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Went to Glendale for 4 days. I actually saw JR pull up to the front gate at camelback on a golf cart. He doesn't look like the 90 year olds i've known. Having lots of cash really helps retard the aging process. At least on the outside. Went to Sox/Cubs opener in Mesa with my Cubs fan Brothers in law. Pretty sweet game. Saw Sox beat the Brewers at the ranch. Camelback really is pretty great. The wife and I might go back without the relatives in a year or two.

Damn, you have to wonder about 1972. One more quality starter might have done it. A's beat us by 5 games. Then they blew everyone else away in the playoffs. Wilbur Wood RIP started almost 50 games that year and faded in the second half.

Deez two Yutes. My wifes favorite movie.

Nothing to do with the draft. Just happy tomorrow football is over. NFL sucks the life out of everything when it's going on. For me, baseball season begins the day after the Superbowl.

I still think Ramos can have a career. Hope he stays healthy with the O's.

Loved the Gooch.

I'm just glad LuBob is gone. The injury thing was getting really old.

I wish Ed was still alive and still in charge. People who can evaluate talent in any sector are the real geniuses.

I knew you were a longtime fan by your name. That and Augsberger were the beers sold at Comiskey when I was young. Wood and Buehrle are the two pitchers that have their pictures on my Sox shrine wall. Wilbur and Dick Allen are my boyhood heroes.

Best .240 hitter I ever saw. Nobody advanced on the catcher with a pitch in the dirt like he did.

Thanks Lip, January is the toughest non baseball month for me. These posts help keep me from the looney bin. 😋

I'm sorry he hasn't worked out. Truth be told, he could've played like Babe Ruth and we wouldn't have been .500 the last three years.

never underestimate the power of booze.

From what i've seen online, you can't leave the heteros out of that conversation either.

If Robert is surrounded by players taking walks and working counts, he might stop swinging at everything himself. Of course, that is a really big if. Self awareness and change can be almost impossible sometimes.

Merry Christmas to all Soxtalk members. Brighter days are coming.

would be great if Sox play .500 after the all star break.

It's hard to run in sandals, but I'm okay with it.

Does this guy have a pulse? I'm not interested enough to find out if he's a good defensive OF. He hits LH and does a little of everything at the plate. If somebody wants to look up his splits, I'd look at the findings to see if he kills righties. if nobody looks it up, I'll survive.

That sounds exactly like something JR would do.

Thanks for the info. I was going to Key West in March, but that Iowa game is too much to resist.

his heart is the wrong color.

3 grinders for Quero sounds about right. All 2nd basemen.

I know in MLB $900,000 is close to the minimum. But it's still an overpay for Derek Hill. Billy Hamilton didn't die without me noticing did he?

I'd trade Vargas at any time. He has a very long swing. Decent defense at 3B isn't going to change that. I'm not saying he's a bum. He may have a season or two where he out peforms. I just can't see him being a core piece on a good team.