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Explain to me how It doesn’t reinforce his point? Ron Schueler was GM for like a year when he made that trade. 200 times a day, people bring up the fact that the 2008 playoffs was so long ago... but something that happened in 1991 and then again in 1999 is proof that something happens frequently?

Even if George Bell was good, that was during the damn George HW Bush administration. What in the world are people trying to argue? That a trade 30 years ago shows that the cubs and Sox regularly make trades? Has everyone lost their minds?

George Bell sucked but that’s neither here nor there....Before the Q trade, the last trade of consequence between the teams was Garland for Karchner. I can’t believe so many people think the rebuild was some sort of scheme to lower payroll and they will never sign anyone ever again.... they outsmarted themselves and got too cute with Machado and lost out on him. Get over it. Sox fans can be such a group of whiners.

I edited my post after I reread it... I meant the Grandal 25%/75% stuff. Where is that coming from?

Who is "we" Edit: I'm talking about the 75%/25% Grandal thing.

And if we still had Narvaez and/or Smith, we wouldn't have signed Mccann.

I don't know... just because they've been bad the last decade and spent the last couple years losing on purpose doesn't mean its worthwhile to constantly b**** and moan about Kevan Smith and Omar Narvaez and the nitpicky garbage a certain outlet spews out for clicks and podcast listens.

Many of the Sox bloggers are always pissed about something.

If you don't hold on to guys once in a while to get what you want, I don't think you end up with Moncada/Kopech/Basabe for Sale and Eloy/Cease for Q and Reylo/Giolito/Dunning for Eaton and Rutherford for Kahnle/Robertson/Frazier etc. etc.

Ok... so I guess enjoy keeping the circle jerk going where you get outraged over things you have no actual knowledge of.

Can't believe this topic has 5 pages. Here's a scenario.... Paddy says "I can sign X amount of 16 year olds for the last million but I don't really like any of them." They go to Hostetler and say "is there anyone you like from these 3 teams that want pool money" and he gives them a list of guys the organization like better. I hope the team starts winning soon. I can't take the constant agonizing from fans online about worthless minutiae especially when the fans aren't privy to the actual deliberations and thought process.

What team(s) would be able to make a deal for Thor using only their 7th best prospect?

Ummmm. .... why would anyone pick anyone other than Mike Trout?

Giolito is not looking like fool’s gold because he didn’t keep up his insane pace in his last two starts. McCann is still a great pickup. Also..... your timeline makes no sense. They aren’t going to tank next year. Another thing.... other than last year, if you are .500, you are competing for a wild card spot. I don’t know why you have that as some benchmark that differs from 2021. We also don’t know what the division looks like in 18 months.

Lol... so Josh Nelson said he saw him at airport?

If I'm trading Colome, I'm looking for a young SP who can immediately be penciled in to the back of the rotation for the next couple years (probably unrealistic) or a guy who is either MLB ready or in MLB that can be our everyday RFer for the next 3 years. Who are some possibilities for that scenario? I took a look at LAD's mlb pipeline page because they seem to always have a ton of OFers and they could use Colome... Is a guy like DJ Peters to much or too little for Colome?

Why waste the service time? I would've waited until the June after next

Good. The new beat writer is just in time to report on season ending injuries to every player ever.

Late 90s was bad. Navarro + a guy like Jon Snyder or a bad Jason bere season is probably as bad if not worse. Although, I was like 13 so maybe it wasn’t as bad as I remember.

Is Heuer starting or a bullpen guy?

I honestly cant tell fake Rick Hahn quotes from actual Rick Hahn quotes anymore.

I was responding to a comment saying “nowadays” it doesn’t work to sign multiple good free agents who may be older... as if everything changed in the last 18 months. There’s no set rule to constructing a team. Agree. If they didn’t get hit with so many pitching injuries (Rodon, Kopech, Dunning) and if they kept Avi, this team is probably the second wild card team right now.

I wanted machado too but the Astros won a World Series two years ago after bringing in a number of free agents like Beltrán and Reddick and McCann. They didn’t sign a “big fish”

I'd do it. Still can't believe that they haven't been able to get enough back end starter types either in MLB or the AAA level.

Yes.... Real topical stuff in 2003 on WSI. I don't know why I thought I needed continuity when I signed up for SoxTalk.