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Love a Sosa/Vaughn at 3 & 4 launching bombs

If Elko can add equal or better defense we should just release this guy. it’s okay if he goes on to figure it out somewhere else. Probably reached the point here where everybody needs a different direction.

What’s the record? 105 sounds pretty terrible

You mean what knockers!

Thanks for posting! Those guys looked like they had no chance

Well played man! Got me good!

Nice post. I’ve thought for decades that the key to batting is playing the game in the box which is totally mental. This is an ability all in its own. Wait for the exact pitch you want until 2 strikes. Then become a tough out and foul off a bunch until you can serve one the other way for a single. It sounds simple, but 99% of Sox hitters look like their plan is to swing hard at strikes in the zone. Same plan with 2 strikes. Paulie figured it out the last year or two and TA had it dialed in pretty good until he became a train wreck

Everyone knows this about the NBA, that’s not what he’s saying. It’s crazy, but it’s starting to look like they did luck into something. A few somethings. None of it makes sense.

Fair. Where you at on it? At this exact moment in time, is it looking more good or is it looking more bad?

Kyle Teel .300/.400/.500

Man I just don’t want us to do that stuff to players anymore.

Definitely. Think there’s a world where we get a second half rotation of Schultz, Smith, Smith, Thorpe & Burke for a bit? Say everything is going right for those guys and they are torching the minors, will we get a taste? I don’t know the plan for innings, but it would be cool though and plant some serious seeds of optimism for 2026.

Wow can Teel end up being a monster, like a .900+ OPS guy? Can he be what we all wanted Flowers to be?

Well this will probably encourage me to check box scores. It’ll likely be another year of not watching a single game for me, but it looks like MLB & MiLB box scores will get some attention. If somebody from the Sox is reading this, that’s progress on getting this fan back one day. I often wonder if my baseball fandom is just done. It’s weird for sure.

I think what Greg is saying is they might not actually score a run until sometime in May. What if we only score 100 runs all year

I still feel like he’s a HOFer if we just left him at 3rd. 3rd is a swagger position and he was crushing it. Nothing cool about 2nd base and totally neutered him beyond repair. might be time to dust off the Beckham projections thread for laughs

The goal is $30M for 0 or less WAR.

It needs to add up to the dollar amount a top tier FA would cost per year.

cheers to @WhiteSox2023 for using Soxcess in the other thread. Never seen it before but it hits home for sure. Thought it would be fun to really explore the depths of this word. More than simply a word to all of us. I mean where to begin. So many layers. It means so much. Right away I’m getting some Kingpin vibes like with Munson being a verb, but way worse. Never really having the world in the palm of your hand like Munson, but instead just always messing it up since forever and to confidently keep going on the suck path. Soxcess

I’m not sure how the organization works either. What we know is that they’ve had some high payrolls but they’ve also never signed a large contract for a top tier player. Both are true. It is what it is only until it isn’t.

Yea this guy sucks wtf are we doing

My opinion is that we still need a lot of good players. Once we get good players I’ll probably become a fan again.

Really need to hit him where it hurts. Need articles with tons of interviews confirming things like: “he’s not a sportsman”, “won’t be remembered as a sportsman”, “probably won’t be remembered as a sports team owner”, “has never had the respect of other owners or reporters”, “never had what it takes to have a competitive nature”, “not a man’s man”, didn’t have the cajones to compete with the big teams and build a preeminent franchise”, “just a middling man only able to sustain a middling franchise” Just all kinds of cheapy, low blow ego attacks that make him seam sports adjacent instead of part of the sporting community. venting done

For sure. Reminds me of whoever blew up Dickman had no business even being on the field if I remember right. Ended Dickman’s breakout momentum

Yes!