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Probably Eminem Kim or Snoop Can you control your hoe.

Mike Clevinger questioned about walkout song before home debut https://www.foxnews.com/sports/white-sox-mike-clevinger-questioned-about-walkout-song-before-home-debut I honestly have no idea what Clevinger is trying to accomplish there. You would think he would want to put this as much in the past as possible for a possible Fa and so he wouldn't have to deal with the circus. Now? It's back front and center and being covered by the national media. This is a distraction neither himself or the team needs right now

Varsho bat is nowhere near Teoscar. It seems like they traded offense for defense pretty much all offseason. Also while Varsho metrics on defense last year were encouraging it's literally like 50 games or so. He has far from established himself as a gold glove caliber OF though the asset the Jays gave up (top ten prospect) demands that he be one. If the trade becomes an .750ish OF with power who doesn't get on base with above average defense they got taken to the cleaners. Anyways I wish we got in on Mareno to me he is going to be the next star at catcher. I was extremely surprised the Jays gave up that much control since Jansen is about to be a free agent and Kirk can't catch. What looked to be a surplus really isn't. Anyways to me this was one of the more lopsided trades this offseason.

They easy won that Jays trade. A premier catching catching prospect for a non on base OF with pop? If I am a jays fan I ask why you only got Erik Swanson for Teoscar but are giving up Mareno for Vasho. That is a very bad sequence.

Pitchfx has the average speed of his fastball last year at 99. Seems like a good buy low move

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He is going to start with the Mets before the year is over. If we somehow got Parada that would be a huge steal

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This season we just seem cursed so many injuries to key players. Sad because this team could have made a run

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You are right I saw the posts when he was hired why would I all of sudden believe that the very same people want him gone just purely for baseball reasons? And he hasn't been on the top of his game when it comes to lineups but the end of the day the season has been defined by hitters not hitting and injuries. I'd like him to stop doing the mad scientist thing with Lineups and just put in Engel in the outfield keep Abreu and Vaughn at 1B and DH. Alot of the lineup stuff is sort of trying to figure how to get sheets bat into the lineup which I don't understand because he is a terrible OF doesn't have the track record of success at the ML level and hasn't hit all year. If you aren't going to get hitting from the RF spot at least get some defense. Put Engel there I know at times we have been without Roberts and Jiminez but in that case bring up someone or sign someone. Sheets has a .660 OPS and a -0.7 WAR you can't find a replacement level guy in the minors or the waiver wire? The rest of the guys who aren't hitting you just have to have them continue to play and hope they snap out of it.

I haven't agreed with the lineups all year but much of what has happened isn't Tony fault. Plenty of people who hated him for his politics will pretend they are thrilled for baseball reasons of his firing. The reality is this team has way under achieved particular as it relates as to hitting and that is on the players but it's also on Tony for continuing to throw guys like Sheets out there when at least Engel would be giving you defense.

I don't really have issues with this offense or lineup. They aren't hitting I get that but look at their career averages these players are better than their numbers right now. Tim Anderson, Yoán Moncada, José Abreu, AJ Pollock, Luis Robert, Yasmani Grandal, Andrew Vaughn, Eloy Jiménez. Part of it is injuries too but Moncada is not going to finish with a .432 OPS. Grandal with a .505 OPS. Eloy with a .590 ops. These guys are good hitters have some faith in them.

I haven't been a huge fan of the lineups to be honest. I feel TLR is always adding one bad hitter to every lineup and I don't really get why. Play the best hitters and let them figure it out and either sink or swim. Perfect example is why is Sheets getting all these at bats? Look I get we have injuries but Abreu and Vaughn should be playing every game at DH/1B. If you need outfielders call someone up or make a trade don't throw Vaughn into the outfield to get Sheets into the lineup he isn't hitting so why take the defensive hit?

We need to move DK to the bullpen so his option doesn't vest

He could have meant something different then what Anderson took it. Regardless only a dumbass says something borderline to someone they aren't tight with that could be taken the wrong way or someone who is trying be slick. Either way Donaldson just needs to stfu and go away

Donaldson is a well known POS. Don't know if the comment is racist was or not it was borderline only Donaldson knows what his intent was. It clearly was an insult regardless and using Jackie name as an insult was disrespectful to not only Anderson and Jackie. Anyways glad Anderson and the Whitesox are just moving on from this. Donaldson is for the MLB and Yankees to figure out.

So what does that look like to you vis via Donaldson? What is the league supposed to do or the Yankees? Is he supposed to be banned from playing baseball? Or would you have liked to see his suspension longer? I think the biggest sort of punishment is how he is viewed by fans and his peers. Donaldson was sort of known by people who follow baseball closely as an ahole maybe not racist but at the very least not a good person. So the casual fans opinion on Donaldson will be colored by this and there will be a footnote to his legacy. That is probably bigger than any game ban whether that be 1 or 10 games.

Do you even read the posts you write about? I said he should have gotten ten games but at the end of the day the club needs to move on and focus on the rest of the season. I don't think anyone buys Donaldson excuse but really what else is there to say on the subject? Whether the MLB suspends Donaldson for 10 games or 1 game at the end of the day unless you want him canceled he is going to be playing baseball again at some point. So why continue to beat a dead horse? I hope the club doesn't allow themselves to become distracted by this and continues to their stretch of good baseball. Anderson in particular who is on a tear

It was a stupid insensitive borderline racist thing to say but it's not worth canceling Donaldson career over. Donaldson will serve his suspension which should have been longer (I would have preferred something closer to 10 games), noone should defend him or his comments, but at the end of the day life goes on as does the MLB season. Time for everyone to move on.

Donaldson clearly doesn't know Anderson like that. I don't for sure know if he had negative intent but it's not something you say unless you know the person well enough that he wouldn't take it that way. That is why I don't really buy Donaldson defense him and anderson have history. There is no "inside joke"

I don't know what is funny about this Paddock would easily be a good 4th/5th starter. I'd have done the trade in a second and still would. Y'all fall in love with relievers way too quickly I remember when half the board refused to trade Jace Frye. I am not looking to trade Bummer but if there is an opportunity to sell high you take it

Not very to be honest. This team isn't hitting right now but the guys who aren't hitting are just slumping and way off their career numbers. I'm not concerned about the regular season I am more concerned about the playoffs and pitching

I have no idea why we didn't do the deal. It seems like what the Padres got and what we could have offered up natched perfectly I think the Twins massively underpaid. I would have been more than happy to do the same deal with Sheets and Bummer