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From my perspective the front office and injuries are truly responsible for the state of the team. I'm sure many others feel this way. However , I have to believe the players have enough talent to overcome the front office and I have to believe that miserable starts to the season can turn around. It does me no good whatsoever to think the front office AND the players suck. Sometimes fans just have to be cheerleaders . I see no point in thinking winning is impossible on a daily basis , predicting bad outcomes or that the season is lost because of bad early results. We all know the season is a grind. I do not wish to ride some emotional roller coaster of living and dying based on every failed situation in every game and dwelling on who is performing well and who isn't. My Sox fandom relies on rooting for the players to succeed in the games and when they do not it's on to the next batter , pitcher and game and continuing to believe in them. What is the point of always thinking the worst ?

It's also a little encouraging that they've eeked out a few road wins. Bad teams yes and Wrigley is only technically a road game.

Except the thread was made 13 minutes ago as of my post

Sure they do. But it's not like we're half way through the season. There's a lot of terrible baseball for stretches at any point in the season from tons of players. Some actually do recover and have great 2nd halves just as some good 1st halves go sour in the 2nd half. Gotta take it all in stride.

For sure. Game threads are a dumpster fire where everybody sucks and there's no chance of winning. It's Eeyore City in there.

Scooter, Cody, Engel, Abreu, Robert, Hendriks , OPA !!!!!!

This hockey game is going into OT.

Nice won !

Scooter 4-0 ! Cody 4-0 Without Vaughn since his injury 4-0 ! Oops how did that get in here !

Do it one more time for Opa Liam !

You know it's not about finding anyone better.

Atta boy Vinnie !

Vinnie's pitched his last 8.2 innings without giving up a run.

Which is why it's not the best case scenario

and the inning.

Scooter , Vinnie and Cody ! Let's Gooooooooooooooo !!

No No No . Best case scenario is V V becomes a good pitcher.Keuchel finds his mojo in the bullpen and a spot start every now and then, but not enough mojo to get the innings he needs for next year so we can then trade him.

If Velasquez can have another solid start it's possible you may get your wish. Giolito, Cease, Kopech, then 2 of Velasquez, Lopez, Cueto (if he doesn't opt out on May 15th) possibly Banks. Kelly takes an open BP spot as does perhaps Keuchel if he isn't released. Once Lynn is back that could be the end of Kuechel . Until then there's time to see how they all perform. Vaughn, Moncada and Kelly all should be back in the 2nd week of May barring any setbacks ,which could happen to Moncada. Lynn is possibly back in the rotation the 2nd or 3rd week in June. Same is possible for Eloy.

Cueto might not even be here after May 15th.

Look it's not any fan's fault the Sox screwed everything up this off season. I was the biggest proponent of giving the QO to Rodon and then resigning him. The Sox made their bed. I was just giving you the facts as they stand now. They have Jack and Squat to replace Keuchel with that doesn't fuck with how the rest of the team is constructed. As bad as Keuchel looks right now and last year you just don't rid yourself of a healthy arm in early May. There is a slight chance he can pitch better. This is called insurance in case someone else goes down .

The stats Cuda used only covered 12 of the 24 games. There is a gap between 3 and 3.5 hrs. I have no idea if the other 12 games were somewhere over 3 hrs but less than 3.5 hrs which is what his data suggests. That would mean the Sox are 4-8 in games between 3 and 3.5 hrs long.

Not weird at all. Under 3 hrs. means they got good pitching and their AB's are still aggressive and our innings short since under 3 hr. games are pretty rare.

Cody Asche Banner mania !

When you are in the middle of your "multiple championships" window every bad decision by the FO is magnified and deserves scorn as often as possible. There were a lot of people here who thought the Sox front office knew best. Any time anyone says that I am prone to be more than a little curious as to why. That was back in early November and anyone who gave the FO the benefit of the doubt was most assuredly disappointed in the allocation of funds from early November and throughout the rest of the off season. The amount of people just sticking to their guns on this because of pride or because they are waiting to see if Rodon blows his arm out so they can pounce just seems so out of place while the Sox have struggled with injuries to the starting staff and lack of LH hitting still among the Sox biggest concerns. If the team never advances to the late rounds of the playoffs in the window this will be the off season that everyone points to as main reason they didn't capitalize , along with the TLR hiring and the obsession that relief pitching cures all ills. And all of that is on the FO .

May the 4th was with him !!!