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I've been told constantly that those posters should be left alone and they're just "venting." Let them vent, and if you don't you're a bad person and a bad fan. Poke fun at their hyperbole and you're an asshole who doesn't let people be a fan how they want. That's the irony of this entire thread. People who are having fun, being sarcastic and poking fun at crazy over the top comments - like you would with friends or at an actual bar - are called condescending assholes who are telling other people how to be a fan... trying to figure out what direction this place actually wants to go, because having a good time at people's hyperbole is resented by many posters and moderators here. Heck, it happened in this very thread which admittedly may have been a bit off topic for it lol

When you cant set records famous to the sport, when 27 outs has always been sacred, changing that is just absurd to me. Im worried they'll never go away either, even after covid. Athletes in better shape than ever, more pitchers on a roster than ever, yet somehow players can't play 18 innings anymore for health and safety reasons Game was designed to go through a lineup three times

Guy won the MVP and youre saying you were right calling his demise when you said it was happening last year lol

Now that we've felt them more ive got to say I absolutely hate the 7 inning games. Doesn't feel like a real baseball game. Most exciting part of the games are the last few innings. Game has no feel to it imo. Great outing by Carlos though. Good win.

24 year old Nick Madrigal can't play two games but 30 year old Leury Garcia can. Can't wait for Leury in game two and 23 year old Andrew Vaughn on the bench for rest. Yay! I'm sure Tony is trying his best and really cares and is well intentioned and I respect his right to disagree with my opinion.

Yes, and I can't emphasize enough the guy is playing HURT this year. Probably moreso than any of us even realize. He's a catcher with a knee problem. That's not good. It's no surprise he's rolling over everything. He's left handed and his front leg is injured. He's also been the victim of some bad luck which happens. Grandal didn't tell giolito to throw face high change ups over and over vs Boston. The soxtalk narrative I am most exhausted of is that a catcher makes a pitcher throw a certain pitch. Pitchers are responsible for what they throw. No one else is. Mccann xwOBA is 285! Grandals xwOBA is 365! One has had incredibly bad batted ball luck, the other has been bad and his batted ball luck has been as expected.

It's hard to take people seriously when they call grandal avg or below avg last year when he was arguably the best catcher in baseball. The knee is clearly effecting him this year. He had to change how he sits behind home plate for goodness sakes. This is why players shouldn't play hurt. Fans rip them for not playing hurt then rip them for not being great when they play hurt.

Clevinger got hurt last year. It's not like they were banking on him this season and he went down. They literally traded for Musgrove because of that injury. Proclaiming lamet, who has had ONE good year in which he only threw 69 innings as losing keuchel or lynn is hilarious. I'm not even sure id call lamet Carlos rodon. Of carlos rodon went down for the sox, they would survive and wouldn't at all be some completely unexpected bad break.

He can't throw to first base and has chronic shoulder problems. He was bad In 2019 and has been bad in 2021. You cherry picking 2020 is very tatis fanboy of you.

Lol, I take more shit from posters here than any or you sensitive whiny mods ever do and I laugh at them 99.9% of the time with the poster. I posted less because posts had been deleted after I called out all the posters who felt the need to get personal and ended up wrong. If you're gonna dish it, then delete posts in response its not fun for me.. I don't like censorship on forums. Ron posts cracks on me all the time and I always find them funny. Pretending I get angry over them is just flat out wrong. I've never once contacted a moderator about a poster being "mean" to me and I certainly don't report posts but keep insinuating whatever you'd like.

I didnt know you had personal opinions about people on the forum. This is very hurtful. I hope I can recover. And jokes are funny for anyone that doesn't take themselves too seriously.

When I posted less because it became less fun? Yes, I do this for entertainment. When it becomes less entertaining, I do it less. It isn't rocket science. Remember when mods here couldn't take jokes and run to defend each other from posters? Ahhh, yes, I too remember. Edit: also, do you remember when Tony stopped watching the team and the games after 1 week of the season because it wasn't worth his time? Ahh, yes. Let me guess.. him saying something like that isn't at all similar to me saying something like I'm posting less? Lol

No, it's not at all the equivalent of losing giolito and keuchel/lynn lol.

You may want to try learning to take a joke. Life may become more fun for you. Who knows. Some people are just wound so tight.

Lol literally only one of these arms is reliably good. Your weird obsession with the Padres is... well, weird. Clevinger was a tough loss. Lamet has never been healthy or reliable. The rest of those guys are just guys. Thought we were gonna get a nice error count update on tqtis who made another one tonight, up to 10 and on a near record setting pace

lol didn't see that; that picture is terrible. i see now that TA was there, if only I could have gotten that lucky. I was sitting next to some loud finance bros who had about 12 drinks too many and wanted the whole world to know about it. pretty sure they were 100% capacity too; was glad the wife and I were fully vaccinated, once I walked in and saw how packed it was.

I swear people who do things like this in hopes of getting an internet high five from someone like Steve stone are a whole other level of weird. "Did you see what this stranger said on the internet!?!?!" You literally don't need to venture much further than the response to any highly active tweet chain to see way more vile comments. I love that stone would be more appalled by a tweet like that than he, and many fans apparently, are by Tony larussa repeatedly driving drunk and risking actual lives. Weird stuff all around.

I'll be honest, I'm shocked that chitown even saw the post or has a reaction to games because him and Tony stopped watching after a week because it just isn't fun and as they get older they have become very important and had better thing to do with their lives building mahogony tables in their workshops while learning Latin with Rosetta stone.

Lol. Special Agent Bevington monitoring and analyzing.

Thanks, mayn! Even the Sox were being kind to me tonight to make sure I didn't miss a little action. Nice meal at Chicago Cut and the rain held off long enough to walk around a bit before. Not a big steak guy personally but my wife would eat it 9 days a week if she could, and we know marriage is all about compromise (meaning the wife gets what she wants).

Maybe we can get a Lyle and Ellis tag-team GM team!

... and why does the other need to play, exactly?

Why does Nick Madrigal need a night off after playing 1 game? I really just don't understand what is happening. Leury Garcia is on pace to get like 450-500 at bats. lol

Going out for my actual anniversary tonight so, don't hate me, but I wouldn't mind a rainout! Looks like, at worst, they would be playing in some precipitation most of the night.

When my wife catches me doing something I know is borderline wrong, I typically also get incredibly defensive and start swearing so now I am 100% convinced they were. When I'm not wrong, i always react calmly and don't even address her nonsense. Guilty!