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Even the players knew the franchise stopped trying.

I keep seeing parallels in history between Getz and Edward Smith*. *Working the obscure references.

I think there are a couple possibilities at work here. Talented pitchers but bad approach. Good approach but no talent. No talent and bad approach. I think I know what most folks here will pick.

Started the game thread because, unlike this team, we show up for every game. How will they lose today?

I wouldn't have thought it possible a month ago.

I'm not certain how you see trolling. I'm joking that he'll be long gone before this team is any good. Looking forward to him managing a different team (as in not here) and he'll take that competitive team and trash it which is good for us. He'll probably finish this contract (because that's what we've always done) but he won't sign a second contract. I'm looking forward to that day, aren't you?

It's another pay check. Keep living the dream

Three guys, as inept as they are, are part of the 1,000 best players out of billions on the planet. They play against other guys who are really, really, good at this sport.

I'm really looking forward to see was Pedro can do with a real lineup. If course it won't be a Sox team, but someone will give him a second chance.

Somehow there are a couple of teams worse. Amazing.

Interesting thought Magglio Ordonez was vilified here for not using the team doctors in his final year of a contract. Most posters actually believed he should have trusted the team physicians even though he was never going to play for the Sox again. Could you image that argument today?

And this is why we can't have pitchers signed to normal for every other team length contacts.

What have you seen from any players that makes it seem like they give a s%*#? Suddenly in a contract year he decides to change his approach? Are you suspicious at all? I'm not giving anyone a pass in the organization. Reality is it's probably both.

He grew up in California, drafted and debuted with Washington, then Sox, Angels, and Cleveland. I think his Sox fandom peaked when they hired his buddy and hit bottom on the plane ride west. A buddy of mine grew up a huge Cub fan. Was drafted by the Mets. Lol sweet irony.

It's a job. Most of those rivalries are more in the minds of fans.

It's a crazy circle. If he pitched like they expected him to, they would be in a playoff race and he stays. They were buyers at the deadline, then sellers when who they bought didn't work out.

A side line reporter measured the turf temp at 165° Rice hung tough for the half. In other news Texas State with a nice upset at Baylor.

Great career. I hope he's enjoying retirement.

He won't finish next season in a Sox uniform.

Yawn. It's only news because we suck and there is nothing else to do.

The assumption is they haven't. How about he ignored their first advice. So they offered something different he might do. Then something else trying to find something, anything he would do. I'm more inclined to blame him than the trainers. Bottom line he's an adult, they can't lock him in a cell and force him to take care of himself.

Players didn't play at the extreme. Using pitchers for an example, they went to the mound with the goal of a complete game. They paced themselves for that. During the first inning they were saving something for the seventh or eighth innings. Now throw hard from the first pitch, try to get five innings, and hit the bench. The effort is greater for a shorter duration and at the edge of injury.

I wonder during the off work / vacation time how much control employers have over grown adults.

Another friends and family hiring.