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Theres no excuse batting leury leadoff, disgusting also to an admin, the ads block the post function on the mobile site. Just an FYI. Had to go to my computer to voice my displeasure in this garcia decision.

No need to think outside the box.. That's just another way of saying I'm a clueless fan. Cease has to pitch. Everyone has a few extra days of rest . It's a long season after a short season. Cease is going to be in the rotation and he needs his time to make the adjustments that Katz gave him in actual games. That takes repetition until it becomes second nature, not skipping starts.

It is now a 162 game season again. Why in the hell are we continuing to put a base runner on 2nd in extras whose only recent accomplishment is making the last out in the previous inning. Crochet getting an L today....that is some bullshit.

Being right on.a small message board is more important god damn it! TLR dabbing on the haters

Mind bogglingly stupid no matter the outcome

Holy fuck TLR sucks lmao

If there was a betting site that gave me +1000 for Over 0.5 homers this year i'd take the under

Leury leading off is the biggest indictment on the offseason yet. Good lord.

There are like 10 teams around baseball saying the same thing. Sox aint anything special.

This team is just not good. I wanna believe missing Eloy and Tim is really significant, and it is! But they are playing bad on almost all cylinders. Aside from Lynn, Kopech and Yermin, there is not much to be happy or positive about. Some good at bats from a couple other guys but not enough to make a big enough difference. The idea of this potentially being a WS caliber team is flat out farcical.

Runner on 2B is just bs

Hendricks screaming, angry guy routine isn't nearly as fun when he's giving up gopher balls. He just looks like a douche

Mendick is a professional hitter. He is just better than Madrigal.

Tony La Russa once again giving Soxtalk posters the finger.

Tony rules!!!

wait, TLR pinch hit adam eaton for Andrew Vaughn? What the actual fuck.

Don’t take your best hitter out in a one run game

Maybe the idiots in charge need to get serious about upgrading the roster with Eloy being out. You can’t look at these lineups they’re putting out and think you can contend.

Would be great time for Madrigal’s first HR

Facially, Vaughn and Collins look like they came from the same ding dong

Nothing like our worst hitter to start the year batting lead off.

Congrats! You just won the Hottest take of the thread award

Madrigal .390 obp

Game thread gonna game thread

He made an out. He's been great behind the plate though. This isn't the game to rip him

Still a free agent- Not to late for a minor league deal.

Zack has had some pretty poor at bats today. Glad Grandal needed a seat.

That was the most obvious incoming rbi ever

Perfect opportunity for Leury to add to his LOB totals for the game.

This AB feels so irrelevant knowing Leury is the 3rd out no matter what

Madrigal has never hit?

The cleanup hitter sucks right now to . Par for the course really.

Tony La Russa sucks

But on the good news front Jerry gets to take a swim in his pool of gold.

If he’s going to swing like a b****, then send him down. He didn’t even try to hit the ball hard.

Good lord that was the weakest liner of all time

This would be a great 'bit' to carry on and post before his every at-bat for the rest of the season.

Worst at bat of the season

How are we okay sitting Grandal but not applying the wet grounds rationalization for Vaughn in LF? Simply because of LHP vs. RHB?

If you don’t think Yermin can still be a superstar into his 40s, you obviously haven’t been watching him. Why let him walk and play the final 10 years of his career for another team? Don’t you want him wearing a White Sox hat when he’s inducted into Cooperstown?

So bizzare! Cleveland is throwing 3 RHP's. Collins could catch one (or two if needed for Grandal rest). They're both equally important divisional foes.

That is not the reason he is sitting today.

Grandal is coming off a knee injury and this game is being played on a wet field. Sometime decisions are not based strictly on stats.

hall of fame baseball person™ for whom the game has passed by...

Soxtalk and Twitter b*%&ing about the lineup so sounds like a good day to bet the over on Sox runs.

Garcia has earned that lead off spot though.... lol

Should have skipped Cease and started Rodon today. Just sticking with the rotation and not thinking outside the box is very Ricky-ish.

Cease's games are the most interesting to me here in the early going, he has the most boom or bust out of anyone in our rotation. Definitely excited for this one! On the flip side, Keuchel is my least favorite starter because he has nowhere to go but down.

Unless someone else can show us otherwise, Yermin Mercedes is controllable for 6 years, according to this link. As I understand stand it, he would be under pre-arbitration control for 3 years (perhaps 2 years, if he becomes a "super 2"). Thereafter, he would be salary arbitration eligible for the next 3 years. Then, after 6 years' service on a MLB roster, Yermin Mercedes, at 34 years old, would be eligible to be a free agent. Therefore, as I understand it, this thread, and the thought of "extending Yermin" is a complete and total non-starter. (Even setting aside that the league has yet to get a good scouting report on him and adjust their approach to him, therefore making it premature to assume that this is what Mercedes will be going forward.) If anyone can show us differently about Mercedes' path to free agency to a significant degree from what I understand, I'd welcome their input. Thanks in advance.

Who says we don't resign Lynn? 2y/40m Get.It.Done.Hahn