southsider2k5

Didn't someone on the Sox just have it?

I thought the last I heard was he had a pen session, was going to do one more, then if it went well, he would go to the minors for rehab assignment.

This is honestly pretty hilarious. Way to have it both ways. No matter what you are the poor victim here.

Ugh. I am going to blame Donaldson, just because.

If you really think this about Soxtalk, you probably should find a new message board.

lol, that's what I get.

Well done.

This is also 100% fair, which is why I looked a little further away.

Some TA love for this thread

If the Sox can't get him, I would LOVE KC to do it. They have no chance at winning anything and would only rob themselves of the prospects they really need down the road.

Especially with his apparent views on COVID.

I think to get his attention for a deal that short, you have to put market rate on the table. You get a discount if you go long term. $60m at least for those two years. Realistically you probably need $65 to $70.

The idea that this should not "beat a dead horse" is my main problem here. There should be powerful disincentives to be a racist in society. Letting this quietly drop is the absolute worst way to handle this. It should be more than a "footnote". Look, anytime the phrase "cancel culture" enters the lexicon here as a negative for social good, I am going to have a problem with it. Like it or not, "cancel culture" has existed for all of humanity. When you do something so utterly unpalatable, there is a price to pay for it. 60 years ago, something like being black and eating at a white person's lunch counter would get you "canceled" by the friendly neighborhood watch organization via hanging from a tree, or getting beaten within inches of your life as a "warning". We cancelled people for wanting equal education, equal workplace opportunity. We cancelled people for wanting to live in the good and insurable neighborhoods, the ones you were allowed to get mortgages for. We cancelled people for being the wrong religion by not letting them into the good clubs and organizations. We cancelled people for wanting to sit to near the front of the bus. We cancelled people for wanting to marry the wrong people, loving the wrong race, same sex, or any other "acceptable" standard. We have the sane people screaming about "Cancel Culture" out here today wanting to cancel Disney for not being for legalized forms of discrimination, and any member of their own party who isn't acting sufficiently loyal to said party. We have used the power of cancellation forever, and it ONLY became a problem when the people of power then became subject to a fraction of the standards that those who were blocked from power had. Yeah, I am not going to feel sorry for Josh Donaldson getting run through the public wringer for a while, nor will I feel back for the next Josh Donaldson.

They would be the ones at the lead of every nightmare story that Robinson and players of his era told. They'd be boycotting and everything else they could do to cancel Jackie and people like him.

The point is very easy and clear. We don't accept racism in a sport that is almost majority minority players, especially in an enviornment where black players make up a smaller and shrinking segment of players than they have in decades. In fact black participation in baseball hasn't been this low since segregation was the law. if you want to grow the game, you need to appeal to all races, and make it clear that all are welcome.

With the Lindor deal setting the SS bar at $34 million a year, you have to imagine it would take something close to that to get TA to sign for only two years, especially if you aren't going to tear up his last two cheap years. Otherwise why wouldn't he wait and get the whole $200ish million that someone will pay him?

I would be a big fan of using a rolling six man rotation for an extended period of time this season. Essentially the sixth man would fill in every sixth day for a start and move down the depth line for one or two turns through the rotation, if the Sox play allowed it. It would look something Starter 1, Starter 2, Starter 3, Starter 4, Starter 5 Starter 6, Starter 2, Starter 3, Starter 4, Starter 5 1,6,3,4,5 1,2,6,4,5 1,2,3,6,5 1,2,3,4,6 and so on. Basically if gives everyone an extended break once through the rotation, or about once a month-ish. I would finish August and September with it if all goes well.

Ope, can't have MJ starting in back to backs, better let Craig Hodges start and play 40 minutes.

Let's be honest here, there is nothing charged about the name "Babe Ruth". It is a meaningless comparison, and one that is meant to flatter. If you want a real equal in terms of upending the apple cart, how about if he called him David Duke, or if he really swung for the fences and started calling him Jesus Christ. Now we are incorporating the whole "sacrifice" and "hated in his time" and "persecuted for his beliefs" while making a comparison. Donaldson's work wasn't meant to flatter, it was meant to piss TA off, hence it being racially controversial.

These posts are nothing but hilarious. Yes a one game suspension for being a racist is being "canceled".

So far the only two Yankees to speak out buried their teammate. You don't see that very often at all.

There was a definite hole in tale after Kopech and Cease.

That's no surprise. The system is trash above A+ in pitching.