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I watched a ton of games on mlb.com. One reason I didn't get worked up when the team tanked late. They played hard during a trying time in world history and I was happy to have baseball.

Is 800 covid cases on a campus of 18000 students a lot? Just asking. Rumor is KU has 800 individuals who are positive.

How many blasted him? One or two or a ton? Here in Kansas people wear masks cause it's the rule. If you are eating and/or drinking you can take it off. Why are people still blasting others for wearing a mask? Doesn't EVERYBODY by now know somebody with covid-19 or who had covid-19? I know up to five people now. Yeah it's real; yeah I don;'t want to get it.

Can she go to emergency? This is appalling. So now we can't even get emergency medical care? So now as a country we are at the stage we can't get emergency treatment. Yes the world is coming to an end as we once knew it. We're all doomed if we are being left to have to endure a serious medical condition with 3 week waits for treatment.

Am I afraid of the Chinese government? Of course I am. My beef is not with the regular Chinese person. Ditto Russia. You know a lot of Americans agree with me. Are Chinese atrocities made up? I am an American and proud of it and yes I am wary of some other government officials.

Your guys' posts make it seem like this is 3 months ago. The reality is more stuff is opening. Vegas concerts are returning soon. College indoor events are allowing fans. Schools are opening more and more. Why are we arguing about opening things. They are open.

This is an excellent post. Awesome stuff and the correct position to take IMO.

Your racism charge is offensive to me. I am not blaming the Chinese people but the GOVERNMENT. Yes they are our enemy. Of course they are. Russia too. I have the right to question whether China would love to weaken the USA via a virus that has brought us to our knees since March.

I thought I ignored you but your posts are appearing. Maybe I didn't. Oz forever!

The lesson here is again ... this virus is nasty. The Chinese really created a doozy of a virus whether by the guy eating the bat or let the conspiracies roll. I'll defer to Caulfield and accept whatever theory he has as the cause of this nasty nasty virus. The other lesson: If you are going to have an active lifestyle, travel a lot, you better wear the mask, avoid the hugs and handshakes and be CAREFUL and mindful at all times. If you take the mask off when you can or where you can get away with it, coupled with extensive travel and a lot of meetings with people, you are gonna get it. Now if you wear your mask all the time, always are cautious, and don't travel at all, you go ahead and eat at restaurants once in a while and go to the dentist, go to the doctor, get your haircut, go to church but are safe, you just might make it to the time there's a vaccine. Me personally I've said before I catch three severe colds each winter through spring (November through April) like clockwork. I travel in that span and if you travel, you are going to get sick. I never get the flu (knock on wood) cause I get the flu shot every year at this time. You cant tell me that planes are clean and airports are clean and rental car buses and hotels are clean. They are not and you catch germs and you get sick. "Most" of normal life has to be put on hold or cautious hold or you are going to get the virus. Trump got it and think of all the advantages he has regarding safety (even tho he won't wear his mask when he should; that's probably what got him). It's an example for all of us. If you travel and regularly are around a lot of people for work and you are a half-assed mask wearer, you are gonna get the virus. You just are. Jim Acosta just tweeted Trump's case is serious stuff. He is having shortness of breath. Let Trump be an example to all of us to be safe. And finally ... I'm thinking yes there probably was one event where this baby spread like a wildfire. It'd be interesting to see if somebody had a really bad active case of the virus and a WHOLE LOTTA people in the White House got it. I pray for all of them. I don't want anybody to die unless it's proven they are murderers or trying to overthrow the country, something like that. I know some people who want Trump to die and I'm sorry, I can't go that route.

He's not getting fired because of the big picture. He got the team in the playoffs and the players seem to like him. Despite the horrible fade at the end, big picture says he stays. It'd look bad to fire a guy in the running for manager of the year. Frankly despite his awful moves during games he did lead a team with many holes into the playoffs. The Sox rotation was disgracefully bad. It has to improve or this team is winning nothing of real note.

Modern baseball. Too.Many.Cooks. Get a good roster and play ball. Isn't it funny how that one inning Sox were down two runs and it was first and second no outs, 10 years ago that's bunt no matter what, down two on the road no out. Moncada made out instead of bunting. Not that I want the bunt with the Sox's big boppers.

I don't really care about $$ in Jerry's pockets and the investors, but they are not going to sign two mega contract catchers. McCann isn't going to sign with the White Sox to be a backup and I doubt they trade Grandal. I'd probably prefer they trade Grandal for two reliever prospects and have McCann and Collins but I doubt they do that. The idea they are going to have Grandal and McCann both just isn't a possibility. Sox have many holes to fill and I'd fill some by trading Grandal. What is going to happen is next year it'll be Grandal catching most of the games and Collins catching 50 or so.

Eloy's injury didn't help either. So did not getting a home game where our bashers could bash.

Exactly. It might be cliche (a bit) but your "managing scared" line is correct. Yes he should have left Dunning in, hindsight being what it is. By the middle innings he had a batch of horrible matchups occurring on this day because he didn't give his starter a chance and he had an injury. It could have been 3-0 A's. Big deal. Sox have a potent lineup. It's ALL second guessing sure but Ricky deserves the second guessing now. Yes the injury to Crochet means Sox would look bad firing RR for having a bad day Thursday.

I knew Sox had lost when with four innings to go the Sox had Frye, Cordero, Cease and Colome left and that was it. RR as expected had a bad day (not helped by the Crochet injury at all and the Eloy injury) and the Sox had just one homer. The Sox bullpen walked nine guys and the Sox hitters didn't loft enough home runs. Game over. Wish at least one of the games was in The Cell. That rule has to change in a non COVID season. Even with no fans Sox needed the familiar Cell to bash some more home runs today. BTW: It wasn't meant to be. If it was meant to be Dallas would have been unstoppable in Game Two and the Sox nailed down an impressive two-game sweep and carried that into the Houston series. Maybe at that point the Sox start Cease and Dunning and hope for they come through and go five and not play a ridiculous brand of baseball in which the starter doesn't exit inning No. One. As badly as the Sox played they were a clutch hit or two from winning yesterday and today both. Many many failed to get that hit, including my guy, Jose baby.

Sometimes I think managers should just pull a Costanza and do the opposite thing of what they come up with. So many managers make the wrong call in crucial decision-making situations. Everything I'm saying here is with hindsight on my side so it's just anger talking probably. Once the decision was made to start Denning, you stick with him and hope he has a gem for 4-6 innings. Then play the bullpen game. Taking him out that early is a defensive move, on your heels move. Olson eventually came up against Marshall, it just took longer after RR decimated the bullpen instead of the first inning. RR I think it's safe to say is a mediocre manager. You get what you pay for. Sox can either a.) let him stay since players like him. b.) get rid of him and hire another cheap replacement from our minor league system. c.) fire a famous guy and see what happens. I'd suspect cause of the injuries today and fact the team only had two starters available for the postseason saves RR. He'll be back.

RR deserves whatever Frank throws his way. Lot of stuff to second guess.

True dat about the walks. You deserve to lose when you do that. However ... also a lack of key hits by EVERYONE including my guy, Jose. Sox in the last two games failed to come up with the big hit in SOOO many instances. Sox also didn't hit enough dingers. They live by the HR ball, folks. All three games being in Oakland ... Sox fans shoulda known we had a small chance of winning, In our park? Home run haven for the guys ... we'd have won the series had we had just one home game. I'm very frustrated. I thought only the Rays or Yankees would kick our butt. Didn't think Sox would lose to anybody else cause of that offense. Positive people will blame injuries Yes they hurt the team badly as well as loss of Kopech.

Either you leave in the starter and take your chances with him or figure some of those relievers who failed today give you a better chance than the starter. RR made the wrong call today. It's a big boy game and if management wants to fire him for making some/many wrong calls, it's OK with me. If he comes back I guess that's OK too.

Awful game. Sox had their chances. Lot of things to second guess now. I won't list all of mine. I'll just say my heart won't be broken if RR is not back with the team. It's a big boy game. Sox were pathetic the last week, lost their mo-jo. Today's game can be second, third, fourth guessed. It was a horrible game for the Sox, one frankly we could have won. The starting pitching thing was a disaster as it turned out. Ricky defenders can say we had Eloy get hurt and Crochet get hurt and that mattered, too. Fine. My heart won't be broken if RR does not return. Stoney obviously isn't a fan. Oh well. Very disappointing. Hopefully the team can build on a good season.

Good luck folks. I am out. I haven't been in game threads all season so I won't start now. Cmon Eloy baby! Have a game. Goodbye all.

I didn't know all 3 games were in oakland. that kinda sucks; our park is homer friendly

they just said it'd be on espn2; not yet

espn news has just started an nba show