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You’re just mad Mercedes isn’t the father. Might be the only time he would have scored this year.

In solidarity with their head coach, Tim Anderson and Yoan Moncado will bunt during their first at bats in tonight's contest in Cleveland

Is this not an open forum? Cancel culture on soxtalk?

It would be swell if people did, like, at least 1 minute of reading about complications other than death. And if not, maybe have an ounce of consideration for the person standing next to them.

They didn't punt the 2019 draft to do it at all. That's not factual. They took James Beard in round 4. They also added: Chase Krogman, Logan Glass, DJ Gladney, Misael Gonzalez and Victor Torres as prep talents on day 3. Some high upside college relievers like McKinley Moore and Caleb Freeman. That is absolutely not punting. They did this year but they got two top 20 players in a 5 round draft.

I definitely want McCann to catch Giolito going forward this year

The part of this situation that makes me really mad is the poor day workers just trying to put food on the table getting fucked by this. Is the MLB testing the locker room attendants? Hotel staff? The people staffing the chartered flights? Whatever poor soul that has to try and sanitize the stadium now (who certainly definitely is properly trained and outfitted for THAT task)? Normal people are going to get infected from this, and their options (compared to the millionaires and billionaires in baseball) are much worse. They also don't have MLBPA health insurance if things go wrong, which they could especially considering they are probably much older than MLB players are. There is a real chance that people die, or have life-long complications, or lose everything after getting buried in medical debt because of this. I'm just so livid right now, fuck Manfred, fuck the MLB, and fuck greed.

Sports are the reward for a functioning society.

They didn't just give him away. They got a potential Hall of Fame pitcher who helped them win a title.

I appreciate this explanation, thank you. I disagree but I’ll respect it. We’re in polar world right now, it hit a hot button to suggest Kopech is somehow off limits, regardless of the situation.

You must really want to speculate about Kopech's wife. Trying to equate sports owner cheapness, a common topic on sports boards, to antisemitism in order to make your point seems a tad excessive, considering the original topic isn't even worth talking about to begin with. Kind of distasteful to just throw out antisemitism accusations over this horse shit issue, frankly.

We've gone mad as a country. I saw a montessori school holding class yesterday and all the parents mingling for pickup in the hallway. It's because of selfish people that we can't get over this.

Next up we need a "fake news" or "stick to baseball" post so I can fill in my BINGO card for meatball bingo.

There s plenty of Covid around so there's your supply but I never knew there was a demand for it.

I know it isn't posted yet, but just to get it out of the way.... WTF Ricky? Worst line up ever.

Well if the season is cancelled, at least it answers the question of “will the world end of Gio starts for the Sox”.

Nah, I like it here. Just want to protect free speech as it pertains to white sox baseball and the decisions of players that effect the team.

I actually could careless about what happened to him or why he’s not pitching. I wish him well and hope he battles in the Sox rotation next year and years to come. I’m just tired of shutting down conversations because someone didn’t like it or got their feelings hurt.

You know, considering my relative was good friends with Reinsdorf due to their involvement AEPi, I feel like I can speak with authority on this. No, it's not. Now if people were saying he was being "miserly", "Jewy, etc., or used certain imagery, yeah, that's anti-Semitic. Saying he's cheap due to not wanting to spend big on free agents, draft picks, etc. is not. He has spent on the Sox in recent years (especially on amateur talent), so the mantra is weak and may be rooted in fan ignorance and lack of wanting to do research about spending habits (likely) or rooted in anti-Semitism (unlikely, because I'm gonna guess most fans don't know he's Jewish, because most people aren't that attentive). So, don't use our people as a shield because we're not allowing you to speculate about the personal life about a young man during a difficult point in his life. This where my piece ends on the matter.

It was formulated as a question, never made an accusation. It matters to some because people want to understand Kopech’s decision that impacted the team. No one is saying it was the wrong decision, but shutting down the conversation as to the details potentially leading to the decision is shortsighted.

Well, you just accused probably tens of thousands of Sox fans of antisemitism just to make an entirely unrelated point. I'm all for open dialogue, but that seems like a jack ass move to me, particularly considering the topic at hand. Who gives a shit about anyone's baseless opinion on who someone may or may not have had sex with in the first place?

Ironically, it seems the conversation was too heavy for the mods

Signed up in 2004, but besides the matter. Can we all agree that it is offensive and anti Semitic to call Jerry Reinsdorf cheap then?

Kopech is the father according to her reps (on twitter)

Yep. Only so few reasons you’d divorce your pregnant wife before the child is due.

If you fill out all the paperwork correctly she could land on the Stanford Rowing Team.

How else are 9 and 10 year olds going to get that elusive baseball scholarship to Virginia without playing 3 games a day in 100 degree heat during a pandemic?

When was the last time 140,000 people died from a sinus infection?

Ah yes, the next fallacy. "I am working why can't they!"

This extends to everything, it's hard to mad at an individual for hanging out somewhere they probably shouldn't be when the signals coming from the top are so incoherent.

The alternative to taking this not seriously is no baseball. It took 3 days for this to happen. Hopefully this serves as a lesson for schools. Even with all of the precautions and resources in the world, the most socially distant of sports in the US took 3 days for a scenario like this to happen. But I am sure our resource starved schools will be fine.

Figures the shittiest run organization will bring down the entire league.

Rob Manfred announces that they were prepared for this very contingency. MLB is flying down an alternate team to play in Miami's place. The Washington Generals will play all of Miami's games during the quaratine period.

By your line of thinking I should be able to open a nuclear waste dump in your backyard.

Thanks, Ms. DeVos, so well put! And, of course, it’s equally applicable to K-12 education as well as higher ed.

I got a hankering for a meatball sandwich.

very high among patriots and religious folks apparently.

They specifically have policies about things on field like no high fives that the players were consistently violating all weekend. Those annoy me far more, the PA agreed to that and said they players would police themselves so no penalties were needed.

The lag time between testing and results has always made the testing entirely pointless.

Not like I go anywhere now but anywhere I go here in California you can't get in without a mask . I have no idea if restaurants are even open here because all I do is grocery shop and eat at home.

It's just what I need to get him off the postgame show.

Some days it feels like we never got past the sun revolving around the earth.

Silver lining if the season gets canceled...in 2021 Nelson Cruz will be a year older

So you think 14 of 30 members of one organization contracted the virus in... off the field activity? What? I think it's pretty safe to say they contracted it because they were around each other.

Exactly. But the alternative is weird, having each player in his own Plexiglas(tm) bubble.

We don't know for sure if this will be the breaking point to cancel the season but we all know it should be.

How about that first pick in the draft, I would settle for that, lol.

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