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He can't hit. Will the major league hitting coaches help him? Do we even have one?

y BBush am i right? What is going on with this team? I haven’t watched baseball in like two months, I’d recommend it.

it seemed like OK value to me when Noah Miller, superstar utilityman, was still in the equation. it still seems like OK value because I kinda like Vargas, but I like it less. It's just a weird trade. The Sox got back exclusively Dodgers players, so did the Dodgers prefer Kopech to Fedde? Or does Tommy Edman move the needle that much? First of all, I didn't even think he was playing baseball this year. Second, is he even still better than Vargas? Defensively, maybe, so is he moving Mookie off SS or taking Lux's spot? I think this is a dumber trade for the Dodgers than it is for the Sox. The Cards make out like kings. Who knows how those 19-year-olds will turn out, maybe the Sox are actually scouting players now. I never bought the propaganda that the Dodgers are better at scouting than every other team, it seems likely to me that they made a dumb trade to "win now".

I like these Friday night games. The dugout interviews are fun and a nice break between bad, boring baseball. I haven't watched a game in like two weeks, damn, but the Crochet and Thorpe interviews seem worth listening to. I keep thinking about that Seattle poster who got drunk and yelled at Sox players but made some nice observations about group dynamics within the dugout. Namely, "the white guy clique". Why is Gavin Sheets always hanging with the pitchers? He should be learning Spanish and learning how to hit and play the outfield from Luis Robert.

Way to go Brooks!

https://www.instagram.com/p/C8Fn37RumVJ/?img_index=1 Disgusting if true (why would she be lying about it?). This woman posted this June 11th, presumably wrote to FSN before that, and Monroe subsequently hasn't worked a game "for personal reasons" since June 9th. The team said to "ask Craig" why. Wow. Let's give a shoutout to our Stone Pony for being kind of a dick but not a child molester.

If you say so. Because this post right here just looks like buzzword salad written by someone who can't actually craft an argument. What am I projecting? I don't drive a car or flip my bat. Never gotten a DUI in my life, but my grandfather killed himself in this way. If I were projecting, I'd probably be saying something else. What information should I have added, do you want a link to the Tim Anderson interview? Or an analysis of all the players who flopped or the poor decisions that Rich Hahn made? You could probably criticize me for wondering about alcoholic-related legislation rather than blaming individuals who commit the act and then are allowed to continue committing it...but you're not doing that. "whatabouts and whatifs" you sound like fucking Dr Seuss. You can have your opinion but you don't need to be a dismissive prick about it. You probably could've responded to the post, but maybe you have some complex about getting the last word on the internet. You can have it.

I didn't say it was a good idea to hire him, I said that a reasonable person couldn't blame the manager for the decline of the White Sox. And I wonder about why every thread that mentions him turns into a discussion of what an idiot he is. There's no "whitewashing" going on, it's a discussion of how his baseball acumen is separate from his apparent alcoholism. And yes I think all the "ha, that fucking drunk" posts are pretty annoying. It's a disease that society excuses and encourages. The Temperance Movement was actually correct. The automobile was a mistake. I don't blame Tony La Russa for being victimized by modernity, but I do think he knows baseball. You might also ask the question about why he was able to keep a driver's license. I know someone who killed another person in a DUI, got out of prison and the first thing they did was buy a car and renew their license. Why is that even allowed? I mean, I personally distinguish between a DUI and something more fundamentally wrong, like what Bauer is accused of. Maybe others do not. I bring it up because everybody else does. Also I've really tried to find something on his racism besides what reporters and talking heads have written about "the unwritten rules", ie the Mercedes situation and other occurrences. These are the same people who intrinsically think baseball is an "old white man's game" and that the "unwritten rules" are inherently an artifact of white supremacy, hence La Russa is a racist for believing in it. There might be a point to that, but what players are accusing him of racism? I imagine Tim Anderson would have a strong opinion on that if it were true, but if you google "tim anderson tony la russa" the first result is an article about their "special relationship" where Tim gushes about Tony in 2022. If you google "tony la russa racist" it's all a discussion on Josh Donaldson. Maybe you could elaborate on this point. Maybe you reduce Dominican ideas of baseball vs American ideas of baseball to "black" vs "white" but that's a pretty lazy assessment to me. Where might Dusty Baker fit into that? Who cares if Yermin Mercedes got "hung out to dry", he hung the team out to dry by being lousy at baseball and having a bad attitude.

So how do you reach the conclusion that he's the cause of this trend and not just someone along for the ride? Like, did Tony make Moncada go from a .900 to .600 OPS hitter? Or that Eloy and Kopech didn't pan out? Did he sign Yasmani Grandal? One might reasonably assume that the team was flawed and poorly constructed and doomed to explode (pretty well parallels the AKME Bulls). And if you're blaming the manager, you might more reasonably blame the front office that hired a new manager every year. Consistent leadership might have been more important. I'll echo wrathofhaaaaaaaahn in that I think the impression Sox fans have of TLR is unfortunate and wrong. He's a hall of famer and baseball legend plain and simple, and the Sox get to claim him. Puritan fans seem to judge him more strongly for being an alcoholic than for anything related to baseball. Stop throwing stones.

welp, better to know in advance not to waste my time watching a 3-0 "nailbiter"

I'm with you on this one tbh.

Gotta be Caba. An actual shortstop.

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.