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Freedom of Speech applies to the government, not the private sector. I wish more people understood this.

No “we DONT ALL have freedom of speech in the USA”. Isn’t that right Facebook and Twitter ?

LOLZ

I hope the Blastros don’t win another game this year.

If theres a strike that takes out a chunk of the season i think illbe done with baseball

Mack better start selling more furniture cause I think that $20 million he put on the Stros ain't gonna work out.

Nah, he has actual, projectable NBA physical attributes.

Perhaps he's satisfied with almost getting through four innings, giving up 6 runs in October. Limping through the second half with a sore knee that can't hold up under his enormous weight. Getting ejected from games due to anger with his knee. Hopefully for Sox fans footing $38M, he comes to camp fit and able to pitch into October the next two seasons. Improve on his 12 + White Sox Playoff ERA. It's possible with the right approach and dedication to returning to health which will allow him to pitch effectively in October.

I'll settle for them even attempting to stop runners.

My excuse? I'm not a Braves fan, so I've never done the chop. Nor have I ever done it for any other team that might possibly use it. I also watched the previous WS games I saw people of all likes of color and walks of life doing it. Never said it made it right, or should be done. Merely pointing out that to just assume it is a certain type of people only is foolish and wrong. Nice try though always thinking everyone who isn't you is some sort of monster bigot racist trash. It honestly has to be exhausting for you to always go and find shit to b**** about.

Yeah this definitely feels like a worse team.

Trade Lance Lynn keep scrolling folks, nothing worth reading here

You don't get to say whatever you want wherever you want because of freedom of speech. That applies here too

If the Sox were stupid enough to trade Vaughn, you know Larussa would compound the mistake and Albert Pujols would be batting clean up for the White Sox

Lynn is his grandal of the pitchers. Been talking about how fat and worthless Lynn is for months now.

With most of these dumb names and traditions now in the dustbin of history, the few that remain will only become nastier—symbols of pathetic “defiance” and vessels for a particular kind of aggrieved white-guy rage. Can’t wait for it to be retired, which it will be eventually.

Because Rogan probably said it on his podcast

Snitker did what Cash got destroyed for in last year's WS. He pulled his pitcher after 5 when they were rolling. But it worked out for him so he gets the praise for "trusting his gut" while Cash got killed for it in the press and all the old school guys said sabermetrics was killing baseball. It's a results oriented business, I guess.

It's so weird, cause I was told earlier in this thread that only white people did the chop.

Holy shit. Spot on.

You lost me at trading Lance Lynn. Like it literally would never happen after signing that extension and it doesn’t make a lick of sense IMO. You simply don’t trade a guy like Lance when you’re trying to win a World Series.

Seven deep of credible starting options is the standard if you want to be able to survive the season and have a solid rotation available. It's why I proposed getting younger studs like Pablo Lopez, Tony Gonsolin, perhaps using the savings of trading off the high priced veterans and sign another top starter like Robbie Ray. Coupled with Giolito, Cease, and Kopech, you have a tremendous young pitching core which will extend the window, and the depth to absorb one or two major injuries the Sox were fortunate to avoid this season. Eloy was the one core player I proposed trading, because he doesn't have the desire, nor likely the ability, to contribute consistently at the DH role, and you can get solid value for him now. Coupled with Mercedes, I believe Kim Ng would love to acquire those two players, as she has tons of pitching but little in terms of hitters. Lynn also holds a lot of trade value know, he will likely regress between health and age. The Dodgers are likely one of the few, if any. other teams willing to take on $16M for Kimbrel (and if not, eat the $2M and move on). With Lux and Gallo two solid LH bats, you improve the lineup against RHP, and the pitchers will also benefit with having catchers able to block sliders in the dirt, catching plays at the plate. A new manager would implement modern defensive alignments, and will lay off the CS failed Hit and Runs, the wasted runs playing the infield in early in games, the poor defensive injury prone LFer and finally field a credible RF. It would be difficult to pull off all of the moves, but at the same time it illustrates how keeping, not trading young cost controlled players is the key to creating and lengthening a long term competitive window. The Sox have moved in the opposite direction via their trades and signings the past two seasons, and have severely restricted flexibility while reducing their window. Hitters $79.4M + Pitchers $67.0M = $146.4M SS Anderson (Age July 1, 2022 29; 2022 actual/projected salary $9.5M) 3B Moncada (27 $13.8) # 1B Abreu (35, $19.7) RF Gallo (28 $9.5)^ CF Robert (24 $6.0) DH Sheets (26 $0.6) ^C Contreras (30 $9.0) LF Vaughn (24 $0.6) 2B Lux (24 $0.6)^ Bench: Gomes (34 $3.5), Engel (30 $2.0), Garcia (31 $4.0), Gonzalez (25 $0.6). SP: Giolito (27, $8.3), Ray (30, $30.0), Pablo Lopez (26, $2.5), Kopech (26, $0.6), Cease (26, $0.6), Gonsolin (27, $0.6). RP: Hendriks (33, $13.3), Bummer (28, $2.5), Crochet (23, $0.6M), Reynaldo Lopez (28, $2.0), Ruiz (27, $0.6), Free Agent TBD (30, $3.0), Free Agent TBD (30, $3.0) Trades: Eloy and Mercedes to Miami for Pablo Lopez. Lynn, Keuchel and Kimbrel to Los Angeles N.L. for Gavin Lux and Tony Gonsolin. Grandal to New York A.L. for Gallo. Burger, Collins, prospects to Chicago N.L. for Willson Contreras.

Woke politics aside, hoping the Braves scalp the asthoes good tonight but I'm very scared of Houston they can be very dangerous

If I’m Hahn, I’m definitely calling up Farhan and selling him on how Dallas and his gold glove caliber defense could really help them out next year. ?

I retract my earlier statement upon further review and admit my biases were similar to old school dudes who get wowed by flash plays.

The Chop is so powerful, it has singlehandedly destroyed interest in baseball. I learn a lot on this board.

So glad this trash has only won one World Series, when they faced an equally karma challenged opponent. They could have done the right thing, changed their team name to the Hammers, replaced the Native American music with MC Hammer, given out hammers for fans to use. Thirty years later, MLB is still facing the same questions, and have doubled down in the ignorance. MLB had over 30 million viewers for the 1990 World Series against two small market teams (Cincinnati and Oakland). 30 years later, they have a commissioner supporting the racist Chop, handing out "The Piece of Metal", and have lost 2/3 of the audience, with 10 million watching the first two games in 2021 with the seventh and eight largest television markets playing. Cincinnati is 36th, Oakland is 6th only because it is lumped in with San Francisco and Santa Clara, and despite a 1/3 increase in population over the past 30 years.

Why does Guardians sound “woke”? Asking for a friend.

Bravo working TLR and a video clip into this again somehow.

lmao. Have you watched Ozzie at all since he got canned? Humbled, no. Smarter? Maybe. Yes, the PC nerds known as checks notes Miami Cubans that fled the Castro regime and notoriously hate PC politics. Find a new slant.