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Post by dd on Sept 24, 2018 12:27:17 GMT -5
SoxProspects.com launched 15 years ago today. The top #RedSox prospects included Jorge De La Rosa, "John" Lester (whoops), Kevin Youkilis, & Hanley Ramirez. Pumped to still be going strong for 15 years! Big thanks to everyone who helped along the way! As others have said, Mike, LOVE this site. I've been addicted for many years. I don't remember when I first found it but I can say for sure that I had become obsessed by February, 2005 when I started a spreadsheet to track ranking changes. The changes were not monthly then, they tended to be whenever the spirit moved, sometimes multiple per week. Then Mike and the staff started having jobs, spouses, & kids. :-) Looking forward to the 20th! - Dick
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Sept 24, 2018 12:39:14 GMT -5
Can't remember exactly when I found Soxprospects.com.
I remember finally getting "accepted" to SOSH as a member and finding myself kind of disappointed, as if there were all these jokes going on that I wasn't in on.
Maybe it was 2014 when I started getting interested? The season was a bust and what was there to look forward to other than the future?
I love the scouting reports this site provides. I enjoy the back and forth in the various threads. It's the site I most enjoy looking at and being a part of.
The guys who run this site do a fantastic job. I've learned a ton about what to expect when it comes to minor leaguers, which was always such a gray area for me. It's still gray of course, but it's a lot more clarified, ie (terms like 2nd division regular, future bench player, low leverage reliever, backend starter) so that I have a better idea of the value of the player the Sox have in the minors instead of simply hoping for the next Mookie Betts or Pedro Martinez or whatever.
Congrats on 15 years! Been a great 15 years considering 3 championships for the big club and maybe, just maybe a 4th on the way? Keep up the great work.
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Post by jimed14 on Sept 24, 2018 16:23:59 GMT -5
At some point, BA reviewed their rankings and came to the conclusion that that group was actually number one. So if you ever feel that the Sox prospects are better than where they rank, you can take heart knowing sometimes you are correct. I found Sox prospects via Over the Monster and Firebrand of the AL. Although I had enjoyed mL ball from Pawtucket to Florida to California, this site has enabled me and so many others like me to grow in understanding of and respect for the game. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I used to be on Over The Monster, but I hate SBNation with a passion. Their ads are so intrusive and annoying. And you cannot even login to post comments without every popup blocker and privacy extension turned off for the ads to scan your entire computer and sell all of the findings to every party on the internet that is interested. So I never went back after I couldn't login anymore and started posting a lot more here.
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Post by gerry on Sept 25, 2018 13:05:06 GMT -5
I found Sox prospects via Over the Monster and Firebrand of the AL. Although I had enjoyed mL ball from Pawtucket to Florida to California, this site has enabled me and so many others like me to grow in understanding of and respect for the game. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I used to be on Over The Monster, but I hate SBNation with a passion. Their ads are so intrusive and annoying. And you cannot even login to post comments without every popup blocker and privacy extension turned off for the ads to scan your entire computer and sell all of the findings to every party on the internet that is interested. So I never went back after I couldn't login anymore and started posting a lot more here. Didn’t know that about SBNation, don’t care for their excessive graphics, but I like the work of Collins, Joyner and the Red Seat podcast, so am hooked. However, I don’t have a computer anymore as I live in a dead zone (that sounds weird, doesn’t it) so I subscribe to NESN on TV and communicate through an iPhone with limited data and no intrusive programs like facebook. I find Soxprospects to be much cleaner, easier to operate and navigate than any other site, especially those tied to print and voice media. It is always good to see these sites refer to Soxprospects as an expert source. This is the place.
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Post by templeusox on Sept 25, 2018 13:10:11 GMT -5
Congratulations!
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Post by Oregon Norm on Sept 25, 2018 21:19:11 GMT -5
I took Eric's cue and went back through the early Mookie pages. The takehome for me is that the site is really disciplined about prospects while maintaining real enthusiasm and excitement as the players progress through the system. There are always jokers in the deck of course, but the culture that developed here is really refreshing given all the weird $h!t floating around in cyberspace. It's a good space to operate in, and that's not true for a lot of internet venues.
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Post by jerrygarciaparra on Sept 26, 2018 16:12:47 GMT -5
Happy 15th !!! I lurked for a couple of years and then jumped into the fray. Have a great time and felt like I made some new friends !!
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Post by voiceofreason on Oct 9, 2018 14:41:06 GMT -5
Happy 15th and thank you for being the best site on the web to communicate on a common passion with out all the BS that usually comes with it.
I can remember being told about it by a friend who was a big fan back prior to the 2004 season. He was a bartender and had a calender he would do the countdown to spring training opening on. Watched a lot of games at his sports bar.
Was a lurker for probably 6 or 7 years before joining in the discussions. All the best in the future, you guys do a great job!!
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Post by bluechip on Oct 10, 2018 5:48:20 GMT -5
Thanks Mike (and everyone else who makes this place awesome) and congratulations.
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Post by pasadenasox on Oct 16, 2018 18:40:12 GMT -5
I haven't been around the board consistently for a while (although I follow the news and check the rankings), but congratulations on 15 years, Mike. I'm proud to have been a part of it for a few years. I remember having such hopes for Chad Spann.
Keep up the good work, gents.
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Post by jiant2520 on Oct 17, 2018 20:00:04 GMT -5
Love the site, been lurking since close to the 03/04 time frame, but started posting around 2012.
Thank you and congratulations!
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Post by klostrophobic on Oct 18, 2018 17:49:41 GMT -5
I don't recall how I found out about this place (either through SoSH or one of the popular blogs at the time I guess), but I do recall Pedroia being the first guy I was all-in on from the get-go (or maybe it was Luis Soto) so that must have been in the first year or two of the site. Are there backups of the older forums anywhere besides archive.org?
Congrats on 15 years and here's to 15 more when we look at Mookie Betts, his impending retirement and who started that first Mookie Betts thread way back when.
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Post by Guidas on Oct 18, 2018 19:03:50 GMT -5
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Post by ghostofrussgibson on Oct 18, 2018 19:06:49 GMT -5
Enjoying the site! I've contributed a bit in the past. Please keep the good info coming!
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Post by splendidsplinter89 on Oct 24, 2018 13:46:46 GMT -5
Found this site after the 2003 ALCS when my interest in baseball really ratcheted up. Was looking for more Red Sox content and started reading soxprospects forum, the new blog Surviving Grady, the Boston Dirt Dogs, and SOSH. I was in eighth grade so I was very intimidated by SOSH having membership restrictions. I even thought out an application to prove I had the baseball smarts.
Really enjoyed the posts of Amarshal- who I think encouraged me to go to Tufts. Scaffolds- thoroughly enjoyed when everyone started to doubt his expert opinions. Templeusox- the funniest poster hands down back then. Maybe because I was 15, but Tiger Death House was a classic nickname. Arquimedez Bozo- always correcting everyone’s grammar. Am Fox was the moderator that kept everyone in line.
I don’t think any of them still post, it’s a surreal feeling, but these were my “internet friends” that I always went to for hot takes pre social media etc. back when Sportscenter was still good.
My dad’s friends were so impressed years later that I knew all the prospects headed to Florida in the Beckett deal.
Still read every once in a while, great content. Proud to have been lurking here so long.
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Post by James Dunne on Oct 24, 2018 13:53:37 GMT -5
I think Arquimedez Bozo still pokes his head in from time to time.
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Post by Mike Andrews on Oct 24, 2018 17:52:46 GMT -5
And still does the correcting 😄
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Post by soxin8 on Oct 25, 2018 15:50:43 GMT -5
Thanks Mike (and everyone else who makes this place awesome) and congratulations. Seconded. Really enjoyed the last two podcasts with Ian's scouting observations. I wish I could write game reports like his. I think it would be interesting if you posted all three of your top 70 rankings for us to compare. If not, you could mention the 10 to 20 who didn't make the consensus top 60.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Oct 26, 2018 13:04:26 GMT -5
I'm freaking dying. I actually looked at my first forum post relatively recently and it checked every box - I was suggesting minor changes to the rosters, called out a transaction that had been missed, and corrected someone's grammar. Real eye opener. Lol.
By the way, Tiger Death House is still Matt Huegel's fantasy baseball team name.
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Post by Mike Andrews on Oct 26, 2018 14:26:52 GMT -5
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Post by jimed14 on Oct 26, 2018 15:37:48 GMT -5
Ha! I've been reading the Punto trade thread and that's pretty interesting. So many claims about being awful in 2013. Some mentions of getting rid of a ton of salary just to spend it all the next winter and how we should steer clear of Napoli and Victorino. And talk about how it's dumb to sell low on Crawford. And I think the best take was that the trade was the indication that Bobby V "won" and would be back the next season. Actually no, the best take was guidas saying that Kershaw better be included.
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