Texsox

I was on a committee associated with a developmental agency in South Texas. We were offering lots of incentives for companies to set up manufacturing in Mexico and the free trade zone. I was conflicted when the companies that had been there for a couple decades were hurt by the newcomers with the breaks. Some left for the incentives to keep a level playing field. Churning and churning. Austin and Texas put together a very nice package to get the Tesla plant. Tesla basically offered their employees travel expenses if any of the severe Texas laws interfered with their medical needs.

It should be to maintain the government allowed monopoly. To protect the workers. To justify the many tax breaks they receive from local and state governments.

Somehow he concurrently is Leading a team that absolutely can't win and would be fired to deflect criticism from the rest of the organization. And Deserves to be fired for underperforming his role.

Come on Soxtalk, too much happy talk.

Damn. One less thing to be mad about. Pretty soon there won't be any reason to pay attention.

He was rushed to the majors (tm)

We're going to miss you. Miss you like he's going to miss that third swing.

The team is so bad this is actually worth discussing. If the Sox are playing I find the opposing team's announcers annoying. Listening or watching random games and it seems that any announcing teams are an acquired taste.

I'm trying to think of analogies for this roster move and thinking It's like folding a napkin to prop up a wobbly table in a dive diner at 3:00 am but you keep falling off your chair because you are drunk.

I've always appreciated the understated eloquence of a Sloan Royal Flush II and a Johnson Products urinal puck.

Yeah, I probably should have given it more thought. It's not one of the dozens in twenty years that were actually good. ? More interesting to me is whose sock puppet is it? It's just too random not to be someone with an extra account for such occasions.

Wow, thirteen years to write 238 posts. I feel honored you would choose me to target. Lots of fruit in that thread, maybe try again to see which which piece I took a bite from. I'll look forward to your August post.

I'd hire him in a heartbeat. I wouldn't be playing for the Sox, Boras' players tend to go to teams like the Mets, Dodgers, Astros, etc.

Wow, our manager got ejected, I'm going to play better starting right now!

I didn't know Scott spoke Korean.

We'll eventually sign those guys at the end of their careers.

I'm more interested in how fast they could be in Chicago.

It's how I got through Grad School.

I think a shorter way to look at it is in baseball there are fewer movements and fewer skillful opportunities necessary to be successful. If any of those are diminished your value drops precipitously.

Obviously to be competitive baseball players have to be in prime condition. Hockey is so easy you can play hurt kind of like pickleball. /Sarcasm

Duh. It increases his trade value

I'm really happy to hear how well life is going for you.

And that's what I'm alluding to. There are several ways of defining healthy. The absence of disease is the old school definition. Now we look at vitality, fitness, mental, and emotional health. I could see at some point him taking the Chairman Emeritus route and being more ceremonial. I think semi-retirement is more likely than selling. That could be a step in the right direction.