southsider2k5

Before this ends up in the toilet, this is probably the most important post in this thread.

Even if there is an actual tear in there? Like how much of a tear is acceptable?

Reading between the lines here, does this mean the Sox already knew that Bush did and still waited? Or did they just figure out that he did?

Taking a victory lap because the guy wasn't good enough to be claimed by another MLB team is quite the flex.

The Sox were probably targeting the hitters, but of note this is one of Cincy's top 5 prospects.

Noticing a theme here?

Nice.

He needs to put the crackpipe down.

Didn't they know Steven Wilson was available?

Does Chris know, or is the restraining order still in affect?

At that time, this dude could have ended up in jail as a real possibility. I get the thought behind this non-pick for sure. Yeah it didn't work out, but if this dude destroyed himself with the Bears, which was a real possibility, that would have been WAY worse. 8 other teams also passed on him.

My guess? Because the upgrade of the near south side would be worth more to them than what has happened around the current location, which is basically nothing.

Except they would have gotten him the year he collapsed, and not the year after like Getz.

So much for people not caring, and not watching.

The fun thing is that before making a post like this, you just made a contention that we don't have enough pitchers for MLB, yet there is this entire list of AAA pitchers who are soooo important. There are plenty of future relievers in that list at AAA, and plenty that would have been just fine in MLBs pen instead of wasting low level guys. This also would have lightened this panic situation of too many pitchers in the minors. Instead of this, we artificially blocked the guys from moving up by bringing in more pitchers at the top. Realistically this is Chris Getz admitting that the guys at the top are guys he doesn't trust, and he'd rather block them with middle aged relievers than actually use them at the next level.

I think this is why you get so mad at the mention of 121 losses, as any attempt to characterize the season that just happened seem to draw an attack post from you. Again, in the 125 year history of major league baseball, and all of the individual team seasons that make up that long history, no team has EVER lost 121 games in a single season of baseball. Never. It literally the worst season in the history of major league baseball. It was the sum of these players that created this season. By their very definition, they were the worst collective season of individual players ever to be all on the same team, at the same time. So while you spend time trying to make this notion a character flaw in those who point it out, it does not change the season that just happened. It isn't sunny, or negative, or a kook or whatever else name calling you want to turn it into. It was historically worse than ever. Maybe if you quit attacking people for reminding you of this undisputable fact, every discussion thread wouldn't devolve into exactly this cesspool.

Nope. Quite literally they are paying tomorrow for not investing today because they can't "afford" it, yet are still buying a luxury item.

If you want a finance analogy the Sox have a chance to either invest long term, or buy a luxury item on a credit card. The Sox are using their credit card with a 550 credit score, then going to get a payday loan to make it until payday.

Not a chance of this happening in reality.

This is quite literally the point. I am glad you FINALLY got it. When you are 4-5 years from contention, you want guys who fit that window, not guys who will probably be retired at that point.

Is this is a Steven Wilson reference/

That's not radical, that's pretty normal for a decent farm system. That doesn't mean we need to start wheeling them out for old and mediocre middle relievers. Stuff is going to happen, and just like we do now with the last rebuild, the people who think we have too much depth will probably be wrong. s%*# happens, especially with pitchers. If nothing else injuries are going to get quite a few of these guys just because of pure numbers of injuries that happen to pitchers.