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a little off topic but I just turned 40 and my buddy is about to in a month and I was trying to tell him that if he works out and keeps himself in shape he'll feel about the same new as he did at 30. Yea you got sore easier and your joints are more worn but my workouts are still about the same as they were 10 years ago. Yea it would be nice to be 25 again, but 40 is not like some magical cliff that you just topple down physically. People need to realize that with weight training, the right supplements (not talking T, just creatine and some others) you can maintain strong physical fitness well into middle age and beyond.

36 is young bro. Be glad you'll get a new park in the prime of your life!

That will last about a month, at most. By the middle of May almost all of us will be sick and tired of this team, especially given that they can't tank for a draft pick.

Vibe is a bit different in the Bronx but yea similar. I'm not sure the Sox have that kind of cache but it wouldn't hurt to try and build it up organically, slowly, over time. Having that public transit close is key, as people will still be around on days the games aren't and will stop and grab a beer or something on the way somewhere else and talk to their bartender about the team or whatever.

If the Sox could recreate something like the neighborhood around Yankee Stadium that would be amazing. Not so much "tail gating" as just a massive bar and vendor scene centered around the park.

I think the Sox won in the sense that others have talked about. That said, it's easy to tear down a club with no expectations of winning and win trades on paper. Hahn was good at it as well. It's much harder to build and sustain a winning club. I guess we can be thankful that Getz is at least managing the tear down well.

edit: who gives a s%*#.

This is all true, but if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle, that's true too. I hope Gonzo gets hotter than s%*#, but right now, he looks like a bust. We can say that.

There's many things I'd say about Jason's play by play but bad puns are much worse than ketchup only hamburgers.

We'll see over the course of a season but in the few minutes I watched of that he let the game breath a bit more than Jason and I like that. You can't call a full season of home town baseball like you're on a national Sunday broadcast. Doesn't work.

Can we all agree we don't need SOX MATH???

I don't follow. Jason and Stone carried water for the org at almost all times. If they did offer any critiques, it was aimed at individual failings, and certainly not the FO. To be fair, this is par for the course with contemporary announcing crews, but you're seeing things in Jason that weren't there. Jason is a nice story, overcoming adversity to become a top play by play guy nation wide, but as a Sox announcer? That I have to listen to 140+ times a year? He was not anything special and was unable or unwilling to say a bad word about his bosses.

Well it's a little easier to call plays when you have Amon Ra, CMC, Gibbs, Lamar, Mahomes and so on. The two QBs that aren't elite but just good (Purdy and Goff) are surrounded by elite talent. Detroit has the best offensive line in the league, SF might have the best overall collection of skill players when healthy. Chicago needs help everywhere. Get a bunch more good players and the coaching will probably sort itself out.

I saw some photos. Looked cold AF but not much snow came down? Looked like Michigan and then the areas to the east of the Great Lakes got much more. Can't really complain about the weather here. We got down to record lows for a few days a couple weeks ago but now it's back up to high 40s, low 50s. Typical gray mist but you can tell winter is getting over as the sun is now setting at 5 instead of 4. Few more weeks and we'll be talking about pitchers and catchers.

Joining a long, heralded list of Sox Talk produced expert meteorologists, we have now added expert geologists and civil engineers.

Husky Stadium upper deck is the worst I've ever been in: great view. steep as s%*#.

It's almost all bedrock. Famously, some of it is jutting up in places including Central Park. It's also a major part of the subway history, going through or (more preferably) around, over, and under it. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Pretty much. It was basic ass hot dogs, pretzels and nachos, cheapish US macros for beer and for sweets you had ice cream and froyo, an early 90s phenomenon. I feel like the Sox were one of the first parks that started to serve more diverse s%*#, like the bertucci bros area.

Don't worry once Trump gets into office and pressures the fed we'll have free money again for the financiers. I'm only half joking.

Same with Seattle. Almost all of downtown used to be tidelands and they chopped like 150 feet off the "Denny Hill climb" and trucked all that dirt down to the bay in order to fill it in. Unless they are building a tunnel under the new stadium, I'd expect modern engineering to have no difficulties working around any fill issues under it.

This has me tremendously excited. As excited as I've been since the start of the Covid year season. So, tell me, it seems like the perfect storm to get a half private, half public stadium built in an awesome setting -- why is it just now being talked about? Is this really viable? It sounds too good to be true, honestly. The Sox playing in an intimate, modern stadium in a neighborhood well served by transit with plenty of room for organic growth around the new park? Get it done!

His "cancer" was turning from a 4-5 WAR player into a .5-1.5 WAR player. Is he a "good" club house guy? Probably not, but in a winning team, he's just another cog.

Given we aren't contending for anything but the cellar of the division, and it's *just* money there's almost no reason not to sign him as a flip candidate. So it won't happen.

I'm guessing he either gets 2/15 or 1/10. Not much value in a projected 1 WAR player. Ironically this off-season TA free agency is exactly the type of dumpster dive signing the Sox have always loved.