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Has to be under. I wouldn't be shocked if he retired again.

This is another great unspoken statement. These same companies that now "can't find anyone who wants to work" are the same companies who is March and April of 2020 were letting employees go by the bucket load, despite all of the government money which was supposed to be designed to help them keep employees on the payroll. Lots of excellent, loyal, and long time employees were canned, with a whole of crappy ones. The good ones moved and and in lots of cases moved up. Even lots of the bad ones did the same. Statistically we know lots of things here. -About 4 million less people are employed today, than before all of this started. -Labor Force participation is still down an entire 2%, again those people aren't on unemployment, or they would be in the labor force. -Unemployment isn't much over where it was before all of this started. -There are eight million less jobs today than before all of this started. Now the same companies who let a ton of people go, can't find people to come back because they have largely moved on. The labor pool has shrunk by a ton and now there is no source of cheap labor left. We also destroyed cheap labor with immigration policies which largely shut down our borders. The idea that companies are paying a ton more also hasn't found its way to the labor statistics as last months wage number was an annualized increase of 1.98%. So wage inflation, again while a nice meme, isn't really happening to a large extent in this economy.

We got good news on Eloy and Luis.

Exactly. This isn't an people getting rich on unemployment problem. This is a labor force problem. For the record, if you aren't in the labor force as a part of that counting statistic, you aren't getting unemployment.

If you look at the article a grand total of 33,000 people are getting these benefits in Iowa. 33,000. That alone should tell you that this isn't the problem, and you should look at the labor force numbers to see the real problem.

GET BACK IN THERE AND SELL!

Ozzie graduates? I call BS.

I'd say this is part of the game to get banned, but this is a normal post for him.

Since Robert got hurt the Sox have buried the Twins and expanded their lead over everyone in the division. If that doesn't scream sell, I don't know what does.

Because Goodwin won't hurt you defensively, probably.

There is an injury exception.

You don't have to win the world series for this to be a successful season. You know what could do long term damage? Blowing up a team that is 4 games in 1st place in a weak assed division.

This needs to be a gif to be able to use for Parkman Posts.

Totally agree.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/sports/baseball/mlb-injuries-soft-tissue.html https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/ny-mlb-injury-list-20210529-juhlmf3nuzchtjxf2bt32s3igy-story.html

No it doesn't. Getting to the playoffs again is a huge deal to this franchise.

They would rightfully get buried by their fans and media alike. The time for rebuilding is over.

Steve Stone? Keep his mouth shut? lol, good luck with that one.

Forget it, he's rolling.

He's shut down for six weeks at least. Even if that was it, he would have to condition and rehab after that.

Well he is out 2 months at the very least. He is supposed to be indisposed at least 6 weeks, to start with. I think August is probably off of the menu for sure. Would be shocked to see him again this year.

The worst news of all...

It really feels like we are seeing the results when these guys didn't have access to top level conditioning for a long period of time. We can look at the Sox, but the number of these injuries around baseball right now is insane. It almost has to be COVID related somehow, most likely due to not having major league training going on during the lockdowns and winter.