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God, this is SO good to see. My life is in absolute shambles and ruin, the ashes still smolder with only hope being the thread which binds life… And yet, I watch the black and white uniform of favor from my toddler years to present day… And everything wrong is forgotten for a moment. Welcome back Chicago White Sox, you are the only remaining vestige of innocence within me. How great the game of Baseball is. Cheers to 2026, fellas. 👏🏼⚾️🧦🏟️

Oh cool to know that some of the games are free on mlbwebcast.com and chisox.com for spring?? I am still so broke and in “single dad hustle mode” that buying mlb.tv subscription for the year is out of the question again. If anyone has access to an account, please dm me should you be willing to share your poop. Thank you and wipe well fellow Soxtalkers.

Poop

I have been telling you all for 20 years and ya’ll just didn’t get it. Leaders always get taken out.

Holy Japanese poop!!!

Oh… duh 😆

What the hell is CME anyhow

Best friend is a Giants fan. I hope he doesn’t make our team.

I read the opposite from Getz after the “Cuban Mike Trout” trade.

Disagree. They obviously evaluated his stuff and like him.

Another thing I think this trade shows is we went for tools. The rumored Reds package was for like their number 12, 25, and an unlisted spec… This deal we got a teams top prospect dating back just 2 years ago and a pitcher who I suspect they’ll say they like the stuff on. So they were once again leaning on this as of yet unseen great development pipeline. Bottom line here folks is we never really expected much from Robert so if either of these guys contribute even 1 WAR total over the next 7 years, it’s likely to be more that Luis was going to provide. Good riddance to “The Next Mike Trout.”

Thats my hope too… but knowing this group, I bet they sign someone with one knee left.

I think it’s horseshit to judge a young player on one season. If you’re going to talk s%*# and peg him as a 84 RC+ guy, at least call him a midget or something.

https://www.milb.com/news/the-road-to-the-showtm-new-york-mets-luisangel-acuna Acuña article from 2023 when he peaked on top 100 lists at #38 or some s%*# like that. Other publications had him bottom half of top 100 for both ‘23 and ‘24. Dude is young. He also has shown a tendency to underperform when leveling up. The quote from that article that struck me most was something like, ”he goes after pitches out of the zone which leads to poor contact strength but still managed a respectable ~20% strike out rate.” Sound familiar? A former top prospect and a 2025 draft pick with good stuff… we honestly shouldn’t have expected more at this stage in the “trade Robert game.” It isn’t dead on arrival and yes, Robert should have been traded earlier… but if I could relive a few key choices in my life over again, I would have Jeff Bezos’s bank account and a hotter ex wife.

Alrighty… so I think we see this playing out in the minds of our genius core at the front office as such: 1.) Pauley is the bank here for player development. They see things in the data and figure they’re buying a generally unknown with strong metrics modeled out. 2.) They’ve penciled Montgomery into RF, Benitendi in left, and figure to sign a veteran who was still standing when the music stopped for center field. 3.) They’ll likely play the brother in a super utility role nearly every day and hope to maximize his value with defense and on the base paths while trying to right his bat. Most likely outcome: Robert has his best year as a Met and we end up with a middle bullpen arm who has a couple good years covering the 7th inning. Best realistic hope: Pauley surprises and is a strong number three in the rotation come 2028. PS ( poop script ) - Good on ya for the strong meme game.

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN A WHOLE HOUR AGO AND I AM JUST NOW FINDING OUT?!?!?! Off to reading 5 pages we go! BBS…

Holy fucking s%*#

So we’d get the Mets number 11, 25, and another pitcher outside their rankings board. All pitchers. Why the hell not. Sign me up if you can’t get a single stud pitching prospect for him.

That sucks.

Super cool!

Give me some Imai Mune!!!

Bummed to have missed this quack. I would have given him so much poop.

Who the hell is this? This guy… Peters…. I’m lost.

Humor

Just another demonstration that you can’t trust what you see online.