WestEddy

Well, they have a pitching lab, and two great pitching minds in Banny and Katz. Good thing baseball isn't Running Man, and pitchers have to become hall-of-famers in 7 games, or else they're out the door.

The 2nd time he faced them, but the 1st while injured. The more you guys tell these campfire ghost stories, the more confident I am that Thorpe will be fine.

Yeah, Buehrle scary.

So wait. Now the Mariners and Tigers are bad? Maybe their stats are bad because they went up against a master at creating weak contact, and he ruined them. You're welcome for the wisdom.

Drew Thorpe induces weak contact, thus, low BABIP. He's a rare oyster, that's for sure. It's fun watching people convincing themselves that bumblebees can't fly.

Denver can hold onto their sports teams. San Diego already lost their football team. A FOOTBALL TEAM!! What's going to happen when the Padres are including deVries in a package so somebody will take on Bogaerts' contract? Oakland Padres? I'd be very worried. And depressed.

Rockies ownership isn't all suing each other, and accusing each other of sabatoge. Yes, the Padres ownership, right now, is probably the most dysfunctional. I laugh too, because to be a Padre fan now means to live in constant humiliation. Just waiting for the inevitable Cease trade, like waiting to die. LOL. I'd be very concerned. And depressed.

I guess when your team has never won a World Series, and probably won't in our lifetimes, now, wondering which hat Machado will have on his plaque is the only rooting interest left. It really depends on who will trade for that contract this summer. Are Cease, King and Darvish even going to be around on August 1? Maybe the Dodgers can grab them up for dimes on the dollar. I heard that as Jackson Merrill grows and fills out, he'll probably be moved to a corner. Or 1B. Maybe they can extend Cronenworth to prove they want to win. The Padres are like a more dysfunctional Rockies, right now. I hope the widow doesn't start filing injunctions to stop games from being played. I'd be really concerned. And depressed.

Weird. I'm a Sox fan, and I'm not depressed about that. I guess, being an adult, I know what to expect during a rebuild. It would be catastrophic if San Diego did that last year. I guess they can root for Xander Bogaerts' big paychecks. And now the group of owners is going to fight over who gets the right to slap Padre fans in the face. What a s%*# show. I'd be concerned. And depressed.

You can hear that kind of sad story every night at the bar of any Indiana casino. "Then a damn 5 thrower shows up to the table." Strange that the White Sox basically gifted their three best players to them, and they haven't been able to do anything beyond that, since. Maybe throwing boatloads of money at any player sports radio squawks over isn't really the best way to run a franchise. I wonder how big an appetite the audience will have for lawsuit themed game headlines in the San Diego Union-Tribune. I'm not going to lie. I don't envy their fanbase. Jurickson Profar should have been a tip-in. Jason Heyward probably thought he had a platoon job lined up for the season. Now Gavin Sheets shows up? I'd be very concerned. And depressed.

Yeah, it's fun to pretend that the past didn't happen, and everybody gets to keep all their best players they traded away, ill-advisedly. Keith Law just ranked the Padres system in the next-to-bottom tier of systems. That's bad. And concerning. deVries also seems injury-prone, and the Padres are rushing him out of desperation. Maybe they want to trade him before the late owner's widow claims him in a settlement. The fact that other teams acquire their prospects, and it takes a year just to start fixing their bad habits. I'd be really concerned about the Padres. And depressed.

The fact that the Padres have no confidence in their own ability to draft and develop somebody with even the limited expectations that Sheets carries telegraphs trouble in the Padre organization. If I had even a passing rooting interest in that team, I would be really concerned. And depressed.

What does any of that have to do with the Sox' "history" of NRIs making the 25/26 man roster because they're cheap?

For the 2025 season? The die are cast, my man.

Like I said...

No, I'm not.

You're just jealous you didn't write that first.

Maybe this is how the Orioles begin replacing Mayo and Basallo after the Cease trade

I just went to my first game since COVID hit. My wife and I bought nachos, and nothing else. I don't think we spent $40. Am I not "thinking for myself" enough to be in line with what you want me to think? LOL. Dude, this entire brou-ha-ha is over me saying that my understanding from what I have read is that Samuel Zavala is still considered a CF. And you and Tattoo are this bent out of shape because I won't "think for myself" and parrot what you guys are saying. I will reiterate, I want you to criticize the White Sox. Please do it as much as time allows. I will even give you "thank you" emojis. Criticize Chris Getz as much as you can. I want that to happen.

So, you mean I have thousands of ex-fans who have given me $80,000 of their money, and spend their days complaining about me online?

I'm relatively new.

If I wanted to sound clever to you, I'd transcribe fart noises.

We've just had a full convo about his trades. You consider a swap of AAA bullpen arms to be a catastrophically bad trade, for some reason. Sorry I can't "think for myself" and say the exact words you need me to say about Getz. LOL.

I haven't seen Zavala play. I've seen some highlights on Twitter. I've read that he's a CF until he's not. I'm not sure why these guys get so put out when I won't "think for myself" and parrot their tired, old memes.