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See ya!!!

Why have you not magicked away Jerry by now 😡

Reds are in in the process of a big inning. 6 runs so far. Most of them came on 2 outs. I gotta step out, but mega lul, gg mets.

OOF

let's go Chase!!

he's actually 120 OPS points worse vs lefties this season than righties... .558* OPS.

on cue. why bring Mead in for the guy who's hit a home run today?

Has it worked once this season when Venable "played the match up" with a pinch hitter or relief pitcher? The guy really needs to learn how to be a better in game manager imo. Still like him better than Grifool and think he has a bright future. But the calls to the bullpen this season have been headscratchers. Doesn't help that every left-handed pitcher is unreliable.

oh god not this guy

does anyone ever actually get banned from this forum? seems like a good thing to me. it's all in good fun.

they should delay this mess

I think he's gotta be above 3 now

beer league championship next week

lol, turned the game off for a second and we've gone through 3 pitchers somehow 😵‍💫 why take Burke out at 80 pitches is my question

lol that 300 lb ball person moved at lightning speed to avoid fletcher's foul line drive 😅

Sean Burke has a career high 10 Ks through only 4.1. His stuff looks incredibly nasty and is more or less controlling it. He wastes a lot of pitches though. Still can't tell if he's a frontline starter or a reliever though. I'd rather see him in the rotation next year than Davis Martin tbh. I like Martin but I think he's a trade candidate.

They keep getting worse. NFL has some real stupid ones this year too. I don't get it. I mean I get the desire to pump out jerseys, but these 'designers' or whatever are incredibly uncreative. How does this "connect" to the city of DC?

Daylen Lile is a real nice young player. Had that awesome inside the parker a couple weeks ago. .848 OPS in his rookie season, bright spot for the Nats.

gonna be seeing a lot of this I think

I think you misunderstand what I meant. I'm talking about JR playing GM and doing things like hiring Tony La Russa. JR has had his fingerprints over baseball operations since he's been around and now he seems to let the GM have free reign. Whether that's due to old age, selling the team or a genuine willingness to try something different, I have no idea, I'm not a mind reader. I do enjoy how that 'play for second place' quote is received differently nowadays around here evidently. We used to all resonate over how stupid of a thing it was. How JR doesn't desire to win but desires to profiteer. Yeah, I'm pretty consistent about the bolded point. AK went all in one year, it failed because of poor talent evaluation and it jettisoned the future by perpetually trading first round draft picks for has beens. He continues to double down on this horrible strategy leaving the Bulls in NBA hell. I was excited that first season of going 'all in', but it was an unabashed failure. "At least he tried" isn't good enough. Instead of giving up first rounders (and more) for Vucevic, DeRozan, Lonzo Ball, they should've traded Zach Lavine at the height of his trade value. They might've gotten a king's ransom for him like OKC got for Paul George. I'd criticize the Sox/Getz for not doing the same thing with Luis Robert after 2023. I might criticize the Cease return, but I think teams actually valued him appropriately and the jury is out on any of the players returned in that deal (though it's not looking promising). I don't 'stan' Getz, I think it's too early to genuinely know if he's good at the job or not, but I very much appreciate that the White Sox operate far differently than the Stone Age Hahn/Kenny teams. Operate in a similar way that most winning franchises do in this day in age. I've provided a few 'bottomfeeder to good' teams as examples of this process. Are the White Sox those teams? It's too early to say, but the framework and ideation is similar. Good organizational hires who have seemed to make an impact. As stated, I'd change my tune if we're not winning by 2027 and signing real players next offseason. That seems like an aggressive timeframe for a baseball rebuild if anything. I think it's a reasonable perspective for fans to want to watch a 'competitive' team that plays .500ish baseball. It's fun to go to a game or turn on the TV and maybe see a win. The Bulls capture these sorts of fans, the JR quote I cited is rooted in that feeling. But for some reason, I think forum posters and 'diehards' do not necessarily share that perspective. We're entertained regardless or we would've be talking all this s%*# on the internet lol. Good or bad, there's always something to discuss. We haven't tuned out of the Sox. I'm actually tuning back into the Bulls next season, they have a couple of young players whose development I'd like to watch and they played a lot better after finally getting rid of Zach. There seems to be some philosophical differences between rebuilding and treadmilling. If I the GM, I'd follow a similar 'tanking' path where it seems to me you'd do what the Royals did to produce the team they have currently. They've had OK teams the last two years, right? But they're pretty much tapped out and are missing the postseason this year. The Twins followed a similar route and I think they might break the Sox record next season. Teams that aren't the Yankees and Dodgers don't go from treadmill to great. You simply have to build it internally.

“Finish in second place every single year because your fans will say ‘Wow, we got a shot. We’re in it!’ But there’s always the carrot left” - Jerry Reinsdorf I think you can ask for much more as a fan. Losing begets winning, this is just how it works in sports. If the appropriate processes are in place, that is. Nobody seems to care about "the process" besides 76ers fans. Are the neo processes in place any good? I haven't heard a convincing argument that they are not. I could be convinced, I'm tellin ya. Arturas Karnisovas convinced me that the processes he put in place were worse than those of GarPax. I'm not sure the same is true of the current regime. I was hyped on Poles but he seems to be a total disaster...jury is still out but I'm skeptical to say the least. Really seems like JR is checked out of both teams which is good for the Sox and bad for the Bulls in my mind.

I thought they had one more game. shucks. I'm sure all 3 of their fans are sorely disappointed. I think this is the preferred outcome. I thought it would've been funny if the Red Sox fell out, but it'll be great to watch Crochet in the postseason.

FLIP THE SCRIPT! why don't more kids give balls to the grown men who might appreciate it? jk, but heartwarming. nice kid.

Angels come back to beat the Asstros behind 2 homers from Trout. They want out of the postseason as badly as Detroit does.

Started the game late, watched until it was 8-1 or something then nodded off with sweet dreams about Yoendrys Gomez's 93mph four seamer...woke up and the score was 8-5 and Leasure about to give up a 4 piece. Colson coming up clutch was totally hype though. Grant Taylor shut the door throwing absolute heat. For Leasure, these are the first runs he's given up since August 26. He was bound to fumble at some point but otherwise he's been quite good. The last outing vs the Yankees was not so good and he simply looked bad tonight, wasn't commanding his pitches. Venable made a nice call to the bullpen to get him out of there. He simply didn't have it. Sometimes that happens, I wouldn't write him off, but I think he's a 7th/8th inning pitcher kinda guy and not a closer. Grant, on the other hand, is a Mason Miller kind of dude. His ERA will be quite good next year I imagine. I really like those two and Wikelman at the back end of the bullpen.