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Seems a lot like China. Minus the better infrastructure, high speed trains and internet speeds.

Not even Getz is THAT bad. Hopefully. As of right now, he’s your best returning hitter, pending whatever happens with Vaughn and Robert.

For even dollars and because SS is the leader of that infield and we don’t have one. Clearly the best defender of all possibilities (compared to incoming rookies), but do you really want him as your team leader? At this point, at least Benintendi has reconciled himself to fate and knows playing better is the only way out unless Red Sox get overly sentimental about a return engagement. https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/free-agents/_/year/2025/position/ss/sort/contract_value There’s the bleak list. Kim will likely stay in SD and Adames out of their price range.

She already owns roughly 40%.

Can’t believe how shell shocked USNWT looks that first half of basketball. Sleep walking. So many turnovers, and shockingly getting killed on the boards with all that talent on the court. Reeve looks like she is losing her composure…that kind of play is setting the WNBA back. If France can stay close through three, anything is possible. Even more annoyed now with no Clark because both Ionescu and Taurasi didn’t even play. For the life of me, Ionescu is the superior player to Plum, it’s bizarre how Coach Reeve can’t see that. Heck, they even could have used Angel Reese to at least battle for rebounds…and not a Reese fan, but she’s a fighter and a battler out there when the going gets down. Play Ionescu Jewell Loyd and Lisa Leslie!

McCarthy over Fletcher isn’t even the main point. It’s just the total lack of a vision for the org…which is finding projectable highly athletic up the middle talent and allocating it across the diamond instead of the backwards approach of the White Sox. Hate AJ Preller all you want, but he decided to try to build a killer bullpen like Hahn in 2021-22 and executed that plan flawlessly after not doing enough at the deadline last year. Traded 6/12 top prospects in doing so. In fact, Tanner Scott will even be a free agent at the end of this season. They basically had to cut nearly $150 million in payroll, get past the highly popular team owner’s death and are now getting more production from King Vazquez Higashioka combined than Soto last year and have even managed to survive and even thrive without Tatis Musgrove and Darvish. Consistently Top 3-4 in MLB attendance despite having their media rights deal decapitated and being in one of the 2-3 smallest media markets. Cease has been what some or many feared. Jackson Merrill has shifted seamlessly from SS to CF as one of the youngest players in all of baseball. Profar Estrada (struggling recently) Solano Peralta have all made considerable contributions and were better moves than any that Getz and Barfield made, with the singular exception of Fedde. Which has now basically been thrown away by the looks of it based on early returns from Vargas. And SD throughout has also maintained its position as an attractive FA destination. Not to mention they have survived trading Wood Abrams and Gore…with James Wood looking like he could be a potential star and CJ quite close already. Remember his draft year discussions/debates? Of course they have just won 16/18, but the resilience has been everything the Sox are not, and comeback winners consistently despite being the very worst in baseball at it last year. “Padres Rant” TM out of the way for now…

Wilson next? Sizemore might be worse than Grifol… Lee and Robert are broken clocks at this point. Maybe more Sox pitchers need to throw their gloves into the stands like Lopez with the Mets…

Vargas 3/36…this seems familiar. Fletcher Special.

Benintendi might be the best hitter on the team next year. Gulp. Let that sink in for a minute. And try to sell that to potential season ticket buyers.

Braves look totally dead in the water. Have lost six consecutive. Too many injuries.

Sosa had a play where he just threw to the mound after an out and Kuhl wasn’t even looking. Really fortunate that didn’t hurt them a la Baseball Bloopers with Mel Allen. Two other mental errors by Sosa and Baldwin (not throwing home).

Do they really have the pitching to go on an extended run? The Rangers ran over the Sox and promptly fell right back to Earth.

Just bring up the rest of the AA roster to fill out the pen. Kuhl Brebbia Leone Touissant…what’s the point? Helping to find them big league jobs for 2025?

Benetti doing Orioles/Rays with Smoltz. 10 O’s on the injured list currently.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/nba-players-by-country Of course Wembayana this year..and all the first round draft picks as well.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2024/08/09/paris-olympics-womens-basketball-caitlin-clark-attention/74734712007/

Realistically was an error on the road…

Betancourt has a rifle DJ says they were being aggressive, should be proud of how hard they played, etc. Fought to come back, etc.

38127 attendance

If we had someone to PH for Robert…

That second pitch should have been destroyed. Hanger center cut. Timing off.

Kasper DJ now arguing the coventional wisdom has shifted across baseball in this particular situation…probably not much faith in Robert, either. Loaded for Vaughn … give em an ending.

Robert…have to start calculating how much to buy him out now lol.

They pushed him one progression too far…but it is what it is. Charitable hit. Not bunting here? sigh. definitely don’t want to face Benintendi

Unless you love the White Sox so much you never want to get traded…