WestEddy

No, I'm me. This is who teams pick up to be a 5th or 6th OF. Nobody trades for the 22-year-old #1 prospect in the game to park him on the bench and be a defensive replacement. Nobody has their top RF prospect skip a level so he can pinch hit for a platoon advantage in the 9th inning. Prospects get developed and promoted when they're deemed ready. Older dudes trying to hang on bounce from team to team, catching on as a defensive replacement.

You literally posted an article that serves as a confession by Robert that he strong-armed the team into letting him play. Maybe he didn't hold a gun to their heads, but he certainly had a bat. You're claiming he went to the plate, basically with one arm in a sling, and pulled a Pete Gray, swinging, only using one hand, for an entire season, which is ludicrous. That didn't happen. Was it after the season that a one-armed Luis Robert was being marched to his at-bats at bayonet point that Chris Getz was supposed to get a boat-load of prospects in trade for their patient/prisoner? Maybe other teams read this blog to find all the "reporting" of how Robert was really just being tortured by having to play baseball from his death bed, and decided they wanted no part of that, real or not. It's weird that in a string where we should be celebrating finally getting a guy in a Sox uniform that you people have literally been screaming for a decade to obtain, it's turned into yet another diatribe on one of three players who could never stay healthy. You finally have Randal Grichuk on the White Sox. Your Holy Grail. Enjoy the moment.

I'm old enough to remember when signing Anthony Santander to a $200M contract was going to save the franchise.

"inmates". So pro athletes are actually insane prisoners? Hyperbole, indeed. Welcome to the world of 21st century sports. Maybe comment boards should use their oversized, immense power to tell the truth and not engage in conspiracy theories at every turn.

"Heard for years", from people like yourself who try to ruin any good will by shoehorning talk of trading a player having a breakthrough into every single string? Getz had nothing to do with trading Burger. Maybe if Burger was on the 2024 team, they don't set the loss record. Yet another feather in KW's hat. Congrats.

"Ridiculous non sequitor (sic)"? You mean, like, quoting you? When TLR told players to slow it down, this board and other sites who exist only for clicks and likes demanded 110% from their players. Robert, in turn, ADMITTED he made the decision, right there in your article. We've all seen the video of the manager coming out to pull Mike Mussina, and Mussina yells at him to get his ass back in the dugout. What does the team do next? Call the police and have him arrested for trespassing? Robert demanded to bat. He said so right there in your article. Reluctantly, the Sox didn't call the police and have him restrained. My recollection was that he had both hands on the bat, and like Vilehoopster accurately relays, let go with one hand on the follow-through. He wasn't pulling a Pete Gray, for heaven's sake. As we've already established and agree upon, Merkin engaged in hyperbole for likes and clicks.

People here still mock TLR for telling players to "slow it down". Just a quick note, people on this site blurting out negative things isn't "reporting". You should probably learn the meaning of that word. A negative nellie having a podcast where he engages in hyperbole for clicks and likes isn't "reporting".

So all of the zero people who have played AAA baseball on this board wept at their computers? I heard the same story, except the pirate captain then grabbed the protagonist, tore off the flimsy gown, then ravished our hero in an afternoon of brine-swept heavenly love-making. LOL.

"Just shut up". We all know Merkin will sometimes report openly negative things to maintain access with grumpy chatboards. But sometimes, when he doesn't realize, he accidently reports the truth: So we have a player who overruled the team and demanded to be put in the lineup because he wanted to feel important.

Why do they have to be home grown? Antonacci looks solid. They targeted two guys on the Rays, and they're also solid in the OF. All the glumlords here whine about Derek Hill being "old", but he's a solid defensive OF.

Peters did that to Acuña with Acuña in CF and Peters in RF. Maybe collisions was a big part of early Banana-ball.

OH, God!! I was doing the French 60s pop hits last year, and this one was taken down, I think for being so creepy. I must post. Oh, go Sox!!

Hmmm, a team can see him more than once in a short period, and he still dominates. Game 1, game 4 and game 7...

I think it's more like he couldn't find the handle on what might have been a close double, but it turned out to not be close. All he's got to do is hit. He'll calm down in the field.

Boooo!! I don't like 4 hits!! Get rid of this guy!!

4 hits 4 Beni!!

He has. Like I said elsewhere, Antonacci, Peters and Pereira have all delivered positive WAR. Grichuk is a 5th OF. The Phillies cut Castellanos in his last year of control. Weird how they held onto Castellanos for all of 2025 when he put up negative WAR. I guess the Phillies are cheap, and Dombrowski has too big an ego to admit he made a mistake and DFA after one bad month.

Double Digit K's for Martin!!!

Somebody needs to tell me which of those hits they wanted him DFAed before.

Dromo was a 1st rounder. Maybe he's figured it out at the plate.

Martin's hitting 96. Why do some think he's a #4 at best? I'd love to see the Sox develop 3 better pitchers.

SoxTalk is actually focus grouping whether to complain about frivolity, or that JR's too cheap for good props.

That's a moon double!!!

Good prep on Shoman's part.