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Trading Cease for Tier B/C lottery tickets ostensibly to get rid of an undesirable Sox contract...the first time we see the opposite of that (pure best avail talent acquisition) perhaps we can start to be a bit more optimistic. And they need a better backup plan than Shaw/Banks for closer...should approach ST as if Santos will be out the entire season just in case.

You have the worst bench in the majors and Merrifield/Frazier types always seem to go the wrong way for the Sox. I just don't think there's any way in hell the Sox add back on that much payroll absolutely knowing they will be seeing another 25-30% drop off in season tickets and will suffer more pretty much guaranteed losses (especially with Grifol back too). Especially a "headline" move of Eddie Rodriguez that wouldn't move the most die hard of Sox fans to buy back into at least a partial ticket package. Of course, they might end up trading or dumping Anderson...but still stuck with Moncada Jimenez Benintendi AND the team will be even more miserable based on playing the current youth in the minor league cupboard. But we will be lucky to get half that new spending IMO and would definitely take the "under" bet.

All I know is that it's a very slippery slope between a Clevinger and Bauer. Would like to see the internal polling of women who attend Sox games (at least ten times per season) and how many attended fewer games than past seasons or watched fewer games on TV specifically due to that signing? If you were one Bauer signing away from 88-92 wins versus 82-86, for example...it wouldn't be worth it obviously.

Still not buying the Twins, but who knows with the way Royce Lewis has been playing plus the added motivation for Correa against his former team.

I think you’re in the minority on this one. Any White Sox fan from 1951-67 didn’t benefit from only one postseason appearance and the Yankees/Brooklyn Dodgers in the WS every other season while the Sox averaged roughly a 90 win pace per year. And wouldn’t your argument also hold true for the NBA playoff expansion? The common belief is that exposing baseball teams to more series adds randomness…whereas “fluke” championship series winners (like wild card teams) have been few and far between and still revolved around a couple of superstar players carrying teams on most occasions. Baseball has become more regional (except for the top 6-7 famous brands…including the Braves now), whereas NFL and NBA have become increasingly international brands. Of course, there’s the exception of the WBC…particularly the Pacific Rim countries as well as Mexico City and northern Mexico (area perceived as too dangerous for a franchise at current time).

Was Eder still in the low 90s?

This was a summary of Garfein by the way. Based on those four all basically asking to sit on fan appreciation day that final Sunday game. Our Chuck basically assumed AB was untradable but that the club was more afraid of those other three guys getting hurt once again before the offseason…precluding their ability to dump them via trade.

If they are guys like Korey Lee, Romy, Remillard, Colas and Sosa then 100+ losses is well within sight again...

With the current environment, he might be overqualified and generally too cerebral for political office. It’s not like the bar is very high.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/rays/2023/10/03/tampa-bay-rays-fans-lowest-attendance/71051141007/ Worst post-season attendance since 1919 Sox/Reds WS…there was a very strange ticket sales strategy that resulted in that one. At least it was on the part of the Reds.

https://www.mlb.com/news/twins-win-game-1-al-wild-card-series-2023

Still would like to get rid of TÁ Moncada Jimenez and Benintendi. LoL. Might be headed for 110-115 losses and contraction talk after another 2-3 years of foundering.

At least we don’t have to hear about the Cubs all off-season. There’s that. And the misery train has simply switched tracks to the Bears. Pretty seamless transition.

Skip Schumacher seems to be the right manager as well. We ended up with TLR/McEwing from the Cardinals' Way coaching tree instead.

What about all those into auto eroticism, S&M, coming close to strangulation without any marks on the body? Those are all sick and inhuman? Who is to define norms in those literally grey areas according to pop culture novelists? 30-35% of the country still believes gay sex is sick and inhuman and a perversion, etc. There's certainly more distancing from that area of sexuality in the typical big league clubhouse...and there are certainly numerous bullying and worse incidents to back that up, from Vizquel and the Blackhawks.

That only cost us Burger at the trade deadline...albeit the acquisition target was 25 and left-handed.

"Josh Bell and Jake Burger have made a massive difference for the Marlins," just stated unequivocally by Karl Ravech.

They would have to find a cheaper niche like speed/defense and move back the dimensions to that of the old stadium. Bullpen and utility overspending was a fiasco under Hahn. Simply no way they will spend bundles in FA across 3-5 guys. Lucky to get 1-2.

KyYle? I remember being eviscerated by this so-called evidence when this story first broke and how taking Bauer’s side (of taking a step back to assess) in any way shape or form was the moral equivalent of repeating the same act oneself against any and all women.

Clevinger Puig Tatis also had ties to that woman...which would pretty much break Sox talk if all three and Bauer were on the 2024 squad.

Isn’t this supposed to be when she was claiming a “fractured skull” with an x-ray to validate that claim?

They didn’t even need to do that before/until they traded Burger…

Bannister and Katz are also tied together...

Do we know for a fact that Hostetler is out? Maybe Luis Robert will learn Charlie Montoyo's name finally?

Riley can't coach defense either. And bigger problem is that Williams takes lots of chances with his arms and legs that are going to end up as pick 6s or sacks/injuries instead of long runs in the NFL. Will take a year or two to figure out what he can't get away with. A lot of similarities with Mahomes in terms of creativity, obviously.