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Robert and the rest of the offense won’t be sitting under .200 the rest of the year. It’s an early season slump. Bad stretches happen. The job is to try to steal a win here and there until things inevitably click.

I would be good with modestly priced traditional ballpark staples: a couple bucks each for a hot dog, small soda, cheapo nachos or popcorn. If you want polish sausage, gourmet burgers, loaded nachos filling a helmet, imported beverages, etc. then yes, go ahead and price them out the wazoo. If you want a special dining experience then you should expect to be willing to pay, and pay generously. If the food is just incidental, that's different.

Example well taken. The resource I quickly stumbled across had nearly every stadium selling hot dogs for $4-$6. I’d be interested to know if Atlanta concessions make enough sales to have better profit then the others. I’m sure there’s a sweet spot somewhere. Regarding water, I feel it should be affordable and/or allow carry ins because that’s a public health and safety issue IMO.

Did Neil Cotts maybe?

The big problem was that to keep people fresh TLR kept drawing names out of a hat to see who would join Leury in the lineup. Come playoffs it was like a bunch of kids arriving at summer camp and playing their first game together.

You are not alone. As a single income family we are careful with concession spending and come up to a game only once a year -- which kinda sucks since cable tv isn't worth the cost to us either and any Sox streaming is blacked out. Nevertheless, choices are choices...

As if any of us wouldn't charge as much as people would be willing to spend if we had a business. The issue is that its worth it to enough people to spend that kind of money on those concessions. Our modern day culture absolutely craves entertainment so it will pay the premium for it and sets the price for everyone. I just don't see how a vendor would be satisfied to sell out their product for less than most are willing to pay, and I really don't see how for those that, for example, only "kind of" like Italian beef, can be charged less for it that those who really love it.

If Sunday were the only day I could make the drive up to catch a Sox game, I’d never see a Sox game.

If you don’t work counts and impatiently pull outside pitches to the shortstop all day long then yeah I suppose it could be. I don’t know if that’s the case here but…

Wow those stats are surprising. For what it’s worth I guess it comes down to scoring runs and the Sox are 15th on that with almost all the others having played a game or two more. Interesting stats though.

The game hardly changed at all in all my years growing up. They changed mound height a couple times I think, and redid divisions but that was about it. Its no longer the game of strict tradition it used to be. I suppose it doesn't need to be, or maybe even should be...

So nice we had to say it twice.

It's ironically funny - I remember the times folks would get frustrated Frank Thomas didn't chase enough and took balls barely off the plate that we thought he could murder.

I'm with you there. it just seemed the implication was that Ryan's durability as a flamethrower was amazing because his poor mechanics shouldn't have allowed it. His fastball mechanics weren't part of the equation though because they weren't poor. My takeaway is that no flamethrower, regardless of mechanics, should be able to last as long as he did. Maybe he is doubly amazing. He was able to have a long career throwing 100+, and also throwing those elbow straining curveballs. Either should have shortened it.

This is true (and dang his curveball was great!) but Ryan's fastball mechanics were good correct? So the question goes back to why he was durable but nobody else since.

I don’t know, to me It just didn’t look like the Unit had to exert that much to get that velocity.

“Replacement level manager”. Lol 😄, love it.

VAfan, you do have a highly optimistic take but you gave numbers and analysis to authenticate it . Let’s hope they bear out. I’m just happy the main offensive pieces are healthy going in.

Whew the title had me believing the thread was about the Sox going from first to last. 😬

He is very good, and still has that defense. I don’t ever see MVP for him as some might have hoped though. It goes to show ceilings are as much about if as they are about when.

The upside on these two is ridiculous but both are such wildcards. Neither has been tested over a full season of innings - Kopech has had his innings limited for rehab and Cease's limited innings are well, self inflicted. Both are still fragile in their own ways. Kopech has yet to show physical durability. Cease: well, seeing him visibly shaking during that playoff game told me all I need to know about his mental maturity. Can either overcome those hurdles? Yeah. I would put my money on Cease first though. I think his 2021 experience is hopefully something he may have grown from.

“We” may need to add? We??! There is no “we” about this, RH. Don’t rope me into it. This is all on you, buddy.

Do the Sox prioritize high velo guys when scouting for rotation prospects and if so is there any way to turn their focus to more control, pitch-to-hit type guys? Or do those prospects simply not exist in today's game?

Frankly, I'm surprised at this, and happily so. I'm happy for Kimbrel. He was brought over, lost the role he had built his career on, and for all intents lost his market value. Raw deal there so glad LA kept faith he could revert back to what he was before all that. For the Sox, well Pollack is way better than the $16 mil bag of baseballs it appeared they were stuck with. Essentially, now its a become Madrigal for Pollock. Not ideal, but somewhat tolerable.