WestEddy

Richards. f*** with their heads.

A's claim Joe Rock, Kid's son.

Jason Isringhausen was the closer. 2006 St. Louis Cardinals Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

I always look down and spit on the ground Every time Jeff Suppan's name gets mentioned

I also like that Will saved Richards to close tomorrow, it was just a deflating knock-out punch for the Guardians when they looked up, and saw that Venable thought so little of them, he'd let his junk-man close.

Phillies up 8-1 in the 7th.

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

I think Venable has implied a few times that he doesn't have as much to do with the lineups as one may think. I think they mostly come down from stats.

1) Venable most probably doesn't make the lineups. 2) If a bench player can't do 6 innings and 2-3 PAs against an opposite handed pitcher and not look lost, they don't belong on a major league team.

And everybody who declared that the White Sox would lose 100 four years in a row can start explaining how they were so colossally wrong. It's an all-you-can-eat crow buffet. I expect at least 2 full plates each.

But it gets into this black and white internet think, where I said a sentence, so I can never be wrong. "No, it makes absolutely no sense!!" "I just gave you a pretty good reason and explained why that's a valid reason." "Nope, zero sense."

That, plus the fact that multiple articles have mentioned that the Sox don't consider him a catching option on the big league club because pitchers don't like throwing to him.

I'm not aiming this at anybody in particular, but "that makes absolutely no sense", is really getting overused on social media, and elsewhere. Keeping Romo and optioning Quero makes "some" sense. The sense lies in Romo not tipping off the other team as to what pitch is going to be thrown. The sense also lies in pitchers being more comfortable throwing to him. I would think those two factors would contribute some "sense" to the discussion would exist on some people's bingo card. Oops, 2024 called and wants its saying back. LOL.

The goal is to supplement this team to make the playoffs. As much as I like this team, it just doesn't look like a championship team just yet. Peters, Braden, Colson, Mune all go on long cold spells. Catching is a hole. Starting pitching works fine for a .500 team waiting on some butch arms from the minors. The bullpen alternates between solid and rickety. So, seriously, a "go for it" trade deadline would have picked up 2-3 stud starters (Castillo, Detmers, Gausman), an arm or two for the bullpen, a catcher, 2 stud OFs, with Braden being the return for somebody. Bonemer and Carlson would probably be the price for somebody. The upgrades aren't 'league ace' level that Skubal represents. You've cleaned out the farm system to get a team that might win a playoff series, then start rebuilding all over again next season. That, to me, doesn't make a shred of common sense. That would be completely irresponsible, and I'd expect that to be the kind of deadline that Getz follows up by leaving the organization to take a better job elsewhere, because he would be mired in 80-win-ville for the next 2-3 seasons.

And some of the more ambitious trade rumors had Braden Montgomery in the return. That's a non-starter.

Romo's better defensively and doesn't tip off pitches with his setup?

Back to Back World Series victories will make that trade look sensational.

Well, now they don't have to dump Benintendi for nothing next season. I agree with you it was a shrewd move to position themselves well for the playoffs while selling high on Boston Smith.

nice way to jinx that immaculate, Stoney.