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I like watching our guys play, but cmon, it's a joke. St. Louis has played five games. Guys are getting hurt at an alarming rate, which is serious. This season is a disaster, but good experience for our kids.

It's a perfect year for Robert to get used to MLB. This season, quite frankly, is a joke. It is what it is. Some baseball to enjoy. In Sox case some youngsters can get some MLB at bats. Robert will adjust. His BA is great. 22 Ks in 59 at bats. Whatever. All big league standouts will have a zillion strikeout during their careers considering the new norma (K or HR). Love me some Robert.

Not in the mood to watch 7 Sox relievers go after a bad Anderson outing. I'm out at 6-0 after watching nice win last nite. Hope we can rally.

Amen brother! I love Ozzie. I am loyal to WS champions. That's my take. I have one title in my lifetime and he did a fine job that postseason.

I know I made a post in the preseason that there will probably be a ton of injuries this season. I'm not the only one. Should they have held two more weeks of summer, spring training? This is crazy. Sox pitching can't afford many more injuries or they are going to have to acquire some independent league hacks.

Those two strikes were hittable ... damn.

Is the Valley today going to allow nonconference games in Sept., but postpone league action until spring? Weird.

Oh.

In the words of every politician after a commercial, "I do not approve this message." I disagree with a lot of this. I don't like shifts. I love the few times players bunt in that vast area of green left by shifts.

Don't. forget, Ned Yost won a WS title. The Cubs' genius finally was escorted out the door. You got good players you win; bad ones you lose. You think a baseball mind like RR doesn't know he's rolling the dice a lot because of a sub par pitching staff? He knows Eloy is sub par in left. He can't go out there and demand Eloy take fungoes for 3 hours a day. Eloy has to work on his defense in the off seasons. Did he? Dunno. Not much RR can do about pitching staff injuries and sit-outs and lack of effective arms. It works together arm in arm with Hahn but despite many questionable moves by RR, I don't think it matters much. Even Dusty ... he's never won a WS so many think he's bad. I'm just saying, Ricky may deserve a grade of C to C- but does it matter? Why did the Cubs start to sour on Mr. Analytics? Etc. And I won't lose any sleep if Ricky is fired.

Geez. This is utterly scary and depressing.

Kansas, Missouri and Kentucky have an awful lot of new cases. Like KC today and every day lately, something like 400 new cases?? WTF is happening in the world with this virus? 400 is a lot of people to wake up yesterday and say, "I think I've got corona." Everybody's masking up now in Lawrence at least. These numbers are annoying me. Also Kentucky seems to get 400 new cases a day. WTF. (I'd like to start laying into China where this disease was invented right now in this post, but not sure it's allowed to freak out).

My only complaint about modern all or nothing, HR or strikeout hitters, is with two strikes I'd prefer they just try to get a hit. I'm thinking the odds of turning a 1-2 or 0-2 count into a HR are pretty low. There will be a ton of games our stars do hit multiple-homers, however.

I love Bennetti and Stone. I really do. I take exception to their pretending we had a chance to rally and win from five down with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. I coulda have done without that homer-ism there. Cmon, don't insult us. The team is one under .500 not some juggernaut yet. Just my pet peeve. Sox were not going to rally and win with one out to spare and needing a five-spot to tie. I do love the duo and enjoyed Stoney talking about Bruce Sutter's splitter, etc. Bad loss BTW. We pretty much got smoked.

I need to go back and read the thread. I've watched about half the game, didn't see the bad inning for Gio. I'm thinking he is not the answer at starter. Not sure what the Sox should do in that regard. You don't want to trade prospects in a season that might get canceled any time. Not sure what Hahn should do but we need some pitchers.

Damn. Brutal. He got it good and the ball doesn't go out even in this day and age. That is one, tough break for Collins/Sox.

I hope there isn't mass death. This virus really might be the end of mankind, though. Think about it. I keep hearing this will be going on 2-3 years minimum. That classifies as an "end of the world" contender considering all the harm it'll do in terms of health and hit on the food supply.

They all are trying to hit home runs. It is what it is. Modern baseball. In the ninth, the elevation in the swings was hilarious. That's OK. We'll hit a ton of home runs and win as many as we lose this year (maybe do better than that if we keep piecing together nice pitching), but it'd be nice to get Timmy back. He'll hit some doubles and singles; Madrigal too.

Our county is doing well in Covid the last week and a half. Students however are returning to U of Kansas and school starts the 28th. Can't imagine anything but lotsa covid. Are Chicago public schools all online? or do kids have a choice? Are Catholic schools gonna go all online as well? It's interesting cause there have been a lot of states going online for high schools and grade schools. Nationally, however, there's a movement at least with Trump to pretty much say, "it is what it is; deal with it." I think personally this is because covid is gonna be around for years, not months, and the USA has no choice but to deal with it. Which is unfortunate for many who could die from it.

Too bad Madrigal got hurt. I temporarily forgot about TA being hurt, too. Leury's gonna get all the at bats he wants just like last year. He's a good hitter IMO.

Play Leury and have him take extra infield every day. He's not a bad ballplayer. Hope for the best in RF with Mazura/Delmonico.

I didn't know Yearnin was Ron. Congrats on not ripping Jose mercilessly for the chew this year.

Nice to win close games especially on the road (even when there are no fans). That would have been another tough one to win with a full stadium of screaming beer drinkers/cheese lovers. Excellent pitching. Eloy the future and Jose the present with big hits. Even if you hate me, you must acknowledge my fave, Jose, has given you/us a lot of thrills. That was a smart piece of hitting. He blasted that single to left. He was only 1 for 5 but a nice spot for 1. Eloy, Robert, Moncada and Grandal are quite a foursome if they can stay healthy. It's not easy to close and I think Colome is a good closer with so so stuff if that makes any sense. He has the moxie, just not great stuff. I could be wrong. He also should work quicker. Slow workers generally annoy me. Nice win streak, always good to beat KC and Milwaukee. Feel sorry for Madrigal. As advertised he loves to hustle. Trying to make it to third there was dumb. I was thinking he'd learn from getting thrown out, then the unfortunate injury. Hopefully it's just a sore shoulder; I mean knocking the shoulder out of place on a mere slide seems excessive injury to me. But it could be subluxation; I'll say it isn't.

Oh well, time for me to shut up. I'm out. Peace.

Since I jinxed Robert, opposite jinx needed. Moncada will pop up to catcher.