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Like I said in July when the sub-.500 Braves lost Acuna and Ozuna…NOW we’re talking

Braves, they of the 78-win PECOTA projection, lost Acuna and Ozuna after posting a sub-.500 first half and are about to win the World Series. Just a friendly reminder that your logic has no power here.

I agree, and I'd be happy with any of the three. But Conforto is getting talked up so much around here that I'm legitimately curious whether some see him as our true "#1 target" in any scenario, rather than our "realistic #1 target given embedded assumptions about budget." I assume most fans would prefer Semien or Seager at 2b to Conforto in RF in a perfect world, but maybe I'm wrong about that.

Would you choose Conforto over Semien or Seager (the good one)?

Yes, I can’t look at this positionally—in the abstract I would say RF because 2b might be easier to fill, but I’d look at player first. There’s a pretty big gulf in talent between some of the available names out there.

***Argument applies to every MLB team not called the Los Angeles Dodgers (who, incidentally, are sitting at home watching a World Series between two teams clearly "worse" than they are).

You'd be surprised. Lots of folks on this board hate next year's deadline moves already!

Somebody doesn't know what "hindsight" means. This is laughable, and reads like a test question in a class on logical fallacies. By the way, the Astros' moves at the deadline were all idiotic because they weren't going to get past the Braves--so what was the point? Unless the Astros pull it out, then the Braves' moves were all stupid. Stay tuned!

As far as I’m concerned they don’t have one yet. F the cheaters.

With most of these dumb names and traditions now in the dustbin of history, the few that remain will only become nastier—symbols of pathetic “defiance” and vessels for a particular kind of aggrieved white-guy rage. Can’t wait for it to be retired, which it will be eventually.

Nice - and I feel like 112 wins probably gets us over the top in the Central.

dammit

Yep. Even if he was right that was classless, and reflected poorly on the organization as it read like a message from the FO kicking somebody on the way out. Stone has become such a ball of grievance and scorn, which is too bad because he's really knowledgeable and helpful as a color announcer.

How many times are we going to "announce" that Tony La Russa is our manager just to gin up fresh outrage? Can I have your attention please: I'd like to announce that the Sox did indeed trade Tatis for Shields years ago. TURN ON THE FIREWORKS

What I want: -Sign Bryant to play RF -Sign Semien to play 2b -Sign Scherzer to a 1 or 2-year deal and let Rodon walk -Stop trading assets, including Kimbrel, who will figure it out and be a valuable reliever next season (with us or someone else) What they'll do: -Sign Semien -Stick with in-house options in RF (which I'd be OK with with Semien in the fold) -Hang on to Rodon -Trade some combination of Kimbrel, Crochet, Sheets, Vaughn, and/or Keuchel (plus prospects) for unexpected pitching names, a backup catcher and depth pieces

I was contacted by the team informing me that, since I elected to have funds spent on unplayed playoff games applied to my season ticket balance, I should log on to my account to transfer the funds to pay that balance. The problem: I paid my season ticket balance in full, and so did not elect to have the thousands spent on unplayed games applied to a zero balance. My account also doesn't show any "excess" balance from unplayed games at all. I emailed asking for my refund and haven't heard back yet -- more waiting, I guess.

I’m thinking 180-190 at least. If the Sox are ever going to spend (and I think they will, as they have in the past when Jerry really believed the team was a contender) it’s now. They’re squarely in their contention window and neither TLR nor Jerry is getting any younger.

I could easily see him presiding over an implosion of that volatile clubhouse, which wouldn’t be the worst thing.

Cesar is going to be really good for someone else in 2022, and then adopted as some Soxtalk anti-fan's favorite player.

So the list of FAs is bad...if you ignore the best FAs (Scherzer), assume a lot of the good FAs aren't really available, that those that play positions the Sox need (Semien) won't actually play those positions...but that other FAs (e.g. shortstops) can't possibly move positions? OK. I truly can't remember a better FA list for the Sox. Whether we actually sign any of the targets is a different story.

Best possible outcome. Although the more likely response from Manfred might be a statement condemning the unauthorized uniform standards violation, but qualifying that "I can't make any judgment as to whether the buzzer helped or hurt Mr. Altuve, who by all accounts is a talented, hardworking and upstanding little guy"

The Confederacy had a lot more than "support within [the] population" of Missouri, though it definitely had that, along with maintaining its status as a slave state. Missouri was officially accepted into the confederacy in 1861, though the pro-confederate governor and his gov't were eventually forced to function in exile. It sent legislators to the Confederate Congress. It sent tens of thousands of soldiers to fight in the Confederate army, and Missouri had its own rebel battle flag. In fact, Missouri represents one of the 13 stars on the "stars and bars" of the Confederate battle flag. There are Confederate war monuments all over the State. That's more than enough for me to consider it a "Confederate" state, and I think it's a little ridiculous for Missourians to claim separation from the Confederacy or claim the State was somehow fully part of the Union. Anyway, I nodded to the complexity and disputes surrounding Missouri's Confederate status in my original post and recognize we're way off topic.

I can't recall being less enthused about a World Series than this one. I imagine the ratings will be low. But I'll watch it because I love baseball and desperately want to see the cheaters lose.

No better way to rehabilitate yourself from an accusation of posting like a "small person" than to lead with an all-caps typo correction.

I am not a big fan of Stone, especially Twitter Stone. I think his constant whining about Moncada is ridiculous. But I haven't detected racism in his criticism of players.