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  1. OilcanDroid

    Lucas Giolito has an elbow issue.

    Apples to oranges, but Brock Purdy had the same procedure last year about the same date, came back for all of training camp and started game one this past season.
  2. OilcanDroid

    Let's Lay Off That Throttle

    Do they though? Seems like ESPN chat show wisdom. It’s not like Baltimore has spent the past three years acquiring “foundational pieces”
  3. OilcanDroid

    Valuing the assets, where do the Sox stand?

    I realize you may not be actually proposing this move, but I wouldn't trade a tub of ball mud for Nestor Cortes. Even if Casas turns out to be a platoon guy, he's worth more than an ironic mustache that spits cutters as a party trick.
  4. OilcanDroid

    Red Sox in season discussion

    I'm just a lousy lurker, but I think you could have stopped there.This is a fun team, they're just losing. Often, it seems, in the most dramatic way possible. The new* guys are interesting. Story is an extraordinary (could play many sports at a high level) athlete and shows it off every night...
  5. OilcanDroid

    ERod to Tigers: 5 years/$77 million, opt out after Y2

    First, Emerson: "The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks." Second, I'm no mathematician, but for a few years, but I've been thinking about this in terms of what game theory people call the Parrondo effect: basically, two long-term-losing strategies, when alternated, can...