Look at Ray Ray Run

If Gen z supposedly have no critical thinking skills, then you boomers are incapable of just admitting you were wrong lol. The handling of Vaughn has been atrocious. It's OK to just admit that and move on.

By far the most impressive and encouraging part of his outing.

Why?

Jack just moved giolito out of the rotation all together after that Cease performance tonight. Tough break for Lucas.

Move over Harold, we got a new scouting bigwig in tow.

Get A grip guy

I told you @wegnerjose was cheating on his fastball and can't hit off speed now because of it! 🤣

Lol none taken. I bust balls and give people are hard time often offline too. People do it to me offline all the time too. Just the personality of those around me. I do also like poking the bear offline and on because it cracks me up. I get that gets people wound. I also typically don't care when it's done to me 99.9% of the time. We all have bad days and can get riled up, I'm not immune. What no one can say is that I take personal shots at people. I think sometimes people would prefer i did over getting palled to death which is probably why I love the word so much 😅

Usually you'd say you don't want to start a game and stop it ruining the starting pitcher, but with Cease LaRussa would probably pull him before any rain anyway

@Jack ParkmanI got to say that you were one of the only people who didn't give up on Giolito and repeatedly said the ace was still in there. The guy proves you right over an extended period of time and becomes a top tier pitcher, and then after two not great starts you have jumped off the wagon and put him fourth in the rotation. It's one of my favorite things about you and also one of the funniest. It ranks up there with Fathom having a database of negative stats on every player in all types of situations.

I've been told constantly that those posters should be left alone and they're just "venting." Let them vent, and if you don't you're a bad person and a bad fan. Poke fun at their hyperbole and you're an asshole who doesn't let people be a fan how they want. That's the irony of this entire thread. People who are having fun, being sarcastic and poking fun at crazy over the top comments - like you would with friends or at an actual bar - are called condescending assholes who are telling other people how to be a fan... trying to figure out what direction this place actually wants to go, because having a good time at people's hyperbole is resented by many posters and moderators here. Heck, it happened in this very thread which admittedly may have been a bit off topic for it lol

When you cant set records famous to the sport, when 27 outs has always been sacred, changing that is just absurd to me. Im worried they'll never go away either, even after covid. Athletes in better shape than ever, more pitchers on a roster than ever, yet somehow players can't play 18 innings anymore for health and safety reasons Game was designed to go through a lineup three times

Guy won the MVP and youre saying you were right calling his demise when you said it was happening last year lol

Now that we've felt them more ive got to say I absolutely hate the 7 inning games. Doesn't feel like a real baseball game. Most exciting part of the games are the last few innings. Game has no feel to it imo. Great outing by Carlos though. Good win.

24 year old Nick Madrigal can't play two games but 30 year old Leury Garcia can. Can't wait for Leury in game two and 23 year old Andrew Vaughn on the bench for rest. Yay! I'm sure Tony is trying his best and really cares and is well intentioned and I respect his right to disagree with my opinion.

Yes, and I can't emphasize enough the guy is playing HURT this year. Probably moreso than any of us even realize. He's a catcher with a knee problem. That's not good. It's no surprise he's rolling over everything. He's left handed and his front leg is injured. He's also been the victim of some bad luck which happens. Grandal didn't tell giolito to throw face high change ups over and over vs Boston. The soxtalk narrative I am most exhausted of is that a catcher makes a pitcher throw a certain pitch. Pitchers are responsible for what they throw. No one else is. Mccann xwOBA is 285! Grandals xwOBA is 365! One has had incredibly bad batted ball luck, the other has been bad and his batted ball luck has been as expected.

It's hard to take people seriously when they call grandal avg or below avg last year when he was arguably the best catcher in baseball. The knee is clearly effecting him this year. He had to change how he sits behind home plate for goodness sakes. This is why players shouldn't play hurt. Fans rip them for not playing hurt then rip them for not being great when they play hurt.

Clevinger got hurt last year. It's not like they were banking on him this season and he went down. They literally traded for Musgrove because of that injury. Proclaiming lamet, who has had ONE good year in which he only threw 69 innings as losing keuchel or lynn is hilarious. I'm not even sure id call lamet Carlos rodon. Of carlos rodon went down for the sox, they would survive and wouldn't at all be some completely unexpected bad break.

He can't throw to first base and has chronic shoulder problems. He was bad In 2019 and has been bad in 2021. You cherry picking 2020 is very tatis fanboy of you.

Lol, I take more shit from posters here than any or you sensitive whiny mods ever do and I laugh at them 99.9% of the time with the poster. I posted less because posts had been deleted after I called out all the posters who felt the need to get personal and ended up wrong. If you're gonna dish it, then delete posts in response its not fun for me.. I don't like censorship on forums. Ron posts cracks on me all the time and I always find them funny. Pretending I get angry over them is just flat out wrong. I've never once contacted a moderator about a poster being "mean" to me and I certainly don't report posts but keep insinuating whatever you'd like.

I didnt know you had personal opinions about people on the forum. This is very hurtful. I hope I can recover. And jokes are funny for anyone that doesn't take themselves too seriously.

When I posted less because it became less fun? Yes, I do this for entertainment. When it becomes less entertaining, I do it less. It isn't rocket science. Remember when mods here couldn't take jokes and run to defend each other from posters? Ahhh, yes, I too remember. Edit: also, do you remember when Tony stopped watching the team and the games after 1 week of the season because it wasn't worth his time? Ahh, yes. Let me guess.. him saying something like that isn't at all similar to me saying something like I'm posting less? Lol

No, it's not at all the equivalent of losing giolito and keuchel/lynn lol.

You may want to try learning to take a joke. Life may become more fun for you. Who knows. Some people are just wound so tight.

Lol literally only one of these arms is reliably good. Your weird obsession with the Padres is... well, weird. Clevinger was a tough loss. Lamet has never been healthy or reliable. The rest of those guys are just guys. Thought we were gonna get a nice error count update on tqtis who made another one tonight, up to 10 and on a near record setting pace