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Well luckily we'll be really healthy this year with all the durable guys we've got. Wait, that's not right.

On paper I'm struggling to see 100 home runs out of that entire starting lineup. We had 171 last year. Can we finish dead last this year? Even playing half our games at G-Rate? Maybe I can put some money on it.

This feels like a White Sox Hahn move. 100%. Paying for at best 2 WAR with a decent chance of replacement level. The opportunity cost is as much of a problem as the actual player they signed. You're just severely limiting yourself trying to boost your team this way late in the offseason. It's almost always better just to promote some 40 man guy that can "play" DH and hit 250/300/480. At least then if you want to move on from him it won't cost you any money, whereas if Soler starts slow you've got 40 million in dead money (and a dead roster spot) just hanging around.

Have you SEEN the parking at Camelback! My god, you practically park at your seat! And the color of that grass in the outfield patio, it's like a shining emerald! Oh, and if you want to see actual good players, our AAAA shares the park with the world famous LA Dodgers! You can't beat that experience!

Well I'll say this: at least anybody going down to see the Sox in the next few weeks should get that perfect late winter Phoenix weather. Was cool and rainy for a good stretch, back to low 70s and sun the next few weeks.

Yea I've gotten the same vibe. Good summary. It's fairly obvious that Getz' team building tactics are very different than Hahn's. Getz puts much more importance on the edges of the roster and looks to create value in building that depth on the squad at every level. A lot of the moves he's made so far are stuff that were if we ever do hit on some superstars again, winning with them will be much more sustainable as the 2 WAR 2B or RF or C will be somewhere around, and won't require an overpay in FA necessarily. I've said it a few times, so far so good with his strategy. Importantly he took one look at this roster and said "rebuild". Hahn would have sold JR on "retool".

a little off topic but I just turned 40 and my buddy is about to in a month and I was trying to tell him that if he works out and keeps himself in shape he'll feel about the same new as he did at 30. Yea you got sore easier and your joints are more worn but my workouts are still about the same as they were 10 years ago. Yea it would be nice to be 25 again, but 40 is not like some magical cliff that you just topple down physically. People need to realize that with weight training, the right supplements (not talking T, just creatine and some others) you can maintain strong physical fitness well into middle age and beyond.

36 is young bro. Be glad you'll get a new park in the prime of your life!

That will last about a month, at most. By the middle of May almost all of us will be sick and tired of this team, especially given that they can't tank for a draft pick.

Vibe is a bit different in the Bronx but yea similar. I'm not sure the Sox have that kind of cache but it wouldn't hurt to try and build it up organically, slowly, over time. Having that public transit close is key, as people will still be around on days the games aren't and will stop and grab a beer or something on the way somewhere else and talk to their bartender about the team or whatever.

If the Sox could recreate something like the neighborhood around Yankee Stadium that would be amazing. Not so much "tail gating" as just a massive bar and vendor scene centered around the park.

I think the Sox won in the sense that others have talked about. That said, it's easy to tear down a club with no expectations of winning and win trades on paper. Hahn was good at it as well. It's much harder to build and sustain a winning club. I guess we can be thankful that Getz is at least managing the tear down well.

edit: who gives a s%*#.

This is all true, but if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle, that's true too. I hope Gonzo gets hotter than s%*#, but right now, he looks like a bust. We can say that.

There's many things I'd say about Jason's play by play but bad puns are much worse than ketchup only hamburgers.

We'll see over the course of a season but in the few minutes I watched of that he let the game breath a bit more than Jason and I like that. You can't call a full season of home town baseball like you're on a national Sunday broadcast. Doesn't work.

Can we all agree we don't need SOX MATH???

I don't follow. Jason and Stone carried water for the org at almost all times. If they did offer any critiques, it was aimed at individual failings, and certainly not the FO. To be fair, this is par for the course with contemporary announcing crews, but you're seeing things in Jason that weren't there. Jason is a nice story, overcoming adversity to become a top play by play guy nation wide, but as a Sox announcer? That I have to listen to 140+ times a year? He was not anything special and was unable or unwilling to say a bad word about his bosses.

Well it's a little easier to call plays when you have Amon Ra, CMC, Gibbs, Lamar, Mahomes and so on. The two QBs that aren't elite but just good (Purdy and Goff) are surrounded by elite talent. Detroit has the best offensive line in the league, SF might have the best overall collection of skill players when healthy. Chicago needs help everywhere. Get a bunch more good players and the coaching will probably sort itself out.

I saw some photos. Looked cold AF but not much snow came down? Looked like Michigan and then the areas to the east of the Great Lakes got much more. Can't really complain about the weather here. We got down to record lows for a few days a couple weeks ago but now it's back up to high 40s, low 50s. Typical gray mist but you can tell winter is getting over as the sun is now setting at 5 instead of 4. Few more weeks and we'll be talking about pitchers and catchers.

Joining a long, heralded list of Sox Talk produced expert meteorologists, we have now added expert geologists and civil engineers.

Husky Stadium upper deck is the worst I've ever been in: great view. steep as s%*#.

It's almost all bedrock. Famously, some of it is jutting up in places including Central Park. It's also a major part of the subway history, going through or (more preferably) around, over, and under it. Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Pretty much. It was basic ass hot dogs, pretzels and nachos, cheapish US macros for beer and for sweets you had ice cream and froyo, an early 90s phenomenon. I feel like the Sox were one of the first parks that started to serve more diverse s%*#, like the bertucci bros area.

Don't worry once Trump gets into office and pressures the fed we'll have free money again for the financiers. I'm only half joking.