WestEddy

If you own a home, and hire somebody to design a porch, they don't get to tell you to STFU and do whatever they want to your property. Conversely, when a person owns a baseball team, the GM serves at the owner's pleasure. I really don't get this "Getz has no authority" BS. Every single GM in baseball gets a budget, and even guys like Cashman, Dombrowski and Friedman get their leashes tugged from time to time. With a lockout looming, all GMs are finding out they aren't these renegade swinging dicks we all fantasize them being.

Don't you jinx it now, mister!!

Whatever Clevenger "has left" doesn't justify him taking up a roster spot at any level. It's silly to pretend pro athletes think the exact same things we do.

...because Clevenger has something left...? I'm willing to bet Noah Syndegaard doesn't care anything about Clevenger's personal problems. You know, as long as we're making up things he could be thinking.

Or Vaughn's training for his next career as a foul line ball boy.

That was a normal white sox start. He'd fall apart in the 4th.

I always figured he was a nice bat with a little pop, but without a position. Looking more closely at his minor league numbers and comparing them to Magglio Ordonez's development, I think Sosa could be a 30 HR guy. You find him a spot on the field.

Probably to catch on with a playoff team. I think he's proven what he wanted. Be a long man for the last month, get well over the winter, and market himself as a back of the rotation arm. Hell, Soroka got $9M for that.

Just call him Lockdown Leasure.

Is Venable signaling he thinks they've put this game away by taking out the regulars?

I can learn to like these 2 double games by Brooksie.

What's the alternative? A 3rd catchers' and utility infielders' game?

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Monty and Meidroth with HRs in the 1st.

5th pitch to Jeffers looked to have caught the inside corner.

That's why it will be so hilarious.

This didn't age well.

I think MLBTR may have even surmised that Ellard opens today, then gets sent back down.

The Sox put him on waivers, and the Cubs claimed him. With the new rules in effect, no trades of major leaguers can occur after 7/31. To clear salary, a team can put a player on waivers, and if they're claimed, the claiming club assumes their contract. The Angels did the same thing in 2023, when they traded for Giolito and Lopez before the TDL, then after falling precipitously out of the running for a wild card spot, waived both Giolito and Lopez. Cleveland claimed both and assumed their salaries.

Thank you, Holden. You are proving my point. Take the L. It's over.

Gee, I don't know, Holden. Here's you predicting "strong" years from all three: Oh, and ...lol.

Uh...no. Because a bunch of grumps would argue that they're made of solid wood just to troll somebody who isn't as grumpy as them. It was stupid then, it's stupid now.

It's like having a child and deciding to be pissed off for 25 years until that child has a job and can support itself. I mean, why lower your expectations to be happy over a "first step" and "first word"? Get back to me when you publish your first master's thesis, which is still a lowered expectation.