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I'm surprised but also not surprised. Surprised because the defense hasn't been so good but also not surprised that even though he was suspended MLB put a lot of effort into promoting his style of play.

Time to change those predictions for the next 24 games or use this info to make a prediction if you haven't already.

I keep wondering where the idea came from to get a bunch of guys that Machado had good relationships with. Was it the whole front office ? Was it Hahn's , Kenny's or even Jerry's Idea. We have to remember that not only was it Alonso and Jay but Castillo earlier , then Colome and Nova who were on the WBC team with him. Did that friends and family plan start with Castillo and then they expanded it knowing all along they weren't likely to offer top dollars for him ? Obviously it ended in tragedy and if that was the plan starting with Castillo .Then Hahn, Kenny and Jerry all suck. But I have said all along that it's mostly Reinsdorf and I'm sticking with that. We have to remember that Reinsdorf is loyal above all else and it could be he saw in Machado the same traits and formulated a plan that loyalty might win out of money. The fatal flaw in that thinking probably was if Reinsdorf was in the same position what would he do ? I 'm pretty confident in saying Jerry would've taken the bigger guaranteed payday too.

I thought it was Anus Tart

Hey look at that someone took a pic of my license plate. uh OH someone stole my registration stickers.

All I'm doing in this thread is giving love to the most anti Ozzie ones that didn't already have it.

I am hoping 8 and 16 is the worst we do so I'll go with that. 10 at home 14 on the road , That would put the Sox at 21-31 overall, Starting pitching is always the key and I have no idea how anyone will perform. If you think the BP is bad now it might be a nightmare against better hitters. Game threads for this stretch should be very entertaining. If Timmy and Yoan fall back to earth it will be brutal. I can easily see a losing streak of 7 games during this stretch.

I'm glad you're taking it gracefully and with a sense of humor. The other guy Blanco Sox was getting hot under the collar so I chose to ignore his arguments which frankly were weak. I know I came off as pompous with my whole Learn baseball and think schtick and I am sorry for that but it's no diffrerent than everyone telling me it's baseball 101 and anyone who argues it is dumb. Have to fight fire with fire sometimes. I'd be amenable to discussing that play again in PM but you probably had enough of it. But you are a good poster .

Can't pass him on an out. LOL that was my weak attempt to bait our Jose ABreu The Poster into rekindling our argument. I had enough of it in that thread.

Just gonna throw this out there . Hey Delmonico threw out a fast runner attempting to tag up from 1st base on a deep fly ball. Cal Ripken told me that wasn't a winning baseball strategy.Guess he was right.

Yea but he's always got an angle too. Like you said Ozzie said I hope that wasn't called from the bench which in Ozzie speak means I know damn well it was called from the bench but isn't directly going to call out Renteria.

Why is your jaw dropping ? You know Ozzie , He says what he says to make himself look smarter than Renteria which isn't all that hard.

How do you know that ? It's not like a 1 year guys with a track record of staying healthy and throwing strikes were in abundance. Maybe 2 injured guys who were FA's would've cost just as much except for the low minors guy you gave up. But then you have 3 guys who were injured in the rotation. Not saying he was right . That's just the way he decided to go.

Doubtful .Who wants a guy who had shoulder surgery to count on for a pennant drive. Unless you want to give him up for peanuts.

LOL rally Engel worked perfectly though not for extra innings. And got the 9th inning magic I said we needed.

At least you give a reason for why it was dumb. That's a good thing.

Swinging bunt more or less.

Paul Fry brother of Small Fry.

Who wants to see an attempted double steal ? Severino got a cannon back there doesn;t he ?

I think he might've got his quota of hits for the week already

15 pitches 11 strikes? Usually it's the other way around for TV.

The difference so far in today's games versus the rest of the season is the Sox haven't yet come up with any 7 , 8 or 9 th inning heroics yet . One more inning to change that.

If you didn't have such a good sense of humor you might be insufferable . But you are pretty funny and don;t resort to insults so that makes you a good guy to discuss baseball with when pretty much everyone gets a little hotheaded when you challenge them.

No sense fighting it. It's just your typical game thread. Take it for what it is.

This didn't age well.