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Time to listen to Ed and DJ for the ride home...I hope Sox Math is on early in the game so I miss it...I want to watch the game not figure out puzzles Benetti!!

It's been a long off season. Let's get this going. I do not know what this year will bring, but I love the beginning of the season...Anything can happen. Let's go Sox!!!

I went 75-79 mostly due to the improved bullpen...and Eloy

So Jay is being put on the AL (Apathy List)?

They start 0-8, fire Ricky, hire Ozzie, go 7-0, then another 0-8, fire Ozzie, bring back Ricky, finish at 12-18.

Is it Opening day or Eloy Day?

I know there are people on this board that like Jay but I do not understand any value in playing him most days. He was an overpaid stupid gamble on Hahn's part. Let Leury get more at bats to build up his value as a possible trade piece. We will get nothing for Jay at the trade deadline.

I am not sure that I trust him to be the Palka Smash we were treated to last year at his new weight...it's kinda like a skinny Santa

Just wait til next year, when someone ranks Alex Call as a top 10 prospect...I don't expect it but I didn't expect the guy thrown into the Shields trade rocketing up the prospect charts either

Just to refresh my memory... Alex Avila did suck in a White Sox uniform, right?

I kind of like the stadium in Charlotte so I don't mind

Eloy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Won't he be playing Left?

I hope that fans do not get on him if he struggles a bit at first. Congrats to Eloy...now just have some fun crushing the hell out of baseballs on the South Side for years to come.

That giveaway sweatshirt Steve Stone was sporting during last night's broadcast looked quality...yes I did watch much more of a preseason game than I probably should have...I did enjoy seeing Leury Garcia run all the way from Center to catch a ball in Left right in front of Rondon (it reminded me of the guy in the original Bad News Bears that would catch everything in the outfield)

Yep, they seem to make good moves with the talent that they have...free agent wise and through trades

Ok, you have the choice to trade for the Brewers front office or the Brewers owner...which do you choose?

I guess Rick and Kenny can stop scouting Trout's relatives and friends.

Does Eloy have another little brother that we can sign? That seemed to placate him a little when he wasn't called up at the end of last season. ?

I am not counting Jay and McCann as players to target when you are serious about being competitive. Nova should be a decent innings eater and veteran presence. It seems that you do have to overpay to get good bullpen arms. Listen, I wish the Sox would be in on the bigger free agents but clearly they will not be and I am done with hoping that they will. I am not going to start rooting for another club so I just hope that a strategy of targeting the right guys to work with a younger core that is going to need to be good works. I do agree with you that this was a crappy offseason.

I think if they are going to use a robo ump it should be Bender from Futurama...that would be entertaining as hell. Maybe R2D2 on Star Wars night.

I think this season's record will be better just because the pen is improved. I do not expect them to be much better than a .500 club in 2020 and then vying for the playoffs in 2021. I do not expect the Sox to be players for any of the big free agents but I do expect them to be in the hunt for the next level down players that can help fill out a nice roster. I hope if that is the route they take that they will be aggressive early in the free agent season with a little more than market value approach to sign them quickly before other teams start heavily bidding on them. The less than stellar free agents are getting shorter term deals these days and that is right in the Sox wheel house...unfortunately.

I don't want to hear anyone on this site complain about attendance again...our AAA affiliate draws great and those players will be here someday and bring their fans with them

Fornication Night?!? That might be one that The Hawk would come back to call..."You know who was the best fornicator I ever played with Stoney?"...

I love the effort but it's Spring Training Nicky, stop crashing into walls.