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Man it's like clockwork when Harold hypes up a guy and he just shits the bed.

God imagine this post before he got called up.

"How much you want to bet I can hit this ball over that mountain"

I wish they could decline Cesar's option now

I gotta think Yoan would have at least 5 more homers if he didn't get robbed by giant ballparks. I can think of at least 2-3 fly balls he hit that would have been gone at normal sized parks.

The biggest missing piece of this lineup is a left handed power bat that plays outfield.

At THIS POINT, it is hard to not give this deadline an D/F. Hernandez has been worthless. Kimbrell has been horrid. Tepera has been good. No RF added.

90 wins. Damn that feels good.

445 ft, 112 off the bat

I understand Perez has a ton of homers, but his framing is almost Zack Collins bad and he doesn't have a ton of offensive value outside of the homers. He has about 5 bWAR cause they don't care about framing, but with framing accounted for, Yaz almost has 1 more WAR in half the games.

Because your entire career would be tainted

Friedl is making Goodwin look like Willie Mays.

At this point, the soxtalk postseason roster has 8 position players and 7 pitchers.

I don’t see much of a reason to put Cesar on the postseason roster

Yoan is so good at the hot corner.

Bummer - Kimbrel - Hendricks lets go

Unfortunately that's not reviewable because it's before the ball gets to the bag. You'd also think the umpire would scream foul ball and there wouldn't have even been a play at 1B.

Man, I had totally forgotten about Burger. That is a Hollywood level story.

Why did they show zero replays of that Leury hit? Very odd.

should be 4-0, so dumb

The Reds have a really good lineup. If they added an innings eating starter like Dallas Keuchel and proven closer like Craig Kimbrel, that could put them over the top.

Robert is so good holy hell

Astros down 2-0

Figured I'd add this here instead of starting it's own thread, adding to the "Liam and his wife are good people". Always classy giving back to those that help make things happen. Love that he's here with us.

Amazing how different people are. I challenge you to listen to a pod of either of the two and tell me you didn't appreciate their comments/views. Have you ever listened to either? I don't think either are trying to inflame anybody and I listen to both. Yes they express differing views from the norm. That doesn't mean they are evil. Not sure why people think differing opinions are so bad. Whitlock's sidekick, uncle Jimmy, recently was out 2 weeks with SEVERE covid. They had good discussions on it upon Jimmy's return. Jimmy was in BAD SHAPE for a while in the hospital w/covid. I don't think he revealed if he was vaxxed or not. I think both are keeping it private.

Yeah, I admittedly didn't take a deep dive into Codi's Cubs numbers, but he's still been just a serviceable as Kimbrel. I'll certainly take Kimbrel over Heuer for the 2021 playoffs. But still just a huge overpay, and I remain confident that Codi is going to be a very nice backend reliever for a long time, and we controlled him for peanuts.

The only good thing about the timing of this is the playoff games aren't on the regional nbc sports networks

The last two weeks of the season are essentially a long playoff with a lot of incredibly exciting games. Expansion never made sense - aside from the obvious reason of more dollars. I really hope they keep it the way it is, but I'm not hopeful.

100%, if they expand to more playoff teams they might as well shorten the season to 100 games or so because it would be the most drawn out, boring thing in this game.

…and why they shouldn’t expand the playoffs. These games matter, and if they went to 8 in each league permanently, they’d be ignored.

Actually Cesar was brought in so Leury wouldn’t be an every day starter at 2nd, yet Leury has vastly outplayed Cesar since the trade. Kimbrel was brought in to stabilize the bullpen due to lack of a RH set up man and our failures in the 8th inning. He has done neither of those.

This is just fodder to create drama by the media and fans buy into it. Some of the theories are ridiculous. Tony on the other hand is always an asshole when his players get hit. I still haven't forgotten he started an incident when Thigpen accidentally hit one of the A's players in the head.

Yeah, SlingTV was 25 and included NBC Sports Chicago a couple of years back. I was more than happy. Now you're telling me a $65 package is needed?? Wasn't youtube tv 50 before? Slingtv got rid of nbc sports, and now it's 10 dollars more too. I have the Disney bundle, but you just know that price will go up soon too. Now, I borrow a family member's cable subscription to use the nbc sports app and HBO Max while sharing Netflix, Disney, etc., but you just know that they'll eventually lock the location you can use them in someday also. This is literally reverting back to just being just like cable. Bullshit.

Vaughn looks like an easy out for the past several weeks against better RH pitchers, and he will see a few in Houston. The excuses for him have gotten old. (i.e., Stone reminding how he was forced to play outfield and how hard Vaughn hits balls that are caught for routine outs). There are a lot of outfielders that hit .237 with 15 HR in their rookie year. So what? Vaughn can make everyone forget his struggles over the last month or so with a couple of clutch hits in the playoffs. Pump a three run homer for a White Sox play-off win and Vaughn will be the toast of the town. Not many recall what Scotty Pods hit for average in 2005, but that WS game 2 winning home run won't be forgotten anytime soon. The playoffs are time for champions to rise above the rest. Who are the players that can meet that challenge?

It sucks that I can't watch the postgame show on MLB.tv

Sports are literally the only reason I have kept COmcast around.

89 wins. I, personally, would not include mike wright on the postseason roster.

Ask me again in November. Then ask me again in June. Then ask me again in 2023.

Luis just hit a fly ball with a runner on 3rd.

Or they could just look at the score of their game.

Wow umps really tried to fuck us again there. That's clearly a strike without the check swing.

I'd personally just run Vaughn out there over Sheets, platoon be damned. But we'll see.

It was an act in hoping we forget that he sucks.

Poor guy. That slapped a little harder than expected tho

To me that best lineup is Against RHP R SS TA S 3B Moncada R CF Robert R 1B Abreu S C Grandal R LF Eloy L DH Sheets R RF Vaughn/Engel S 2B Hernandez Against LHP R SS TA R CF Robert R 1B Abreu S C Grandal R LF Eloy S 3B Moncada R DH Vaughn R RF Engel S 2B Hernandez

Imagine there's a giant routlette wheel with 999 black spaces and 1 red space. You can bet on either color, but even though the odds are very different, you win the same amount if you win your bet. However, if you lose your bet, the people closest to you also lose their bet even if they bet on the winning color. Now imagine that they guy next to you tells you that he's betting on red because he knows someone who bet on black and lost. Except that he doesn't actually know someone who bet on black and lost, but he read a post shared by someone on Facebook that claimed that someone bet on black and lost, but nobody has actually verified that this happened. The unvaccinated are the people betting on red, and people betting on something with odds that bad do not need nor deserve to have anyone being a voice for them or having empathy for them.

I agree that Robert should be getting 1st inning ABs, and his best spot is 3rd right now and possibly going forward. TA, Yoan, Robert, and stack the rest as you best see fit.