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  1. 2 hours ago, SonofaRoache said:

    I hope you are right. Bassit will be tough on our guys, but good lineup construction should help. If Eloy is out, Grandal needs to bat behind Jose so that we don't get pitch around. Tim and Yoan are good enough for Jose to drive in. McCann nor Mazara are giving Jose much protection. 

    Yeah I'm ok with McCann staying the in lineup but we need to protect Abreu better.

  2. 29 minutes ago, Stinky Stanky said:

    As long as Ricky remembers which end of the bullpen bench the roster filler is sitting at he'll be fine.  We have a bunch of guys who can get outs!  Come to think of it, that holds true for every manager.  If their bullpen's got it, they look like geniuses.

    I just really didn't want to see Cordero or Rodon today. Mission accomplished.

  3. 11 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

    TA and Athletics Nation are fucking amazing and deserve each other's excellence:  https://www.athleticsnation.com/2020/9/29/21494677/a-prescient-tim-anderson-they-didnt-do-their-homework-jesus-luzardo-tim-anderson-jose-abreu

    This writing is so good:

    But once the count gets to 2-0, you have to put Abreu on. Or if you don’t, you certainly don’t throw him a fastball — not if you’ve done your homework. And if you do, for some reason, choose to pitch to him and throw a fastball, it had better not be anywhere in the hitting zone, let alone right out over the plate.

    The end result? It only took 2.5 innings for everything Tim Anderson said — so insultingly that you wanted to throw it back in his face — to come absolutely true, In how they set Luzardo up to make the start, and then trying to beat the White Sox with 95+ MPH fastballs from the left side, even in situations where literally anything else (including an IBB) made infinitely more sense.

    Now, none of this matters so much when your team gets “3 hits, 1 run, 9 Ks, and no one is particularly surprised,” but still...Anderson had no business saying what he did — and he had even less business being absolutely, unequivocally right.

    After what we as fans have had to deal with this season, I am totally fine with taking some runs off of the mistakes of other managers.

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  4. I'm a big fan of Nick and excited about what he can potentially be for this team and personally I think he's a perfect 9 hole hitter. You need someone at the bottom of the lineup who can hit and the adequate speed at the bottom of the order setting up for more speed (Robert, presumably) for some potentially pretty nice strings of hits. I personally think 9 is perfect for him.

  5. Hey, all. Very longtime fan and lurker. Admittedly been in the "Fire Renteria" crowd and still am and actually felt like I would prefer the Sox lose if it meant he gets axed, thinking long term. But logic be damned, after getting a taste of a postseason win again at long last, my fan instincts have taken over and I want to do the unthinkable after that abysmal end to the season. Even with Hahn's misfires and misses I know we have the talent. Let's get 'em!

    :gosox1:

    P.S. - Where's NUKECLEVELAND these days? (I remember!)

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