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See what I mean ? Excuse me if after I see posts that still mock me by basically accusing me of things I never said that I feel I am being wronged. So yes again and again and again if i think its necessary . Deal with it. The Vaughn fan boys are still laughing at my posts because I said I didnt like it and think it's rude so they behave childishly and do it more. It's so immature as was your post.

This is a good post. Another thing about the bar room analogy is these sports bar arguments do have a tendency to get heated and erupt into violence occasionally , it happens at the ballpark too once in a while especially during Sox-Cubs games. @fathom is a great poster. Very witty, doesn't carry on protracted arguing, gives props to other others right in the thread or in a pm. He posts in a non combative manner , not this shoot from the hip, i can hide behind my keyboard style. He posts maturely.

I don't know your generation and I don't care . My opinion has been working so far. In what way was I wrong ? If you can't tell the difference between occasionally rest and favorable matchups and demands for playing a very inexperienced player every day and putting that player in a position to do better you have lost your marbles haha lol and any baseball knowledge you think you process. Everyone on this team gets rested and LaRussa plays backups oh noooo I am so wrong ! Vaughn gets pinch hit for by Eaton against a tough righty . Oh no what is LaRussa doing ? Eaton hits a HR. I was told everyone knows I am wrong because I was in the minority. That's some fucked up thinking. Maybe abolitionists , suffragettes, and those who thought the earth was round were wrong too.

This is the problem I have being older and walking slowly. Vaughn starts slowly. LaRussa takes him out of the lineup on occasion. I agree because of various reasons I lay out in a reflective non hating on Vaughn type of way. Getting some favorable matchups could help him gain confidence,he doesn't have to be out there every day ,he's had so little minor league experience, it's a huge jump he's making etc. But all that gets ignored and all of a sudden I'm the Nick Williams lover and Vaughn hater who says Vaughn can't hit righties. Every time Vaughn isn't playing it's non stop venom being spit in the game threads. "Vaughn is playing great now why isn't he playing "? in like 10 posts in a row. Finally, I said has anyone stopped to think that he might be playing better now because LaRussa plays him in games he views as favorable matchups (almost all lefties and some finesse type righties) for Vaughn so he could gain confidence instead of running him out there against righties with nasty sliders and overwhelming heat ? No critical thinking at all just misdirected anger at LaRussa and anyone who thinks he's making the right call with an inexperienced young hitter and left fielder. Every time Vaughn now gets a hit it's like " I was told he couldn't hit righties" or "maybe Nick Williams should ve played today ." I think LaRussa put Vaughn in a position to succeed and it's working.

Not to the Sox . Having too many good players means they can trade one for cheap young starting pitching. Rodon, no idea how long this version of him lasts but probably gone next year. Keuchel not getting younger, Lynn gone after this year most likely. Cease has to prove he can be consistently good. Kopech coming but not there. Crochet a long way from being a starting pitcher so doesn't even make sense to look ahead with him. Stay healthy and we'll see. Giolito's the rock but starting to show a few cracks but he'll be fine. Sox can't keep on expecting the minors to fill pitching holes. No Wheeler , no Gallen , no Burnes, no Woodruff, no Darvish , no Snell.

Cease 1st and foremost. Vaughn,if he can keep this up , steadily gaining confidence from the selective match ups TLR gives him , he'll be a big boost to the offense in an expanded roll . Mercedes , the man, the myth . I hit only 450 ft HR's or I won't hit HR's. Leury proving that once again a versatile , switch hitting, speedy ,jack of all trades is an asset. Moncada and Abreu doing what 3 and 4 hitters should do. Madrigal waving the magic wand and pulling rabbits out of hats.

Is that a rhetorical question or can I take a stab at it ? I would think 1st and foremost that Coop wanted him to work on locating his fastball and probably wanted him to do it without also asking him to change his delivery . I think it was a step by step approach whereas Katz said you are doing so many things wrong we have to rebuild you from the ground up. Trust your stuff, we'll make changes that should allow you to stay more consistent with your delivery and they used the bio mechanics to show him in intimate details what was wrong. Coop was just too old school and while that will work on many occasions , many teams, Dodgers, Astro's, were using high tech. It took the Sox a long time to catch up. I remember the Dodgers had probably more than a dozen high speed camera's used for ultra slow mo while the Sox had one just a few years ago in the middle of the rebuild. Sox are still playing catch up in those things but they have made a lot of progress in finally joining the 21st century. It took them a long time to figure out Cooper was never going to be a student of the high tech available now.

He took a lot of crap because about his baseball IQ because of his base running but the art of hitting requires a high baseball IQ. It's like he can do to major league pitching what most of us have trouble doing in slow pitch softball and that is seeing the opening on the field and having the hand high coordination and bat control to hit it where he wants to much of the time.

Thank you. He is my adopt -a-prospect from a long time ago when they used to do that in Future Sox. I wonder who was the last prospect adopted around here ?

Bauer doesn't use anything if you are talking about the stickyish substance that everyone was making a fuss about in the off season. I believe he said he used it once to make a point that he could be even nastier if he used it.

I expect this to be used in all his starts but it is now a copyrighted phrase and all must pay.

Youth and part of being young is mental approach but he is also learning and trying to perfect new things like the muscle memory required to keep your body balanced and not fall off the mound to his left. Katz worked with him with some kind of device to force him to keep his weight forward to sight his target more consistently and keep the same release point. In the post game interview he said Lance Lynn gave him good advice about picking out a target to throw to or something like that. With the curve he said it was the catchers mask or a little higher. It's very difficult for any pitcher make all these changes from what you have done all your life because those are the things that got him here. You have to humble yourself and start fresh and trust in you coach. Some just cannot give that trust so easily nor makes the changes and stick with them. To Cease's credit he appears to be working hard and believes what he's doing now is the right approach but there will always be times when his body can fall back into old habits. The changes have to become 2nd nature to him.

Don't Cease ! Get it Get it !!

Maybe not. Long way to go and I really don't think, even if he stays healthy, he'll command more than 2-3 years. I seriously doubt anyone offers him 3/60 , not with his injury history , plus there's a long way to go on that front too.

Good game. Rodon has been amazing. 1st AL pitcher in history to have 1st 4 starts of season all with 7+ K's and 3 or fewer hits. Nothing to complain about the whole game thread. Tough matchup for Vaughn today. At least he got a walk. Collins ,Leury ,Lamb all contributed with 3 of the 4 total hits. Hamilton with the RBI GO and Leury with the 2 RBI single. The bench and Rodon won that game.

This X 10000000000000.

Yes all double headers are 7 innings this year.

Typical short thread when it comes to complimenting a guy nobody wanted. However everyone here gets the benefit of the doubt as we wait to see if he can stay relatively healthy and keep producing.

Ok will save this for tomorrow then ! If this isn't played at home games , it seriously should be !

Dude no one wants to hear common sense fatherly advice. On that note at the beginning of yesterday's game thread I wanted to turn the Tiger's into roadkill ( in a competitive non violent way of course) and the lack of a killer instinct reared it's ugly head in the game yesterday. S let's hate on the opposition more than our own team !

That's why it bugs me when people call him soft. I imagine these pudgy beer swilling , Stay Puft Marshmallow Man looking fans burping and calling Moncada soft when it's possible he plays in pain every day. I wouldn't call that soft, I'd call it courageous . Perspective is everything. Calling someone soft because he always seems hurt is the wrong prespective.

Maybe he has that 5 game streak because LaRussa plays him in favorable matchups ? Just a thought.

Robert is sick literally. Covid protocols .

Depends on if that cut bothers him and opens up and we have another bloody situation like with Crochet.