FloydBannister1983

Errr, that’s .250

Yeah, it’s not the highlight of our days watching you lose, kid.

Yeah but mathematically over 45 years with 26, 28, then 30 teams he should have won one by pure chance and appeared in a second World Series. In that time Minnesota won twice, Kansas City won twice and appeared three times, Cleveland appeared three times, Detroit twice. Not to mention franchises that didn’t even exist when he bought - Florida twice, Arizona once, Tampa Bay with 1.5 appearances, Colorado with an appearance. I won’t give him credit for something a monkey could have been trained to do. The one year they won was by pure luck anyway. They weren’t on anybody’s radar screen that year and no one got hurt. It was not by design. I still wish DeBartolo would have bought the team.

Yes this season should be a monument to their incompetence. Isn't Reinsdorf in Arizona full time? At his age I wonder how aware he actually is. He may have no clue what’s going on. Maybe they give him 2005 newspapers every day and he wakes up and is happy his team is in first place.

You can’t even count 2020. It was extended spring training.

I agree. This team doesn’t show up ready to play. They show up ready to take it up the rear end again and again and again. I don’t have TV any more so I get most of my Sox info on the radio or reading the box score. I will check the score about 20 minutes after game start and it’s at the point where I’m surprised if they aren’t down 4-0. Time to get rid of Grifol and hire the next Scapegoat.

I kind of thought he may be a one year wonder.

They get most of their money from TV nowadays. They don’t care about in person attendance.

It’s worse than that. What kid in his right mind would grow up a Sox fan? They had one good season that was an outlier, outside the trend of less than mediocrity that has been the staple of this franchise the last decade and a half. If I were a kid growing up now I’d never be a Cubs fan but I could see growing up rooting for the Brewers or the Cardinals. The Sox wouldn’t be on my radar screen.

I’ve never spoken six minutes uninterrupted in my entire life.

Could be a one year wonder. The book is still out IMHO.

At this point I think it’s worse than the rebuilding years. This is worse than the Fregosi era.

Yeah I’m not sure you can say they’ve “survived”. Yes they still happen to exist as an organization. But we were told, by regular commenters on here and in the media, that this would be a resurgence and they would rival the Cubs in terms of popularity. Does anyone seriously see that happening? Heck the Brewers might be more popular in Chicago than the Sox. Also they didn’t piss on their fan base in the previous down times like they do today.

Doesn’t Abreu start slow literally every year?

Not only defend … they actively attacked anyone who said, early on, “Hey, maybe these guys don’t look as good as you may think.” It was on the verge of turning into WSI in 2018-2019.

I think the point is that these players Hahn acquired were never as good as advertised or hoped for. I’m not sure that they succeed with another organization.

This. These players were never that good. Roberts was injury prone in the minors. Moncada was not deserving of his status the moment he got up and we all knew it. Giolito had a nice run. Kopech has always been a thrower and not a pitcher. Jimenez was injury prone the minute he got up here. I’m not convinced Cease isn’t a one year wonder. This is all Hahn. The fans wanted him to be the Sox’ Theo. But you can’t let the captain who ran the ship into the iceberg be in charge of the rescue boats. He needed to be fired in 2015 or 2016.

I don’t really have any grief because I expected this. I knew they had no pitching and I’m still not sold that Cease wasn’t a one year wonder. If he blows up then they have nothing at all. I was never sold on Moncada and I knew Roberts got hurt in the minors a bunch. (I was an open book on Jimenez and Vaughn.)

Can I change my vote? Will this team win another game this month?

It’s more than the record. You can watch them play and tell they don’t give a shiite. It’s way I keep thinking there is no one likable on this team.

Detroit, Cleveland, and Kansas City have all been in the WS multiple times since the Sox last appeared.

Anybody good would fall to #2

I don’t think an oft injured poor fielding shortstop will bring back as much value as you think.

It’s the same team as the quitters that rolled over and died after Cleveland beat them last September. Quitters lead by morons.