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Again, why are you playing for one run with a tired bullpen? Ricky just needs to get the hell out of this organization.

They say if you type "Left Handed Hitter" three times in a row, Lillian will magically appear in your thread and respond to your post

Christ, you're argumentative. Yeah, he mixed up his words but his point was clear : move coop to a position of honor outside the day to day operations. Maybe pitching coach emeritus, maybe promotion to some new VP, whatever. Your twin act of belligerence and then insisting you're one of the most reasonable posters here is getting real tired mate.

They can't keep him down much longer

They should give him a promotion as a bday present.

I'm a guy who actually enjoys about 45% of your posts. You have a level of baseball experience most of us don't, and I enjoy that unique perspective. I don't want to see you be the next poster who is infamously known by a single name and automatically dismissed. But you get stuck in these pedantic, semantic, and/or circular battles, and seem to be unable to admit you ever even might be wrong, let alone that you are. The belligerence expresses itself in the fact that every post that disagrees with you turns into a 25 post slog of the same points over and over again. Stop playing dumb, you know you have a tendency to sink your teeth in to every single argument. When new points are there to present, that is fine and fun. Learn to let go though man. What is the point of spending time on here if everyone ignores you, which is unfortunately dangerously close to the truth right now.

https://www.milb.com/scores/whitesox/2019-08-03 Luis Robert turns 22 today

So was Engel

I agree with you all about Renteria. The two things he most controls, his decisions and the team's fundamentals - are both failing horribly. There's no basis for him to continue as manager of the White Sox. He doesn't deserve to keep his job.

or promote him to the pro scouting department.

For a team with so many DH type players on their roster, the Sox never seem to have a halfway decent DH in their lineup. Explain that one to me LOL!

What does that have to do with anything?

To tell u the truth, he should be fired (again) for the squeeze. You don't squeeze Eloy the gazillion dollar man when the team is buried in the standings. Eloy could get hurt on the squeeze which was unnecessary. I know you don't play scared, but even if I was tempted to squeeze I'd stop myself with slow/valuable Eloy on third.

I watched Fulmer busting butt down the line hustling his butt off trying to beat it out and I was impressed with him. I thought that's what sports is all about. Great effort. This is even though financially it makes no sense for him to hustle and possibly (probably since he did) get hurt and according to many fans who want to lose and continue tanking certainly makes no sense trying to beat it out in a game we were so close to losing and helping our draft position. In conclusion I applaud Fulmer for caring when nobody would have blamed him for loafing down the basepaths and staying healthy for a team going nowhere. His loafing could have been explained away that he's not used to running the basepaths and had trouble getting out of the box, etc. Kudos to Fulmer for trying to win when so many want the tank to cause L after L. TWTW really shows in a segment like that.

The only argument against the DH I’ll listen to is losing opportunities for Weird Baseball

This is the biggest “look at me” complete asshole thread. Why would mods not shut something like this down? Completely embarrassing. Let’s all make glorified personal gratification threads. They will proceed with no problem. What a fucking joke.

I enjoy the word "catch" in these conversations.

Per Sox Machine, Charlotte hitting coach Frank Menechino: “Nothing,” said Knights hitting coach Frank Menechino when asked what Robert has improved. “He hasn’t improved nor gotten better, he’s been the same since he’s got here. And that’s pretty good, right? How much is he going to improve with 200 at-bats in Triple A? I don’t know.” Pretty bold split from the party line

First 108 W-L: Det 32-76 Bal 36-72 KC 40-68 Tor 41-67 Mia 42-66 Sea 45-63 Sox 47-61 Pit 47-61 SD 50-58 Col 50-58 Cin 51-57 NYM 53-55

Aug 13 is the expected debut date for the two hs pitchers

Well, I’m convinced. Puig sounds like a stand up guy and good teammate. “He is the worst person I've ever seen in this game," one ex-Dodger who believes Puig is beyond redemption said flatly. "Ever.” "I guarantee you they're trying to get rid of him," one source with a rival club said of Puig. "There's no question he's a problem. In my mind, he's a problem anywhere he goes. "He's Hanley Ramirez: He's a cancer on a ball club." https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2597460-is-there-anybody-left-in-los-angeles-whom-yasiel-puig-hasnt-alienated?utm_source=twitter.comScott Miller Puig argued with teammates over who should be allowed on a plane ride that typically includes wives and girlfriends. The subject of someone from Puig's entourage joining the traveling crew came up, and sources told Yahoo Sports that Puig argued with pitcher Zack Greinke and nearly came to blows with infielder Justin Turner over the matter. Passan also reports that a Dodgers player who asked to remain unnamed said trading Puig would be "addition by subtraction." https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/new-book-outlines-problems-between-yasiel-puig-teammates/amp/ (Game 2 of the 2017 World Series, Puig missed a critical catch) Puig wasn’t ready for the pitch and got a late jump. He was out of position, shaded too far toward center field. He often ignored the positioning card distributed to Dodgers defenders before games; according to six people familiar with the situation, he on several occasions ripped up the card in front of outfield coach George Lombard and left the pieces on the ground. In the eyes of Dodgers officials, Puig was unprepared at a time when negligence might mean the difference between a title and heartbreak. “There were always things like that,” manager Dave Roberts said one day this spring. “Taking plays off.” according to interviews with more than 20 current and former Dodgers, coaches and executives. Tardiness plagued Puig. His attention wavered. His preparation waned. He ran the bases with enough recklessness that teammates joked Puig thought he was invisible. He hassled staffers. He ignored suggestions from coaches. He rejected entreaties from teammates. The Dodgers utilize advanced metrics and lasers to guide their fielders. Puig believed he could read swings and trust his instincts. FanGraphs has rated him a below-average fielder for five of his six seasons, but Puig considered himself elite. That led to the positioning cards being torn up. “The hard part was he’d always have a knee-jerk reaction, and try to point out something that you did, a year ago,” Turner said. “Like, ‘Oh, you did this! It’s OK for you?’” Corey Seager shrugged his shoulders. He could not conjure a favorite story about Yasiel Puig. “Uh . . . not really,” Seager said. “Not really, without, like, bashing him.” For the Dodgers, the grievances had added up. Puig showed up late to meetings. He did not do the necessary work to prevent injury. He was uninterested in instruction. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/la-sp-yasiel-puig-dodgers-legacy-reds-20190414-story.html%3F_amp%3Dtrue

how tf does Eloy always end up SO DAMN CLOSE to the CF. Does he need a hearing aid? THIS ISN"T HARD

If this was the 1917 World Series, Renteria would be blacklisted for trying to throw the game to the gamblers...

Burger still recovering from a “bruised heal” and not expected back this season. I’m guessing Thompson & Dalquist are instructs but won’t be pitching this year. James Beard is the definition of a project and it’s going to take some before we know what we have in him. High risk, high reward player and odds are it won’t work, but no reason to jump to conclusions just yet.

Covey did the job for once

If they don't whack Renteria after game 162 they're not serious about winning.

The one manager everyone expects would play the same style..but at least Moncada, Anderson and Madrigal would be tutored/mentored into Gold Glove-quality fielders, like he did with Alexei.

Yes sir: the unwritten rule: "Tie at home; win on the road. WTF?" Time to fire him, just let him go. Bring up Omar.

I don't understand why would play for a tie game on the road in the late innings in the first place...it’s that unwritten baseball rule, like never making first or third out at 3B.

Ricky is so baseball dumb it’s ridiculous. Any one with half a brain could have called that bunt there. So obvious.

Quite a few opposing announcers have questioned Ricky it seems. Stone took a bit of a shot at him too for that. Bunts with a slow ass runner at 3B (and he puts the steal on with slow ass runners instead of his fast guys not named Tim Anderson or he'll put hit and runs on and the hitters fail to execute). Just a joke of a manager.

Calling for a bunt with the infield in and a slow runner on third. That's a real head-scratcher.

I was thinking we might squeeze but not with Eloy on third and risk of him getting hurt. Not crazy about the bunt there; not crazy about Yolmer's chances of lofting a deep nuff fly ball either. Bummer.

50 bucks on Ricky attempting a squeeze bunt

He's made boneheaded errors when a couple of our pitchers had no hitters going (I believe Miguel Gonzalez in fact had a perfect game at the time). Eh.. maybe maturity will help him down the line without trying to show off/play with flair in that instance.

You are putting a lot of confidence in Gabe Kapler with this statement

Alright that's fair. He definitely makes plays that are gold glove caliber. Like you said needs to get his head out of his butt . Hopefully he does and I'm wrong.

Gotta give some props to Detwiler, he is pitching as well as anyone could realistically hope

This post is very inaccurate

Errors from being lazy are still mental errors.

Another hit for Robert. He is 3-4 tonight.

Have a feeling this will be a painful night to watch as a Sox fan. This lineup can’t touch Nola and it will be a miracle if Detwiler can get through any lineup 3 times without blowing up.

Yes it can. The subacromial bursa is the buffer between the supraspinatus tendon, one of the primary stabilizer of the glenohumeral joint/the primary rotator cuff muscle and the bone on top, the acromion. If those start to rub together it's going to limit the effectiveness and could easily cause a change in performance. It's a minor surgery as in he will return to pitching but how it changes the performance has yet to be seen. If you want to follow the kinematic chain, the shoulder issue could easily have caused the UCL injury. The bursa area (subacromial) is stressed with a higher arm angle. If it hurts pitchers tend to drop the arm angle which guess what....adds stress to the elbow. I still thinks the shoulder and elbow issues are tied to his poor follow through and deceleration (or lack thereof). However, it's certainly possible it was caused by the scenario I stated above.

He didn't get word of the trade at that point. I happened to be watching the game live at a bar and he was still in the game in RF 15 minutes after the trade was announced.

I think standing up for your teammates in a brawl after you've just been traded answers your question.

Haha. Good stuff. Some people do strange things. I once had an intern who did not show up to work on the Friday of her 1st week. Around 11am, I was starting to get concerned. No one at the company knew where she was. About an hour later, her hiring manager gets her on the phone - she's fine. It turns out she sent me a Facebook message at like 7:30am that morning and said she wasn't going to come into work because I hadn't assigned her any work... what?? Sure enough, I log into Facebook (which I never check) and I have a friend request from this girl, along with that message saying she won't be coming in to work. I was floored. Keep in mind she has a company laptop and email, as well as access to my phone # in the company directory. But nah, she decided Facebook was the proper way to contact me. We had a good discussion the next Monday about work etiquette and expectations.

I just had a guy 3 months ago show up for his start date (he was a contractor), he worked the first day. I go home, get a call from physical security at 6:30pm saying his bag and laptop are with them. I'm confused as all hell, but I go in that next morning, pick his stuff up and he doesn't show up at all. I call our contract staff office, they reach out to his vendor and this dude is claiming he lost his luggage on his flight in, so spent Tuesday getting it back. Alright, odd, but I can deal with that. He should have told us he was doing that but first day stuff, whatever. Well, the dude doesn't show up Wednesday either. We reach out to the vendor, turns out he flew back to Dallas (where he's from) without telling anyone, claiming he got fed up with the airline losing his bag. Now, I have no problem with him taking that 2nd day to get things settled, go buy some clothes at Kohls or something, or shoot just tell me you want to start over next week with fresh clothes and everything, totally would be ok with that. But instead that guy did quite possibly the weirdest thing he could do. The joys of managing contractors....I just had to fire a guy for travelling and working from China without telling anyone. I work in IT Security, you think we won't catch that or that it's ok to take company property into a country that will absolutely tinker with your machine?

One of my friends works for a company where someone had started, worked about a week, and then stopped showing up and they didn't hear from him. About 2 weeks go by and this guy sends the boss an email saying he thought he had another opportunity come up and was begging for his job back