ChiliIrishHammock24

That's my thoughts as well. I'll still end up going to about 12-14 games, will enjoy freely moving around to open seats, but will just abstain from buying any merch.

Saying the Free Agent class is WEAK and saying that you don't think the Sox are going to target all the top end talent are not the same things. If Anderson continues to just be ok in 2019, then I have no issues with them going after Bogaerts and either moving Timmy to CF or trading him.

It's definitely not weak, and you're the only person I've seen characterize it as such. If you are classifying "weak" as not having 2 26-year-old superstars, then my guess is you've never been impressed with free agency before.

Hah, that would be quite an interesting ticket plan for sure.

Lol. Ok bud.

Nothing I can do about it. I love baseball. Sorry.

I assumed we were talking about who to blame for the failures to sign Machado and Harper, in which case I feel like those are the only two choices. Either you think Jerry wouldn't approve the money for Hahn, or you think Hahn was approved for all the money he wanted, but didn't want to spend Jerry's money on these guys. And the lack of signing Machado/Harper are my only two gripes with this rebuild so far. Everything else has looked fine to me outside of obvious injuries which you can't pin on anyone.

That's fair.

Fair enough. Valid criticism.

Unfortunately, I'll be buying The Show AND buying my 10-game Sox plan here very soon. As much as this team is infuriating right now, I love baseball too much to ignore.

So "Or trading a solid SS for a bum pitcher? " was a reference to....?

Fine. You take Jerry, I'll take Rick. You've got many decades and two franchises worth of evidence to look at.

First of all, drop the Tatis bullshit. You seem smarter than that. (EDIT: He was referring to Semien, not Tatis. That's a fair criticism) Secondly, you act like I said PERFECT, when I said very good. Flowers has put up a 2+ fWAR season one of the 3 years since he's been gone, and hasn't even played 100 games in any of those seasons with the Braves. You're digging REAL DEEP if you have to pretend to be upset about losing Tyler Flowers to prove a point.

Well....except he didn't tell us shit. He was just being incredibly vague and coy about it. Would have preferred he just said nothing, instead of stirring everyone up and then never explaining any further.

I'll stick up for Hahn because the only thing I can KNOW we can blame him for is trades, and extensions. And he's been very good in those areas. It's possible and likely that Jerry has completely handcuffed him in terms of spending big money.

Engel singles and steals 2B easily.

TA7 with a bomb to CF. Probably went 425 or so. He pimped it too.

Rendon will be 30. Cole will be 29. Puig will be 29. Bogaerts will be 27.

Hard to say "always", but yes, he looked great last ST and Fangraphs even had an article showing how much better his delivery was and how he may be on track for a James Paxton breakout year.....and then he reverted.

He looked fine. Wasn't missing many bats, but was getting pop ups and weak contact. The defense let him down.

How do you figure? Has a superstar (Sale), and about 5 other slamdunk all-stars. None are young, but many are great.

That sounds right. I remember Robles only being available in a Sale trade. I remember a few of us wanting Soto, but I don't remember if his name was ever mentioned publicly as available or not.

While I agree, you might want to freeze some swimmers just in case you ever change your mind. You are young enough that there is plenty of time to reverse your opinion on having kids.

Not the timing, but the potential loss in development or future success.

Well....yeah.