WestEddy

In da win column. Win tomorrow, and screw the haters!!

Houses come, houses go. You sell some, you bet some.

Pedro doesn't want to chance Getz seeing the bench manage manage a cogent inning.

I wouldn't mind an OPB-God Sheets being our lefty bat on the bench.

Hawk used to yell at Wimpy during the game. Hawk like to let the tension mount in silence, and Wimpy would just babble during a full count, 2 outs pitch.

Robbie Grossman hit 2 HRs for Charlotte, tonight, one a 9th inning grand slam in a blowout loss.

Bourgeois came up as an infielder, but spent the bulk of his time in the OF.

The only thing we'll get in a Clevenger trade is not paying him the final $1 million of his contract. I'd be surprised if they even got back a AAA utility infielder for him. At this point, I'm pretty numb from the first 4 games. I don't like Clevenger, and don't want him on this team. But if signing this lunkhead creates a softer landing for Nastrini, and creates any stability in the rotation over the course of the season, fine. I can just ignore him, and hope he's availing himself of the support MLB has promised to help him grow up. I'm disappointed in the Sox for going this route. Zack Greinke and Johnny Cueto are still unsigned.

I don't really think Clevenger makes any difference beyond pulling 50 innings away from the bullpen (meaning he pitches 150 instead of some lesser dude's 100), keeping Nastrini out of the majors for a month, and maybe making eventual decisions later in the year easier (ramping down Crochet, trading/cutting Soroka and Flexen). With Eloy possibly down, they need a bat.

And seriously, when the Sox don't set their loss record, will you be summoning all of the a-holes who predicted that to tell us why they were so wrong?

Yeah, I said our bullpen could be good. It just strikes me that if we took one from Detroit and lost by one today, everybody would be saying small sample size.

Well, I was doing pulmonary tests at Rush, so I was only observing the game on CBSsports. Maddening. I'm not sure what rip cords I'm going to pull. I'm a White Sox fan. I had an uncle who was a Chicago Cardinals fan. He fucking hated the Bears. When they moved to St. Louis, he became a Packers' fan. I'm a Sox fan. It's a slog. I'm sad about Clevenger. Maybe if the Sox are so irresponsible, they'll make him throw 210 pitches in his first start, and he will morph, and have two left hands on his tally-whacker, and nothing on his shoulders. Then he'll seek out and rape Trevor Bauer. Then all of baseball's troubles will be over.

Cousins also had a few years of control, and an option. It just looks like roster crunches, right?

Eloy was 2-11. I'll take my chances with Lenyn Sosa catching fire.

Knights finally win, 6-2. Sosa, Colas and Chuckie look good.

The offense does. Maybe Grossman will eventually replace Eloy.

You were arguing that no pitching matters unless you see it in the official stats. I never did anything but laugh at that.

4. Wander into other conversations arguing with anything to prove ... something. Oh, wait. That's you.

I've been watching since 71. Most times, yes, they suck.

I brought up Schultz as an example of a different way of ramping up a pitcher. It wasn't hard to understand. Schultz's and Crochet's programs are different. They're different pitchers with different issues. Crochet pitched 54+ innings 3 of 4 years, then was drafted. I would imagine if he hit 100 innings in June/July, they'd ramp him down to 3 inning opener on a 5 day program, or something less. Or pull him once through the lineup with tougher lineups. I don't know. I would think Getz would be calling Grifol into his office as soon as he lets Crochet throw a 120 pitch complete game. Grifol is a horrible communicator, let the clubhouse get completely out of hand, but I think it presses the edge of credibility to think that he's going to kill a pitcher trying to go 21-50 instead of 20-51. That's great that most of the board is concerned about Crochet. I don't think that concern is reflected in making up insane counter-arguments to just dig in and argue a faulty point.

Okay, Baghdad Southsider. LOL. All your rehab inning are belong to us!

If I want to have an intelligent and fact based discussion, you're probably not on the list.

And I'm pretty much saying the same thing over and over, to correct the BS strawmen that keep coming up.