SpringfieldFan

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.

Yeah, before the Reinhorn reign it was Caray/Piersall, Nancy Faust, Andy the clown, and arriving an hour and a half early to catch batting practice homeruns from both teams. Now after 40 years of the Reinhorn era we have a sanitized experience with restricted park sections, piped in music, a cutesy mascot, yes men broadcasters, and corny pizza slice race videos on the scoreboard.

You could swap "Tony LaRussa" and "2021" into that reply and get something awfully close to what we could have said a year or two ago. Not saying its a good option, but an imaginable one for this FO - for better or worse.

In the event he does get fired…who will be the next guy. Assuming it will be a guy with “Sox family” connections. Ozzie? A.J.? Fisk?

Forgive me, I’m a crusty ISU alum.

Well that’s better than nothing but it’s rather like a mid major BB team with a so-so record winning their conference tournament and strutting into the big dance actually thinking they’re going places. Spare me.

When the team really mired in bad times I'm just glad I can shrug it off since my business or career isn't dependent on it. That would *really* suck.

TLR agrees to a golden parachute retirement on the condition Leury Garcia follows Don Kessinger as the second player manager in the history of the franchise.

I used to like Stewert's. I'd get a $4 can of it down here but then a few years ago it like tripled in price. It ain't *that* good...