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Mayer to short? Trevor Story sports hernia. Potential surgery keeps him out 2 months.

Roman Anthony set back to wrist injury? Bust?

Caleb Durben finally benched for Nick Sogard

Sox should be sellers but will try to be buyers and fail

Bleacher report - Boston, in particular, has no trade deadline escape hatch built into its roster/payroll situation, which is probably why it was the first team to show real desperation by firing Alex Cora.  Sonny Gray is the Red Sox's only impending free agent with any particular trade value, and even that's questionable due to the $10M buyout of a 2027 mutual option.

Rumors -

Mike Trout – Never gunna happen. Probably shouldn’t. Injuries. Old. Lots of money.

Isaac Paredes – 3B Astros linked in offseason.  27 yrs old. .250 – 4 HR – 18 RBI - .714 OPS - .372 SLG

Yordon Alveraz – 2 years of control.  Monster deal needed to get him. DH left handed bat left fielder. Bleacher report has Red Sox 2nd most likely to get him

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SIMPLEST MINDS OF THE WEEK

Super troopers

Golf season

Crack head Tony

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Fried rice or lo mein ? 

Always have to go to bed at the same time as wife or always have to eat dinner together? 

Tiny house with a perfect locations and views or a large house with a view of rays asshole and high taxes ? 

Go on a “platonic” private boat ride with a close female friend who’s 7 months pregnant or take a private flight to Moron town and spend the day take some pics so everyone knows your there ? 

BBQ sauce or ranch?

Have a chaperone every time you go out that’s already thinks your a dick and wants to make your life difficult or have to go on a blind dates set up by  the dick chaperone once a month? 

roll in the mud for an hour a day like a pig or have to stand and eat for the rest of your life like a horse ? 

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The Red Sox are 1 game out of the loss column for the 2nd Wild Card spot at 17-23.

If they had a set of balls or half a head on their shoulders instead of an algorithm face fucking there cerebral cortex or were simply just good at their job they could pull a couple simple moves and give this team enough energy and optomisim to make a weak play off push.

Designate Trevor Story for assignment yesterday . 33 years old.

.1 WAR - .200 BA, 2 HR – 18 RBI, .284 Slg, .520 OPS

Over the Monster – Keagan Stiefel

Story currently ranks near the bottom of these lists in MLB, as shared by Tyler Milliken:

Story also happens to grade out as one of the worst defensive shortstops in the entire sport, currently sporting more errors (five) than anyone at his position aside from notorious butchers Otto Lopez (seven), CJ Abrams (seven), Willy Adames (six), and Zach Neto (six). The Red Sox, who grade out as the best defensive team in baseball, don’t have anyone else with more than three.

If you’re one of the people who wants to argue that the team needs veteran leadership, I urge you to take a look back at his very public response to the firing of Alex Cora and the way he previously took a back seat to the likes of Alex Bregman, Xander Bogaerts and Rob Refsnyder in recent years.

Jarren Duran 29 years old- .3 WAR - .194 BA – 4 HR – 18 RBI - .577 OBS - .324 slg

Lied about the fan in Minnesota. Another guy butt hurt about Cora.  Admit you missed the window to trade him for a real return because you got greedy about the contract. Dump him for prospects

Brayan Bello 27 years old - -1.1 WAR, 2-4, 7.44 ERA, 32.2 Innings, 24 SO 16 BB

Still has some “stuff”. Teams get horny for pitchers. He’11 100% perform better in a smaller market that knows how to develop pitchers. Move him for prospects.

These vets are not contributing to winning. In all likelihood they are bringing the clubhouse down. Step backwards again. It’s the only path forward. This is the bed they have to lie in, because of their fiscal philosophy, development philosophy, and incompetent management.

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10 Questions from a guy named Rob

1.  Is there too much parody in the NBA? 

2.  Should the Texans extend CJ Stroud ? 

3.  What does the future hold for LeBron ? 

4.  Would the vrabel-Rossini still be a big deal if the pats sucked ?  

5.  How many’s beers do you think you could drink in 10 minutes ? 

6.  Should the NFL have a lottery for the top five picks ? 

7.  Are the Knicks actual title contenders? 

8.  What’s going to happen with Brandon auyuik ? 

9.  After you drink all those beers in 10 minutes how many disrespectful jokes can you rattle off ? 

10.  Will the league bone the pats with the schedule ?  

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Celtics Fall Out

76ers swept in embarrassing fashion by Knicks

How did the Celtics lose to this team?

Mazzula answer – Didn’t game plan for Joel Embid

Sam Hauser – If we made the shots we would have won

Jaylen Brown – The refs had an agenda

Have the Celtics acknowledged play style is the problem?

2026 NBA post Season Celtics #1 in 3 point atts – 46 and shot 33%. 2nd place – Blazers – 38.

Knicks averaging 32 attempts shotting 41%

2026 regular season Celtics 4th in 3 pt attempts – 42.  8th in 3pt% 36.7%. THIS SHOULD HAVE WON THEM THE SERIES BASED ON THE NERDS

Dead last in FT attempts.

Only team in top 10 3 pt attempts still in the playoffs – Cavs

Celtics and Cavs only teams in top 11 in 3 pt attempts to make playoffs

Stevens - “I think that one of the things that we’ve got to figure out is how to have more of an impact at the rim,” Stevens said. “And I think we need to add to our team to do that.”

What is their solution?

Who do you trust more?

Brad Stevens building a roster to adapt to a better play style?

The only unrestricted free agent this summer will be Nikola Vucevic, who was acquired from Chicago in exchange for Anfernee Simons at the trade deadline.

But the Celtics received about a $27.5 million trade exception in that deal that Stevens could use this offseason. He said everything is on the table.

He was coy about what they might pursue but did note that figuring out how to get to the rim more would be a priority.

“I think that one of the things that we’ve got to figure out is how to have more of an impact at the rim,” Stevens said. “And I think we need to add to our team to do that.”

As for who will be in charge of the roster once it’s constructed, Stevens said he still has confidence in Joe Mazzulla and his staff.

“I think our coaching staff, like all of us, can continue to improve and get better. That said, I think they’re very good, and we need to continue to provide them the resources to grow and to get better and to continue to be the best that we can be.”

Joe Mazzula, adapting is coaching philosophy to a better play style?

  On Failure and Greatness: Mazzulla stated, "The year we won [2024], I felt just as empty as we did when we lost... When you go after greatness, you have to accept the other side of that... you have to surrender to the idea, when you're going after that, you're going to fail. And we fail by not winning, but we stick to the process of being able to do that".

  On Team Process: Despite the loss, he defended the team's approach, saying, "I love the looks that we got. I love the process that we had. Hate the result".

  On the Season: He emphasized maintaining perspective, noting, "It wasn't all bad. We played solid basketball and let's focus on the stuff that we have to get better at and be more consistent in those things"

Jayson Tatum allowing the coach and roster to adjust his playstyle?

“I was away for 10 1/2 months and then I came back and I’m playing every other day. And I was playing 36 to 40 minutes. So it’s not unusual that something would come up,” Tatum said. “It’s just tough because rehab was going well the entire time. I guess it was inevitable at some point I was going to have to deal with something. It just kind of came at the worst possible time.”

“All things considered, for me to even be able to come back and play at the level I was playing at – even at 80-85 per cent, right? One of my legs is still smaller than the other one,” Tatum said. “So now that I get a long offseason to really get back to 110%, I guess that’s the silver lining of it all.”

“I’m proud of the fact that I was able to prove to myself that I could play this game at a very, very high level,” Tatum said. “Even not being 100% of myself or what I’m capable of. So now, checking that box off mentally, because that was a question in my head and there were doubts of will I be able to be the same player? Will I be able to play at a high level after this injury? Now I’ve proven it and showed that, even at 80-85 per cent of myself.”

Jaylen Brown not complain and bitch about everything constantly?

The world is against me and everything I stand for. I hate all of you for it. Also, love me and don’t criticize me. – Probably

Are you done with Jaylen Brown?

Fined $50,000 for criticizing the refs and their “agenda”.

Most favorite season of his career after winning championship and playoff MVPs

Toot toot. Brown Exposed. High Volume, great regular season player on poor team.

Don’t talk to me about the play style before Tatum got back.  Regular season vs Post season.

Jaylen Brown multiple chances to win game 7. Blew them all.

Trade for Giannis?

Fill out the roster with legit front court and/or Point guard.

Where does new ownership land in these decisions?

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Simplest Minds of THE WEEK 5-10min

•Tough Day

•Perfect Boat Launch

•Ladder Climbing 101

•baby you’re a firework

•Southern Dennis the Menace 

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Patriots Minute (5-10min)

Patriots season ticket holders were invited in for Patriots meet and they gave Vrabel a standing ovation when he was brought in (discuss)

Patriots and AJ Brown trade remain on track (how is this not tampering) 

New culture for New England. Among the most notable differences through the first two weeks of the voluntary offseason program has been the introduction of “family meetings.”

“We have family meetings where we really get to know the guys,” Vera-Tucker said

Dianna Russini curse? Since the bombshell, 

Vrabel missed the draft

Bruins eliminated from playoffs

Red Sox blow

Celtics lose first round. 

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Bruins offseason checklist (5-10 min)

-Bruins bounced in the first round by the Buffalo Sabres 4-2. 6 games I’m assuming Bobby watched Zero minutes of this. 

Hockey guys are a different bread(play clip) 4

Boston Bruins defenseman Nikita Zadorov revealed he played through a fully torn MCL—not an ACL—during the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Zadorov tore his MCL "off the bone" in Game 3

-bruins have 3 ways to address the offseason

From all this I don’t want them to be like the 2011 team and just keep the core guys here just because, pull the bandaid if you need to and make this team contenders again. 

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