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Some are impatiently waiting on a board wide apology saying this team is still super shitty.

Shush it hater! That $15M into the Dominican facility and PD are a reallocation of resources. And it's already paying off!

Step on up to the counter. I'm guessing that's pretty much where the over/under will be next year and rightfully so.

Jerry's rent still capped at $1.5M/season. The City and State still pay $10M/year combined. And that doesn't include the (non-JR responsibility - he paid $1M) bonds to payoff the 'new bar and store'. And JR doesn't need to share any of the attendance revenue with the State/City.

The Astros broke the tanking method. They picked #1 from 2012-2014, #2 in 2015 and had #5 in 2015 b/c of Aiken. Not possible now....Getz had the worst record ever and couldn't draft higher than 10.

Most people saw this coming, just like the PCA regression. You just can’t swing and miss that much. It just took longer than it should’ve for the League to figure out PCA.

Jaylon Johnson could be facing surgery.

Ben needs to break him. Caleb has excelled until this point because of his athleticism. He’s not the best athlete anymore. He’s uncomfortable in the pocket and wants to make everything “backyard ball”. That’s not going to work.

I heard a clip on MLB Radio this morning that the Pirates have had 4 above .500 seasons in the last 33 years (I didn't fact check it). Jerry see's all the year over year profits that they get and that's what he wants. I think it's going to be a long lockout. The spenders don't want to share with teams/owners that don't care about winning and the non-spenders don't want to cutoff the pipeline of profits.

Yeah, I'm now sure we cannot pick behind the Nats or Rockies in the 1st round. We will pick behind Colorado in subsequent rounds. Cleveland won the lottery with a 2% chance at the top pick in 2024, so if we're into conspiracy theories and Manfred hates Jerry (vice versa), we're fucked.

Is that correct? The Nats and Rockies can't pick ahead of the Sox for #1 (overall). And I believe it's a graduated scale down after the top two losers. I believe, the Sox should have the highest % chance at the #1 pick.

Who was the guy that put that infrastructure in place for player development? Oh yeah.....

Wat? You're given a budget and then, as in your example, the GC works with it. f*** it up and it's you (GC), not the sub-contractor.

Then who's fault is that? Jerry is running the team or Getz has no authority over the roster or anything else. I know if fits the narrative that Getz cannot be faulted because he's handcuffed by the owner or he hasn't had enough time to fail at anything.

Mike Clevinger is still employed. It's clown shoes throughout and led by Getz. It's impossible to think Thor has anything left, but he might be just saying why is Clevinger here and I'm not?

Oh, the egg is there, it's everywhere. He's going to get released for zip on a day the Bears play and the only people who will notice will be on this board. Trade him for a rosin bag at deadline and you get mocked because everyone is watching. Release him during NFL season and nobody notices. Gosh, Getz is so inept.

Here it is and that is "demanding" an apology.

Yup.

Who's responsible for giving the manager untalented pitchers? Who ran the minor league development program when these guys were being "developed"? Asking for a friend.....

Brewers walk it off. Flubs hitting regression is still a force.

OMG! You are not being persecuted. We are all Sox fans. You choose to think that tomorrow will be better than today. Rock on, positive attitude. Most of us see the SOS.

WTF? A "mental exercise" is another term for "mental gymnastics". Are you really calling me the "R" word or "mentally challenged"? I'm so offended, be nicer! The point that flew over your head was that Getz will never GM again when he's fired and Stearns will get a job the day he leaves the Mets. And an avatar of a comedy show depicting a fat guy wearing a shirt that says "no fat chicks" is humor and making fun of the person wearing it, not of some "chick".

Your definition of mental gymnastics isn’t what it really means. I don't remember if it was this thread or another, but a post stated that if Getz is fired today he will never have another GM job in his life. Stearns will be hired tomorrow if the Mets cut him loose. That's reality. Twisting an argument into a pretzel to frame it another way isn't reality.

You need to accept Getz sucks and is a massive part of how the Sox made history last season and will have the 2nd worst record in MLB this season. We're not last this year!!!!!!!!!!

And that's fair, but they needed to be able to see what they already had on their hands before the monster breakout. All the signs were there.