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I think Murakami-sama is the coolest.

Lol I imagine it would be like if an American went to play in Japan and they called him "The Kyoto Cowboy" I don't think its necessarily offensive, but its definitely corny.

We have 1 today

What are you talking about? They preferred one guy to be the 2nd-3rd catcher on the team over another guy. That's it. Its so insignificant. Who is "overselling" anyone on this move? Is this a bit? Explain how this has anything to do with LF. They chose a catcher making $1.2 over a catcher making $800k. That's a difference of $400k, which is half of the league minimum. AND that assumes they aren't recouping some of that money by trading Lee for cash considerations. AND that assumes they don't trade McGuire eventually and have to pay his entire salary. What impact does that have on LF? What were they going to do with that additional $0-$400,000 to fix LF? You think JR was cool with dropping Benintendi's $30+ million dollars before they signed McGuire and this changed it? Are you delusional?

No one is arguing they aren't cheap. It's embarrassing/pathetic that they have such a low payroll and probably had to move Robert's $20 million before doing other things this offseason. That said, even for their cheap asses, this isn't a lot of money. So I'm not sure why it matters, especially if your complaint is stinginess, that they prefer to pay a backup $1.2 million vs $800,000.

lol.... why are you trying to pretend Benintendi is on the team because they are paying Reese McGuire 1.5x the league minimum?

Because its 2026 and its not a lot of money. He's the 9th highest paid player on the team because they are rebuilding and a large portion of the team is still making league minimum, not because $1.2 million dollars is a lot of money in MLB terms. According to your thinking, if a team (hypothetically) had 22 very good starting caliber pre-arb players, it would be bad to spend a million dollars to sign a backup because that player would be a top 5 salary on the team. That's not how it works in real life.

I am not following. What does the salary of the backup catcher on a team from 21 years ago have to do with any of this? 1.2 million dollars is not a big amount in 2026. They aren't "investing" anything.

Lol come on… They get off on being upset. These are the same people who said it was a fireable offense to trade Luis Rodriguez for Corey Julks.

Has anyone sat in the first few rows at the Miller Lite Landing seats? I wanted to see the pricing and availability for single game tix for the leather padded seats with the tvs. It doesn't look like there are any available for any game. Are they season ticket only? I don't even see them on stubhub, seatgeek, etc.

Webcast isn’t showing balls after they are hit. Why even do this if it’s going to be so half assed?

This webcast looks like it’s being filmed on a Nokia cell phone from 2007.

Do you make your own projections?

That’s not relevant to his point.

lol... I would love to meet a cult that talks about their cult leader like the supposed Soxtalk cultmembers talk about Getz. "I wasn't happy when Guru Steve took over the commune and some of what he did at first was kind of dumb but he's made some decent decisions lately. I'll see what happens."

"I'm not paying for this! You said you were going to fix my car! All you did was make it work like it did previously!"

And its an interview. What's he going to say? These guys are morons, they don't let me do my job.

Not that it matters but isn't the topic title wrong? Isn't it second to last? I'm shocked/confused how the Sox revenue can be lower than everyone except Oakland.

Yeah, that's what I don't get. If Sox draft him and want to give him $10 million, what difference does it make if Tampa Bay offers him $12 million? I understand if its a high schooler or something.

This deal wouldn’t make much sense for Sox. If he’s good, you basically signed him to a one year deal and paid his posting fee for his next team. If I had to guess, Sox were ok with money and years but not the opt out after year 1.

I thought it was an age thing.

This would be awesome but I just can't imagine the Sox beating out Cubs, Phillies, Mets, or Red Sox. It made a little more sense with Murakami because of his red flags/bust potential. Someone tell me why I'm wrong.

How are the comp picks valued by other teams? Would we be able to trade for one without Robert?

Why is there no trade winds forum this year? Because we don't anticipate enough activity?

Its funny how news of a hire with universal approval still results in the usual suspects trying to shoehorn in criticisms of Getz for 6 pages.