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If you don't want to be lied to at work, and you want to be treated with respect and honesty, then you should want that for all workers. Even those who make more money than you. Your envy and jealousy doesn't mean he should deal with BS at work that you don't want to deal with In fact, while trickle down economics is pure BS, workers rights have trickled down throughout history. You have the mindset that if it's miserable for me then it should be for you too. Frank also wasn't told he would be the 1st baseman by the GM and the coach, only for the Sox to sign a first basemen in free agency. He also wasn't then told he'd ONLY have to move to DH and this would be his new position for good, only for them to ask him to switch again two months later. You do that to players fighting to stay in the big leagues, not to the anchors of your lineup.

Ben Zobrist was a utility guy who's value was tied to his versatility. Bryant wanted to play everywhere. It's not a gotcha question, it's an observation. Devers is fourth in baseball for the highest % of team runs scored in baseball. He's accounted for 87 of Boston's 355 runs scored (25%). That's called carrying an offense. Bregman is out for 2 months. Navarez and Duran have accounted for 117 runs between them. No one ever called him a cancer or anything negative before the Red Sox bashed him this year and put him in an impossible situation. Just last week you were talking about how you really only follow the White Sox. Now you're an expert on Devers clubhouse impact over the last 8 years. Fascinating stuff. He was such a cancer that they gave him 300+ million 18 months ago.

Elko a AAAA player who was going to apparently sell tickets with his call up? Hmmm....

Yes, being a DH is a position and its actually very challenging to do for career position players. There was nothing diva about it. The guys devers needs to trust with his career lied to his face repeatedly and then put him in a very uncomfortable media situation with zero warning. One of the "greatest" (to some) leaders in baseball history - at least cited as such - refused to move off Shortstop to allow the best shortstop in MLB to play there.

Campbell was a horrible defender in college. He is not a MLB caliber infielder - saw hes basically the worst defender in baseball. Red Sox ask their superstar 3rd baseman to move off a spot to "maximize the defensive abilities of the roster" and then stick a bad outfielder at second base and extend him. Westeddy can't name a single star in MLB history who moved off their position twice in a season but yet somehow calls to question devers leadership because he wasnt happy about it. All the while, unhappy devers was carrying the entire red sox offense. Sometimes I wonder if Eddy is watching baseball in hopes of catching a glimpse of the GM in the owners box.

Helping out? Name another best player/star player in MLB history who switched positions twice in a season because the team demanded he do so. Lying shouldn't be rewarded.

His BS? What BS? Devers had been nothing but a good player and teammate his entire tenure in Boston. 18 months ago he signed a 10 year extension, since then he's just been as good as he was before signing. When he signed they assured him he'd stay at third base for a few more years. Then this off-season, they reiterate to him that he's their 3rd baseman - even though they were on the side trying to sign Bregman. Then he found out about the Bregman signing and positional move from the media, while being ask to answer questions about it! He's their franchise player lol. The Red Sox lied, gas lit and pointlessly disrespected their best player. All they had to do was be honest with him and it could have turned out very differently.

His last 180 IP haven't been great, but a lot of that is related to a change in pitch mix that hasn't worked and has been odd - hes moved away from his slider which was one of his best pitches and hes moved away from his curve which is his best pitch. He's become fastball heavy. The arm talent and strength is still there.

I'm a big fan of this move.

Yeah, just Google. All the guys are still doing it, just not on reddit.

Live in Park Ridge.

Well, I have an antenna and when the weather was bad my signal was in and out or lesser quality... so

Your argument is short sighted. Eyeballs and viewers are what generate ad dollars. The more eyes, the more you can charge and it doesn't matter whether its OTA or a part of the cable package. There's a reason ESPN pays a fortune for the NBA finals and then broadcasts it OTA AND on cable. It increases exposure which will increase eyes in the future. Antennas aren't a great full time solution so that Sox fan with the antenna may by a Comcast package when they move out of range or when they get tired of cloudy days ruining their picture. As bmags said, sports are about exposure and by limiting exposure you limit growth which reduces eye balls and advertising dollars. Comcast should want MORE viewers in the Chicago area, not less, regardless of whether or not those viewers directly finance them or not.

I don't think it makes much sense, actually. You can watch NFL, NBA, and MLB games for free OTA all the time. The NBA Finals game last night was OTA as it always is and I used my antenna to watch it since i cancelled my live-TV packages. OTA increases your overall audience allowing you to sell more ad's and gain more of an audience and following. Comcast are just assholes.

MLB Streams.

His stuff just isn't very good. One avg pitch and 4 well below avg pitches. K/bb of 1.56. Weird how his stuff has taken a step back and with this stuff he's not long for MLB.

Seattle is really far from everyone and Detroit is Detroit. I was shocked Cleveland had positives.

Cleary they didn't ask Josh Barfield his opinion and those 31 players weren't privy to Getz vision.

You know who helped build up the farm system as the director of operations there and then the VP of player development between 1995-2000? Kenny Williams. Again, him and Getz are nothing alike. Kenny earned his promotion, then proceeded to win 10 out of 13 years with one title. Getz failed upward and has overseen two historically bad White Sox teams. Going back to another thread where I admitted my past wrongs to Kenny: "Kenny Williams wasn't the best GM in baseball, but he was a guy who put a competitive product on the field nearly every year for over a decade. He would have made the playoffs nearly 50% of his seasons under the new format, and truly only had one atrocious season."

I wouldn't be happy at all. Using data poorly isn't something to be proud of. Amazing how you find bad things to say about everyone but the guy who led the worst team in MLB history. You mocking winning games explains your love affair with Getz though.

Kenny Williams had 3 losing seasons in 13 years as GM and the most games he ever lost was 90. His other two losing seasons had 79 wins. It's not even close.

This isnt what you or Harold said. You implied he can't start because of his extension and singled out Glasnow as an example to support the point, as did Brian. That was noise at best and nonsense at worst. No one "looking at the data" would conclude that and a sample size of 5 certainly shouldn't be moving anyone from a predictive perspective.

Yes, wheeler is the example 1A of why predicting injuries is complete nonsense. And everyone gets hurt now. Gilbert and Wheeler are on positive-side tale of injury/IP in the top 8 in the league since Gilbert entered the league.

Kenny Williams was 1000 times the GM Getz is. No idea how anyone could argue otherwise.

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