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Joe Cowley commented on WSCR before game 1 was done: 'People don't understand what a circus that organization really is'.

This model hasn't been copied around the league because it makes no sense to fill out the payroll with unproven players when they could be on rookie deals while paying for veteran production. If anything, the Soxshould operate like the Rays.

we can still win the lotto.

great time to play the gimp lineup next I suppose.

We can’t afford a punt lineup. So we shall have one.

So you’re saying there’s a chance….

An interesting opportunity to wonder what they would actually pay a player, and for whom. I tend to believe the Sox poison-pilled their own offer to Machado. And were never intending to put themselves in position to win for Bryce Harper at market value. 400 million ffs gtfoh. This is the franchise Kenny Williams once said way back in the day would never pay a player more than 10 million a year. Kenny has had to let reality hit him in the face since. But that attitude still prevails. Prior to this rebuild, I had wondered if the Sox would ever build around young high upside type talent because they would never pay market value when it came time to. They have been working around that with their early offer technique in order to avoid the market. (which interestingly has not been copied around the league as SM suggests). But if the Sox ever have to play on that stage for real, I would expect a trade or a weird losing offer before they actually paid up. Gonna be interesing.

I don't know what would scare me more, if Giolito asks for a huge deal, or asks for a medium affordable deal.

Ozzie says it looks to him that lately he has tried to pull the ball, and that is not TA at his best. Now that he mentions it I will look more for that,.

The dreaded sore legs. Honestly Tony thinking this team has the time to worry about guys being 110% to play is probably part of the reason they are so sleeepy

Ay, chihuahua!

Moncada es?…

He cares about winning that validates his hubris. Always, that has been who he is. If he had to do things the way the rest of the league does things, winning would probably be begrudgingl

if anyone would be surprised would be remarkable. They had one good half season (fueled by scrubs) in the last handful of years. And some people crowned their ass. This is what they are.

Yep. A futile and stupid gesture is what we need. This team needs a 2 week stretch of good baseball just to be considered possibly worthy of a boost. Possibly.

Papa was a rollin’ stone….

I can see what you did there. The deeply hidden sarcasm, antipathy for the Tatis deal. We will heed your warning

Nobody limping? Who’s resting tomorrow?

Reinsdorf doesn’t fire executives until they are 5 years past expiration date.

Well , we’ve gone from mediocre to embarrassing. But we were embarrassed before technically

Well the team was sharper when they had the scrubs in the first half providing the energy and focus for sure. Kimbrel was just a dumb move that poured gas on the fire. This group is a bad bunch of coconuts. In the FO you gotta be able to see problems and weaknesses, and react ahead of time in some instances. They desperately need a new set of eyes like the Bears.

I have more faith in AKME, but the Bulls are being run the same way basically

Hahn has to go. He put together a poorly constructed operation. If he listened to his owner in the process, well that’s unfortunate. Maybe you quit first, at the point where you are forced to do a bad job.

The schedule should keep them within 2.5-4.5 games back the rest of the way without much doing. Winning wont excite me, but run differential will. That’s the rope for me.