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Because they can.

I will think more about it, but I think one guy you will see moved over the winter is Micker Adolfo. The Sox aren't going to want to lose him for nothing to waivers in the spring.

Good ol TicketBasard.

Some of my favorite memories in college were calling women's basketball games, and then being the student assistant coach on our women's college team my senior year. The game is different for sure, but it has its own set of style's and charms. It's way less athletic, but because of that it is way more strategic and precise. Its the same reason I like high school ball more than I like the NBA. To me, the randomness is fun.

I can handle not being interested in womens sports, the ones I can't identify with are the ones who need to go out their way to announce it the rest of the world, in some sort of lack of virtue signaling.

Max for sure. We see over and over again what pitching does in the playoffs.

You did. You left out the part where Tony encouraged Minnesota to throw at Mercedes.

Pretty sure encouraging players on other teams to harm your players is against the unwritten rules of baseball is well, but I am sure there is a reason you left that part out.

This. Not a big fan on there being an expiration date on this.

Do you watch baseball? No front office is going to ever say this publicly.

Are you pretending that Madrigal is fungible with Sheets and Vaughn?

Ron this is just sad.

Now this is where an LOL is actually applicable.

After his rookie year Nellie Fox never played less than 130 games until his final season at the age of 37. In his first two seasons Nick Madrigal is averaging about 1/3 of his teams game played.

Also a big fan that the picture that showed up for this thread was Mr Burns.

If there is anyone who will give us draft picks for our non-rookie contract players, I am taking them all.

That is the smartest post you have made in a long time.

There are few things I have in my mind that make me hopeful for a big spending post season. 1. Last year they seemingly went cheap and hoped that hiring Tony would be the difference. That isn't going to work. With some teams working towards almost super teams NBA style, the gap between playoff teams and championship teams is bigger than it has probably ever been before. If we really want to make a title run, it is going to take more talent, or a LOT of luck in a series. Having seen the TLR factor completely fail, they almost have to add more talent. 2. If the rumors of significant new ownership are true, I wonder if this will also serve as a cash injection for spending. I don't expect us to become the Dodgers, but does this push us towards another big contract? It is my complete guess that if someone is buying up a significant share of the Sox now, this is serving as a starting point for acquiring the team from the Reinsdorf coalition at some point, most likely after Jerry's death. They may well want to start the impact of that ownership early, by pushing this organizations valuation up by winning big. 3. The people up top aren't stupid. They know that Cleveland, KC, Minnesota are all in transitional stages, and that soon enough they will be closing the gap back up. They also know the contract situations that we have with it being time for some of the "older" players to start seeing their contracts come up. If they don't capitalize soon, the window will close on their fingers.

If he accepts, that tells me what he thinks of his own health. If he has the confidence to take a bridge contract to try to get to the payday, that makes me feel like he is pretty confident in his health in 2022.

I am curious when you saw him and what you saw/