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If you want to play games with “control” before a work stoppage, go after buxton + ryan package. Pay them to take rest of benintendi. Ryan won’t be a premium with just a mutual option, Buxton has injury risk.

Trade for Skubal. I have run the analysis and fatter pitchers over perform after age 29 because everyone thinks they will fall apart; but they have big boy strength. I’ve never been that scared of packages given out for .5 season, news of “franchise altering packages” are dumb. It will be fine. When work stoppage ends, Jerry will celebrate his only joy in life - crushing the mlbpa - with a big signing à la Albert belle and we will re sign skubal who will be a Sox legend for next decade.

That was a lot of the 2000s teams, just staying near contention. But that’s where I am kinda nervous for second half’s because we always seemed like a team that couldn’t put it together. This one seems like it could…or the pitching falls apart.

I unno, we traded for Cordell and Wilson. I was thinking of the waiver and depth guys Hahn hoarded, who tended to be plausible .720 ops guys that could only be hidden in the corners.

I think Getz targeting more well rounded ball players and hoping their bats play up has worked out better than Hahn recycling decent hitting retreads who couldn’t play positions and were worthless if they didn’t hit right away. Seems to be paying off.

I feel crazy because it's true the month by month records are not impressive june/july 09, I just remember some stretch where brent lillibridge got really hot and we caught up in the division. By time of perfect game I felt like we had a shot again. But this was when I was in college and drunk a lot.

Man somebody blacked out our Lenyn Sosa, Jose Rodriguez golden era

you can go ahead and I'll just 86 this

TBH this doesn’t feel like a year I have experienced as a forty year old ish Sox fan, so maybe 90 is right. All of our playoff runs were mostly incredibly hot starts that they held onto in second half. There were those mediocre starts with torrid junes in 2009 and 2010 which couldn’t quite get to the finish line, which maybe this will be. But those were still the ghosts of 2005. Would love to see a truly hot second half, which I don’t feel like I’ve seen Sox have save maybe turning it on in August in 03 (twins hotter and overtook em)

I would struggle to go to work if I was a San Antonio fan. Stuff of nightmares for die hards

Davis Martin is insane

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