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  1. nellenelle

    Much like Newman, the Sox are not “Ready to deliver”– The 2025 Offseason News (& rumors?) Thread

    I'm rather dumbfounded by claims Casas somehow needs to learn unofficial clubhouse ropes. It is quite possible things go on of which I am not aware. Setting that aside, if we roll with what we do know, what is of concern? Even his comments on his recovery from injury struck me as playful snark...
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    How old are you?

    My age rings up as a month younger than Dennis Eckersley. Mumps had struck me in fall 1967. I'd not yet found fandom, although I do recall sorta kinda watching one World Series game. Sox Fever struck full bore in 1969, powered by the comeback of Tony C. With an impaired eye, I loved his...
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    How do you feel about the Red Sox offer to Soto?

    What do we know about how they approached Soto? Guessing, the team knew his contract would approach or exceed 600 million. What neither they nor their competition knew up front was how much the contract would exceed that number. Going in, they likely had an upper limit on what they were...
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    Time to trade Devers?

    No one can reasonably expect Duran to repeat last year. At the same time, his speed and demonstrated defensive improvement does put a healthy floor under him for 2025 contributions to team success. Giving him some rest along the way in 2025 is advisable. Beyond that, I'm not one to predict...
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    Mark Bellhorn: Hero or zero?

    I'm commenting because my relative baseball ignorance is perhaps a strength in this one instance. In 2004, I grumbled about Bellhorn. After lurking here for more than two decades reading you folks and taking a quick look at his stats for that year, yikes. There was a good ballplayer. Put him...
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    Sox will unveil a City Connect 2.0 uniform in 2025 with the current ones replacing the blue alternates

    Pondering uniform colour for a team bound to red, these considerations come to mind (at least in the daft confines of the hollows between my ears.) The sport wants to modernise and attract younger fans. We have on-field rules changes and we're getting uniform changes and or additions. While many...
  7. nellenelle

    Will you ever root for Duran again?

    Thank you. I learned somewhere along the way that if I can't add value to a discussion, it is best I keep my trap shut.
  8. nellenelle

    Will you ever root for Duran again?

    I've been reading here for two plus decades and rarely comment. I know the rules, and so no politics from me here. You are entitled to disagree with his action being a big deal. As someone lgbtq, I'm not out to silence him, you, or anyone. However, once voiced we have every right to react by...
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    Will you ever root for Duran again?

    Yes, I will root for him. Conditionally. I'm going to wobble around a bit in my comments. Second chances matter. When a second chance rolls around, it's on the transgressor to do better going forward. He's said the right things. Now he has to do the right things. Jarren has come a long way...
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    Duran homophobic slur fallout thread; suspended 2 games

    On one hand, I support depowering words. As a transgender lesbian, I was a member of a sizeable lesbian social media site in the infancy of the internet, and we did exactly that with derogatory words, especially a term traditionally directed at queer women that the founder used to title the...
  11. nellenelle

    Duran homophobic slur fallout thread; suspended 2 games

    As someone lgbtq, I recognise that over my almost 70 years that we have gone from closeted and reviled to being out, embracing a view that we are okay. We all know some resist acceptance. And some live or have lived in environments where use of the word remains common. Duran - comparatively -...
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    Matt Dermody DFA’d (released 6/16)

    This will probably the the only comment I write here. I lurk to learn things I do not know, and you all do a fantastic job of teaching me things this old brain never before pondered. For clarity, I am a 68-year-old parent, grandparent, transgender lesbian. I'm rather militant in things feminist...
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