Look at Ray Ray Run

I love Tim. Fuck Josh.

That slider take was beautiful

Sometimes you just have one of those feelings and tonight I got on. Leggo

Lol you just can't make this shit up anymore. Vaughn is there, he has been there, but doesn't start... because of a flight lol

Vaughn gets activated for a game he's not even at?

When you feel nothing is going your way, and start thinking this team will never get it going after you spent years following the rebuild and sitting through complete garbage, only to be rewarded by the Sox hiring a statue as their manager, just remember one thing that'll make you feel much better... that nationwide is on your side no matter what.

I get they were hit hard, but that was one of the more unlucky pitching performances I've seen. All contact was either out of the park or an extra base hit - I think he only had one ball in play that was an out? Even if you leave stuff over the plate, it doesn't mean a team is going to kill you. Limit balls in play as well as Cease did vs elite offenses in the future, and you'll shut them down much more frequently than you won't.

Velasquez has been dealing; I'm much more optimistic about this than the rest. Obviously Cole is the challenge here. Not sure why Vaughn needed a rehab stint after missing like 10 games. Sure could use his bat tonight. Moncada all over the fastballs now; here's to hoping he can car the offense tonight.

I don't really understand this point though; so he was saving his high leverage relievers for blow out situations in the next two games?

Tony la russa waiving the white flag in a two run game is amazing.

Please with this garbage.

Graveman has pitched one time in a week. This team spent all this money on relievers, had ruiz and foster pitch great, and are throwing Connor banks in relatively high leverage spots. It's comical honeslty. Graveman needs to be managed probably because he doesn't have a track record as a reliever. Kelly hasn't been a high leverage guy for a while. How could all these bullpen guys be unavailable after a day off? The Sox realize they need to win games, right?

This is who Joe Kelly is; least surprising thing to me. He loses command of the strike zone and isn't a high leverage reliever; hasn't been for most of his career. Giving him that contract was crazy town. Also, Tony La Russa is something else. If the Sox score 2 runs in the 8th/9th, look no further than La Russa for giving this game away. Leaves Kelly in for no reason. Then brings in a lefty for Stanton and Donaldson. It's honestly amazing how incompetent La russa is.

This is who Joe Kelly is; least surprising thing to me. He loses command of the strike zone and isn't a high leverage reliever; hasn't been for most of his career. Giving him that contract was crazy town. Also, Tony La Russa is something else. If the Sox score 2 runs in the 8th/9th, look no further than La Russa for giving this game away. Leaves Kelly in for no reason. Then brings in a lefty for Stanton and Donaldson. It's honestly amazing how incompetent La russa is.

Say huh

Jack ain't relying on Vaughn for anything after that devestating wrist bruise.

Something doesn't add up here. They knew their trainer, who never acted inappropriately at work, who had a wife and kids was gay?

I don't even get excited about Eloy's returns because I've become very skeptical of his hitting ceiling. Hoping he makes me look like a fool.

Just not how the clubhouse operates, sadly. In MLB especially, it's a rather conservative group who share a wide ranging of views and beliefs, some of which are clearly homophobic and even racist. I think a homophobic demographic might be more openly homophobic in sports because of the way players act in a clubhouse setting. It's not right, but sadly look at the Blackhawks case. The PLAYERS were making fun of the guy for being assaulted by a male coach. I'm obviously not saying it's right, but it feels like the most possible avenue. I also agree it puts the management in a tough spot, because if players were to be uncomfortable and outwardly disrespectful and open about their disdain for it, you risk sexual harassment and other lawsuits. Again, it's not right but anyone who has been in a high level clubhouse understands there's a lot of inappropriate shit that goes on, and it's not your standard workplace. I have a hard time believing Hahn and company hate gay people and wanted him gone after two+ years of knowing for that reason, but I do find it slightly plausible that if he WAS dismissed because of being gay (which is still a big if based on the facts we know currently) it was because of player sentiment and or attitude.

The two discrimination classifications this guy falls in - age and sexual orientation - also happen to be the two reasons he was fired. I'm not saying it didn't happen, but if he was told he was fired for being gay, I'm not sure why they're also going after them for age discrimination and vice versa. I've always found the argument of age discrimination odd because it's more likely that young people are discriminated against under the guise of "experience" and older people tend to be industry gatekeepers now-a-days. Look at the most powerful positions in the world and in corporations, they almost all trend older. Maybe the White Sox were on the forefront of race changes in baseball but do have an issue with gay people; it feels really unlikely based on their history, but none of us know what goes on behind closed doors. As for the time lapse, that's not all that odd but what is odd is that they would promote the person who they were going to discriminate against. In the world of sports, the one thing I view as a possibility is that some players were uncomfortable with him being gay and found out somehow without knowing previously, and the team termed him because of that. That's really difficult to prove without a paper trail of some sorts, but that would be the one possibility I could see as having changed from 2018 to 2020.

Tony back to bunting excessively. Everything he does is rotten.

LOL same time!

@wegner confirmed to be the guy who just tweeted into the broadcast that he loves the nationwide jingle and sings it to his newborn as "nathanwide" because his son is nathan and he loves it.

why does sheets keep playing rf instead of lf?? I dont understand.

Of course it counts, do you think the distribution isn't relatively even? Do you think the Sox are the only team effected by the balls? Here are two graphs to show exactly that: One shows the variance between wOBA and xwOBA - most samples are sitting around -.25-.35 - the Sox are at -.55. The other shows the the two fields comparatively and the Sox are the outliers in both chart. Unless you have some research showing they would be more effected than any other team.