southsideirish71

They should be trying to bury the division. This is not an elite offense with Eloy and Robert out of it. So keeping other teams around is not a formula for success. We are currently winning with great pitching and we have faced some dogs lately.

This inning was lost by an asshole trying to hit a 9000 foot homer instead of just trying to hit the ball hard. Great work Grandal.

Turning 1st and 2nd with no outs into 2nd and third with 2 outs with Leury up.

Grandal trying to send every pitch into the parking lot. What a garbage AB.

He is a vet and he is lefty. That checks a whole bunch of knobs for TLR.

Gio is not hitting his spots. He needs to either bury the changeup or throw it way high. Throwing it over the meat of the plate is not on the catcher its on his execution.

It's a high bowl. So any aesthetics of playing downtown would require demoing a large part of the bowl. The idea of playing downtown is to have a view like what the knights have. Something a bit further away than this would still have that iconic look. But the problem is imagine Solider field and what would have to be done to get said view. You might as well knock it down and start over.

The average person walking around barely has the horsepower in their brain to operate complex machinery like a fork and knife without hurting themselves. Most of these mouthbreathers would have died off in previous times due to being eaten by a predator or dying from some disease. Unfortunately, the same science that they revolt against keeps them alive even when they do stupid things.

If they sign Pujols then you know TLR is the GM.

You realize that there are other players besides ones who share a zipcode with you, Greg. I know you have a hard-on for all things Royals but seriously.

My son used a valle training glove for offseason work. PBP Pro also sells them as well. It was undersized. Also he has a pancake mitt.

Breaking in a mitt is an amazing tradition. I took my time with my son's infield mitts. It took months doing it correctly so I didn't ruin the leather or screw up the shape. He liked a flared style. Shallow pocket as an infielder. Nokona's are great for OF and pitchers. They are relatively easy to break in. They are a bit too flexible for an infield mitt IMHO. Infield mitt shaping has to be done correctly for a pro-style mitt. A2000/A2k from Wilson and Rawlings Heart of the Hide line are what I consider a pro-style mitt. For breaking it, don't do crazy things like steaming it or putting it in the dryer. That screws up the integrity of the leather. Wilson's glovemaster Shigeaki Aso has a ton of videos of him breaking mitts in for the pros. If the grandchild is under 12 he doesn't need a pro-style mitt. They really don't take care of it as an older child would. I would say 12 and older is good to go for a pro-style mitt.

It was 80 degrees this weekend.

The sox are better than the tigers right now. That's about it.

Those game threads were crazy as well. There was the resident stalker who got so worked up he wanted to fight people. I believe he still reads these forums in his banned sad existence.

I can imagine that a certain Ben Davis fan would be famous.

Chat Crew. That was a great element to soxtalk, was the chat.

It's so bad we have a new specialty called framing which is code for umpires are so dumb we can trick them into something being a strike based on the slight movement of the wrist. Slight of hand belongs in a club with a magician, not in a competitive game.

The human game has an element that cannot clean itself up because its protected by an umpires union. If this was just a matter of the occasional slight that would be fine. But we are seeing new levels of incompetence protected by an entity that cares only for the umpires. Hell Angel Hernandez sued because he felt he was being slighted because he wasn't leading a playoff umpire roster. Thats amazing. We are also at a point where velocity and movement mixed with framing might be too quick for the human eye. So flawed individuals with flawed skills that cannot be questioned are making unilateral decisions. Sounds like a recipe for failure.

MLB players should feast on fastballs. Hitting fastballs well is how you stay up and are successful. Not many players are going to hit breaking pitches successfully.

Found Jerry's burner.

This is also the Red Sox at home. Any banging or apple watches involved. Tipping his pitches is the only way you can somehow figure out a good changeup from a fastball even if its 91-94.

Might be time to have a Collins/Gio pairing.

Some posters "He was just aced by a fastball over the middle of the plate. Unhittable. Do you judge all ABs only by if they hit. What do you know about base.....oh wait. looks up....not Mercedes. Oh nevermind."