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I will say that Syndergaard seems to be kind of a d*ck as well based on this whole episode (never had any opinion of him before.) Just reminds me of the likability of our roster.

Based on his on-air personality he seems reasonable and measured. Which makes his Twitter schtick all the more strange.

It’s beyond bizarre at this point. Is Stone mentally ill? He’s not even saving it for negative fans, or even fans who disagree with him. He just tees off on people indiscriminately like he gets some weird pleasure out of it. Fine for a troll, but totally out of alignment with his media stature. I don’t know if I’ve ever had my opinion of anyone lowered so much based on their social media persona.

The latest tweet to trigger Bauer. He predictably rose to the bait and unleashed a barrage of defensive tweets from him and his agent...the usual self-own. While it would’ve been nice to shore up the rotation, have to say I’m happy to be able to watch this kind of nonsense from the sidelines.

Clean livin’

Tks

Oh yeah, we have a ridiculous roster. Yawn—recommence bitchfest

I actually didn't know Herb Lawrence is black

Am I the only one that noticed the reference to "CP time"? (As in "colored people" time)? Jesus Christ. Trying to take the heat off of TLR by putting his own foot is his mouth?

I think a lot of fans are in love with the idea of adding "generic top-of-the-rotation starter" to this team right now rather than Trevor Bauer the actual, living person. Bauer happened to be the only free agent out there this offseason arguably fitting the TOR description, but Trevor Bauer the actual, living person comes with a LOT of extra baggage and a less than consistent track record of performance, last year notwithstanding. I was livid we didn't make a play for Strasburg last offseason. In retrospect I'm glad we didn't. Hoping I have similar feelings about Bauer in February 2022.

You are one of only two posters on this site whose posts I can immediately recognize *by shape.* Like, if I squint my eyes and blur the words I still know it's you.

"Hey, have other teams noticed that a lot of these free agents don't have in-home wifi and have to do Zoom interviews from public libraries? No? It's just us? Cool"

It is interesting that the Sox seem to have learned their lesson and stopped blocking the progress of young players by blowing money on meaningless veteran filler. I think they let the pendulum swing a little too far in the opposite direction at the expense of depth, but I'm excited to see the Vaughns and Kopechs of the world show what they can do.

How so? I don't think they have somebody knocking on the door to play right field, so they clearly needed somebody to fill that position (who was better than the statue we had there last year). It would blow the theory out of the water if they were dying to give Adolfo at bats, but I don't think there's anybody who's ready.

Orioles rocking the 0.0 before a game is even played. That’s just mean.

Between this and the nbcsports top-5 power ranking for the Sox that came out last night ( https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/mlb-power-rankings-dodgers-padres-enter-2021-world-series-favorites?b ) I'm incensed. How can the media just flat-out ignore the outrage that was the White Sox offseason? Why can't our mistakes get the attention they deserve? Typical coastal media bias.

I'm just glad we'll be better than those garbage, NL East bottom feeding Atlanta Braves.

Low 80s. They did project the WS champion Royals would win 72 games in the year they won it all, I believe.

Sometimes it's fun to say PECOTA things in narrative form to see how they sound when not framed in the language of pseudoscience, and imagine how they'd fly in any thread other than this one. Like this: "Yasmani Grandal is far and away the best player on the Chicago White Sox and the face of the franchise. He is twice as good as the next tier of players on the team."

I'd be terrified if PECOTA liked us.

I'd be nervous if they did.

I generally agree with the sentiment that stars should get paid, but I don’t actually think many people tune in to see Bauer. I’ve never seen a Bauer jersey. He’s more loud than popular.

Tune in to the Super Bowl in, oh, two days

I'd like a glimpse into the Soxtalk threads of the alternate universe where Bauer signs here, ties up 35M in payroll, gets into fights with Tim, and puts up a 4.25 ERA in 2021

The last time the Sox established themselves as a contender they spent themselves into a top-five payroll for multiple years. And it wasn't in the 60s or 70s, it was in the 2000s. That's the history. So there's reason to believe they'll spend more than league average as they get deeper into their sindow. That they're league average in February 2021 hardly eliminates that possibility.