Milkman delivers

True, but also not a great selling point. Trade for this expensive pitcher with a laughable ERA who can’t go 4 full innings?

Also they suck.

The rare trifecta of bad, unlikeable, and cocky.

Psst, so is next year.

Lol, we needed Lynn simply not to embarrass himself, and he gives up 7 runs in under 5 innings. That’s about right for this team.

And I didn’t need to follow the interviewing process to know Grifol was going to suck. He came from basically the worst team in baseball. And on top of that, they tried to skew his background when they announced his hiring to make it seem like he was an integral part of the Royals’ World Series team. A few seconds of internet searching told me that he was their bullpen coach or catcher or some other BS position. I knew right then that we were being sold on a loser.

I’m not defending Hahn, but maybe Grifol was the best candidate? I didn’t follow the interviewing process, so I really don’t know. But I’m fairly sure no good manager would have been interested. We had our chance when we hired La Russa. All of the flaws of the franchise came out during his time in the dugout. Now we probably have to settle for whatever we can get.

Same.

Yikes, four pages for a game thread? I don’t think people fully understand how bad this season is for the future of this franchise. People really don’t care about the team anymore. It’s well past hatred and firmly into apathy.

Here’s my night. Don’t watch a second of the game. Looks at the final score. Oof, wonders who started this one. Looks at the box. Crap.

I can get on board with that. Just don’t think it automatically makes Fitzgerald a bad person that it happened during his tenure. He may not have been aware. And I didn’t know who he was before this week.

I guess I’m just tired of the current overall culture of allegations automatically leading to firings. I guess I didn’t really pay attention to the baseball side of the story. I’ve only heard about the football coach. I still don’t agree with your first sentence of the thread. I can see why you’d call Foster a scumbag, but not sure Fitzgerald deserves that title as of now.

Has there been any proof that the head coaches knew about these things? From what I’ve seen, there isn’t.

Fire Hahn, too. There’s blame to go around.

We ain’t getting that either, my friend.

Make it interesting for fans? I don’t know. Clearly nobody cares about this team judging by attendance, lack of activity on this board, and the general malaise you pick up whenever the Sox are mentioned. Everyone knows they’re really bad and it’s not going to change for several years.

I can honestly say the strike hasn’t made the slightest difference in my life. Keep it going and alienate as many people as possible.

Yes, that is the most painful thing about the Sox in recent memory. They went from the most desirable position to poison. They could’ve had their choice of any available manager. They chose La Russa, and everything changed in short order.

Ever read a thread and have no clue what is going on? That’s me right now.

Oh man, my pessimism is about to show. Who cares? I’m sure they are going to suck as much as everyone else from this organization. Shake it all up. Trade absolutely anyone. At this point, do things and make moves just for the sake of it. This franchise is woefully inept and has almost nothing going for it. Throw s%*# at that wall and see what happens until they get someone in charge of the whole organization that can start from scratch.

I was very loud about my desire to get rid of Ozzie years ago, but his opinion on some dead commie doesn’t matter to me. Everyone has stupid opinions. There are obviously better options out there (though if they’d want the job is a whole other story), but Ozzie for the remainder of the season wouldn’t hurt. See what you got. Shake things up.

Minus the steroids?

Probably because he isn’t winning batting titles.

I feel like you guys are falling into the same trap with Burger as people did with Vaughn, Cease, etc. He’s probably gonna suck next year and this is just his flash that we get for a season (or two).

I feel like a lot of this is just filling the open air, which they’re supposed to do haha. It’s like small talk. Without it, it’s like the back-up announcer in Major League. Flyball…caught.