WestEddy

Calling people noticing the culture are I'm here regularly. I couldn't log in without installing a VPN. Seems weird.

Which part? There's a group who just go on about an error, or slump. Beyond the point of being mad about a play, and to the point of looking for a reaction, apparently. I admit I'll post something about extending Chris Getz or whatnot pushing back on the Getz sucks people.

On April 22, Fedde probably has more value to the White Sox than some other teams. Houston just had 4(?) starting pitchers go down. They're not doing well in the standings and noticeably passed on signing Lucas Giolito. I would think a steady Fedde would have some value to the Astros to cover 6-10 starts if they have any hopes of staying relevant this season. If Shane Smith starts looking dominating again, Tanner McDougal looks ready, Erick Fedde will not stand in their way. I think Fedde has more value as a starter than a bullpen guy. He shouldn't block Wikelman from the bigs.

But the "see these guys are garbage" people never get the pushback or mocking that the "Hey, we just won 3 of 4!!" people. I believe there is a lot of gratuitous doom-casting during a season opening 1-5 road trip where the team never looked in it, even in the game they won. It is natural to push back on that and yell, "well they're finally winning, eat that!!" I believe that's the nature of sports fandom. When your team starts winning, you become happy and give it back to those who declared the team would never win again. None of us are above it. We're all constantly doing a victory lap on the sports-dom Hamster wheel.

Fair enough. That said, if he is adjusting back, there's probably a sweet spot where the Sox could extend him at a discount that is somewhere before total free agency.

I always find the "My reaction to this sports team is the exact perfect reaction that everybody else should adopt" flex to be weird.

I don't know. Boston Smith seems to be a dawg, and Jordan Rich was paid $150k bonus in the 17th round by the Blue Jays to skip college. Both look to be productive bats with lots of team control. I just don't think 5th infielders and #6 starters have much value. If the asking on Fedde gets out of range, there's probably 10 similar guys around the game they could have for a song.

Productive.

I don't look forward to the next I AM ATTACKING YOU FOR SOMETHING YOU DIDN'T SAY post. Maybe do something more productive like fixing the site so I can log on without a VPN?

And he's been caught stealing a whopping one time. It was also commented that the Antonacci CS was probably a failed hit and run.

I can only hope that one day you can conquer these voices in your head that keep saying these things nobody in the physical world is saying.

If Shane Smith looks repaired in his next few starts, I could certainly see Fedde to Houston at any time in May or June.

I would think Ishbia has a little say in what's going on right now. You can't agree in principle to sell a business, and in the interim, turn the branding into Nazi glorification, or NAMBLA or something. Mune's like Abreu, but from a market with money. 10/310 is probably a hometown discount for the Sox believing in him.

I believe that no team is as bad as they look in a slump, nor as good as they look on a winning streak. But the A's and D-backs ain't no joke. I get that we ran into a Blue Jay team down on their luck, and the Royals don't appear to be all that. But that's the game. Sometimes you're the bug and other times you're the windshield. It will be interesting how they'll handle the phenomenon of them playing something nearly missing .500 ball. I'd imagine they still trade off Fedde, Kay, Hays and McGuire as guys come back from injury and minor leaguers play their way into the bigs. If Dominguez, Newcomb and Hicks pull themselves together, those trades goose the pipeline.

ChiSoxFanMike and a bunch of the Twitter weird food accounts are all marveling at how they all got a bunch of Japanese follows once the Sox signed Murakami. I would think throwing Pete Alonzo money at Mune to wrap him up for 10 years would pay untold dividends to the Sox. Like, this is him still figuring out American pitching, and he's on a 60 HR pace.

Since the opening road trip, the Sox are 8-9, pretty much a .500 ball team.

I wonder who it was. Looked up Belle's 98 game logs, he had 3 in a row, went hitless for a game, then 4 games with HRs, hitting 9 HRs in 8 games.

Desperation is crowing about an ex-Sox player catching a baseball to run victory laps. Braden Shewmake is wearing an Astros uniform and nobody tripped over his feet in the dugout. LMFAO!! Getz is so bad at this!!

I can't get the site to load on my PC, on my Mac, or my phone. It was only by reinstalling my anti-virus that has a VPN in the package that I can access the site by turning on my VPN.

My computer crashed, so I thought it was me. But in turning on my VPN, I could finally log on.

How about this?

okyay, then this is it

I was locked out on three browsers and my phone. I had windows problems where updates were failing, and I filled up. I had to buy a new 1TB hard drive to do anything. But something's going on here. Even after that, I had to switch to a VPN to log on, like my IP address is blocked. That's how they getcha!!