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I thought this game got rained out.

I love how the kids on the other team hi-five the batter on a home run.

Good for you to make what had to be a really tough decision to feel some inner peace. And be who you really are. I don't know who that poster is so I don't miss him, but the timing of this post is interesting. My brother, at the tender age of 40, has just become my sister. I'm mostly just bummed out this decision wasn't arrived at, like, 20 years ago, like she's just been living this lie her whole life. I don't think friends and family or work would've cared in this case, but who knows what goes on inside people's minds. Clearly I didn't, I just thought he couldn't get a girlfriend. Has to be a weight lifted off though. Your post feels like some sort of divine intervention to call her and visit and be more supportive.

bring back everyone using this emoticon in every post. emojis were a mistake. the internet forum perfected the 'smiley' circa 2002.

Probably. I’m left wondering if his limousine business was more successful in 2011. Had to downgrade to third base side seats, Uber and Lyft took the home plate seats from him.

for some reason, I was watching "balk off" videos the other night and I came to this one from 2011, Sox vs Royals. I wasn't expecting the "m&m guy getting shoved by security guard" cameo.

Joey Ortiz is batting .829 OPS and has 2.1 WAR so far. I think the people on this board were just wrong about him, he's far from a spare part, the Brewers got an every day shortstop (Adames replacement) with no service time in exchange for a year of Burnes. There's DL Hall too who people seem to think is pretty good but I don't see it.

what the hell happened lol

https://twitter.com/mlbpa_news/status/1804895519740719573?s=46 MLBPA followed up with this statement. He claims he got popped for taking a female infertility drug his doctor allegedly gave him. Should be fairly easy to verify if he is indeed doing family planning. However, I'm left wondering two things. Rejun 50 is a female infertility drug designed to release hormones that stimulate ovulation. Why would a man take that drug? Second, why is a 22-year-old consulting fertility doctors in the first place? Do that s%*# when you're 40, Orelvis, you don't need a child that bad. At least get married first, I thought they were all Catholics over there.

Absurd. I'm surprised he still has options left. There's maybe something logical in optioning a guy rather than cutting someone, but they've fucked around Colas for too long. He does the "right things" and still gets demoted, what message does that send?

Encouraging outing from Thorpe. 6 innings, 0 runs despite shaky control/4 walks. People were wondering what would happen in the future if his control wasn't perfect (myself included), looks like he managed pretty well. of course, you see again that the only two hits he gave up were on fastballs. We have some useful data after 3 outings now and 158 pitches. Against his 4-seamer (58 pitches), opponents bat .357 and slug .714. On the cutter, .500/.1000 (14). Changeup (54): .200/.300 Slider (24): .143/.480 There's a pretty massive disparity. His offspeed is elite but his heat is awful. It gets hit hard too. Obviously something's got to give with the fastball. Soft tossers can still get guys out with a fastball but it's usually a sinker. I'm not sure who Thorpe's comp is in the sense besides Marco Gonzales. And I wouldn't love it if Thorpe turned into him even though he's pretty good (and also started throwing a sinker this year).

A sox win, that's that s%*# I do like. great response from Thorpe.

All the young pitchers are already in AA (or were just there). He’s literally already doing it; and Lee should be doing it every day for the MLB club. That was the implication, then Chuckie or Perez can play back up. It’s basically an irrelevant point though, it’s just to say that I don’t see any point in a one year terrible veteran “working” with long term players (Maldonado). He’s not suppressing Quero specifically, but clearly his contract and roster spot is harming the team, at least in my opinion.

I didn't say call up Quero. He's already working with those guys in AA. I didn't write anything about pinch running either. Your post confuses me because it seems like you're arguing with a ghost and quoted me for some reason, considering I didn't write about whatever you're addressing.

Based on the information we had, it was a stupid decision to make. Turns out he was gambling and got suspended, but why would a rebuilding team (that's going to lose anyway) prioritize untradeable old guys over minor leaguers who have demonstrated some kind of skillset that might translate to the Majors? What's the rush on these guys? Aside from being on the 40man, that is. But considering both guys got added before Rule 5, you have to wonder why they got added to the 40man in the first place, particularly Ellis. It made sense in the context that he'd oscillate between majors/minors like Ramos, not get cut a week after making his debut. If there was a real 40man roster crunch, maybe he's the odd man out, but there's so many guys on this team that aren't helping us now and won't help us later, so why keep them?

according to Fangraphs, Maldonado is ranked 101st out of 102 in "framing". 96th in "defensive runs saved". Is he any good at calling pitches? My instinct says no, he seems to call for the wrong pitch quite often (and pitchers should be calling it themselves anyway). I think anyone with a brain would have seen value in building chemistry between Lee/Quero and the various pitchers instead of expecting Maldonado to develop them. We all make mistakes but someone without an ego would have cut Maldonado a long time ago.

It's a weird move for baseball reasons and for not baseball reasons. Why would they talk about on the broadcast that "he's a big part of the future" after he got sent down and why would MLB.com publish that Merkin puff piece about the Duke? Maybe he's been betting on baseball. Only excuse there could be. Maybe he did something Jorge Lopez-esque behind the scenes. Maybe an opposing GM develops early onset Alzheimers and confuses Chuckie Robinson for Jackie Robinson and makes a very lopsided trade.

that guy is the ultimate shill, somehow a bigger boob than Boob himself. Somehow it passes as journalism in 2024 to say "well, other teams want to trade for a player but don't want to give up all that much". riveting content, nerd.

The dadwife, just as God intended.

for some reason, my cell phone has started sending me notifications for Sox players' terrible batting lines. I didn't ask it to do this. I'm not interested and it's an unprovoked spoiler. uncalled for, iphone. anyway, so I fast-forwarded through the offense just to watch Cannon. what a game, that kid can play! I'm left wondering if the former farm director gets any credit for a 101st overall pick turning into a genuinely good MLB starter at age 23. I personally don't think so, but people give Getz s%*# when the minor leaguers suck so maybe some reciprocal credit is given too.

Schriffen said on the broadcast he worked on a changeup. Nice work, Johnny, he's throwing it between 54-109 MPH now according to Statcast. That'll be hard to hit so long as hitters lay off the 130 MPH fastball. They talk about a good changeup being 10MPH slower than the fastball, but what do they say about 80 MPH slower?

Good or bad look for the MLB: Hiring Dante Bichette for a Father's Day event? His oldest son (also a former pro) is pretty vehement that he was abusive. Sports Illustrated also wrote an article in 1995 that quotes a police deputy's account of him beating up his pregnant teenage wife (was a 27-year-old impregnating an 18-year-old weird in 1992? I think so). Bo doesn't seem to talk about this guy but the brother says he didn't get beatings because he didn't seem quite as gay. MLB's response to this is to block Dante Jr on all of its social media! Ripken Jr. doesn't come out looking too good either. I wonder if any MLB-adjacent journalist like Boob or Passan will investigate this allegation. I would assume not because they know how their bread is buttered, by brown-nosing the industry they're supposed to report on and hold accountable.

Well I guess the mockery is writing a hit piece about a guy nobody cares about. The story about his failed gay club is kind of funny in a tabloid sort of way but the whole thing really just feels like kicking a guy while he's down. Why should fans care about what he's up to in family court? I don't really care about this guy at all beyond the bonus skimming, I'm certainly not speculating if he's lying to a judge. Although now that I'm thinking about it, a Tribune journalist actually did some journalism work beyond checking twitter for a message from his "source"...the good ol days.

hot tip I recently learned: there's a Chrome app called "Reader Mode" that bypasses the Athletic's paywall (it doesn't work for every site). You just have to click on the extension before the site loads the paywall. reading the interview, I think he offers some pretty interesting insights but they're not really about the White Sox organization. He felt that he was entitled to a bonus from the club, and maybe he was, and that's why he concocted this scheme. The other interesting nugget, I guess, is that he alludes to it being a poorly-funded operation. I think what's interesting is his life after prison, how he's basically been kept out of productive work because he's a felon. It makes sense that Dave Stewart couldn't get him a job in the MLB, but US laws also prohibit him from going to Japan or even Canada to work, where he says he has connections. There was this disgusting article written by the Tribune in 2009 (and now unpublished, credit Wayback Machine) mocking him that he has to earn minimum wage. There is evidently no redemption for "criminals" including the ones who don't even do anything that bad, they steal some money from a baseball team and morally bankrupt buscones, (not Latin kids like the team claims) and now they're done for life. Defrauding rich people is truly the most heinous crime imaginable.