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You're watching 1 or 2 NFL a week. MLB might be 4 to 6 a week and if you're a season ticket holder going to 2.3 a week. I think too much emphasis is being placed on total time. It's the improved pace of play which enhances watching the game

I’m very grateful they signed Andrus. Romy is not having a good ST

What the heck

Love it - Waiting for it - someone please bump this on the 28th so I don't forget.

I honestly don't have time that's why you all had to read that scribe which I could do in 5 minutes rather than hours of him yelling at me and then probably finding my phone and yelling at me.

I'm gonna do the thing where I create a man from straw by condensing thousands of individual peoples opinions into one I like to shoot down, so I know I'm just annoyed on line but The orlando brown stuff is annoying me. Greg Gabriel in typical condescending fashion talks about how stupid fans are for wanting Orlando Brown because he's not a scheme fit. So team scheme fit has circled two names - mcglinchey and mcgary, with McGary the new OT du jour. I'm not opposed per se. But the thing with McGary is the falcons had more run sets than the Bears did last year. They protected their OTs in pass sets as much as the bears did. So what you see with McGary is an OT that is an exceptional run tackle but an ok pass pro guy, improved but not great. He's like Braxton jones at RT. Except we hope Jones gets better while McGary is now 28. Was what we didn't like about Larry Borom that he wasn't good enough at run blocking? PFF grades pass blocking at equal to McGary. Now McGlinchey has the same problem, it's just that he was not in an offense that was protecting their tackles as much. So we know he can provide adequate pass blocking when they aren't doing so much to protect him. But those are bears scheme fits. And apparently this group sees the chicago bears as prioritizing the run heavy stuff they did last year and not trying to normalize that a bit with being able to pass on non-obvious downs. But I feel like the same group also wants the bears to improve passing. If you only want the bears to do what they did last year with an even better run blocking RT...Kaleb McGary is for you. No Jawaan Taylor is the inverse. He is young and I haven't not heard he's a scheme fit. He was great at Pass Pro but bad at running. The Jags passed a lot, and he was good at it. I'd much rather try that out. But then you have Brown, who also was in an offense that passed a lot, and opponents tried to stop the pass, and they could not get around his massive arms. Apparently we don't need that because we need to run. The smart people know we just need to focus exclusively on optimizing the bears run, put all pass improvements on Justin. I hate it.

I mean, he had yet to appear in AAA at the time they would have promoted him and it was his first minor league season. Plenty of reasons to not bring him to the big leagues. But I tend to agree - once they made that decision, it’s pretty dumb to put him on the OD roster in 23 from a roster management perspective. Looks like Oscar may not give them much of a choice tho if he keeps this up.

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Sox win 14-13.

Still a close game.

It wasn’t pretty but Cease got to work on something. Regular season against the Royals and he probably no hits them

Just saw the box score. DFA Cease

spring training stats for a vet pitcher are worthless. I don't care if he didn't record an out as long as he got his work in and came out feeling healthy. most times a guy like cease is just working on anything but getting a guy out. which obviously is a 180 from a real game.

Rambling tangential nonsense? Seems on brand.

Bring back Arnie Munoz Jon Adkins Jim Parque and Felix Diaz. Ten year rebuild with Pirates/Reds/A's payrolls. Profits galore even at 8-12000 per game.

Last time I saw a ST outing that bad, Jose Quintana signed an extension a few days later.

Dylan has given up more runs today than all his previous spring trainings combined....I hesitate to move him while his value is this low

Debacle. The coach the Royals rejected for managing their own team.

Paid sub. Watching on the app on my TV.

I just signed up for a week free trial. Will cancel it after the game and wait till the T-Mobile promotion 2 weeks later

From the couple ABs I saw he was wild low it seemed every ball was headed for the dirt. The slam was an inside low pitch that was mashed

So was he as bad as it looks on mlb.com?

Somewhere, Parkman is smiling

Now it's an offical gamethread! ?

Bless MLBTV.

Yes. From the definition on the old Google machine. con·spir·a·cy /kənˈspirəsē/ noun a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. Something harmful doesn't have to be unlawful.

People could conspire to do something without said thing being criminal. It's my "conspiracy theory" because it's based on absolutely nothing other than my tin foil hat that they conspired to keep him down because they knew the clubhouse was in shambles and would've been a poor influence on him. Also, sending a player to four different levels in one season is a lot so I don't/didn't actually mind that he wasn't called up last year.

There are so many reasons why the football stuff is such a bad comparison I don't even know which one to pick.

Maybe it just needs some getting used to. I probably won't mind so much once the regular season starts and I have multiple games to consume at any time.

Only one thing for Robert to do this year- stay on the field. Need 650 PAs and world class defense.

No s%*#. Buxton has cleared 92 games 1 time in 8 seasons (7 non-covid seasons). Robert has played 56 games (60 game season), 68, and 98 games. His injury history isn't even close to Buxton's at this point. So Jack's statement was silly (shocking!).

The Panama game this morning was just over 4 hours as well, making me appreciate the pitch clock more and more.

It’s funny how the point was to take the blame off Tony, but it did the opposite. How exactly does an ENTIRE TEAM collectively play with less effort, less focus and a shitty attitude? If it’s just a few guys struggling like that, okay, that seems like it would be something more specific to those guys. But the whole team? Surely it’s just a coincidence!

I think he breaks camp with the Sox. I don't really see the benefit of sending him back to Charlotte given the skill set he'd provide the Sox. I think the service time bit is overblown because I'm not sure they would/should care that much about "team control" in his age 30 or 31 season.

Weren’t the Brewers looking for a 1B? Am I imagining that? Maybe they’d like to take Sheets for some minor league project/prospect.

I'm guessing right now it has to be Colas which is not a bad thing. If he can stabilize the gaping hole in right field that would be a huge addition. The guy has got to be better than Adam Eaton and Nomar Mazara right?

A little dicey after a 1 out HR and 2 out single, but the banker manages to put this one in the vault. 5-2 good guys.

If we get the same baseball as last year, Eloy and Robert are the only Sox hitters capable of 20+ HR. Maybe Grandal if he stays healthy. Twins have a way more powerful lineup. Even with all of the crap, the Sox still hit for average last year. It didn't matter much.

I'm not sure how anyone can look at the two rosters side by side and think the Sox are better without overrating the crap out of the Sox hitters. The Twins lineup is superior and the they also have way more depth on the pitching side, even if the Sox have higher end pitchers at the top of the rotation. The Sox are, at best, a 3rd place team in the ALC and depending on what KC does they could even be 4th. The only team the Sox are definitively better than is Detroit. There's a reason why even with bounceback seasons from Sox players, Zips has the Sox at 74 wins.

Looks like you are one of those fans who can't fathom reality. That's not my doing nor my concern. In sports the numbers don't lie, like TLR told me, at the end of the day it's all about if you win or lose. That being said the White Sox are part of my collective memory for as far back as I can recall. I became a fan around 1960 when I was five. This will be my 63rd season. I won't turn my back on them but I will keep calling out their stupidity and dysfunction (which the record clearly shows) and hope to outlive current ownership and see a better situation. If that bothers you, again, that is not my concern.

I'm not being negative just for the sake of being negative. Being critical doesn't automatically equate to negativity. I don't have a lot of faith left to put in the FO, and rationally I just don't see all of the IFs bouncing the Sox way. There are simply too many questions unanswered for me to be confident that they will be significantly better aside from excising the massive cancer that was TLR. If that is negative simply for negativity's sake, then I can't help you. I may not share your optimism, but I'd like to think there is some level of objectivity in my views. Again, I hope I am wrong, and everything breaks right, and instead of rehashing everything that went wrong we are celebrating come October. I just can't squint that hard at this point.

Hey, I hope I'm wrong. If they win 90+ and take the division I will happily admit how wrong I was. It just feels to me that way more has to go right. Again. There are a lot of IFs being counted on, and they haven't exactly had the most inspiring offseason.

Not lose their best offensive player, their 2nd(?) best starting pitcher, and probably their closer for a good chuck if not all of the season? I haven't followed them too closely, but I think they will feast on the Sox, KC, and Detroit enough to have a better record.

White Sox 90-72 Twins 86-76 Guardians 84-78 Tigers 70-92 KC 68-94 Will be an entertaining race in the ALC and very fun season of baseball.

he also did a prerecorded version of that at the park. usually followed by gene honda saying" listen to the postgame on espn radio 1000"

Didn't notice any difference from previous polls myself. Basically I told them to stop verbally bashing the fan base and to put winning over fiscal responsibility in an industry that makes 10 billion a year.

Should just go with Big Cat's plan https://twitter.com/PardonMyTake/status/1632737176352899073

Sure. At 4 there would still be thy impact player. I don't think they'll get very many picks for it there. If they want to get the haul many people want they would need to trade with a team much further down.

Sarcasm? You're paying for 9 innings of baseball, what does it matter how long it takes.