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Seriously, we are talking about something like a decade from from now. Odds are Jerry is fertilizer and the Ishbia era is well under way, making this all moot.

I think the motivation and work ethic stuff is almost certainly BS. These guys have played through injuries for most of their careers and it has robbed them of ability. I really don't think it gets better.

Which is why this whole dance of picking up his option was weird anyway.

This is who he is. He's been this way for his whole career. He isn't a young pup anymore.

I was wondering with actual money out there, if they finally dropped the charade.

This exactly.

I feel like we will never see good Luis Robert again. I think injuries have taken their toll.

Are kids allowed to have agents now with NIL?

If you have never been, it is a fun spot.

It won't change a thing.

Plus he was another one who the minions scurried out to talk about how lazy he was after he left.

Or this reporter is doing a solid for Yoan by listing teams with bad 3Bs to try to create interest

With all dude respect, what the actual f*** are you blathering on about? There is one literally from yesterday, right on the front of the main board. One of those pops up just about every year.

There ain't no way. The Sox couldn't dump him quick enough. Dude is pushing names of teams to help a brother out.

As always, this stuff will settle itself out on the field. Unless LeBron, Roch, and Emerson run into each other in a Team USA practice, all breaking each other's necks in the next six months, The Sox get the runway of sitting and watching to decide their direction.

And then turned it into that fixating on players was a horrible thing, even though that was never said.

As of right now, #1 is the Ishbia era beginning.

You didn't though. You equated it to something that wasn't said.

I hope you aren't equating sports writers and draftniks filling time to what the Sox are doing, because those aren't the same thing. Me reading that pundits were saying that Roch would have been the #1 pick in a previous draft doesn't mean that the Sox have already decided that they are picking this guy and aren't looking at anyone else. That isn't the same thing.

I guess we aren't reading the same things then.

Those three years being his Freshman year of college, sophomore year of college, and now upcoming Junior. You can choose to disagree with it, but dude's name has been out there for a minute.

I think the thing here is that there are dudes who get the "oh he COULD be a 1-1 next year" and there are dudes in the Arod/Griffey type of category that spend YEARS ahead of time being talked about as THE #1 pick. It feels like Roch has been closer to the hype of the latter, versus falling into a bucket with like 3 or 4 guys who COULD be #1 in a different season. This dude has been labeled as the #1 pick (if he were available) for like the last 3 drafts (including this 1 going forward). I think the amount by which he has lapped the other guys in the next draft is why people are quicker to label him as THE #1 instead of a POTENTIAL #1 pick.

I am pretty sure that by the time the Sox would open a new stadium when the lease is up, their money owed will be paid off. That isn't a problem for Jerry and Co.

Hopefully it was a great day for all!

I think I speak for all Chicago Fans when I say De Troit Sucks! De Troit Sucks! De Troit Sucks! De Troit Sucks! De Troit Sucks! De Troit Sucks!