Donny Lucy's Avocado Farm

You don't sign a catcher to a franchise record contract and sit him on opening day. Grandal is starting on opening day.

Too small eh?

I believe that circus was shown the way out of town.

Apparently, he burned that bridge with a toxic insta video acting disgusted with Japanese culture while over there at some point. There was a tweet about it not that long ago. Apparently, the owners want nothing to do with him.

I don't remember the game, but most "memorable" for me, as a kid.... I was a big Don Mattingly fan. My Dad got tickets for a Yankees/Sox game at the old park. I waited in line for what seemed like an eternity during Yankees BP for an autograph, but the only Yankee that was signing was Jack Clark. So I had to settle for that. In terms of "Sox history" - probably 2006 opening day and surviving that rain delay and knowing "Jon Miller probably lost his shit on that Thome homer"

sounds hot. too bad I missed it. /s

I know Greg Amsinger isn't guilty of this, but were the other two guys interviewing him the same guys lamenting the bat flip on the day it happened? TA retweeted the video not to long ago. And I agree that this conversation was very likely tongue in cheek.

And he's now been suspended. So ya. We can stop talking about it. ? ? ?

Boras represents Betts. Boras represents Graterol. Boras critical of Boston Front Office. #SoapOpera

Sox won the internet today with that Taco tweet.

As a Dodgers fan, this trade makes me pretty excited. As a Sox fan, I am a bit bummed Maeda is going to the Twins. I was hoping maybe the Sox would have targeted him. Maeda pitching for the Twins is not good for the Sox.

Is this the new thing on SoxTalk, to insult someone's intelligence for misreading something that was terribly written and was difficult to understand? "Reading is hard" seems to be the go-to bullshit insult on this board any time someone can't understand poorly written posts.

How does he now have less trade value? Any team trading for him has another year of control.

Jon Miller could announce my morning routine and somehow make it sound exciting.

Lou Whitaker not being in the HOF is a sham.

The LA City Council will vote to formally request that MLB retroactively award to the Dodgers the 2017 and 2018 World Series titles: https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2020-01-15/los-angeles-city-council-vote-mlb-award-dodgers-championship-trophies Political theatre... but, interesting.

I think you could put Eloy at shortstop and it wouldn't matter. That lineup would score 20 runs a game. Defense be damned.

I was thinking this same thing. Jack McDowell first pitched for the Sox in the minors in 1987. Tony LaRussa was already managing in Oakland by the time McDowell was pitching in the Sox org. I think what he's stating though is that it existed before he was in the org... maybe? I dunno.

is WHAT supposed to be clever? Me posting a link from 2014, or the contents of the link? Did you click the link and read the comments?

From 2014: https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/forums/OtherGround/So-a-rumor-I-have-heard-about-Mike-Trout:2391228

I also heard that Mike Trout wears an oven mitt when baserunning to hide the electronic sign relay switch he carries in his hand.

Tony Clark flexed on Manfred, apparently. If they did punish the players, some guys who were along for the ride likely get taken out with the trash. I think the league had to pick their battle. If they do go after players, what's the game plan? What could they dish out for punishment?

this is the conversation down here in Braves Territory.

Dylan seems like a nice guy, I'm not gonna dance on his grave. Dude just "got fired" so to speak. If anything this serves as a fitting end to a terrible stretch of bullshit Sox shenanigans.

I wonder if the context of that tweet was Cora's bullshit while the RedSox manager, and not specific to Astros bullshit.