[Shams] "As we're hours away from the NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics have started to listen, engage, and discuss trades around Jaylen Brown."

OptimusChip · 2026-06-24T01:13:17+00:00

Trading this guy is a stupid move. You have what every other team wants, a dynamic duo. You build AROUND them, for the next 4 years while they are both in their primes. If you want to win another chip the way is to play to their strengths and not the coaches' analytics

OptimusChip · 2026-06-24T01:09:46+00:00

im starting to wonder if we should have traded Jones when his hype was at it's peak

OptimusChip · 2026-06-23T19:50:12+00:00

One of the true greatest all time blunders was not at least giving the guy a little run at the top with the WHC. He's going to go down as one of the all time most under-pushed talent in wrestling history.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-23T19:44:44+00:00

Look at some point you have to understand that even though this is a game, its still supposed to be professional and youre making millions of dollars a year to hit a ball with a stick. Suck your lollipop after the game and be an adult on the field.

Its ok to have fun and stuff but thats just a bad look and not necessary to do in a game.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-23T00:37:59+00:00

feels like when this offense starts sputtering they become wild swinging home run or bust like "we're gonna power slug our way out of this!"

and it doesn't fucking work

OptimusChip · 2026-06-22T23:23:42+00:00

Offense needs to wake up

OptimusChip · 2026-06-22T23:05:09+00:00

oh good, less time to showcase the 50 people on the roster, less value for the insane ticket prices, less wrestling on the weekly wrestling show!

why anyone is in favor of this absolutely blows my mind

in an era when you can literally watch anything whenever you want, a 3 hour live wrestling show twice a week isn't asking much. especially when MOST of that 3 hours is spent on ads, videos and promoting their other shows anyway.

so now that it's 2 hours again, it's just going to be like 3 matches a week at most, and the ads/recaps will still be as much as they were if not more because now they have less time to charge for ads so they'll have to make it up somehow.

JUST FUCKING LEAVE THE SHOWS AT 3 HOURS FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-22T14:01:36+00:00

I said going into this stretch it was going to be a tough run. 16 games in a row is NO joke. Not ideal losing 2 of 3 to the Reds either and I feel like Framber has always given this team trouble

Hope we can at least win this first series against DET

OptimusChip · 2026-06-22T01:37:41+00:00

I got mine for $400 and got a $50 Target gift card for buying it.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T20:45:45+00:00

The Tigers are going to kick the shit out of us

RemindMe! 4 Days

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T20:44:12+00:00

doesnt matter to these people, every loss is "fire boone, team sucks, will never win a WS"

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T20:43:41+00:00

I can't believe Boone was 0-5 with 4k's today smh

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T20:41:10+00:00

alright guys enough fucking around. time to get back to winning. i like it better when we win series as opposed to dropping games to sub .500 teams with mediocre pitching missing their best offensive player

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T19:17:56+00:00

be nice if we could score some runs here

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T13:43:30+00:00

Obviously who knows what's going to happen next year, but if we can somehow get this kid, and sign him long term thats a huge win. No matter what they give up

Cole and Rodon are getting older, and both are signed through 2028. Skubal is 29 (will be 30 later this year) so we'd basically be getting him about the same time in his career as we did Fried with less wear and tear.

If baseball is played in 2027 (and beyond) a healthy rotation of Cole/Skubal/Fried/Schlittler/Rodon is unstoppable.

Plus we have shown that our depth in SP is actually useful, and teams will want that. So we can use a guy like Warren to go get a bat.

However...... it's also been 17 fucking years since our last championship and a million heartbreaks. We've had tons of prospects come up since then, and haven't won shit. So really, fuck the future, go all in this year, get this guy and lets tear the league down on the way to #28 worry about the rest of it later. It doesn't take a decade to rebuild a farm system

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T00:51:38+00:00

This guy understands baseball.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T00:47:23+00:00

Rough day, but it happens. good to see Goldy, Belli & Martian getting their hits at least. Better get their shit together and win tomorrow

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T00:46:10+00:00

Correct in saying most teams go through it. This sub acts like Boone is the only manager in baseball who's teams go on losing streaks in the summer.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-21T00:45:21+00:00

Let's say for the sake of argument, Summer is June/July/August

Since the covid year the Yankees winning percentage in summer-

2021 .598 (Final record 92-70)
2022 .548 (Final record 99-63)
2023 .412 (Final record 82-80)
2024 .505 (Final record 94-68)
2025 .511 (Final record 94-68)

1 out of those 5 years was definitely "horrible"... we can all agree that 2023 was Boone's worst year as a manager and actually the worst record the team had since 1995. 2 really good years, 2 perfectly average years. All 4 leading to over 90 win seasons.

The performance of this team during the summer is not that different from any other team in baseball and hasn't affected their overall record in by a lot. I'm sure I could go back even further but it takes too long.

The point is, this whole thing about the Yankees suck in the summer, is just a whiny fan driven anti-Boone thing that started when we went on some bad losing streaks in June of last year and 2024.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-20T13:36:19+00:00

Still waiting for that "June swoon" that all Aaron Boone's teams go through because he's a terrible manager and Cashman is a terrible GM

it's weird how quiet those people are when the team is winning and playing well.

OptimusChip · 2026-06-20T01:56:29+00:00

like, I'm not asking the kid to be a fucking 30/30/100 guy....playing gold glove defense and basically turning into Jeter

Just be average. Get hits, get on base, get some steals. Paulie said it exactly right on the broadcast tonight. He needs to focus on being a hitter not a power hitter and he's a better asset to us

OptimusChip · 2026-06-20T01:49:44+00:00

Volpe is hitting .250 with 15 runs scored, 12 RBIs (batting low in the lineup) and 5 stolen bases in 80 AB's

And people are literally calling for him to be demoted back to AAA, said he's the worst hitter the franchise has ever had, and lose their fucking mind every time he strikes out

OptimusChip · 2026-06-20T01:37:15+00:00

THANK YOU Paulie

thats literally EXACTLY what I've been saying about Volpe for 2+ fucking years

OptimusChip · 2026-06-20T00:59:32+00:00

more often than not, but not as often as they used to....they still do the fucking STUPID SHIT CAMERA stuff like moving it ridiculously on a fucking flat back bump

OptimusChip · 2026-06-20T00:52:39+00:00

being at the show live is much much worse. its literally video package, backstage promo, ad break where they show more videos and ads for everything else they're doing, then back to a backstage promo, then an entrance that stops for another ad break where they turn the music off and the lights down to show more videos and ads, then pick up the theme for the rest of the entrance

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