WestEddy

10-15 years ago, you had to grease the Andy Frains to get into the lower deck. I guess the team isn't back there, yet.

Jerry's probably cashing out a couple of CDs and liquidating a couple shares of AT&T to pay that $50k fee.

Ben Peoples giving a lot at the office today. Gabe Davis with the rude welcome to AA. Anthony DiPino has taken to AA. Nice outing by Riley Eikoff in Kanny.

It's also occurred to me that Kelenic could have elected free agency just to get another deadline in his minor league contract. He seemed to have some sympathetic boosters among the coaching ranks here.

If some of these guys work out (Nishida, Gonzo, Acuña, Quero) that will be a fun problem when Hays, Teel, Pereira and Mune start to return from the IL.

No, being condescending while mocking others for being "irrational" because they won't declare that a pitcher who looks like a shoo-in for the All-Star game "stinks" - is what rubs many the wrong way. Laughing at the appropriate term "market inefficiency" makes you look argumentative about things that aren't controversial. Calling a team with top 3-6 players (at their positions) in the lineup "mediocre" and then arguing that for pages in the face of reasoned evidence makes you look like you're just being a contrarian for the sport of it. I don't care if you admit you're wrong. Everybody here is wrong a lot and admit to that pretty easily. Stop acting like you're hated because you're so freaking smart. Or don't.

Gonzo's not exactly the hotshot middle infielder. He hasn't really hit until he started the season in the infamous bandbox. He's not fast, and not really known for his glove, at any position. He should have been the heir apparent at 2B, but again, hasn't hit until this year. It's really only LaMonte Wade, or Gonzo. If he can really hit, he has a good 6 weeks of runway to prove it.

I thought maybe Kelenic was unlucky. BABIP of .344. I guess he's unlucky he struck out so much and didn't hit cutoff men.

I'll answer what I can make sense out of. Most of the stuff you're angry at I didn't say, and I imagine is just engagement baiting. Your sentence I quoted basically says that winning doesn't matter. You root for payroll. Good luck with that. It seems that not railing on like an insane person about how much I hate Getz and how he's caused all of my life's misery is considered "praising" him. You're not making an argument when you point to any random player who is doing better than some other random player and pretend you foretold that difference. That's what a 7-year-old does to feel smart. I sure hope you win these arguments against whoever is saying all these things you're angry about.

Or that it was crazy to trade Mead because everybody knew he'd wRC+ 143 by the end of May. LOL.

Rikuu not losing that number!!!

Here's your sentence, Jack: You're insinuating that being elated to be competing is cancelled out by a low payroll. That you'd be at a ballgame and wouldn't even make a sound during a walk-off victory, because nobody on the team has a large enough contract. You just make these weird-ass arguments about nothing. Yes, it would be better to be paying Merrill Kelly $20M to suck than to pay Anthony Kay $5M to actually be a league average pitcher. If only they had a Chris Davis or two on the team so we can really enjoy some baseball payroll. Sheesh. 19 players on the 26-man aren't even in arbitration, yet.

Strange. I don't know too many people whose enjoyment of a winning team is ruined by fixating on the payroll. Would it make you happier if they paid Acuña, Fedde and Osvaldo Bido $30M each? LOL.

Yeah, good on them. They did a lot better than I would.

Bobby Thigpen had a pretty bad year in 1992. That Sox team only used 13 pitchers all season. 1992 Chicago White Sox Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com

I'd love to see him wind up on a team like Arizona and just crank for the rest of the season.

I preferred his "I'm the only one here smart enough to have an opinion" HBO special.

Mune could have a good half dozen new hand-shake routines to learn by then.

Well, back then, guys sat out with "consumption", or "the bends".

Yes, being in market research for close to 20 years will give one an understanding of statistics.

Speaking of whom, we should probably be getting any kind of news about his status today. He was DFAed on the 25th, they have 5 days to trade him. If he passed through waivers, I'd think that would happen in a couple of days.