no other explanation for how this team is over .500 after 19 games. Pretty embarrassing for Theo to have let this guy go in favor of a more expensive and inferior manager.

I cannot remember the last time the Sox were competitive in games against the teams in their division.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Classic dolphin.

And who knows, maybe it was his year in the Cub organization that taught Ricky the "Cub Way" is the right way?

Ventura was 14-6 this time last year

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He got a raw deal.

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312player just wrecked good dolphin's shit. Wow. Weird times.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

I really don't want this team to be .500 come game 162. If you are gonna rebuild, go for the higher pick.

Outside of Quintana, they are pitching very well. That is the only explanation needed.


A true once in a generation baseball mind would have pointed out to 312 that the Sox had the best bullpen in the league for the first ~5-6 weeks of the 2016 season. With a pen like that, any manager should be able to win at a .571 clip. I figured such a sage baseball mind as yourself would have either remembered this, or looked it up. I guess I was wrong to give you that much credit.

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Happy is a great manager. But it's hard to argue the results with 2016 World Series Champion, Joe Maddon.

a once in a lifetime mind would have pointed out that he also had Sale and Eaton, the best right fielder in this city

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

The Sox still have the best right fielder in town

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Everyone laughed when I said this team wasn't that bad.

Oh man, this fall is going to hurt.

Garcia has a sub .700 OPS over his last 7 games. The downward trend has already started.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Heyward has a sub .700 OPS over his last 7 months of games.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Heyward is also making about $25 million more than Avi this season.

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Avi will never have the career Heyward has had. Avi will never sniff that salary or the total performance.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Because Heyward is a much better defender. Avi will hit better than Heyward this year.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yeah I wouldn't count on this.

Maybe if he does tear that ACL and his season stats stop now

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Defense only matters at 1B. We're in the Caller Bob era now.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Two-run home run to continue a nice April. Rooting for injury now? Low.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I said Heyward will always be better because he's a much better defender. That's saying that defense obviously matters a lot.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Avi will have a better OPS this season.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Nothing I said here is rooting for an injury.

Try to keep up around here. FF said in another thread that he has started off so well that he will probably tear his ACL now.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

And Leury Garcia wants some of this action.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I hope Renteria leads the Sox to a respectable season. I liked the guy and think he is a solid baseball man.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Their career OPS is about the same. I don't think that will change this year.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Just wait until he spreads AIDS to a third of the clubhouse.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Heyward having a way better year than GD.

It's not really a high bar for Avi to surpass the career Heyward has had. Just because someone was dumb enough to pay one of them 184 million doesn't change that.

And in a time when 7 of your outs are likely to come via the strikeout the value of corner outfield defense isn't really very high.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

JORR, I just noticed your sig.