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  1. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    4/18 vs Guardians

    What a beautiful game by Houck! THAT… in today’s game is how to pitch! Despite that gem….I still don’t believe anymore. My stupid optimism I had up until Grady’s Day (and returned from October’24 for almost 20 full years) has been replaced by the feeling that nothing will go right. Every...
  2. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    4/17 vs Guardians

    Heading into tonight’s game, I’m pretty despondent. A constant Sox optimist, from the late 70’s through the Pedro years always felt that This Was The Year….and then after Grady’s shit show, I gave up. They really were cursed. Something was just wrong with them. I let my darker thoughts in...
  3. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Will Cora be back in ‘24?

    I’m still a bit puzzled by his place. If I’m Bloom, I’m a little annoyed that the FO apparently loves the guy and Bloom was never allowed to bring in his own manager….. or, if after ‘20, Bloom was instrumental in bringing Cora back then Cora also should be gone. I was in favor of one more year...
  4. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    9/6- Pivetta at the Trop

    Pivetta..... Just F'in win damnit. I've got 3 more days in TX in this heat before heading up to New England for two weeks. I'd be pretty super to keep starting game threads every morning until I get back here. When just about every other SoSH'er was looking to trade you, release you, kick you...
  5. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    8/22/2023 Against the Astros of Houston

    Let's face it. Streaks are really difficult to maintain and the Sox had a 3 game one on the good side and the Astros had a bad one going. Chances were pretty high that streaks were ending. But starting up a new one should be just fine. Houck returns...... faces Verlander. It's not a "must...
  6. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Extensions Schmextensions

    First... I'm in Austin and have been working building furniture the top of downtown high-rise for the last 3 weeks and am utterly miserable. However.... I'm in the office today though (yay AC!!!) which means I can get everything I need to do in 5 hours over an 8 hour day so I waste most of my...
  7. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    7/31 - Close the month with a win

    In Seattle.
  8. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    6/24- White Sox- good teams beat bad teams 2.0

    Get the same end result as last night…. But with less K’s and more hits and runs. One more win and it’s officially a “successful” road trip. We want more than “successful”. “Successful” isn’t satisfying.
  9. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    6/23- White Sox- good teams beat bat teams

    I think I've started 3 gamethreads and haven't won one yet so I'm due. Sox at .500 on the current road trip... take at least 2/3 and it's successful. Sweeps are better.
  10. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Decision Time?

    There’s a whole lot of What-Ifs going forward. Sox at the 1/3 point and have fallen apart recently- mental mistakes all around…. Poor coaching…. Injuries, offensive struggles, poor starting pitching, Jensen looking like he’s finished at 400…. Sale now injured. Offense struggles to score...
  11. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    5/23 Angels

    I haven't won a gamethread yet.... but both were games started by Pivetta. This one is started by Bello. Things are looking up for me! Go win. Pitch well. Do good defense! Get the runs!!!
  12. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    4/28

    Against the Guardians. Win. Get over .500 and stay over it damnit!!
  13. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    4/4 Pivetta is betta

    Chawson seems like a nice guy but his loathing of, and constant fantasizing about trading, Pivetta will be thrown in his face often by me this year. Pivetta stops the garbage starting “problems” today. Steps up big in ‘23 and SHOCKS THE WORLD!!! Also- the non-Boston/northeast way of...
  14. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Rising Up/Rising Down

    Not quite the same as the great book by William T. Vollman but it's something to get our minds off of the present and more geared into the long-term outlook, which I think even the most pessimistic among us have more positive feelings towards. I should first admit to not knowing much about the...
  15. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    NYT’s BB’s and K’s

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/sports/baseball/umpire-pitch-ball-strike-game.html I got 4/6
  16. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Running up that Hill....

    What say yinz'all to bringing back Hill? He likely won't cost much and can probably be counted on to only pitch about 2/3 of a season at best, but with a decent ERA (he's at 4.41 on the season). If he's not inked into the starting day rotation but more as a long relief guy that'll likely have...
  17. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Wacha or Eovaldi?

    https://www.nbcsports.com/boston/red-sox/post-deadline-malaise-clarifies-futures-nathan-eovaldi-jd-martinez-red-sox?cid=Yahoo&partner=ya4nbcs Tomase makes sense to me on this 100% with JDM. Do not offer that guy a QO. Eovaldi I'm not so sure. The Sox likely will pick up Paxton and then with...
  18. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    2022 MLB playoffs--- who's in?

    I was looking at the standings this morning and was somewhat shocked to see the Wild Card standing in both divisions. It really looks like the teams that are "in it"... will be IN IT. The only issue really are some of the divisional races with the losers being out and the winner having a worse...
  19. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Will the Sox make the playoffs? And how far if so?

    Officially in the “stretch run”. Every win throughout a year is important of course, but IMO, time for “testing” players is over. Put out the best lineup every day. Put our your best relievers in close games the Sox are down by < 3 runs, etc…
  20. Sandy Leon Trotsky

    Bullpen (Mis)Management

    How did I miss that there was game last night??? I thought they had it off. But more importantly…. Why the hell was Hernandez throwing in a tie game????
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