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I'm trying to project the next few years for the Spurs and when Pops will retire. Seems like you'll want a guy here for the next six to eight years of rebuilding and competing. I don't see him sticking around that long.

When I think of Frank I remember being in bars all over the region and when he came to the plate the bar got quiet and people watched. I never saw that before it since. Baines was beautiful at the plate. I remember watching a batting practice session and he just effortlessly crushed ten balls that all landed deep in the seats, same section, within three or four rows of each other. I remember an interview with a Sox coach who claimed Baines hit the same seat three times in a row. Probably hyperbole, but not totally far fetched.

There's a little bit of excitement here.

Garrett must be so pissed.

Spurs.

What a day of golf. One of my current players was in the first round of the state finals. Struggled a lot but gained a ton of experience. Highlight was holing out an eagle shot from 125 yards. A former player won a sudden death playoff to advance with her partner to the match play portion of the USGA Women's Four Ball. Another shot -2 in the NCAA D1 Regionals with his team now in first place with a great chance of advancing. Live scoring is my favorite bit of technology. I can keep up with them all.

Always just shut up and quietly close the door on the way out.

The hubris, arrogance, entitlement, or whatever adjective you want to use, really hits a nerve with me. I know it's more so than other people's reaction. @SoxAcemakes a great point that everyone else is gone and my guess is the culture has been improved. Thirteen years is about the sentence that most offenders would have served in prison. Maybe it's time to put them on probation and jump back on the bandwagon.

It's another reason I've stepped back further away.

I believe there are two very different groups of players at work here. AAA prospects that don't have any MLB experience and guys who have MLB experience but their talents have diminished. We've seen guys get called up for the first time and struggle. A veteran like Hamilton who has been there is a better bet to not s%*# the bed at Yankee Stadium than some 21 year old without experience. Of course you also need to be developing talent, either to trade for MLB ready players or eventually promote them to the club. Great franchises manage to do both.

Possibilities Ignore AAA and make no moves in their roster. Rick Make brilliant moves that add depth and create a system that produces MLB players annually.

Rocky is still around and seems like an asshole. But your point is very fair. I regret posting earlier in a thread that should be all positive. I just read The Athletic article that made that point and it was fresh in my mind. I don't fault anyone for cheering them on. It's different for me being so far out of market and coaching my own team from September to May. The Hawks, and by extension the NHL, are easy to ignore for me.

Patrick Ewing with the frozen envelope to the Knicks was another great one. If the NHL was going to rig the draft, this is the outcome they would want. In a sports championship starved market, winning heals everything.

Except for that whole sexual assault cover up. I'm still not ready to embrace the franchise.

I suggested that we create a Sawx board and make @george a mod. He's my current favorite one post wonder.

Where did @georgego?

I remember reading his biography when I was in school and supposed to be doing something else.

This made me realize something. Next year there will be some guys in Sox uniforms and I'm going to cheer for them. Some I would have selected for the team, others I would have not selected. So if I know I'm going to cheer, why worry or complain about the process? s%*# players, all stars, it doesn't make a difference.

Just when you think something is idiot proof Hahn brings in a better idiot.

Being twenty years removed from the city I've gone from hating, to not caring, to currently I have Cub fan friends and don't mind seeing them happy. I realized those Cub fans are the same folks sitting next to be at Bears/Bulls/Blackhawk games. We have more in common than I do with the Astros fans around me. I doubt that would have happened if I didn't move. It would be easier for me to root for the Rangers than the Cubs.

Damn it, we're Sox fans! It made perfect sense lol

Who had Eloy/May/Appendix in the pool? I'm taking Andrus/June/Infected hang nail.

@george Welcome to the site. We'll make your Sox problems feel like successes. But feel free to dump Bloom and fight mightily to get hahn.

Since no one is really hanging out in Slam much I thought there was an opportunity for the delayed chuckle.

Finally national media giving them the respect they so richly deserve. Look across the lake, the sun will come up tomorrow and ESPN ranks then next to last.