southsider2k5

So much time has been wasted on these "arguments", which is why we are at this stage. You bring up Dallas and Lynn, like this are the only two players on the team, which again goes to the pessimism bias. This roster is deeper and better than last year. This is a young roster with star and superstar potential all over it. There are WAY more players poised for breakouts and gains, combined with the HUGE fall back by Cleveland and Minnesota's slide in talent, at least to this point, yet Lynn and Dallas are all you want to talk about. Even in Lynn's case he doesn't have to be peak Lynn to still enact a HUGE gain over what we had in his slot in 2020 and years prior. But all we hear about is regression over last year. It is bias and pessimism. It is only telling the bad side of the story and the worst case scenarios, and then trying to sell them as "realism" when realism is a 50th percentile occurrence, and not an outlier wing. If someone where hear trying to talk about the Sox winning 115 games and the World Series, they could make "realistic" points about all of the things that could go right this season, but when you add up all of the chances of those individual points happening, it isn't "realism". It's crazy, I pretty much HATED this off-season what the opportunity cost of what we left behind in terms of pushing ourselves to the top tier teams, but the unvarnished pessimism here is just uncalled for. You can continue to think it is everyone else who has the problem, or you can see that when you are outnumbered to this extent to where you end up in these same arguments with a different person every day, you can reflect on it.

It is the same tired argument over and over again, we get it. We all get it. Everything is wrong with the Sox, nothing is wrong with anyone else. It is so tired that even in a post that had nothing to do with you specifically, you felt called out and compelled to respond to start this side tread. As much you keep trying to deflect this to everyone else, it isn't. There is a reason why person after person keeps calling you on this, and even when no one is talking to you, you feel guilty enough to respond. You keep talking about "relevant points", but that is just a code for trying to get people to ignore your biases on this topic, when they are the most relevant point. Literally everything filters through that bias, which is why everything is pessimistic.

Yes, I should know better than to expect anything else but pessimism for the Sox.

The day of ballots are always cast at a lesser percentage than the early announcements, especially for borderline guys. If Schilling is right at 75% now, he won't make it.

I hope someone else gives it to him.

Again, the only ones who will regress are the White Sox, right? This is exactly the point. Time after time, point after point, it comes down to the same boilerplate with you.

And thanks for making my point. Now you are using tank years to justify regression in 2021. But I am sure Dylan Covey justifies Lance Lynn collapsing.

And even if Lynn regresses some, he is still a significant improvement over what we had last year.

There is no more overused term than "realism" on a message board. People who use it are just not rectified with the fact they are just pessimists looking to justify their pessimism.

They weren't supposed to be of substance. They were mocking a portion of the most ridiculous pessimists, who can only find the bad. There is a lot of reasons to be optimistic. We have assloads of talent which should show progress as a whole, even if some regressions happen within that body of work. But that is lost on many.

Soxtalks rules for forecasting: 1. All good Sox players will regress. 2. All formerly good players will stay bad. 3. All young players will not progress. 4. Whoever we trade for will instantly fall apart by putting on a Sox jersey. 5. Whoever we trade away will become good again. 6. If we trade away prospects, they are slam dunk perennial all-stars. 7. Called up prospects will bust. 8. Free agent signings will regress to career worsts.

Now it is complete.

Quin has been ejected.

Ryan Reynolds is such a great twitter follow.

This dude doesn't know his history at all. Ozzie didn't want him as the full time DH instead preferring some positional flexibility and freaking Mark Kotsay.

This is how people like Ken Rosenthal get access to information and rumors. They are water carriers for ownership.

And the same day Rosenthal releases this article. Weird, right? https://theathletic.com/2344146/2021/01/25/rosenthal-starting-spring-training-in-three-weeks-makes-little-sense/

Attempting to fake a website to hide everything behind wins the day for me.

No one tops Melky here.

They already have rules as to who qualifies for the international signings period and who becomes a free agent. Unless they want to renegotiate everything with the union, it is logical to leave alone what is already separate. If they wanted things to make the most sense they would just add the international kids to the regular draft just like hockey and the NBA do. But again, they already have a system in place that works, so they aren't going to throw all of that away to start over.