Southwest Sider

lets fucking GO

Whatever. Better early in the year than later.

YEEEEEEEEEE-ESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Glad the Sox aren't the only stupid team in the league playing infielders in the outfield.

I know right!?

I had no clue Kelly threw such gas. 99 mph sinker...

I hate sitting here watching these games and hoping our guys only play at 80% effort. Not sure wtf is going on anymore with guys who give 100% but it's pretty shitty.

I can't deal with this shit anymore. Being a sports fan sucks because everyone just gets hurt all of the time.

Glad to be working during this one! 1 of the 60.

Winning 1 run ballgames against good teams is very solid. Love the pitching so far.

They are laying off of some nasty sliders. Must be picking up the spin quite easily.

Chicago is Seattles house of horrors. I know the feels.

I freaking love Adam Engel.

Is Velasquez a guy that can be "fixed" or improved upon? I am really hoping they targeted him based on an Ethan Katz recommendation or something.

I miss the Herm Schneider era.

This person below is trying to organize a Sox logo. I definitely feel like if it got started, there'd be some momentum picked up from randoms. I also think it'd be cool to replace the Lions around 819,556 with the S O X batterman logo or something.

Have Oakland trades scarred me that much? Geez.

Montas was a throw in on some other trade we lost years ago. It seems kind of shitty to then trade for him and have potentially the same thing happen. Irrational I know, but what can I say other than trading with Oakland scares me.

I need to take a moment to absorb the fact that we currently have a 208 million payroll and our insiders are talking about us like we dont mind spending up to the CBT of 30 million. What bizarro world is this?

Dodgers can still afford massive contracts? Wow.

Pretty awesome that were talking about trading for guys from Oakland that we traded to them many moons on deals we lost by a landslide. Cant wait for them to turn Stiever into a TOR starter and we trade for him 4 years from now.

Idk, if we wanted to trim the playoffs so much than we might not have gotten an opportunity to see a team from the worst division upset LAD and HOU to win a title. Yes the NL east would always have a playoff team but if they went back to the old format with 1 division only? No Atlanta, I think. LAD will always win the most games in this era, lower the amount of playoff competitors and they are far more likely to win more championships, thus further showing that assertion of economic power for front office and on field talent is the best way to win games. Didnt we all get tired of that during the era of New York Yankees baseball? Fuck that, expand playoffs, let some teams in and see if they get hot at the right time. Getting hot isnt just a thing that randomly happens and if it does than the other team got robbed, it takes cohesion has a group and everyone pulling from the same rope in the most intense games of your lives. We are all aware of what that can look like in the playoffs. What if the Cleveland did catch up but the Sox still won 90ish games and we didnt get to see how special it can be when a team gets hot at the right time? Why shouldn't a team that won 90 games.. a pretty damn good record, not have a chance to defend that title? If they lost 90 games sure but the 2006 Sox still had a good year and didnt get to try and defend. Every once in awhile, it may occur that a team who loses more games than they win make it in, but I think I analyzed it awhile back and in some expanded formats, it allowed mostly just teams who won more games than they lost in, which isnt necessarily a bad thing IMO.

My life is complete.

Pretty upsetting as I had tickets to game 3 and ended up not being able to go due to some airport craziness. I had a feeling about that game.

This just puts them in a better position to compete with us.