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Well, that's what he said and what the quote derives from. "I was bad and the team was bad and being bad isn't much fun". I don't think there's anything to read into here unlike the Lance, Middleton, Kelly remarks (actual knuckleheads). I wouldn't blame him for being upset anyway, being dicked around in trade rumors all summer while still doing promos as the "Sox's ace". Yeah it's "part of the business", but it has to be tough. Still he's had ample opportunity to express his displeasure publicly and he's only ever criticized himself. Cease was one of the good attitude guys on this team, and the other non-cancerous pitchers on the team seemingly respected him as a leader and as someone to emulate. I don't think he's "taking shots" by any stretch of the imagination so much as he's giving a say-nothing diplomatic response about a situation that the pretty much every baseball fan is curious about: "what the f*** happened to you guys?"

I think there might actually be something to this regarding the Sox and Marlins. Fools gold teams that eventually collapsed and revealed serious organizational deficiencies. Maybe Ng really took after her old buddy Kw and infected the Marlins with Sox issues. jokes aside, this got me thinking, I’ve been watching a bunch of Dodgers games lately (sue me) and you watch them play and see an organization that actually sets its players up for success. Muncy was talking about preparation and how their coaching staff gets them ready to hit — it was a far cry from Luis Robert’s mantra “I just know their velocity”. Consequently, you see guys like Pages get called up and set the world on fire despite having serious flaws in their game. I’m certain the Sox hitting woes as a team is more reflective of the coaching than it is the individual players. Schriffen had a bit about our hitting coach who said plainly “I let the guys do their own thing and they can come to me if they need help.” That’s BS and it clearly isn’t working. Scouting and preparation is half the battle and I don’t feel like there’s an impetus from the coaching staff to do any of that. At least on the hitting side of things, I’m probably a minority that thinks Katz does an OK job.

Probably not. But maybe. Then again probably not. I think he has the range and arm to be decent at 3B, just not the health. I'm kind of hoping the Cubs trade for him, they could use him.

4 runs in 2 innings on 54 pitches. 4 walks, 0 strikeouts. Terrific work, Clev. Maybe 5 days from now he can lower his ERA to a single digit. That would be something. Or he gets cut, that would be fine too.

He started off really hot then went 2-26 over a week long stretch then went on the IL. Probably he was playing hurt and it tanked a small sample size of plate appearances. I still think the Burger trade was a good idea, but he didn’t forget how to hit. Frankly I think he’ll get even better and combine the two parts of his game that hit for power and hit for average into one complete package. Provided he can stay healthy which is a big ask. He’s kind of old but he’s not a finished product, I bet he could become an average defensive 3B too (Max Muncy with speed).

I fielded a groundball and threw it to the first baseman for the out. I think coach's brain exploded. I actually feel bad calling him a jerk in the other post, he was a good man that took kids' baseball a little too seriously. "you guys played terrible, get the f*** out of here!" "coach we're 11."

then write a better one. this ain't it.

The hater is an abstract construct that exists in all of our minds, especially in the minds of professional athletes and evidently commentators. Renowned poet Soulja Boy once rhetorically asked us (thinking men), "got a question: why they hatin' on me?" He famously followed up with, "if haters want to hate, they'll get shot like a free throw (swoosh)". Who is "they"? Who is the "hater"? He isn't a real person. He's an idea. A motivational tool. An imagined enemy. The hater is whoever you want him to be.

You don't remember that time Jesus got rung up on a pitch a foot off the plate? I think that's where the 'turn the other cheek' bit comes from.

He looks unstoppable if he can clean up the homers against righties, for now he's approaching LLL territory*. Pretty amazing that he just doesn't walk guys anymore. All the homers are from right-handed batters though. Coming into this game, lefties are slugging .063 against him while righties slug .487. Not ideal splits. *left-handed lance lynn

what is there to look at? my vision isn't that good.

regardless of haters, why was he so mad about the rain delay? that was so weird. then he sounded unhinged three hours later.

Maybe. I bet there's room for a 2B/1B type. Who will DH when/if Eloy is gone? India's already locked up next year at $5m, control until 2027 (one more year than Kopech). I don't know what one could really expect to get for Kopech, to me it feels like pretty fair value and, on the surface, sensible for both teams. I think Noelvi Marte comes back from his suspension before the deadline, where does that leave India? Would be great if Gonzalez/Montgomery/Ramos actually turned into a respectable infield. But can you really have too many middle infielders? I thought you liked Preller!

I don't know why this is news. I wonder if Agrest can remember a time when he was an actual journalist. This reads like a pearl-clutching blog post from a guy who, naturally, lives in Wilmette. You can read into what he chooses to criticize, quoting a rapper, pride in the South Side. Interesting. I certainly I read into it. There was a post in another thread about the 30 and younger crowd being bored with this team, then you have a bunch of old guys whining about the sort of lingo that young people use. Get over it.

I like how Schriffen says he doesn't have the time to keep up with baseball players' stats. Interesting. I thought that was like half the job.

I'm 35 and under and not bored

I think if they were going to trade Robert, it should've been this past offseason. That was probably the height of his trade value unless he returns and plays out of his mind the rest of the year. Still, one less year of control. Might as well keep him now. I'm still on the "Kopech for India" bandwagon. Rearranging the deckchairs for both teams probably, but both guys have talent they've underperformed. Maybe a change of scenery helps.

Do you think they should've called up Colson to play 3B or Sosa again? I'm not like "fire Getz" because he didn't sign some 40-year-old to be fourth string 3B, but I agree that I would've expected him to go to AAA first. I think he should've started the season there frankly. I don't hate this move though, only that there's nothing to lose playing Sosa for an extended period.

I don't think your typical fan knows who Bryan Ramos is. He isn't selling tickets. I'm actually fairly surprised by the reaction, I thought it was pretty well agreed that Ramos was getting called up this year. Pipeline seemed to think so. Maybe not this early in the season after his rough start. But it's probably a good thing to get an extended look at him at 3B before the coming offseason, see if he can actually play or if they need to sign somebody. Is he being rushed? Maybe. Prove it.

He fits with their team right now but I wonder if he's Ha-Seong Kim's eventual replacement. Does seem a little odd to have a 1B/DH tandem that might combine for 20 home runs.

I thought he might be called up this season but it feels like there are better options ahead of him at the moment. Is Sosa just done getting chances?

well yeah those people were always morons (or brainwashed more likely), I'm making the point that 'social justice' tends to be a left-wing arena, ie expanding rights for the poor, strengthening worker protections, improving the environment etc. but now it's a corporate one. Nike and Disney are the arbiters of social justice and individuals can virtue signal to their peers what their political opinions are by the products they buy. If you didn't like billionaire Taylor Swift's new record, you're a misogynist. I've genuinely been called a racist because I said I didn't like Beyonce's music (I prefer Kelly Rowland). I wonder how much that company made off those signs that say "in this house we believe in science, women's rights are human rights, etc". I remember in grad school, some official from the mayor's office gave a presentation to my class about what the city is doing to support social justice. This woman says, "We at the city DESPISE CAPITALISM that's why we're going to give away public money to black and female real estate developers instead of white ones to build million dollar condos in black neighborhoods that nobody can afford". Then go look at Columbia University and you see trust fund 'socialists' beating up/kidnapping black maintenance workers to pwn the Israelis. These people genuinely have worms in their brains and their actions in the world are the opposite of what they think in their head they're accomplishing. To me that's worse than Cletus in West Virginia voting for Trump because he's never met anyone that didn't look like him. Political ideation is now entirely based on patterns of consumption. Is the material world any better than it was a decade ago? I think it's worse.

There’s nothing political about it. Bud Light needed a gimmick because nobody drinks their s%*# beer anymore. They tried something provocative that would give them a ton of attention, positive and negative. Frankly this is the purpose of “social justice” in 2024. That period started I think when Kaepernick signed a deal with Nike and a bunch of sweatshop employees started making $80 “black lives matters” shirts for wealthy liberals to buy. But I digress. It’s very very different from having pride in where you’re from. It’s not immediately political just because it’s the south side of Chicago, though if Schriffen wants to make fun of lakeview YUPs, I’m here for it.