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Dude in my friend group is very much "I follow the popular sports star," type guy. Like, BIG Cleveland fan during Lebron's second stint (now an LA fan) and suddenly a huge Dodgers fan (this is the first year he has ever cared about baseball). We've got lifelong Mets fans in our chat and he goes "anyone going to Flushing to see Ohtani???" He's loaded and can afford it, but he's definitely pushing it with people.

Yeah, it's really, really hard to top Semien/Bassitt or Tatis.

Yes, obviously you have star money given to Lindor and Diaz. But Stearns inherited a s%*# ton of retained payroll going to Verlander, Scherzer, Narvaez and McCann.

Chris Getz, who is not a nerd and is a baseball man = Breaks the all-time loss record when not trying to tank (despite what he said at the end of the year). David Stearns, a Harvard grad who worked in several successful front offices = Reaches NLCS in a "we're not trying" year

How could a team with Tommy Pham and six hits lose???

This is a fair point.

This was part of the original announcement.

Everyone knows hits > runs

The Jacksonville Jaguars say their flight to London will be delayed because of Hurricane Milton Really feel like they could have planned around this better.

While the NBA doesn't expressly forbid teams from winning the lottery, the Pistons have been horrid and kept getting the #5 pick in a league where superstar picks matter much more than MLB. And it's also a league where you can't spend infinite money (many teams have to hire guys dedicated to navigating the cap) and doesn't have nearly as robust of a farm system.

He really, really needs/wants Thorpe to be viewed as a better pitcher than Cease.

In other news, Daniel Hudson has been in the league for 15 years.

The Flying Serpent played his part tonight. On one hand, let's fucking go Mets. On the other hand, the series is just a reminder of regrets: Manaea and Quintana could have been added for dirt cheap the past few years. They had Iglesias and traded him for Avi Garcia. Schwarber was right there for the taking and then, obviously, Harper. It feels like the Sox were connected to — or fans/this board beat the drum for — all of those guys.

In his introductory press conference, Getz spoke about competing in the AL Central. He only talked about rebuilding once the entire league was beating their ass cause he's a wildly incompetent GM.

It's going to annoy me to no end that the main twitter account went with @CHSN__ as it's handle when @CHSN is available. Edit: Lol, it has to be two underscores because otherwise it goes to some kid's profile who hasn't posted since 2016. That's next level.

I felt like this would be a good place to share this fun fact.

The second tweet is from an MTA employee that does digital communications. This was a collaboration.

It's Tim Anderson. Drafted in 2013.

So to be clear Get quantity over quality Ideally quality and quantity, but we've seen that you're not getting premium quantity and quality with Getz at the helm. They've all got to matchup on a similar timeline, cause if they've got 3 years or less, they gotta be traded due to this poverty franchise. Assume the quantity will all hit. This is the 2016 rebuild but with a worse starting point.

Lmao, if we're already projecting Crochet as gone in this scenario, then there is no point to any of it.

So, my point was that if JUSTgottaBELIEVE actually believed in Thorpe, which we know he does, then he should drive Skenes to Chicago himself, because Skenes-Crochet-Thorpe is a nasty front 3 (again, if you believe in Thorpe). You'd need 2 of the Sox remaining starting prospects to hit, which we know is a tall order, but rookie pitchers that put up a sub-2 ERA and start the All-Star game don't fall off trees.

Damn, you really have such little faith in Drew Thorpe?

why lose when you can win?