the back of the BP with Dominquez to perhaps win a few more late inning games rather then demoralizing late innings losses is important. It's also why I liked the 2 Southern League championions. It was breeding a winning culture at a level high enough to mean something eventually to the big league team and the attitudes of the young players involved. Confidence has to be built along with teaching winning traits like team work, fundamentals and comaraderie. These things might seem like old fashioned and outdated concepts but while winning they seem like a very likable, modest, hard working bunch who genuinely like each other. You see our fans mention those attributes time and time again and say the players from the old rebuild seemed to lack that, even though it might has existed during the Rickey's Boys Don't Quit Phase of that rebuild which was quickly snuffed out by injuries, front office blunders and chaos in general. People here may have hated the Getz hiring but there's no doubt he's built something even while having almost no money to work with. I have no idea how far it can go or how long it will last with JR still driving the boat. Im afraid it could fizzle before Ishbia has a chance to make a difference. So I'll just enjoy it for the time being for what it is, a fun transition period that is on the way up but may get interupted if JR's reign lasts longer than than most of us hope it will.

They have standards we don't. Have heard that a few times. They can't enjoy a team that doesn't have a winning record. I realize that makes it hard for everyone but there's been a lot of progress and admittedly a long way to go too.

Honestly Sox would be lucky to get a few decent relief pitchers out of the whole group that had TJ. This really isn't the year to look for any positive results from them. Next year should be a good litmus test. They have to build back up and work out the rust and kinks.. That'll mostly be done in the minors and unfortunately Charlotte is not an ideal place for that.

Upward trajectory you say ? Winguardium Leviosa ! 🪄. I wonder if Vasil uses that spell with his Harry Potter wand to make things rise. It's straight from the movies and good for a team rising rising, home runs, and .....well, she'll like it too !

I know people were pissed about Schweitzer pitching like crap, as was I, but I didnt think it was that bad of a gamble by Venable. You had 4 innings to cover, seemed like Taylor, Hudson and Dominguez were all going to get 1. That left 1 inning to cover and you got a 3 run leadwith a young guy who pitched well the last inning they used him a few days ago. Better to use him in the 6th than any later. Maybe he gets 3 outs and gets a little confidence for his next appearance. You can't manage just thinking about the game at hand. This isn't game 7 of a playoff game. You need to set up the pen for the rest of the series so Newcomb might get 2 innings tomorrow, Tyler Davis for an inning and whoever is freshest among Hudson and Dominguez or both of them tomorrow consider Dominquez only threw 10 pitches and Hudson 7 today. But ideally only one of them tomorrow so one of them is left for the 3rd game. Or maybe Sox get blown out and we see Hicks and Newcomb and the other guys get the rubber match.

His slug was .721 after the HR. Only 25 ABs though and his OBP is also good.

Game thread miserable is a different animal than I'm just mad about everything miserable. There's some here who wouldn't be caught dead being happy about the Hill HR with a "DEREK MF HILL !!!" outburst.

He was actually 4 for 9 in bases loaded situations so far this year. But that was a terrible AB after 2 straight walks. You have to force the pitcher to throw a strike. Before he came to bat I was talking to my TV " Make him throw a strike Colson . He's on the ropes" Followed by about 3 "DOHs !!!!" and a " WTF are you doing?". 🤣

I forgot to add that the Sox are now 3-2 against the Royals. Last year against the Royals they were 3-10.

By the end of May they might be more than a month ahead of last year.

If someone had said that the Sox would hit 3 HR's tonight 99.9% of us would have said at least 1 would come from the Big Three of Vargas, Colson and Mune. Drew Romo hit a HR, then Chase Meidroth extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a HUGE 3 run HR in the 5 run 5th inning and then in the 8th, Derek Hill hit a 2 out PH solo HR to give the Sox the final margin of victory 6-5. Antonacci continues to excel in the leadoff spot and went 2 for 4 with a double, SB and a run scored. His BA is now .280 and OPS .795. Vargas also had 2 hits and his OPS is .854 In another weird roll reversal Dominquez came in the game in the 8th and proceeded to get the Royals out without drama on 10 pitches with 7 of them being strikes. The 9th went to Bryan Hudson who was working on 15.2 innings without giving up a run streak. Bobby Witt hit a sinking line drive that Derek Hill snagged on a dive for the 1st out. Pasquantino then hit one to Meidroth's left and he ranged over to pick it and make a good throw to Mune for the 2nd out. Salvy Perez flew out to Hill in foul territory to end the game. 7 pitches , 6 strikes 3 outs . Hudson got his 2nd save of the year and extended his scoreless streak to 16.2 innings and lowers his ERA to 0.90 and Dominquez got the W and his ERA is now 3.24. Don't think this is a permanent switch but you never know. Could've just been the hitters they had to face. Venable felt comfortable switching them this game and it couldn't have worked out better. Fedde pitched credibly after getting off to a rocky start in the 1st inning giving up 2 solo HR's. He settled in to give up just those 2 runs in 5 innings. Sox record in 1 run games improved to 7-5. Sox had no errors. Kyle Teel hit a HR in 4 AB today in the 1st game of his rehab assignment in Charlotte. He will DH tomorrow for Charlotte. Guessing he could be back on May 29th at home against the Tigers barring any setbacks.

I don't think Danks pays much attention to the contracts JR has handed out lately . 2 years $34M has been the biggest contract in 3 years. Beating $5/$150M was never even a consideration for a 34 year old without a position to play.

I imagine Gomer Pyle saying Golllllly . Must be rough to have had your balls cut off as a Mod. Must suck not being able to delete any post that pisses you off now.

Look buddy it's a rebuild . They are ascending and people take that into consideration except maybe for you , telling us all you're not trying to squash dreams because you are the optimist in your group. You're so full of s%*# it's leaking into your posts . You're playing both sides of the fence. You say you agree with a poster who thinks the Sox can win up to 82 games but were telling us a little over a month ago that the whole situation was embarrassing because you can't put 2024 behind you. You have used "embarrassing" so many time in posts to describe the Sox it's hard to keep up. Some of us have seen the rise and predicted it. We don't change our opinions based on the current state of the team as you have been doing while hedging your bets that they may still regress. Fence sitter. Fair weather fan. Wet blanket.

Guess we know who uses Verizon or has data limits .

I jumped the gun on laptop since I don't own a laptop figuring it's just about the same as a desktop computer which is where I see it. I thought if you use a tablet you might not see the banner also since it's more like a phone.

My only guess would be that they are prioritizing guys who aren't going to come up and walk a bunch of guys. That's without looking at any stats . There could be other things involved too like how they respond to coaching or if they fit into the I support my teammates culture.

I have to not use Wifi or use my PC to get Soxtalk. Have to change my settings on my phone constantly turning Wifi on and off. Off for Soxtalk on for everything else.

A chump by any other name .. How about sheep or that we should be embarassed ? Maybe do some long research into his posts 1st before you defend someone but you do you.

Mason Adams ?

His watch started when he entered into an agreement to buy the team , started paying off team debt and buying property that could be used for a new stadium. He also already owns more of the Sox than perhaps the Reinsdorf Triad. I realize that we are in an age where anyone could tell a lie and make it sound believable for attention but he was at that May 9th game. I saw the footage in a tweet although on my phone it was hard to see and it may have been posted just once in the game thread.

You probably use your phone for Soxtalk where the banner doesn't show up. On a laptop or desktop PC it's right there at the top like it's always been with Moncada, Giolito, Robert, Anderson and Jimenez as if this was still 2021.