southsider2k5

Again, the Sox need two teams to pass them, one from within the division AND at least one from outside of the division to pass them for them to not make the playoffs. It CAN happen, but it won't be easy.

Son, you are literally on here making excuses for this stuff. Save your sacreligiousness for someone else.

The entire, you kids just don't get it thing is victim shaming. That's the entire point. Everyone else does it, it happened when I was a kid, you aren't tough enough for this, etc is just a load of BS to deflect from the actual behavior being the problem. I don't need thoughts and prayers, I need action to prevent this from happening again to other innocent victims, yes the real victims, not you and I, Sox management, or anyone else in the positions of power.

I get the reflex is to try to abdicate any responsibility to Getz, and I think that is the reason for the more ridiculous parts of that post, especially since his name comes up expressly in this one, but it just comes off as excusing and enabling said behavior. Who cares who, that's not the important part. I don't need Back in My Day excuses for this s%*#. Back in my day we did a lot of stupid things, but the idea is to grow up and be better. Own up and grow up is the path. Again, this isn't the Sox first rodeo here either. They seem to be acquiring a history of questionable behavior with their employees.

Especially since the ownership group that enabled this is neither of those things.

Fair.

Part of me couldn't help but look back and see every #1 pick has been white since Shirley took over. The other part of me also gets that this could be coincidence with the participation rate of African-American's in baseball is at an all time low, and the prime time for Latin players to be signed is a separate marketplace, meaning most of the guys out there are going to have a like of things in common when it comes to race. It would be interesting to go back and see who was on the board around those Sox picks and see if there were plausible picks on the board.

I am also going to say outloud that human nature doesn't work like that. You don't have a single incident in 2021/22, and then not say or do anything like this for 4-5 years, and then all of the sudden you are acting like this as the scouting worlds biggest event in 2026. It's a curve that accelerates over time until they are perfectly fine saying stuff like this in public, because they have no fear of consequences. That doesn't happen overnight. You build up to that little by little. It starts at a whisper in private, and works up to not caring who is around, and that takes time. I 100% believe this was a worlds worst secret kind of thing in the front office, because nothing else makes sense. You don't go from 100 to 0 to 100. Granted, I am sure there will be an effort to make sure no one speaks of this again, so we probably never get the current people on the record, but I can almost promise you that human nature dictates that the Sox knew about this happening on a regular basis, whether we ever learn the truth about it or not.

I had NOT seen the Sox have an option year on the stadium for 2030. That's new to me at least. Also the updated figure of $44.1 million left on the bonds seems pretty small, and I doubt it ends up being an obstruction. They don't list the amortization schedule for it, but between them still having 3 (well really 4) years to still pay on it, I am guessing that it will be either gone, or close enough to gone to not matter, by the time that the new stadium rolls around.

It goes to the quantitative analytics of 2026. Is it better to play for one run, or is it better to play for the big inning? The numbers seem to say it is the big inning, and so far the Ryan Fuller philosophy with the hitters seems to go this way. It's kind of the same thing with going for it on 4th down in the NFL. The odds of expected scoring go up when you go for it more often, but the public glare of failure puts a lot of pressure on teams to go the less productive ways. Thinking of Ben Johnson gifting Carolina a TD on Sunday by going for it on 4th and 1 inside his own 25, statistically the expected scores outcome no doubt was higher if he went for it. But the actual results may vary.

There are absolutely ways this CAN fall apart, but judging by the agencies and cooperation between the directly affected parties, the odds are pretty good that this happens. What form will it take by the time we get there is probably the biggest question, but with Ishbia cooperating with Amtrak and the like, I am not sure what could stop it, except maybe a Worldcom/Enron type financial meltdown.

They literally just ran 9ff the head prosecutor from the International Criminal Court for this type of stuff.

I have to imagine with them just extending the guy, they weren't exactly ready for this.

Based on the TV highlights from the era, many guys got 4 to 6 inches off 9f the corner in application.

The whole point of growing up is to actually grow up. We should be proud to get better. We are did stupid things as kids, and the worst of them I am glad to have learned from.

Can we at least acknowledge that the strike zone was massive in those days, not to mention the average fastball in 1950 was probably somewhere around 80?

Their ops would rank 29th in 2026.

TLDR: It's ok to be trash, I was trash decades ago too!

It COULD happen anywhere, yet seems to happen here a lot. It also took twice people complaining from outside of the organization to make it happen.

2034 is the first year it is up to Ishbia, and rumor is Jerry wants the glory of the 33 ASG.

The chaff has been removed. Next up gets time off.

I got to the 2nd sentence and lold

"I will tell you one thing, I will never pay under slot! Punt a pick? NEVER!"

Again, it tells me the front office know this team wasn't good enough where adding a few guys could power them through. They were already playing for next year. So far Getz looks right.