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Sox end the season 44-37 on the road. Better than playoff teams Yankees, Cardinals, Rays and Phillies/Brewers. Equal to Mariners. Possibly better than Jays depending on their last series. Six more road wins than the next best already-eliminated team (Orioles).

3rd and 3 an obvious blitzing situation and they don't have Fields rolling out.

Bears gonna win this game 18-17.

LOL @ Giants blitzing on 3rd and 20.

Kicker off the street is going to get a lot of work if the Bears keep running right up the middle every play in the red zone.

I've been thinking the first round series should be 3 vs 5 and 4 vs 6. Your incentive to finish 4th instead of 5th is getting to host in the first round, and your incentive to finish 5th instead of 6th is avoiding the #1 seed in the second round.

Yeah, it sure seems like JR told Bob he'd give him a scoop on TLR's retirement but only if he packaged it into a strong defense of him.

It seems like the new manager gets named first before letting any coaches go, but it would be nice to just do it Thursday morning and not give the new manager a chance to keep him.

I liked this thread title better.

I'm watching the Ok St-Baylor game and Jason Benetti is absolutly amazing on football games.

After completely ruining their own season, if the Sox knock the Padres out of the playoffs, you might be able to hear me laughing all the way from the other side of the world.

I also don't think that ends up nearly as badly for Tua if he didn't already have a concussion (which it's pretty obvious that he did)

The NL record was Hack Wilson with 56 in 1930. Then McGwire hit 58 in 1997, then 70 in 1998, and finally Bonds hit 73 in 2001. Sammy Sosa, Ryan Howard and Luis Gonzalez also surpassed Wilson's 56 during that same time frame.

Yeah, well when nobody in the history of baseball had hit more than 61 and suddenly three guys who got much bigger in the middle of their careers combine for six seasons of hitting 63-72, people might be treating that 61 like it's the real record.

Either that or Amish paradise

Isn't it pretty much their own network now anyway?

The Sox being "cheap" isn't exactly the right way to describe it. A more accurate description is that the Sox are extremely risk averse when it comes to long term contracts. Other than a reported pursuit of Manny Machado, the Sox have never been willing to offer big money, long term deals to top free agents. There are plenty of examples of long term deals that have become suffocating, but there are ripple effects of this mode of operation. Since you aren't spending big dollars in free agency, then you have money to do stupid things like trade for a reliever who's had half a good season in his last two years and has a huge player option, and then trade him for an outfielder who's owed a bunch of money and has never been consistent, and of course re-signing a utility guy who can't hit for $15.5m guaranteed. Exactly one team, Tampa Bay, has been able to be consistently good without ever buying top tier free agents. Nobody else can do it. The Sox appeared to have managed to do it with the Sale/Quintana/Eaton trades, but then they fucked that up. At some point you have to take a risk on a big free agent like Judge or Rodon. If you hate the idea of being stuck with a declining player at the back end of the contract, frontload the dollars and make it easier to trade or DFA the guy later.

Conditional based on TLR actually being completely out of the organization, the new manager being from outside the org, and at least one reasonable offseason acquisition, I'll buy a 10-game plan or something of the sort for next year. Only been to one game in the last 3 seasons.

Foster and Sheets have options, so no reason to dump them. Gonna be nearly impossible to sign or trade for a quality catcher so might as well take a chance that Yaz rebounds. Bummer and Graveman are better than what you're going to get to replace them. No objections to the others you listed.

One of the many things I missed (but not really missed) by doing high school online.

Can you blame them? A manager they liked got fired and replaced with a 77 year old alcoholic. When they won 93 games despite him, their front office gave their worst player a 3 year deal, traded for an outfielder who can't hit RHP and isn't that good in the outfield, and signed a reliever who was injured. The hitters are being coached by someone who is coaching them counter to their natural talents, and their training staff can't keep them healthy. Why should they give 100% when nobody else in the organization is?

When I have other plans and can't watch the game live like I did today, I record it. Usually I will just delete the recording if they lost but watch it if they won. However, I checked out the box score and read the comments here and just hit the delete button. I don't need to watch that.

I just don't see Hahn getting fired. The best we can hope for is KW retires, Hahn moves up to his spot, and someone from outside the org gets brought in as GM and is allowed to actually make decisions.

Does anybody know if the draft lottery sets the order for the first round only or every round?