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Was able to secure great seats for Muni v. Ohtani

looking forward to McDougal.

no doubt, but 3rd round is a low-line starter pick for most teams, esp at the lower positional value groups like S, G, C, RB. Instead we have been taking high positional value groups in the third, but have been reaches, and it hasn't worked! Take a 'depth' wr in 5th/6th?

I feel crazy about the lottery stuff. It is so indicative of the times. The lottery has done absolutely nothing to stop tanking, in fact it likely has accelerated it as it, imo, encourages mid-level teams to give up last month to improve odds for a massively higher pick vs. just 1 spot lower. Despite it not solving anything, the response continues to be "let's make it more lottery-y". Were any 'tanking' teams punished by the lottery? The bulls traded their whole team from when on verge of the vaunted 'play-in' to move from 11 to 9, because going from 11 to 12 doesn't matter, but going from 11-9 may improve odds marginally for a franchise changing player. The lottery encourages tanking, it does not discourage it! And yet the nba is trying to potentially reward teams who are sitting star players all the time, who actually have star players. Is giving them an avenue, when they aren't top 3, to potentially hit top 8 for a year and enter lottery for maybe another star rookie. It is so dumb! Taking away the guarantee of a top pick didn't encourage 'well it doesn't matter lets just win', it just led to 'man lets be as terrible as possible to get the best odds'.

Isn’t that just the trend in baseball now? Nobody wants to seem to waste bullets in the minors was the quote? I think ptatc also talked about how the physique build up was as important to teams how as “arm” fatigue. ^bastardized paraphrasing

It's funny because I think we thought he'd be a guy that would dominate early and fade as he moved up. He's kinda done the opposite but failing so early I was super out on. But yes - I don't think he'll be more than a call up guy for spots.

You wouldn’t be the first to make that mistake (cough browns)

The WR pick is absolutely inexcusable. The idea that narrowing down your board so much based on fit that you are taking tiny punt returners in round 3 means your process sucks or your coach is over fitting to his scheme

Loved the pick, felt like a ravens pick. hate this draft. Man we need a lot

How embarrassing for Reinsdorf that his underlings have to consistently fire themselves because they care more about the integrity of his org. Except AK, he would have stayed forever.

seems like it will be Lloyd. Too cheap to get Bob Meyers to bring us out of hell. Gotta find a young guy that can be best friends with the failson.

I am ok with this. If Sosa ends up being incredible, I will be annoyed. He just seemed so baseball-dumb. Seeing a lot of prospects with extreme power profiles, then a lot of 'great fielders, ok hit tool, low power'. You'd hope the latter develop power, the former become well rounded. Please god let it work at some point.

I actually think that makes more sense on the calendar than the “draft with the previous scouts” thing, and probably easier to hire your next group. But obviously most are tied to the coaching search. But the timeframe orgs select GMs is pretty silly

Old enough to remember when we thought Presti was about to leave for the bulls (instead we got AK - the guy who somehow had been with the nuggets 7 years and wasn’t mentioned in the 10k word story that detailed how they built a championship - and literally like that entire fo was mentioned. Then like 2 years later the actual architect leaves. Can’t imagine getting to watch two sports organizations run my whole life, know I can run it, and just be such a dipshit. Michael Reinsdorf.

That said - maybe we’ll get lucky

It’s very attractive to lazy frauds who know they can get a GM job for at least 6 years showing zero acumen. Hell…why again did they let this group trade away all their assets then get mad when they are finally tanking? They got horrible value back.

Man we still play so much better at home. Hope they can improve in the road soon.

Gotta say hate listening to him is one of the few enjoyments of the games for me. It’s like they gave Ned Flanders the job. I want him to fail every moment.

Ngl it felt so good to see a win. I’m dying for some baseball to matter. One game at a time I guess.

I was living in a suspended state where I just handed off my opinions to some national writers saying the sox had a productive offseason, but when that opening day roster came out and I was hit with the atrocious starting rotation, the bullpen without vasil, and that 'outfield' I realized that the sox are just trying to do everything in their power to kill baseball for us. Opening weekend was sickening. Can you imagine if we didn't get murakami?

Woof

Remember when we were up 1-0

except I think we started the year with a better staff in the majors last year than we have this year.

I feel like they pay them free tickets and players just hope it helps with autograph partnerships. Sort of kidding

I have no idea, I thought we had a solid offseason but you could easily see a situation where the pitching help expected to come in June all has slow starts/injuries and we have a completely gassed bullpen and miserable staff for most of the year. If that doesn't happen, I think once May comes around the season will be enjoyable and I hope for 75 wins.