FloydBannister1983

I think you’ve confused it with ChicagoFanatics, who were always skeptics and most were always hilarious when doing so.

And they ran off a good number of skeptics. It turned into WSI here for a while.

My work colleague and I used to comment that these guys didn’t need agents, the fans did their work for them. Perusing the boards from 2017-2019 you have more people than should have been proclaiming Roberts and Moncada and Jimenez future Hall of Famers. We had threads that told us we should picture Kopech and Giolito as future Verlanders. So you can forgive their overconfidence a bit. Hahn should have known to underpromise and over deliver.

There were plenty of people who thought he was the Sox Theo.

This thread did not age well

People were speculating where they would be if they swept KC. They may lose the series 3-1. Cease and Lynn pounded by the light Royals. This team has zero pitching.

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Im not sure they are a .500 team when healthy. The pitching on this team is non existent. Giolito may have figured it out again for a bit before he is traded. Cease seems to be a one year wonder. Clevinger and Lynn are not good and Lynn will be traded. Kopech is not good. The bullpen is a dumpster fire. Will Hendricks be the same after his illness?

I know there’s still two months to go but who could possibly be picked from this putrid team? Giolito? Burger?

At least if there are other enough people humiliated maybe it would create an inside mutiny.

https://www.soxtalk.com/forums/topic/113667-holmes-goes-off-must-see-video/#comment-4418116

I’m in the Lawrence Holmes camp at this point in regards to his epic rant last September. I want them humiliated at this point. 78-84 isn’t good enough for Hahn and company.

Where will they be if they get swept?

How does this compare with other teams? Middle of the curve or at the far end of it?

I think this was one of the fifty that every team will win. Against a bad team. It was a high scoring game for the Sox. They happen. I didn’t see anything that should change the assessment of the team from the first month of the season. They are at best a third place team in a bad division.

I guess this one is one of the fifty.

Yes you’re right about Abreu. I question whether adults really need teammates to be “leaders”. But a guy like Anderson can certainly be a cancer. I think you’re closer to being correct than being off base.

You just need to watch the video from last year when they announced Anderson was an all star. Nobody cares. He’s probably a self absorbed jerk in the dugout, based on some other questionable off the field behavior. He’s not a leader as some claim. It’s obvious his teammates are at best neutral on him. The only leader they had is now in Houston. Also, at point you have to start questioning if the talent is there if it never comes to fruition.

But just once it would be nice to sign a real starting pitcher even if you’re overpaying for him on the back end of the contract. I will never forgive him for passing on Clemens and signing Jaime Navarro instead.

I think he means that it’s typical that Jimenez will miss two months to any of a number of injuries in every single year.

He’s made most of his bad luck before this incident.

A better question would be: as bad as this bullpen has been, and as mediocre as Lynn and Giolito have been, what contender would part with their top prospects for pitchers that won’t help them?

It is inherently flawed when the person who put the car in the ditch gets to drive the tow truck.

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure"

I thought Beckham played second.