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Did you enjoy watching the Braves in the 90's before you became woke and you decided that the Braves symbol was racist and so was the tomahawk chop? I guess you woke up when everyone else did . I know my position is a losing one because I am not acting like the woke people who must invade people's enjoyment of a simple game with how hip they have become.

Sure bring politics into a baseball game thread. Some of us would like to just enjoy the games.

Pollock HR then Taylor 2 run HR and Dodgers up 3-2 now in the 2nd.

Kelly coming out after a single by Albies and Freeman HR puts ATL up 2-0. Might be coming out for an injury.

Yea poor poor Kimbrel so much bad luck. All those barrels hitting all those balls in places where there were no fielders in the wrong inning while making an ungodly sum of money per pitch.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/jose-rodriguez-showcases-power-bat-for-glendale?t=arizona-fall-league-coverage I put this in the AFL thread but also here in case anyone missed it

No it still works because I made the NLCS thread and wrote Doders instead of Dodgers and I just changed it.

He only got a brief taste of AA so we will have to see how he does there next year. That level should be his biggest challenge. Yolbert Sanchez ,who played very well in AA after his promotion and Romy Gonzalez will perhaps get a shot and both should be in Spring Training .

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You know as the starter of any thread you can edit the title .

Nice write up on Jose Rodriguez who hit a granny yesterday in the AFL. Interview is also on video at the same link with Danny Farquhar doing the interpreting for Jose. When was the last time the Sox had a 20 yr old climb 3 levels in a season and then jump into the AFL ? Jose is is a very exciting prospect. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/jose-rodriguez-showcases-power-bat-for-glendale?t=arizona-fall-league-coverage

It's going to be a long off season and made longer by endless speculation. Just going to sit back strap it down and see what happens with the CBA . Ciao.

Chris Taylor with a 2 out bases loaded double nets the Dodgers 2 runs. It was actually a bloop single to CF that Heredia couldn't scoop on the short hop and let it get by him. How the official scorer gave him a double I'll never know. Heredia was brought in on a double switch.

Game 2 , 2-2 in the 7th.

Madrigal might've won the batting title if not for the injury the way he was hitting when injured . His last 75 AB's he hit like .355 . Madrigal's .305 is not that far off from the .319 Gurriel hit and won the batting title with . He can win one in the future if he stays healthy.

Will Smith gettin' jiggy wit it. 2-1 Dodgers

I miss this guy.

True umps as usual interjecting themselves into the game.

LOL I know I thought it was an odd choice for the Giants to be playing that song.

That was Money by Bellinger.

That's a good Sex Pistols song. I forget which one . Bodies ? Yep it's Bodies at the 1:55 mark.

They probably should . But some team may think the Sox just used him in the wrong role and may gamble a decent prospect for KImbrel and eating half the salary.

Can't say I'm thrilled. So he's had 2 tweets about keeping and trading Kimbrel and keeping TLR. Which one do we hate more ? I know it'll be TLR by a landslide. But I'm not so thrilled that the team keeps getting older while trading young guys and talking about multiple Championships and years of contention. I have never wavered from my stance that the year Gio leaves will be our last year of contending in the decade long contention window because the same bozo's are in charge and keep making the same mistakes again and again.

If you put Madrigal in category 3 you have to put Eloy and maybe even Robert in category 3. Eloy has had so many injuries that no one around here wanted him playing LF ever again because he might hurt Robert in the process . There were only a few ( myself included) that said get real Eloy will be playing LF when he comes back. Robert while hitting extremely well when he returned , didn't look like the same runner and actually had to be removed from the last playoff game because of problems in the area his big injury happened in. Don't forget Robert was also injured a couple of times in 2018 with left thumb sprains in which he played basically the same amount he did this year.

I know what you're talking about because I was in the same place always suggesting they trade him. However I never dreamed that a guy with so much potential and years left would be traded for another vet again the Sox giving up control and years of a guy who could be a special player for a guy with his best years behind him and eating a bunch of money while also throwing in another kid with control who showed a lot of promise as a reliever. Robert was injured his 1st 2 years in the minors and some of the same people who hate Madrigal were questioning Robert's power. Injuries suck and make us question durability and ability but the Sox just seem to keep trading kids with potential for old guys and Tatis and Semien have taught them nothing. They did the same thing with Dunning for Lynn. That one worked out because they resigned Lynn but if he gets injured or regresses like Keuchel that will change some minds. It's not so much about missing the player it's about the same dopes doing the same thing over and over again. I've never been one to think prospects are untouchable. The Sox have a bunch of DH's in Eloy , Vaughn and Sheets and Mercedes while he was playing good. Those are the prospects you trade to get more well rounded guys. Trade time for time, not time for old, expensive and no time.