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Good to see him doing well, again. He started slowly.

I forgot to mention, he's a complete dick, too. (BTW, he's from Sugar Land- where I live, and it's a widely known fact down around these parts.)

It's feeling like magic is in the air, again. Let's nurture it. Care for it. Let it grow!

It's great to see this kid succeed!

Hard for me to like him. He's a cheat. He's a child groomer at best or child molester at worst. He threw the bat at Piazza and then screamed, "I thought it was the ball!" He was great, but not deserving of being liked.

Makes sense, or for Fitzy. Either seems better than Downs or the 2022 version of Arroyo, so far.

He's done many, and a few them seem to have worked out well.

There are still many countries taking COVID more seriously. One of my sisters is from New Zealand. They get one positive case there, and all hell breaks loose. Then again, they hardly had anyone die, too, so there's that. My sister cam home to visit my parents and got stuck here for months.

IMO, the team is taking a much bigger hit than the fans or Houck's wallet.

You beat me to it.

Fitzy and Sanchez would have to be added to the 40. Downs does not. Otherwise, I think one of them would have gotten the call-up. I get that Bogey talked his way out of a day off, but they really never foresaw a need for Downs to learn some 3B before being called up? To me, that is what is most bizzare.

It's so cool how we can all have our own personal science, now.

If Crawford keeps doing well, and Sale comes back strong, going to TOR could be a complicated event. I wonder if they are considering lifting the restrictions, or at least requiring a recent negative test result to play.

I'm not muddy, though. I guess when we are wrong, and admit it, Red has to keep bringing it up incessantly, but when he makes a mistake, you get no admission and a bunch of subject-changing. We white water raft, every summer. It's not as dangerous as it looks, but thanks for the well wishes.

Bizzare choice, to say the least. When they called Bogey up to play 3B, at least they gave him 10 games in the minors.

Might, yes. One day off has been pretty helpful for over a century.

OPS Against Last 14 Days. The top of the pen list contains most of the names we've suggested DFA'ing: .221 Brasier 23 PAs Against .456 Schreiber 23 .602 Diekman 17 .739 Danish 22 .790 Houck 17 .796 Davis 29 .833 Strahm 21 .974 Sawamura 17 .984 Robles 21 SP'ers .571 Eovaldi 1 GS .585 Pivetta 3 .608 Wink 2 .731 Crawford 2 .849 Hill 3 .878 Wacha 3 Last 28 Days .471 Brasier .532 Schreiber .540 Nate .555 Nick .597 Sawamura .639 Wacha .646 Danish .648 Houck .695 Whitlock .731 Crawford .743 Davis .758 Wink .818 Hill .827 Diekman .984 Robles 1.005 Strahm 1.012 Barnes

Lastwordism runs in my family.

The last game of a series often sees Cora putting up line-ups like you are suggesting. I think it might make more sense to rest Bogey v a righty, but your configuration would not surprise me.

Something I can certainly agree with. Maybe the return of Whitlock, Sale, Taylor and the first appearance in a Sox uniform by Paxton can help mitigate and slumping that may occur. I do think it's funny how one statement made to jacko concerning his statement that pitching does not slump has taken on such interest.

Yes, you being "wrong" has meaning. The word "but" is a very important word in the English language that often has great influence on the meaning of a statement. Again you bring up something I said, instead of answering to the point b eing discussed, but that's your deflection mechanism. I get it. How's my "Bogey diagnosis" coming about? You seem obsessed with what I said, but it was never a diagnosis. It was a statement made about how I thought Bogey might be feeling about the signing of a superior defensive SS. I admitted I was basing my opinion on faulty information, but if me being wrong brings you so much joy, continue having at it. I'm thrilled to watch Story flashing his brilliant D at 2B. I'm sure Bogey is happy having him by his side on D. I don't think Story's ability to knock in way more runs than Bogey is bothering Bogey, nor is his superior D. Originally, I thought the Story signing was a sign that Bogey was all but gone by 2023. With the information that Story agreed to be the FT 2Bman coming after my statement, the situation seems different. I'm not ashamed to change my opinion based on new information to me. I'm happy to correct the rec ord-something you refuse to do on your statement that everyone gave Bloom a failing grade on the Betts trade. Cue: change of subject or "tuning out."

If he could hit 21 HRs every 219 ABs at any level, the K's would be overlooked, IMO, but I doubt he can or would.

An update on some of the Beni return package: Winckowski has his ERA down to 3.68 after 3 starts in the bigs. Cordero is clawing his was out of the Franchy Bashfest often found on this site (not undeserving.) Luis De La Rosa (19 years old) of the FCL Sox went four scoreless innings (2.65 ERA in career 71 IP in FRk and Rookie Leagues (ages 16-19.) Freddy Valdez torns 21 in December and has not shown much promise since the trade. Grant Gambrell (age 24) has yet to pitch, this year and struggles at GRE, last season.

That does seem to be his ceiling.

Sale gets one more start at FCL, and then it's expected he gets a start or two at AA or AAA, most likely Portland on June 30th. I wish I was in Maine by then, but it looks like a later arrival, this year for the wife and me. We plan to drive with our two pups and make several scenic stops along the way, as well as a white water rafting adventure in West Virginia.