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He won’t be fired - more just the travel and everything else takes a toll and while he loves the game he no longer can be the mgr. I won’t ever root injury or bad health on anyone. This is just more kind of like Phil Jackson hitting that point where the physical toll just wasn’t doable. And I will state - his failure this year with Sox has no barring on his overall spectacular mgr career.

I doubt it works but I have no issue with the attempt.

I would 100% hire Maddon a second. I think he would be exactly what the dr ordered. That said - I expect whomever they hired for the rest of the season would be internal. But who knows - maybe Kenny has been on a plane and talking with Paulie or AJP (would never shock me). I don't see it being Ozzie (although I 100% think he wants the job). One of the minor league guys, i.e, Jirschelle is probably my personal ideal candidate. With that said - if I were in charge I would go with Bochy.

I think retirement / club ambassador is most likely avenue. Maybe a special assistant to Kenny or JR.

I keep thinking All Star Break is where changes happen. I just don't want to be 0-8. I am hoping they can get to needed changes and still finish between here and than around .500 (on the week) - so they aren't any more burried heading into the 2nd half of the season (and give the new coach that ASB window to start making his splash and meeting players, etc).

Wait - he walked him on an 0-1 count? Did something happen where the force out or something else was no longer in play (I clearly didn't watch the game). Are we going to hear about what the analytics told TLR to do in that situation - is he just a great 0-1 hitter?

I think it is two fold. One Kenny foreshadowing changes might happen and it goes for these reasons (maybe a major leaguer or two for other major leaguer deal) and two buying time for next offseason when they clean some of it up (if the new mgr they bring in doesn’t fix it). TLR looks awful in this leak and I don’t see JR as the person who would make TLR look bad in public.

I actually think Eloy is a big part of this - meaning Eloy not being there was a big deal. He is a phenomenal teammate and keeps things loose. Also - Harrison has always been known as an all around good dude. No nothing about pollock (either way), but I do think losing combined with a 2nd year of horeshit mgr and No Eloy was probably a thing.

I think LaRussa is gone at the all star break if they don’t go on a big run and at this point I still wouldn’t be surprised if they make a decent shake up at the break either way.

I think this is probably Kenny saying the mgr is an issue and he set a tone that has everyone out of control. I dont think this absolves a manager - one of the mgrs biggest jobs is managing the lockerroom. Now if there are issues - front office has to be aware of it too and figure out how to right size things as well. But to me this just confirms what we all know - TLR has no control inside and than with that it probably creates so much more strife as well - some of which a new mgr won’t solve because the complete shit they had created a stink fest.

At some point they have to pull the plug on Tony if for no other reason Kenny and HAhn are going to want like one or two months to save themselves right?

For the record the pitcher painted the first pitch for a strike and than threw another ball in the zone in a good location on him. He was 0-2 cause pitcher made two good pitches. He swung at crap with 2 strikes but it wasn’t like he created that hole. It’s baseball and I give credit to Tigers pitcher for making good pitch es to Abreu there. That at bat wasn’t why Sox lost but they did leave way too much out there - like always. I also will say the Tiger starter pitches well - but enough is enough - this team has to ducking hit.

I usually don’t think a mgr/hitting coach change does much - but in this case I could see the team going on a crazy run post change. So clear at the lack of energy and buy in on LaRussa and my gut is players just roll there eyes all day every day at the stuff that goes on.

It goes back to Tony consistently puts his players in as bad a spot as any mgr I have ever seen. From poor to limited shifts, to not holding others accountable (including his coaches), to awful lineup construction and use of pinch runners/defenders etc. the list is so freaking long. Almost makes this squad feel like the black Sox with how many little things they almost purposefully to (players included with their poor base runner, lazy defense, giveaway at bats) that you might just say they are fixing games.

It will even out. Sox about to tie it back up and than some.

Damn - Timmy crushed that.

Now let’s put up a big offensive inning right here!!!

Ask and you shall receive!!! Well done Cease!!!

I assume David Moore is about to get cut by the Bears. Was arrested on weapons and drug charges in Texas today (or report came out today).

Trea Turner is just a stellar baseball player. I know he gets hurt a lot but outside of that he is just really really good.

In the postgame, the mere mention of Eloy's name brought a huge smile to Leury (who was doing the interview with Stone and Benetti after his game winning knock) and the smile said it all. Rest of the interview was Leury just saying players are grinding and staying focused despite the challenges...the usual stuff...but when they mentioned Eloy his face lit up. If he could stay healthy and product to his potential - combined with fact that by all accounts he is an extremely likeable dude in the clubhouse (and one of those free souls) and he really could do WONDERS for this lineup.

Take the scissors and jerseys away.

And yet we have Matt Foster and a bunch of other guys getting a ton of run (for what reason I don't know).

Lets hope we get a lot of that during the rest of the season - with some Abreu, Moncada, Grandal, TA to go with it!!!

Yep - Plus faster base runner to start the bottom part of the frame.