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Jerry has seen enough. He has had enough. Jerry will make TLR step down after today's performance. Jerry's loyalty has boundaries.

I've never fallen out of love with the White Sox like I have this season. Even during the rebuild. This is just pure misery inflicted onto the fanbase.

Muncy was probably more pissed about the intentional walk than anyone else. That's a special form of disrespect. The batting average in an AB that goes to 1-2 is .166. Intentionally walking that guy to face the next hitter is basically saying, "I think the guy on deck has less than a 17% chance of getting a hit".

I don't want to call out any posters specifically, but I am so tired of reading that Leury Garcia is a "good" utility player. He's not. He's one of the worst players in MLB (this year he has been the 2nd worst player in baseball). Leury Garcia has never been good. He's never been a player you have to lock up - he's always been replaceable (look at how Mendick is playing in limited time this year). The White Sox currently have two players in the minor leagues that would absolutely outproduced Leury Garcia for a minimum wage (Lenyn Sosa and Yolbert). After last night, Leury Garcia now has a 24 wRC+. The worst in baseball for anyone with over 100 PA's. Since Leury Garcia entered the league, of players with at least 2000 PA's in that span, Leury Garcia has been the 17th worst player in MLB via fWAR. By that same demographic, he's been the 9th worst hitter with a 76 wRC+. By every measure, Leury Garcia is one of the worst players who has been given any sort of consistent playing time in the past decade. While Leury Garcia leading off is inexplicable - Leury Garcia had the lowest wRC+ for a leadoff hitter this late in a season (with greater than 100 AB's) in at least the past 50 years - the onus can't lie solely on the shoulders of Tony La Russa. That said, the decisions of La Russa have just been inexplicable. La Russa's decision making has gotten so bad that other teams announcers are calling them out publicly: Rick Hahn was supposedly serious about winning, but he gave one of the worst players in baseball a three year contract which limited funds to allocate (apparently). Not only did he give him a three year contract, but he was one of the Sox first moves. Rick Hahn viewed Leury Garcia as a must lock up. Beyond that, this has happened multiple off-seasons now; Rick Hahn feels the need to "beat the market" for players who would likely have no market. No one in baseball was going to give Leury Garcia three years at 16+ million dollars, because as I laid out above, Leury Garcia is awful at baseball. This team made fans sit through a rebuild for years under the guise of spending and supporting the group once they came into their contention window. I guess Rick Hahn meant supporting them with dollars spent on replaceable utility players who are on the wrong side of 30. Eduardo Escobar, who cost the same yearly as Josh Harrison/Leury Garcia has been worth 1.1 fWAR. That's 2.2 more fWAR than Garcia/Harrison combined despite having similar total PA's. If Rick Hahn was serious about winning, he would release Leury Garcia and Josh Harrison today. He would call up Yolbert and Sosa. There was no excuse for Hahn to spend 10+ million dollars on two players who were easily two of the worst players in MLB. I'm tired of watching Leury Garcia and Josh Harrison. How Rick Hahn executed this off-season is baffling. And LEURY GARCIA IS NOT A GOOD UTILITY PLAYER. Please stop saying that.

The question I would have for Tony is if it’s such an obvious move why did he have to wait for 1st base to be open? He was really gambling with 3 pitches to Turner. His press conference should embarrass the franchise. It’s like Terry Bevington is back

He’s now known to me as Tony Two Strikes

Hiring La Russa to manage a young, exciting ball club that had a chance to take over the city will forever go down as one of the worst decisions in baseball history. That and refusing to seriously pursue Bryce Harper when there was little competition for him.

Putting them in the same situation as if he just put him on to begin with, but a 1-2 count ? There he is trying to do what no other would do to try to look smart. He should be fired. JR will probably never have any idea how much money bringing him back cost him and his heirs. But I bet it will wind up being more than any contract he has doled out. This team was primed to be the toast of baseball for years. Now they only make headlines when their past the expiration date manager says or does something stupid.

Fuck this guy. Can’t even cheer for this team with this clown as manager

time to send LaRussa packing..

Stone was just saying how the Phillies winning streak started right after they fired their manager . what a novel idea.

Honestly, fuck this self-sabotaging ownership.

I knew LaRussa was going to be a horrendous hire but the extent of how much he sucks is astonishing even to me

It feels so weird that an opposing player just cussed out the manager of my favorite team, and I'm 100% on the side of the player

lol

For anyone that says the manager doesn't matter: Please look at the turnaround the Padres made from Tingler to Melvin and the Mets from Rojas to Showalter. TLR is a dumpster fire on the bench.

No TLR is the classic Narcissist. Always smarter than everyone else, never take responsibility for being wrong, when they are exposed for being wrong they get very mad and defensive and gaslight like crazy.

I've disliked guys like Matt Nagy and Jeremy Colliton but I'm not sure I've ever hated a Chicago coach/manager like this asshole

If this moron is so convinced that walking Turner to pitch to Muncy was so smart, why did he wait for Sousa to throw 3 pitches? Hey Rick. Hey Jerry. Hey Kenny. Hey Tony. If any of you 4 nitwits are reading this: f*** you. You all suck ass at your jobs

Stoney starting to crack

It is very very clear that this team has quit on TLR

And then does his patented lets bad hitter hit in huge spot just to bring in much better hitter next half inning for defense. Just an absolutely horrendously managed game today. Comical, really. If this organization gave one sliver of shit, this would be Tony's last game.

He lets Harrison hit, but Moncada still comes into the game on defense. Please explain this to me.

I was afraid and mad. Turns out I wasn't nearly enough of either.

LaRussa is an embarrassment to The White Sox, the fans, and himself . i'm really starting to believe that he has little idea of how bad he is doing.

Okay that intentional walk to the previous hitter on a 1-2 count which resulted in a 3-run bomb is a fireable offense for Tony.

Moncada put up a 4 WAR last year without hitting much. Eloy won a Silver Slugger last time he was healthy. I know it's easy to kick a horse while they are down, but to say these guys can't contribute to a championship team is a hot take.

I'll take Vaughn in the OF over Eloy all day.

No, Leury Garcia is a bad baseball player that can be replaced by countless minor league players and isn't decent at anything.

Tony La Russa loves Leury Garcia; don't kid yourself. There's not some ulterior motive. This board constantly speculates that La Russa and Hahn are somehow intentionally harming the other. It's just nonsense. Everyone in this organization is on the same page, stroking the same billionaires ego to maintain job security. I used to give Hahn excuses like everyone else, but his track record at this point is deafening. Hahn is the worst big league scout as a GM in the entire league. It's not close.

Trea Turner has 2 hits in 7 ABs in a 1-2 count this year against left handed pitchers. I don't know how you draw any real conclusions about that from a sample size of 7 ABs. In his career, he's a .229 hitter against lefties in a 1-2 count. Muncy, while bad this year, is historically a stronger hitter vs. lefties .251/.365/.492.

I want to see a video of the entire post game press conference. Link anywhere?

This has gotten WAY out of hand

That has to be one of the strangest intentional walks I have ever seen.

Do you think Jerry is watching the game? I would guess that he’s still counting the take from the parking lots.

DJ just said he "can't believe" Engel and Harrison didn't get a runner home Really asshole? You can't believe it?

Re-posting the tweet here: Muncy is 100% right.

And @tray will say "I mean what did you want him to do there? He took a chance and it failed. You armchair QB's make me laugh. Good thing there are 100 more games left, these guys will be fine." Just preparing everyone.

TLR will get all angry and slur together a word salad about how his gut told him to do it cause he's got 40 years of managerial experience.

TLR didn't do his homework.

You rang?

Patiently awaiting the first "injured players returning are trade acquisitions" line from Hahn this season.

Ron, I had it wrong, it was Cease, not Kopech. This was going into the winter of 2019, preparing for the 2020 season. See the chain above...

I may not be able to manage the personalities in a MLB clubhouse as well as TLR, but I absolutely would make better strategic decisions within the game. It's not even a question. So strategically, I'm absolutely without a doubt smarter than Tony La Russa.

Leury Garcia leading off an MLB game you are trying to win is a joke. One of Tony's faults is he has this chip on his shoulder where he has to show people how much smarter he is than they are. That's why you get guys playing crazy positions, batting in spots in the order no sensible person would place them, and falling in love with the worst players on his teams. Many of his teams were so stacked, they were able to overcome this personality trait. This one doesn't appear to be one of them.

Rick Hahn is the GM of this baseball team. HE signed Harrison and Leury - NO ONE ELSE DID IT. Why do we as Sox fans continue to make excuses for Rick Hahn's absurd MLB scouting and decision making in free agency?

Remember to lift with your legs and not your back.