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Bill Walton would draw rankings just out of curiosity... finally push out Stone... and drive JR absolutely bonkers.

Zach Remillard starting 2B if it's not Royals-related. The crazy thing there is JR signed off on Burger exiting... the quintessential TWTW guy if there ever was one. Moncada, pretty much the diametrically-opposed opposite. So JR's pocketbook >>> TWTW >>> entertainment >>> playoffs.

Malfeasance or Angelina Jolie? Benetti and Brock Huard becoming quite the broadcasting pair on FOX... this time Utah/Washington in a highly-entertaining offensive shootout.

The Marvels Disney / Marvel Studios November 10, 2023 (SEMI-WIDE) Opening Weekend Range: $35M-$49M From: Boxoffice.com Outright shocked the film is already out to a $21 million start through FRI.

Mike Huff and Pods seen like outside possibilities...except they're also more analysis or third in the booth than pure PBP guys. Does Garfien even seem like JR would tolerate him more than a McKnight-ish ever cheery homer/ass kisser?

Nobody’s going to still remember Mike Monaco in 25 years like Hawk, DJ/Farmer and Stone/Benetti.

Didn't already happen during the August/Sept pennant drive?

You're overlooking the fact that would require LaRussa signing off on Hawk returning...which is arguably one of the last things Tony and Mr. Revenues Brooks Boyer would ever want at this point.

So we've now underestimated Benetti, Semien (GG Winner 2021), Tatis, Jr. (GG Winner 2023)...am going to somewhat confidently predict Tim Anderson bumping off Andres Gimenez for 2024 at second base in the AL, or Nico Horner on the NL side...and with at least an accompanying 750 OPS. Eventually broadcasting and MLB HoF enshrinement for Benetti...with Luis Robert having only a remote chance of going in as a Sox. Abreu is the other quite remote possibility.

https://www.mlb.com/padres/news/fernando-tatis-jr-ha-seong-kim-win-nl-gold-glove-awards

Another wasted Friends & Family move to add Elijah. He might have been the only hitter in Sox recently history to be eclipsed by Korey Lee. Caruso and Esteban Beltre ran laps around Elijah, comparatively.

It's really JR and Boyer who are the main culprits. The only thing we lead the majors in is ticker sellers with high pressure almost extortionist tactics trying to guilt the 20% of ticket buyers who have always comprised 80% of attendance. If they spent that money on scouting and development instead, they would actually have fans begging to come to games. The product can and should sell itself. Iowa can fill up a whole football stadium to watch Caitlyn Clark play an exhibition women's basketball game...Nebraska even can fill Memorial Stadium for volleyball. Once again, f you have a great product and great players it sells itself. The opposite is what results from a putrid overpriced product that has forced one of the Top 3-5 younger/ish broadcasting talents in the entire country to leave the team he grew up adoring for the freaking Detroit Tigers. To add insult to injury...they're going to replace him with Beckham/McKnight/Huff or very best case scenario Mike Monaco...basically a hired gun who will jump at the first better paid opportunity that comes down the pike. Where's our next Hawk, Rooney and Dave Wills who live and die with the team? Instead, we end up with guys like Chris Rongey, who antagonized belittled and looked down judgmentally on passionate Sox fans like that call in show guy in the preseason who was arguably the only positive/uplifting highlight of 2023.

The Marvels feels like a total dud...there were less than five patrons at the theatre in China for a 7 pm Fri night showing just hours ago. Just not event openings any longer. Felt more like a spinoff tv show with zero emotional investment.

Rookie year graded out solid/decent but still disappointing for overall draft position. https://www.espn.com/nfl/qbr Purdy being so high despite last three games is a bit shocking...so many weapons (Kittle Aiyuk Samuel) but loss of McCaffrey has been a massive setback from a team standpoint.

Mac Jones is falling apart this year as well. Irony that Hurts left Bama for OU or was basically pushed out by Tua, Caleb Williams looks like Mahomes Jr. at times, Murray and Mayfield have also had their moments. Four OU NFL guys then Gabriel will get a backup job to make five. Ofc Jalen Milroe might end up the best of them all...well, probably just under Tua, based on arm and feet alone. (And Lincoln Riley still a massive disappoint because of D, though.)

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Danks was $65 million. Just FA? Luis Robert? Buehrle? Ordonez? Also, funny how undervalued Thomas and Ventura were during their time relative to today's salaries...

AJ way too honest/blunt. JR would never stand for it. Pods' name hasn't been added to this. Terrible team, direction of franchise and future in Chicago threatened, just at a total loss...remember when this year was once in the middle of the championship window? Unparalleled financial freedom to spend? No target in free agency too big? We went from mired in mediocrity to #30 and hopeless in even the very worst division in baseball for the better part of the upcoming decade. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse or more embarrassing to be a Sox fan. Not even our first round draft pick wanted to be here...Growing up in Iowa, Chicago used to be a great city, the most comfortable and exhilarating one in the entire world to visit in the summers.

That didn't exactly make it into the recent documentary.

First Miguel Cabrera. Now even the cheap/risk-averse Illitch gets his man and not the hyper competitive father who could never quite get that ring. Shocking to Chicagoans more so than out of towners... Remember when Rod Allen had the fight with his partner? Mario Impemba? Dysfunction reigned supreme previously. Detroit was not a destination job except for Ernie Harwell and then the Verlander/Cabrera Show.

Should be: https://www.mike-monaco.com/mikemonaco.html Likeliest are McKnight and/or Beckham Dead hopefully: Nationwide/Stone Twitter spats In: visiting team feeds mocking Sox ineptitude

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“What the F—K?” AJ Good point about no Thomas, Guillen, Rowand, Everett, Crede, Buehrle…heck, Juan Uribe from 2005 Championship team involved directly in any way with coaching/instruction. Pretty sure Contreras and Konerko just ambassadors or maybe they do something in ST? Seems Jose was supposed to work with Vera or Y.Cousin at one point in the last year or so.