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I am not 100% sure this isn't a tongue-in-cheek post, but I will take it as legit. For me its all cool anyway. When the team spirals the exasperation here rises, there comes a point Soxtalk is more entertaining than the on-field product - and that's exactly where we are now. This place is the last vestige of salty southside fandom amid the sanitized product the organization now provides.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen 8 laughing smileys on a thread post.

If the world ended today, Boston won the trade. When its all said and done, Chicago likely will have won the trade. Prime Sale vs prime Kopech is irrelevant. That's a single moment in time and isn't indicative of the past or predictive of the future - and those are what determine a good or bad trade.

The idea that all four of those guys are better than anything in the minors...

This lineup, *after* a rest day ? I am going to have to miss it to go to a funeral visitation tonight. You can write the joke, its right there for you.

The "genius" is just that that contract commitment exceeds what a utility stopgap replacement guy would warrant *unless* something ridiculously unforseen were to befall the team - and guess what happened? I think the "genius" is really "luck" but in the end the bitter irony is that TLR and the FO can now say "SEE why we did it?", when until now then the idiocy of that commitment was inarguable and undefendable.

The bitter irony is that given the injuries, management gets to come off as looking genius for signing Leury and keeping him fresh with regular playing time...

I am not savvy enough to do those gif things, but you know that one where Jack Nicholson is nodding his head with an evil smile and really looking forward to something? That’s gonna be Judge, Buxton and Trout’s reaction at the thought of this team coming out of the Central.

The season’s not over, but it’s meh-ver. The “B” team will do as last year and be surprisingly passable - scrapping away to .500 or a little better, and keep them somewhere in fringe of the division race. That will inspire some hope for the late season and when TA and the rest come back in full by September..,they won’t know what the hell they’re doing. Verdict? 83-79, and “just wait till next year”.

I'll tell you exactly what the problem was: they couldn't leave well enough alone. Going into 2021 they were *set*. They had invested in great young talent, locked much of it up for future seasons, and that talent had arrived. They were ahead of the field and didn't need to do a freaking thing. All they needed to do was integrate the talent, get it on the field, and leave it there to cohere into whatever is was destined to become - and only *then* consider how to augment and fine tune it. They never gave that a chance to happen. When other teams made high profile acquisitions at the trade deadline the Sox just had make their own noise and that core never got a chance to really play together - a problem which was then exacerbated by the injuries and the decision to mix and match lineups both during the time they were shorthanded and after. The dream team never happened. It never had a chance.

Oh well, this is just who they are. The IL is just baked right into the Sox cake.

Granted its a hot take but I swear I would fine Abreu every time he two hops a low outside pitch to short.

They will be better, thank goodness. I wouldn't hold hope expecting them to get "extra" hot to make up for the suckiness so far though. Rolling a bunch of 1's doesn't make you any more likely to get a 6 on your next roll.

Well given the recent history of this franchise…

Could there ever be a need for TJS for someone whose already had TJS?

You ever been on a Little League team you played for because your Dad maybe knew a neighbor down the block who thought it might be fun to cobble together a team of of kids from the neighborhood, and eventually you played *that* team, the team which was made up of all the jocks who were stars for the local school? Well...

Make Leury trainer! He obviously knows what it takes.

We can't curse the luck on the injuries. Its just who they are.

So why does Cleveland get to roll *that* guy out against us but our 102 mph'ers always wind up with TJS?

Wow all it takes is one win and around here it’s…

The deal is that even when they are able to stock the kitchen with some tasty ingredients, it seems to always wind up turning into an episode of America's Worst Cooks.

Yeah injuries are not an excuse anymore. They are baked into the cake with this team.

Hey Elon, have you ever considered making an offer for a baseball team?

Sox fandom will simply not accept another tear down/redo under current ownership. This window is it.

Any picture that is not a pitcher should just be Leury.