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Caulfield is like super well informed, knows a lot on a lot of subjects but thoughts seem scattered and it shows in his posts when he references stuff half the board has no idea what he's talking about and it comes across as scatterbrained or at the least just showing off his knowledge. He cant help but throw out tons of names in most posts and yet all this knowledge and he still posts mixing in grand conjecture with facts fabricating and mixing truth with fiction. Seems like a good guy . If he could just post on Sox stuff and not mix in politics and focus his thoughts he'd be an awesome poster. BUt as some like to say " Caulfield gonna Caulfield" . Who knows if he is actually right about AJ broadcasting for the Twins even part time.6 points
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DK is doing our manager's job. Renteria was great for the rebuild but he is not a championship caliber manager. I don't like to nitpick everything a manager does, but there are too many mistakes he makes that the average fan wouldn't. He seems to be here because he is a friend for the players and someone who makes them feel comfortable with US baseball. That's fine, but someone needs to tell this man how to correctly do his job if the plan is to keep him.4 points
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Kopech hasnt done a thing at the major league level.3 points
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Are we happy again now? Does being a White Sox fan include the prerequisite diagnosis of bipolar disorder? Can I have garlic dipping sauce with my pizza? These are the questions I’m left wondering.2 points
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Is Dallas already the best MLB free agent signing in Hahn's tenure? 👀2 points
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I mean those are the guys we're counting on this season and going forward in Eloy's case so they better get going or this club is going nowhere.2 points
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The team was undefeated with Madrigal. Tim comes back and they win... let's pray the trend continues.2 points
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yea and good on renteria using him like it, critical win tonight and go get one tmr and build some momentum.2 points
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Moncada had COVID, showed up 4 days before the season started, and he's played 15 games in the past 15 days. He looks tired and it certainly makes sense. People that were ripping the two off days early just overlooking the grind that this is for a guy who was fatigued.2 points
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part of the reason i think he needs to lead off. Leadoff hitters see 60% fastballs.2 points
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It's Carson Fulmer...if that was intentional he'd have thrown a strike2 points
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I lived in Wrigleyville shortly after graduating from college. It can be a fun place to drink, but i advise staying off the beaten path. Avoid the Cubby Bear, Sluggers, Deuces, etc. I was always a fan of Murphy's Bleachers and The Sports Corner. Murphy's is a divey-er bar that isn't AS infested with jabronis, but it still gets packed. Regardless, most places right by the field are packed on game day. Keep in mind, i have no idea how it is during quarantine. i imagine it is even harder to get into a bar. I highly doubt you'll get a seat at a place within viewing distance of the field. Try The Sports Corner i guess. if that is packed, go pound some malort at the Nisei Lounge.2 points
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As I have said before, the worst thing about this trade is that Hahn had to sweeten the deal at all by including any extra players. It is just that much worse that the "throw in" happened to be Tatis. Shields was called out by the owner of the Padres as a bad signing. Erik Johnson should have been more than enough compensation for the Sox to take him off their hands. That the Sox had to kick in more to get the Padres to pay some of his salary is a joke imho.2 points
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And never forget; Preller is a crook and baseball somehow allowed him to keep his job and continue on. The guy traded injured players without disclosing proper medicals, and baseball let him keep the players he acquired for his damaged goods and keep his job.2 points
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I'm not convinced that Padres fans aren't making burner accounts to occasionally make this thread when they are feeling down. Why do we need a new one of these threads every 3-6 months?2 points
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Would you stop saying this. My goodness, you act like you were on the back fields scouting Tatis. He was the same player; he hadn't played in organized professional baseball games and anyone could have signed him. You've exaggerated his growth and his status at the time of the trade. Tatis wasn't ranked on a single prospect publication until 2017 (Where he appeared in one on the bottom of a team list), and he didn't appear on Keith Law's list until 2018 - after he had a 910 OPS as an 18 year old in A ball. The White Sox traded him in 2016. You literally just make up stuff to try and make everything look worse and so obvious.2 points
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It could have happened to anyone. Thankfully, we have proven winners like Rickey Renteria, Rick Hahn and Jeremy Haber running the operation.2 points
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Detroit will make the playoffs the Sox won't and Hahn will blame injuries, short season and youth. There are numerous at-bats that are just terrible every game where a pitcher does not throw a strike and gets an out or worse a strike out. Yesterday on a 2-0 count Moncada swung at a ball 3 inches off the inside corner and grounded out weakly to third. I do not know if that is player development or what but we have 7 guys in the lineup daily that do that.2 points
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As of yesterday, here are Fernando Tatis, Jr's stats. 17 games, 76 PA, 67 AB, 15 R, 22 H, 4 2b, 1 3b, 8 HR (leading baseball), 18 RBI, 4 SB, 0 CS, .328 BA, .408 OBP, .776 SLG (leading baseball), 1.184 OPS, 229 OPS+ (leading baseball), 52 TB (leading baseball), 1.4 WAR. He also has no errors so far at SS. He's 21 years old. One could argue that Tatis Jr. is the BEST PLAYER IN BASEBALL right now. As my son said, if instead the question was - who would you pick first if you were starting a new franchise? - then Tatis Jr. would almost certainly be the guy. So, I apologize in posting this little rant, but every time I see this guy perform it just totally bums me out. And it keeps getting worse as he gets better. Because while the White Sox have some exciting young players and are on the upswing, the fact they don't ALSO have this guy may well leave us short. I would be better if any of our young guys were BETTER than Tatis Jr. But they aren't, and because Tatis Jr is still YOUNGER than all of them, they aren't ever likely to be. FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU*******************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2 points
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The whole staff needs to go. The Sox need a new mentality a new focus. Not this complacency shit2 points
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I doubt Ricky has it in him, but Anderson-Moncada-Robert is a way better configuration than Anderson-Moncada-Abreu2 points
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Probably wise to give him tomorrow plus the off day. He doesn't look 100%.1 point
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Hamilton's injury killed his chances of being an MLB pitcher. Went from 97-98 to 93-94. Too bad.1 point
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Mendick is the only player on the team taking pitches and having good at bats right now.1 point
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If I were manager I’d fine guys for sliding head 1st into first base. It’s just dumb and ultimately selfish if you get hurt.1 point
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He spoke because what Renteria is saying (or isn't) isn't working. Man, my first born for a competent manager on the South Side. We've had maybe two years of Ozzie and that's about it the last two decades as far as above average managers.1 point
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The acclaimed duo of play-by-play announcer Joe Davis and World Series champion A.J. Pierzynski cover all the action from the San Francisco Giants contest with the Los Angeles Dodgers, immediately prior at 4:00 PM ET. I could have sworn he was on a Twins’ broadcast this year, either radio or tv, but sometimes they have the ESPN or Fox National feeds instead of the local broadcasters on MLB.TV and then I switch to Gameday Audio to at least listen if the feed goes bad or sticks. As it stands, he already has that Fox gig as well as paid baseball ambassador with the White Sox (many former Sox players listed.) It’s also quite possible the White Sox were playing the Twins the same day I was channel surfing through all the feeds looking at different games. Maybe part of the problem is always playing devil’s advocate to get my HS students to think critically, so I end up taking minority positions quite frequently, then ask them to make the opposite argument which is much more difficult for “obedient” Chinese students who are almost programmed not to break uniformity, some would call it conformity, I guess.1 point
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I would like to add that if you are going to rest guys do it as much as possible against non division teams at least in a normal season. I realize this season is mostly division opponents on the schedule . These losses against division opponents hurt the most. I know the Sox have lost players and it sucks. 2 more taken out last night in Leury and Abreu the day before Anderson and Encarnacion are due back. Madrigal out , Mazara missed time and still looks off. Rodon, Lambert , Bummer who else besides Kopech am I missing who is injured ? That's a lot of guys to lose. Weird that we are in this terrible hitting slump and we're supposed to have all these good hitters , more lefthandedness , more power , more OBP but now the hitting with RISP is comically bad. This has to be the low point of the season.Even with the 1-4 start we knew it was early but now we're nearing 33% done and the bad luck is just piling up and a bad manager is not changing our luck. He needs to get on the umps, get on his players. Tell them they are playing like a big steaming pile of rhino shit. Tell them they have to prove they are good. Stop tallking the talk and walk the walk. You all wanted swag , great you got it. I'll take W's. At least I can't blame Yermin. Probably could single handedly bust the Sox out of their hitting doldrums. 😏1 point
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The offense was great when Madrigal was in the lineup! and when they were playing KC1 point
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There is never accountability on the White Sox as long as Reinsdorf is there.1 point
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I don't think the first one was that bad, Deshields was pretty good, and I'm a little more forgiving on pitchers who just seem to find it all at once. He was the ultimate outlier as a short RH pitcher who ended up being so durable. I mean the Scherzer trade to DET was awful in retrospect but at the time I didn't bat an eye. People thought Washington overpaid to acquire Scherzer, then overpaid him on his contract. Pitchers are too weird.1 point
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Record: Padres fan Caulfield12, ex-Royals fan and Puigmania Captain, did not make this thread.1 point
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First player in MLB history to 30 homers and 20 stolen bases...100 games into his career. That's a startling one. Let it be said for the record that I didn't start this particular thread, and kept the Jeff Passan/ESPN Special Column and Video in the MLB Catch-All, because surely reading and watching that would be even more inciting/provocative, if that's the right word. That said, he's so good and so fun to watch, it's almost impossible not want to watch him as a fan of the sport of baseball....captured so well by Passan in both pieces.1 point
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Why can't Dallas be a leader on this team? When he was signed, literally every single article, and I'm pretty sure Hahn himself, touted his veteran leadership as one of the most important benefits of signing him.1 point
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