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Oh see above.

Keith Law tweeted he put Lackey #1 to Sox. (I no longer have an athletic sub)

End is nigh for him I agree

Man that ball was a rocket but was shocked when it hit the top of the fence. What a moment

Another classic game for this team, good lord what a season

Holy shittttt

Ha, he is reading soxtalk

Gimmicky stuff like this is bound to be like this. But it does feel like an event

Hasn't been as bad recently but sure has felt like a looong time since we had an OF that scared team run games (eaton in 16?)

obviously, looking like a hell of a class (could have been an alltimer?), but yes just sucks. When college players lose a year for injury right after draft I almost always feel like you can forget about em.

Maybe that's the point, I unno but they've done pretty well recently on judging this stuff so I'm going to hold judgment.

Man nick mclain...what a bummer how few games he has still played.

I don't think there is any doubt you trade for Skubal and go all-in on this team. I've said for years while this board was saying 'Getz is a nightmare he can't ever add' I said 'in 2026 we will be a few games over five hundred and Getz is going to add' and now here we are and the same people are saying 'oh we should sell'? That ta-reeks of hypocrisy

Biggest surprise to me was that this was just for a CHSN game

Oh man the suns being in the finals seems like 1000 years ago totally forgot about that.

This rules so much. I left in the sixth (watching tv) just thinkin “well you gotta tip your cap to a pitcher dealing”, only to see us win an hr later. Unreal that our pitching, with this staff, is this productive.

When he came up he was always compared to schoop. I don’t think it’s a coincidence they both had extremely steep cliffs.

What is this

There was nothing more bewildering in 2024 than constantly thinking “we could win 50 straight games and still be 10 games below .500”

I guess one thing I’d offer is it has not felt like solid vet types have garnered meaningful prospects in a few years. Certainly not position players.

What do we think between Carlos Lee walk off and this whatdoyagot? still partial to Lees but today ruled

I feel like every year there are these vets that the sox sign for cheap and have a slow start and we release them, only for them to catch on elsewhere. 2024 was the peak there. Nice to get Grichuk on his way back up.

Also it brings me no pleasure to say Schiffens getting better.

Last year those “tracking” tweets made me so mad. It was not meaningful progress to me to be slightly ahead of the worst team of all time. This graphic I’m cool with, but I like this better

He definitely has a positive rep as a talent evaluator, and his drafts were pretty good when you look at 'what could they have drafted instead'. It's more that this team needed a big swinging culture change, with a no doubt boss (imo). When it was rumored Myers and Masai Ujiri, I think it was exciting. But grabbing obscure secondary execs and succeeding just doesn't seem likely from a Reinsdorf. They are far too vulnerable to lazy execs who won't bother them.