The Mighty Mite

He was limping around late last season.

I'm sure I could look it up but won't, I don't know. I'm going to take a real way out stab, Andy Messerschmitt?

True but still.... I remember when Ted Williams being the first 100,000 ballplayer, my dad was making about 10 grand a year so for comparison sake it would take him 10 years to amass 100K.

Can you imagine a guy with a real good job who makes 100,000 a year would have to work 5000 years to amass 500 million dollars.

Soto will eventually wind up on the Yankees or Dodgers, who else will give him 500 million, that's a half billion dollars, gadzooks.

Not the dreaded loss column, the important loss column.

I was the one that mentioned moving Robert to right field, I still think it's a good idea, Engel in CF would make us much better defensively and he's improved a lot as a hitter than when he first came up from the Minors.

Just one bizarre thing after another with the Sox this year, it would make a good episode on The Twilight Zone.

You can put that on the board.

The Sox will probably win 2 out of the next 3, get to .500 with a nice road trip but lose all their mojo because of the break.

It's a little too early to plan a playoff rotation but Cueto has been one hell of signing, I don't think he's had a bad outing with us. As of right now they have to consider bringing him back unless they have other free agent pitchers they want to sign, again a little too early.

Hoping for 3 wins, 2 will be OK but won't be surprised if only 1.

Good analysis, I for one has never been on Hahn's case because I know that he works for JR but I won't get started on that because I've despised JR for most of the 41 years he has been the chairman.

It's just been such a frustrating season and I might have let my emotions get the best of me but for some reason our guys are not performing to the best of their abilities, just about everyone agrees that there have a quite a few instances of lack of hustle and not too smart baseball like our guys running into that triple play last week. Last night some here were on Anderson for some bonehead play, I didn't watch the game so I wasn't sure what transpired. As they say, things can only get better.

60 day IL or just shut him down and hope he comes back healthy next year but you can't fix stupid and laziness.

Just shut him down for the year.

If the Sox decide to go for it and are buyers, they have to find a legitimate rightfielder who can hit, it has to be the highest priority. Forget about Eloy in leftfield, he's useless besides being stupid and lazy. Stick with Pollock in left and let the chips fall with him. Vaughn can DH with trading places with Abreu when Jose needs a rest in the field. If there's a real tough righthanded facing us, Sheets can DH and also give Jose some rest at first base but please no AV, Sheets or Eloy in the outfield.

So what else is new.

Not true, I like him but not in right field period.

There is one guy in charge of hiring and firing and at 86 years old is probably as mentally challenged as the guy he hired to manage this mess.

That too.

7 more on this road trip, realistically a .500 trip would be good, the Sox just need to start winning at home.

I liked R.R. and really hated the hiring of TLR, I hate it even more starting with the All Star break last year, maybe earlier when he threw Yermin under the bus. We don't know if TLR is the cause of the dissension on the team but it sure wouldn't surprise me as the players have to be scratching their heads as much as we are with all the bizarre moves by him.

Actually The Villages is a pretty active place, TLR wouldn't fit in.

Not sure if I want to call the up-coming road trip crucial but it's pretty damn important.