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Crevier with a goal .3-1 now. Hawks carrying the play in the 2nd period ,most offensive control 5 on 5 than I've seen this season without Hall or Seth Jones who was held out for "sickness". Del Mastro has looked very good too in the 2nd. Primary assist on the Nasr goal was Bedard. Kids having a good game with half the game to go.

No because theirs is not offensive and they get support from and acknowledge Native Americans. Their Blackhawk head is more a historical acknowledgement of a Tribe of significance in the Chicago area.

Holy Moly still no thread for this Blackhawks or NHL season. Looks like Taylor Hall is gone in a 3 team trade that's sending Mikko Rantanen to the Canes. Hawks could get a 3rd round draft pick. Found out during the 1st period intermission against the Lighting. Hawks lead 2-1 on goals by Nasr and Colton Dachs very 1st NHL goal !

Yes I'm fine. I moved out of Altadena where I lived for 15 years, 7 years ago to Pasadena maybe 3 miles away from the fires in Altadena. I knew people whose houses burned down as did my old Apt. building , my old job site and the grocery store I still shopped at. Thank you for asking. On the baseball side I'm not worried that Rojas will see more time at SS than anyone. Anyone of 5 guys if you dare to count Sosa among the shortstops could be the OD SS . Who gets the bulk of time at SS is anyone's guess . Meidroth seems the most ready but is not a true SS but neither is anyone else they have. While you accuse the Sox you're the one who omitted Meidroth from your SS candidates and it was the Sox who in the press conference included him.

I'm assuming you think he's the shiny toy best suited to make Getz look good as your no baseball reason ? I would take you up on that bet for baseball reasons. Getz has nothing to gain by Colson being the Opening Day SS. That's a 1 day thing. Now if Colson becomes a future All Star having control of him for an extra year is more valuable to the Sox . Another baseball reason would be Chase Meidroth was named by Baseball America as the AAA All Star SS. If the opposing OD pitcher is RH Meidroth did especially well against RHP in 2024 in AAA with a .304 .457 .430 slash line the simple math says that's an .887 OPS. Meidroth had a much better AAA season than Montgomery did. Montgomery needs to prove he's MLB ready by producing at AAA.

You missed Meidroth in the title ?

I'm actually surprised ( not really) that you took this stance since it was already apparent by 1/11/24 that they weren't going to have any budget for B and C Free Agents coming off that 101 losses. By the time you wrote this I was posting anyone who believed this wasn't another rebuild was not paying attention and you do seem normally to be well informed. I haven't read the last posts in this thread to see why it was revived yet but found your post interesting.

I'd give Schultz a decent chance . But I can understand not being the #1 guy that soon. They'll still likely be handling him delicately. Hope he and Hagen Smith both are healthy and lights out this year, along with the Montgomery Twins. Then things will start to heat up .

Not sure if you're being intentionally obtuse but since you asked. Peanut gallery = cheap seats = hecklers more likely than the average ticket buyer to be booing everything. That is you all the time whereas I boo, well, less than you. We will end up booing the same things once in a while.

I'll just counter about the HR and RBI totals boosting the arb money level with a little extra . I think that when the team you' re on is giving you a significant amount of AB and you are playing a lot of games and your career has been pretty much the same every year that indicates that you have value to the team or else they wouldn't play you so much. Just being a usable body for so many games and uninjured playing time year to year entitles you to a yearly incremental raise . It's like well we can't find anyone better for less out there so might as well keep paying you and keep hoping this is the year you do slightly better. That's where being a high draft pick comes in, keeping you around for that elusive upside in your prime years. Plus replacement cost is likely to be the same if you're looking for the same number of games no matter who you find to replace him if you pick among players with just as many or more years in the league. Most of us wanted to see him gone but on a team starved for HRs he's the grass isn't always greener or better the devil you know than the devil you don't choice.

He basically did a " That's so gay " workaround, saying it without actually saying it. There were ad campaigns against that stuff 16 years ago by Hillary Duff and Wanda Sykes. It's grade school tactics using it as a negative connotation. Maybe you should try to get with the times. You seem to be the only one who thought it was funny judging by your emoji on the post. It's actually good positive baseball discussion that people can voice that they see a smidgeon of light at the end of the tunnel in the near term for the long term health of the organization . And there are quite a few of us judging by the positive responses to @Timmy U post. If anyone wants to try to put their grade school ,bullying, out of date sophomoric humor boot to that positivity then figure out another way to do it.

Are you Robin and he's Batman to you ? And how you came up with me thinking he was calling Getz gay is the dumbest thing I ever heard. JzFC it's pretty plain what I said.

Classy. The master baiter himself now says if you say anything positive about Getz you're a homosexual. Not sure if thats homophobia or just his normal bullying tactics . Why don't you just s*** his d*** while you're at it . We know that's what you meant.

I understand it's easy to put labels on prospects based on nothing more than the word of a stranger on a board. We argue over versatility vs. leaving them at 1 position or switching them to another position vs how it affects their hitting and if they should play now in the MLB or give them more MiLB time. Just sit back and watch it unfold . Relax enjoy watching baseball . No matter what you do if they end up hitting in MLB it was the right decision. If they don't hit everything you did defensively was wrong. Often one has 0 effect on the other or its impossible to know . We can all argue til we're blue in the face about bad development or just tools never would've translated no matter what. Those are arguments I will never believe. Why things happen or how much development helps are impossible to know. Right place, wrong time, wrong coach ,right coach, anxiety, work ethic, trial and error, attitude, injuries all play their roles

Now this is more like it. There should be no talk of our market size or JR will outspend division opponents. Just remove JR from the equation. The future of the franchise is a big ? . Can't count on much of anything right now.

Thank you for your thoughtful response. Very few want to hear it and refuse to see it. You're not saying it'll succeed.There's no way to know that or how long JR will live or even how long Getz remains . It's baby's 1st steps with toys on the floor and an old rug.

I don't think his plan is play the future. I think it's to delay that as much as you can. I think the Project Birmingham in 2023 and the Barons championship in 2024 is part of what he's thinking . He wants as many prospects to grow together as possible. Now you have to play some like Sosa and Vargas because they are out of options. I think he wants other guys to force the issue and they will start the year in the minors , whoever it may be. No need to start the clocks on guys . He wants competition but will be trying to preserve service time and options for as long as he can . Maybe that's why he picked up Perez , Rojas, Tauchman, Slater and lots of veteran arms. He still wants to churn the minors so he hopes to flip 5 or 6 guys and he'll look for a lot more in lower minors now . Sox in the Basement podcast has been spouting that Getz has a plan and it's a lot like what I've been talking about which is build the foundation , create minor leagues depth, create competition, grow together. They start off saying Getz was handed a crap sandwich and it's pretty much the same things you hear on Sox Machine with the occasional "not sure what he's doing in this instance" stance.

Watching 35 games in a year in which he didn't hit well possibly due to injuries may also effect his fielding.I wouldn't put much stock in it.

Yep not like he's racking up WAR as a defender or base runner and we're going "damn if only he could hit he'd be great."

You're like the definition of the peanut gallery.

A hurt hand too .

JR is stripping the team of debt for potential buyers for when he passed away and Michael Reinsdorf sells the team. He's not selling the house furnished.But he may be able to tell the buyer that it's got a good foundation.

Yes that would be a miracle for 2025. It might be for 2026 also. Lots of young arms as well as young bats would have to start doing well from the get go and fairly good health too. And some breakouts that were unexpected. It won't come easy. You know it won't come easy.

Basically I just made that post to give anyone interested ( including me because I honestly always forget a few of them) seeing all the possible arms to choose from already for the 2025 BP. that's why I didn't mention Cannon, Thorpe, Burke and Martin and didn't mention Hagen Smith or Schultz until the end as other possible pieces that could get time in 2025 on the Sox. Its just baby steps towards building a better team going forward if you can build the bullpen better. It's hard when you're working with a bunch of no names but thats what Getz got Bannister for since he wasn't getting any money from JR. It sucked last year and it'll suck this year. But they're trying to find a few keepers in the pen and also flip a few. Don't expect miracles.

My post was a joke. Took that whole Bowden tweet that came without punctuation and added punctuation to make it look like the Sox were still in it. I actually don't care where Sasaki goes if it's not the Sox.