Texsox
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Pedro managing the twins? Sloppy baseball
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One swing away from a lead
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My back in the city food runs
Deep dish, thin crust, beef, hotdog, gyros, almost any neighborhood Italian joint where momma is sweating in the gravy.
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1 minute ago, wegner said:
The h is what gives spaghetti its abundanza
I haven't heard that since the last time I was at Rosebud on Taylor Street. Damn, that really makes me homesick.
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Just now, wegner said:
So what I've learned from this broadcast is that the entire lineup is "close"
This lineup is as worthless as the h in spaghetti.
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My HS team is leading the district. Way more fun watching them. They can execute a run down, hit relays . . .
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The pressure on opposing pitchers must be horrible facing this lineup. You give up a run or two and the guy parking your car is going to laugh is ass off at your incompetence.
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While I know a lot of folks here only watch White Sox baseball and would give up baseball if the Sox moved, a whole lot more fans would eventually slide over to the north side because they love baseball and Chicago. While a great Yankee type franchise would rule this city, reality is as a mediocre second tier franchise they would do fine in some new market that is starved for a major sports team. There may be a small slip in revenue from Chicago, but the league will make it up with a new market. They will have an excuse for not being competitive and life goes on. They may be the next Philadelphia/KC/Oakland/nameless Athletics.
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I wish the home team had an option to play Manfred ball every inning. I bet we could score two or three runs every game.
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I do enjoy the lakefront for a Bears game. But I fear what @Kyyle23 posted is true. It will be an ugly half ass dome.
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Just now, JoeC said:
Maybe. If we get a reckless owner who doesn't give two craps about profit and is willing to intelligently spend through his / her teeth and above their means, I wouldn't rule out a quicker turnaround.
How many players do you think they have on the current roster that could be part of a playoff team? Five? Ten? Now sign 15 or 20 above average free agents to compete in the next couple years. You need at least four starting pitchers and a closer, someone to catch them. I don't think you can pull that off in two to three years even with reckless spending.
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All we need is a new publicly financed stadium, get rid of TLR, Williams, and Hahn, get rid of Pedro and Getz, get rid of their replacements, and probably the replacements after that, and we will be gold.
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On 4/22/2024 at 12:31 PM, JoeC said:
A lot of us know that 4-5 years of unwatchable baseball are in our future, regardless of intent by the front office, unless JR dies or sells.
Even if he sells it's four or five years of sub .500 baseball.
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38 minutes ago, T R U said:
My advice to anyone here with a young kid they want to put in baseball is to have them learn to play catcher. It is the most important position at this age. Any kid that gets to first you might as well just let them go straight to third. Its impossible to throw them out stealing second because none of the pitchers can hold a runner and they all have slow deliveries. If you can get someone to block the ball and be able to make throws from catcher the third on those steal attempts it literally will eliminate multiple runs per game.
My kid unfortunately is just scared of the ball so I can not get him to drop down and block the ball but man we have nailed a handful of runners at third that get too big of a lead and throwing straight from catcher to third to pick them off. If you can get your kid to block the ball and the arm is good, its pure gold for kid pitch little league. I would take someone like that over any other type of player.
It's been that way for a long time. My coach also turned me into a very useful #2 hitter. Lots of contact, drew some walks, sacrifice bunts, hit and runs. There were a lot of kids at tryouts better than me in a few areas but I hustled my ass off and made myself valuable.
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I was the everyday catcher and couldn't understand why my coach didn't let me catch both games in a double header. Hubris.
I had the catchers mentality. You're going to fucking try to go first to third on me? NFW
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2 minutes ago, T R U said:
I know hiring someone from a winning organization isn't fool proof, but damn would it be nice to at least turn over that rock once in a while.
I'm wondering if they have tried and been turned down?! If you were an agent would you advise a coach or manager client to sign here?
We get desperation and former players who can be coerced.
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7 minutes ago, T R U said:
I can recall one flyball going out to left field so far this season through 10 games. There have been about 5-6 out to right. Even the ground balls either go up the middle or to 2nd base. Everyone at this age is swinging late on 45-55 MPH pitches from 45 feet away.
I wasn't in right until traveling ball. I was a bit miffed at being in right until the coach explained it to me and we looked through the score cards. I was involved in more outs than the left fielder.
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11 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:
I agree with the replacement, that's why I think it has to happen ASAP. Get someone who can make mistakes and it won't cost you the playoffs now, and when the team is ready, they will be ready as well.
This year's replacement won't be around in two or three years when they are competitive and won't be of a caliber to manage a playoff team.
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10 minutes ago, T R U said:
As someone who has been coaching 11-13 year olds for about 2 years now, this is a misconception. The majority of the balls I see get hit to RF because the majority of these kids all swing late. I use to think with the same mindset of stick the worst kid in RF but that was quickly proving to be costly. At least for the 11 year olds and up range.
True. I played mostly catcher and right field. We hid the weak armed guy in left. He wasn't making throws to first but I was making throws to third.
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16 minutes ago, nrockway said:
The entire team still makes very dumb defensive lapses (how about that Harper run down) which can only reflect on the coaching staff
These guys were studs on defense until they got here. The coaches must be teaching then a new way to handle run downs.
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JR and Getz needs him in the dugout distracting everyone from how shitty the collection of slackers, hackers, has beens and never weres, actually is. Be the lightning rod for fan criticism.
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4 minutes ago, MEANS said:
Serious question, what made you think he would be great?
I know this wasn't directed at me, but a number of reasonably solid baseball insiders believed he was ready and would be great. I thought we found a diamond in the rough.
I knew we weren't going to get a "name". His replacement will be off similar caliber.
4/23 - Sox @ Twins 6:40 - Fedde vs. P. Lopez
in 2024 Season in Review
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Offensive explosion! Boom, two base runners