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They also supposedly offered the Red Sox $60K + Shoeless Joe for Babe Ruth before the Red Sox sold him to the Yankees for straight cash. Based on all of Ruth's vices, I think it's best for baseball history that he didn't end up anywhere near the Black Sox.

I know Herm wasn't like, a magical guardian that prevented all injuries, but I miss Herm.

In honor of Jake, we're eating Goober Burgers.

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Yup

It's been a popular refrain on the board this winter, despite the Pirates existing.

Liam, man of the people ?

The Athletic used a scoring system to rank all 30 MLB teams since 1998. Here's a link to the post. The Sox come in at 16, tied with the Rangers, Rays, and Nationals. So if you want a look at the true dredges of desolation that other fanbases (Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Seattle in particular) have endured alongside us, take a look.

Jack, this is a stupid fucking question and you know it.

I was explaining this to my dad last night. It wasn't Rodon for what the Giants gave him. It was Rodon at $18M/1 year or getting a 2nd rounder. I'd take that over what we have right now.

So Gavin can either be the next Thome (#4) or Dunn (#11). For what it's worth, I'm just joking around. That's a pretty remarkable stat.

Love Sheets. Would also trade him for Manaea in a heartbeat, because Giolito, Lynn, Cease, Manaea, Kopech/Keuchel is a sweet rotation.

You can also massively fuck up a team in the offseason. Example: This year's Lakers

Ok everyone, best and final offers (real meaning of the term, not MLB owner meaning) for Manaea. GO!

No, Jack has definitely said this before you.

Yes. The post is r/NFL's equivalent of Tim Anderson at catcher. It has become heavily memed.

That one beer vendor that goes "BEEEEEEEeeeeeRRRRRRRRrrrr" in a gravely voice.

As a fellow eastern time zoner, I'm down with this.

Give it a read. All time dumb sports take.

This is a legit insult to Tim Anderson.

Part of what makes this fun. - Burger gets the big lead if he either magically forces Yoan back to second, learns to play a passable second himself, or something else funky happens. - Micker can get it if Leury starts the season at SS and due to Vaughn's injury, they roll with Adolfo in right for a few games and he goes full April Yermin. - I laid out the Romy case above. - Lord knows we'd all love a competent backup catcher, which is the case for Perez.

Yeah, the "save the season" line is a bit tongue in cheek. Maybe Sousa gets it by having Codi Heuer's 2020, but over a full season. Even with the loaded up bullpen, that would get you some White Sox ROY votes.

But he's still on the roster, which means the White Sox are currently 7th. This is like the "if you remove Patrick Mahomes amazing games, he's an average QB" post.

And, while not unique to Sox fans, we are a bunch of loyal motherfuckers to anyone that does anything remotely cool for the franchise.

Anyway, despite my Adolfo love, I voted Romy because TLR loves him some god damn positional versatility. Lower strikeout rate than Micker, but only one less homer in 2021. Adolfo's options put him in a precarious position.