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Even LaRussa thinks he's a GOAT

Looks like Stan is out too.

This is a good start for potentially getting my interest back into this team. You gotta cut out the infection. We will see how the finish up the investigation.

If valuing people's lives is this controversial for you, than a mute makes some sense.

See, that's just it. When the exact same language gets used to try to save people's lives, as is being used to justify killing people, it goes completely off of the rails. Apparently personal responsibility doesn't include not killing people, but if it did, we'd be communists.

The US is the one with these personal responsibility laws on the books, which of course are only selectively enforces when the right responsibilities are being violated.

They are doing exactly this in other countries as we speak with technology, tracking, and testing.

With modern technology, we can. We just won't.

We CAN trace these things. We can get back all of the way to patient zero with these outbreaks. We just don't want to, because then people could actually be held responsible.

There are literally laws on the books that do exactly this under this same guise of "personal responsibility".

This statement is probably telling as to what the Sox think of Burger at 2B, considering they spent the entire season shoving round pegs into square holes to rescue this season.

I would be interested to hear EXACTLY when a CBA begins. Does it begin at the moment a season ends? Does it have a formal date in it somewhere? Do we ever start the technical "off-season" until we have an agreement in place, or could the cutoff be with the actual start of the next regular or spring training season? Anyone know?

A part of me really, really hopes that a team I don't like gives Rodon one of those 3 to 4 year deals that keeps getting thrown around Soxtalk, because that is the type of contract which will be a bad one as soon as the ink is on the paper.

There are a class of people who are unprotectible, and you brought up the topic of personal responsibility. So instead of dancing around it, if someone who has done everything they can, gets infected by someone who is intentionally NOT taking protective steps, what should their punishment be? Keep in mind, we have laws on the books in similar situations for STDs will actually charge them with a felony.

So if one of these guys kills an immunocompromised Balta because they decided that this wasn't a big deal, what should the consequences be?

Again The ability to mutate being directly tied to how many opportunities that COVID has to mutate. If you leave billions of people unvaxxinated, soon enough it won't matter who is vaxxinated. We are already seeing that, and a large segment of the population is actively ignoring it. We are also ignoring that even if it isn't hurting one group to a high enough level to bother you, those cases are still able to infect and kill other people, just like the school system where two teachers died from COVID. It isn't nearly as simple as "oh this isn't a big deal for kids, just look at this one number in isolation".

Used correctly Leury is a perfect guy to have on your roster with modern roster construction. The problem came when he was pretty much forced to start for a majority of the season. He's also found a way to be healthy this year, which has been a normal problem for him in the past. The Sox seem to like Leury a lot more than Danny Mendick, so I don't see him being an issue, but it will be interesting to see what the Sox do with Romy over the next month. He has played something like 6 or 7 defensive positions as far as I can tell, and supposedly he is really good as a defender. If they think they can get that defense, plus a potentially better bat out of Romy, maybe the Sox look to save a few million and let Leury walk.

Games where we never trail are ALWAYS the shortest game threads.

What this is totally ignoring is mutations, and the ability to mutate being directly tied to how many opportunities that COVID has to mutate.