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  1. It all kind of starts with Boone pulling Cole after 88 pitches when he doesn't really have a lockdown bullpen. Certainly no one could have foreseen Boone considering the rust-caked Cortes as his his #1 lefty option over Hill.
  2. It does kind of have the feel of "look at all this stuff we're doing!"
  3. Trading Sale could have been justified if it was part of a plan to seriously upgrade the rotation. That's what I thought was going on when I first heard about the trade. But for them to trade Sale and his potential to at least have a 3 win season which I thought he still had, and then do no more than sign Giolito, yeah, I did find that infuriating. They deserved what they got IMO.
  4. So you're joining moon in the convoluted hindsight hypotheticals...
  5. Since we have gone off madly on this Ohtani tangent, thanks to notin's harmless little joke, I will add this: Gambling problems that come to light are usually not new problems, and they are almost never short-lived ones. If Ohtani had a problem, he has a problem.
  6. Agreed. Personally I hope they do keep all four, simply out of a selfish need for some f**king excitement.
  7. Unless you get the burner cups. More likely it was a Cone of Silence setup. 😀
  8. If they were using burner phones it indicates this was some sort of premeditated scheme. If Ohtani is smart enough to hide a payoff to the interpreter, why is he also stupid enough to make a long series of readily visible bank transfers to an illegal betting operation? That's the real problem - you're saying he was incredibly stupid in some ways and incredibly smart in others.
  9. Investigations are closed. It would take some new evidence coming out for anything further to happen.
  10. OK, but they did supposedly do some investigating of cell phones and so on and couldn't find any incriminating communications between Ohtani and the interpreter. I guess you're assuming Ohtani somehow brilliantly covered all his tracks. How would he have paid the interpreter off, in your theory?
  11. Hugh, I'm talking about the part where Ohtani changed his story and said his friend was lying and stole millions from him.
  12. It only makes sense if you think Ohtani and his people are basically the Mafia, and they told the interpreter his choices were to be killed or to go to jail and be looked after for it.
  13. Understood. I just don't see how if it was Ohtani they couldn't find out it was Ohtani. And that leads to the massive coverup theory.
  14. Rumor had it that last offseason when the Sox were making inquiries on trades for young pitchers, other teams weren't interested unless the Sox were willing to part with at least one of Anthony, Mayer and Teel, and talks ended quickly.
  15. That scenario, that Ohtani was helping his friend until he found out the consequences, probably makes the most sense. Needless to say that doesn't reflect well on Ohtani either. Didn't seem to hurt his game much, that's for sure.
  16. Ray Davis is going the John Henry route and wants to get under the tax threshold by any means. He's been reading moon's posts about nuttiness.
  17. Just wait till John finds out they're going to need a large new building to house all the analysts and computers.
  18. Andrew Bailey and the pitch mix revamping did have a sensational April. After that things got a little sketchy. And we hired former Yankee hitting coach Dillon (Hit Strikes Hard AKA Swing Hard In Case You Hit It) Lawson, and our offense went on to record a franchise record in strikeouts!
  19. I'm as cynical as they come. And I just think it's really hard to keep something as big as this covered up. Keep an eye out for people in Ohtani's orbit dying in mysterious ways, I guess...
  20. The White Sox are surely a long way away from any possible window. I would think the only thing they're interested in right now is very young and very inexpensive talent.
  21. We're gonna out-science everybody!
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