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Maybe soon he will catch the legendary Lenyn Sosa for OPS.

Maybe at your age you have forgotten, but this was the story we were fed when they built the last park 35 years ago. Instead they destroyed the charm of the immediate area and turned into into a sea of mostly empty parking lots.

Boring and generic IS better than literally the worst team ever, so I guess that's a win?

As well they should pretty much every single year.

Honestly knowing our history I am more worried about Chase being rushed back.

Because this could be the day that Andrew Vaughn.... Nah, I can't.

It's just wild at this stage.

The separation here isn't that fans show up when they win, it's that with a decent stadium and the right experience in the right area, they might still get people to show up when things are mediocre to bad.

So for me there is a fine line between just not advancing the negotiations any further, and setting up a meeting only to not show up. The first one is what is it is, but the second is unacceptable professional behavior.

If true, it isn't inconsequential. We literally let one of the best players of this generation who is playing on a contract less than half of similar players today sign with someone else for some still unknown reason. If we ghosted him to do it, that has ramifications for future player negotiations, but again that is only if it is actually true.

In 2025 vanilla is the definition of left behind when it comes to the currentgame day experience. Modern ballparks have style, themes, and experiences. This ballpark is a 1970s style cookie cutter in an entertainment desert. This ballpark also completely lacks any history or personality of old era parks to make up for its sterility, that allows the enjoyment of places like Fenway and Wrigley. Vanilla and boring is exactly why it doesn't resonate with people.

It is literally just a picture of unsourced and unconfirmed text messages. I know this is where we are as a country for "evidence ", but I want more than this.

Solid strategy.

While it wouldn’t shock me, this feels awful unsourced and unproven to be presented as fact at this stage. Some dude ran into Harper and he just threw this out there without provoking? Seems too easy.

How about no? Andrew

That was a lot of babip luck and bad fielding

I just think it is amazing that you were able to now accept it as ok after freaking out about it previously, but only because you were instantly able to pivot to it being the cause of his problems, aka, the deflection of it being the Sox fault, but instead it was Montgomerys people.

There it is.

You almost got there.

You keep reflexively literally making up stuff, and you don't see that as a problem. Yes, that bothers me.

Not his hitting problems, but somehow that his agency ruined him by secretly teaching him how to hit for more power, in apparent defiance of what the poor Sox Dev people were teaching him, so that it isn't the Sox fault he failed, but those pesky outside people.

This would be more like SPI not having any bars, restaurants, or hotels, so people could literally only go there to go to the beach, and then leave. People would spend more time there if they had all of those options included in the immediate area, vs having to go back to the mainland to get them. It would generate more jobs, and more fully day trips.

By the way, this, it what deflection looks like. Without absolutely any evidence or any information to suggest this, suggesting blame on his team here is just wild. We don't that this actually happened, or even if it did whose idea that it is, but here you are making up something to blame somebody else for an imaginary problem.

^ This part. I will be honest, if I was in a situation where I thought my very future depended on an organization with as questionable of a track record in development, I would probably seek outside council as well. It's just wild to then see the outside people reflexively blamed (par for the course), in this case, as if the Sox have some crazy track record here where we shouldn't be wondering what the Sox did to break him first. To be fully transparent, in Colson's case specifically, I wonder more about the back injury jacking up his progress than I do any of the the Dev stuff. If he can't swing like he wants to, or he is afraid to swing like he used, or he is being told to swing differently to save his back, those are all really big red flags that could easily derail a guy like this.

Well your "question" is phrased more as a classic deflection to blame someone else, but in the framework of you previously saying how acceptable it was recently to now trying to use it as a blame stick seems like a significant stretch to me.