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  1. Easiest question ever: both.
  2. I'm not trying to put it on the medical team. But I'd love to see the explanation for how this problem is not going to reoccur once he starts trying to demolish 98 MPH fastballs again.
  3. You can't replace a Soto. The Yanks won 94 last year and they look to have done enough to win at least 90 in 2025. They were in a position of being able to get a couple games worse and still win the division. The Sox not replacing O'Neill is just a whole different deal. It's not that O'Neill is a great loss. But when you look at our problems hitting lefties last year and where our payroll is, doing nothing here is plain and simple negligence and profit-prioritizing. I might be shifting the point, but it's a slow Sunday...
  4. Hopefully it'll be Campbell at some point, and preferably sooner than later.
  5. I have zero expectations for Grissom. I don't think he has much of a future with the Sox.
  6. And you just know Bellinger and Goldschmidt are going to do some good things for them. The Yankees picking up these guys while the Sox do nothing to replace O'Neill just highlights once again the difference in how the 2 teams are operating. The Yankees keep going for it and prioritizing winning while the Sox keep fiddling around and prioritizing profit.
  7. You're being a good positive-thinking fan. Nothing wrong with that. (I'm kind of testing your optimism a bit, too, I guess, just for the sake of having a debate.) I do find it a little amusing when we point out all the bad things that happened as if nothing bad like that could happen again. e.g. Breslow making those 3 deadline moves that all sucked to an almost incredible degree.
  8. We don't trust the Sox FO any more, and for very good reason IMHO. They've delivered one of the worst stretches of Sox baseball in a long time. And it all basically started when they traded Betts and went in their new direction. The new direction has sucked.
  9. I'm not weighing the second half more highly. I'm weighing each game equally. They won 81 of them and they lost 81 of them. To what do you attribute the post-ASB record of 28-38?
  10. Right, but they couldn't stay above .500 for more than a few games until mid-June. They were: 7-7 9-9 10-10 19-19 22-22 26-26, 27-27 etc. right up to 35-35. They were the Even Stevens. The Maestros of Mediocrity. They had one really good stretch, from mid-June to mid-July. That was it.
  11. I think he could adjust. He had a few glitches with the pitch clock thing and adjusted to it. He's an old pro. And at the moment one still looking for an MLB contract.
  12. So what you're talking about isn't really "playing better", you're just saying we had worse than average injury luck. I disagree with your recap of the season. The 2024 Sox were at .500 in mid-June. They went on a great run for a month that put them about 10 games over. That was really their only stretch of excellent play. They came out of the break playing like crap and it all went down the tubes from there.
  13. If they show him the right number dinero-wise I expect he would say sure, and since he seems a fairly confident fellow, he'd probably be thinking he would get the closer job back anyway...
  14. As of today, if the Jays signed Juan Soto for the same as the Mets did, they would owe him more than 1.1 billion Canadian dollars. 🤣
  15. If you like that kind of humor, you should have a field day with Roman and Kristian!
  16. Hell, for a few days we had Soto and Fried on the 2025 team, just for starters! 🙃
  17. I think you're operating on hunches and a natural bias toward optimism about your own team. Which I understand, we all do it. The thing about projections is, assuming they're done by a reputable source, they're truly unbiased. They're not "reliable" because no predictions about baseball are, but they'll be more accurate than those of biased fans. As I've said before, the team win projections for the Sox the last 3 years were virtually all in the 80-85 range, and they turned out to be close to bang on each time.
  18. My problem with the Jays isn't that they're better than us... It's that they're spending more than us!
  19. Holy crap, you really do know a lot of this arcane stuff. 😄
  20. Garrett Whitlock is actually one of the guys that keeps me interested in this team. He was a joy to watch in 2021. And being stolen from the Yanks always helps!
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