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If the movie gets centered around his depression and battle throughout to save his life, now that sounds like a movie with the right script and director. The injuries, thats pretty boilerplate. You’re really turning me around on this.

Hey, if the screenplay works for you, I can’t hate. Probably wrong. Often am.

Post was about Merkin dude, not Burger. Overhype. Which is a basic issue in sports. Sportswriters incidentally have in my experience listening to them talk pop culture..taste in fine music and movies is really weak.

The White Sox model is the fast track though. Prospects are chosen specifically for this capability. Lack of experience is less of a concern anymore than the talent and maturity. I haven’t enjoyed the draft approach myself, but they have been served well recently, and had good judgement on what the team needs to see from these guys in the minors. He looks explosive in the box. Cespedes as well. Different.

You know what was a good movie not much spoken about? Blue Valentine. Heartbreaker, so well acted. Anyway, Scott Merkin can probably get the financing off the ground as the idea man, but he’s got to fill in the story around Burger. The full vision is probably more avant-garde than he is letting on. The bones are a little basic.

Kind of seems like Yasmani Grandal is the whipping boy quite often. I can’t think of too many guys that have been actually been Sox ‘whipping boys’ in a true sense. Adam Dunn was mentioned, he fits somewhat. Adam LaRoach lol. May as well throw James Shields in there. Mine was always Kenny Williams the GM.

I love the story. Huge Burger fan. Peace.

I can see a good Indie movie being made to cover just about anything or anybody with good character development . Sports movies are the worst for the most part. Many actually cover good topics, and unfortunately have abominably executed plots and bad directors with low ambition. Other than rake it in. To sell one like that you would need the name recognition and big story. Woods, Lemieux, Manning, Bo Jackson. Anyway, Maverick is coming, brace yourself.

I was angrily told not to make a federal case out it. *insert Homer Simpson gif*

Yeah I remember when Giolito got a cut on his finger and the trainers were all over him keeping him out of action. For an infielder, Im thinking if its a normal cut without stitches he can play with a bandage on it. Especially the glove hand. Unless it is the throwing hand at a grip point. All bets are off then.

Im light man. You lighten up. Its the internet, where things said get discussed and reacted to. Have you noticed, like the internet?

Impressive. We still talking movie though.

Another headfirst slide. Stoney will not be amused.

We talking a movie. What is different about his story than countless others in his situation. That is the movie question

A little dramatic. Guys have overcome all sorts of catastrophic injuries to play pro sports. What else is there to the story? I know he was depressed. But you kind of need more than getting a cup of coffee before you get a movie lol

Is there normally a delay of announcing that a guy got called up? It’s not like there would be any reason to let it sit out there without announcing. So in that sense could be more like a trade scenario than a callup?

Burger has no range at 2b, so if there is a non starter, that to me is it. So agree to disagree y’all, fair enough. Gotta be out for a minute

Its always been a hypothetical based on Burger panning out.

Moncada is not an upgrade to Garcia or Mendick? Burger in the lineup is not an upgrade over Mendick? Adding power is not an upgrade?

The fact they play Burger often at second based makes it pretty clear Moncada is unwilling to do it. It makes too much sense for the Sox not to do it independent of a player that is unwilling or too fragile to make the move for the best of the team. Hopefully he adjusted his attitude at some point if Burger was for real at third base.

For next season I rather think of the upgrade of Moncada in right. As well as adding Burger’s power into the lineup. Potentially. On balance we can come out ahead. If Moncada played some emergency second base this season we sub into the lineup Burger for Mendick. Both situations seem like upgrades. Moncada wont be surpassed defensively, but Burger can be adequate enough to take advantage of the other domino upgrades. The Cubs cannot find an equal to Kris Bryant as a third baseman either. But its about more than one position.

Exactly.

In other words, don’t try to show up a clown, he has a lot more ammo. Donaldson is like Rodman. You can’t win these battles lol.

This isn’t entirely apt , but never argue with an idiot. It doesn’t end well for you

MLB network and ESPN loves this. Meanwhile Instead of Santiago being the public face of doctoring the baseball, Giolito is nudging him over saying me too. This would have all been forgotten if Giolito left it alone. Ozzie should stop as well. I love him like a brother or a cousin, but he is repeating the tactical errors here.