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Also, I'm gonna keep harping. Mets fans were miserable a few years ago under the Wilpons. Steve Cohen (a much worse human being than Jerry) swoops in and now they're a lot more energized about the team. Yeah, it's not working right now, but they're amped to have an owner with fat stacks in his pockets. The Clippers barely had a fanbase compared to the Lakers - let alone one so passionate that they could actually influence Hendriks (Soxtalk believe it or not) and Graveman (the Leury Legend game)* - then Ballmer comes to town and now the Clippers are a thing. They're getting new digs. All it takes is the owner leaving (and lest everyone on this board remind you, Jerry is 87) and a new one stepping in. *Obviously the contracts helped, but those guys were getting signed to some good contracts regardless.

Just because the rebuild is an abject failure, this thread is wishing the same hurt upon generations of Sox fans that Oakland fans are currently going through. I don't even live in Illinois anymore and it would fucking sting. Comiskey Park/US Cellular/Guaranteed Rate is my home away from home, especially because my parents no longer live at home. As I've grown older, the Sox hold less grip on my day-to-day mood when they're bad. Yeah, I immediately turn off the game when they lose. But I'm so fucking excited when they win. When Jake Burger overcomes his injuries. When Giolito reinvents himself for the umpteenth time. Hendriks beats fucking cancer. So what if they're bad and historically they aren't great? They're our team. Not Jerry's team. Not Kenny or Rick's team. Because they aren't eternal forces. If they were, we should hate Hawk for setting the team back during a short, disastrous tenure as GM. And Jerry hasn't threatened to move in damn near 30 years, so to wish for him to Major League the fanbase is cruel. If it hurts you this much to watch, tune out for a bit. Don't watch every game. The team will still be here and hope will eventually spring eternal once again. It obviously has for the Mariners fan base, who had to watch Griffey, Ichiro, A-Rod, Felix, and Randy all go through their stadium with nothing to show for it.

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Nah, even if we don't like Pedro's managing, he doesn't come across as the type of manager to go Full Ozzie over a call that he could have challenged. Or maybe he has truly snapped.

I genuinely want to know this - like, it's not like they challenged anything. What the f*** happened?

Lmao Elvis wasn't even on the bag.

Yaz what the f***

ESPN is just providing the worst angles for this.

He will be our MVP.

There's actually three Gwynns, six Boggses, and three Jeters. Only one Konerko though.

Tex, honestly, what point are you trying to make in this thread? Fegan wrote good articles and properly covered the team. He lost his job and a lot of Sox fans are rightfully annoyed. Long form drivel driven rants on this board are obviously not a replacement for good coverage of a team. Do we need Jim Bowden's constant brain droppings sent as push alerts? Not really, but, that'll drive traffic because it's tagged as "former GM previews the trade deadline!" and then it's 10 completely asinine proposals from Bowden that won't get made in a million years. Like, if you want to be that nihilistic, we can just say "what is the point of hiring broadcasters? To narrate shitty baseball?"

I'm gonna guess Schiff has pretty good traffic with the Nets. But you're right, they probably saw a big drop and were like "this writer isn't performing as strongly as he used to."

If it's a child's game, people should do something else with their time.

Remains employed: Jim Bowden

f***, Schiff got laid off. Went to college with him. But also, there you go. The 76ers and Nets weren't worth keeping beat writers? Edit; Also...there's several coastal teams on there Tex. The Mariners, Sharks, aforementioned Sixers and Nets. And in Toronto, you'd imagine the Maple Leafs were worth keeping a beat writer. Same for the Cowboys.

Yeah, this was a specifically planned "f*** you for blaming fan turnout" game. They also changed "sell the team" so loudly the Rays pitcher couldn't hear his pitchcom.

Do we have a full list of laid off writers? For example, was the Dbacks writer laid off? Or the Rays? It'd always be hard in Cubs town.

Nah Boob says he'll be good the moment he leaves.

Blaming Pedro is hysterical, but also, Bochy was the clear choice when they decided not to hire Hinch.

Touché

Way too critical to join Chuck and Guff

I'm trying to figure out what the f*** Sportsnaut is

The Athletic was pretty much founded on the notion of a local touch that you couldn't get... ...from print media. Which The Athletic distinctly isn't. And The New York Times is far from just a print business - they're all encompassing multimedia. Video won't be standing alone at the end of this either. People like being able to read on their phones. Podcasts dominate. The first newsroom I worked in out of college was founded on social media video and they've since expanded to written articles, newsletters and podcasts, because without that, you're relying on a lot of revenue sources that can dry up in an instant due to outside forces (such as algorithm changes).