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He should have filed an appeal or protest soon as he got into the clubhouse. Not sure exactly how that works but at least get it in paper that the umps fucked up, that's the least amount of accountability we can expect.

Hindered is doing a lot of work in that rule. How do you "hinder" an infield popup exactly when it's an automatic out, or, even if you think it wasn't an IF fly rule, how was he "hindered" when he camped under it for a good few seconds and easily made the play? The umps fucked it up and Pedro should have gotten himself ejected even tho the game was over.

As I said, if that is "interference" then you coach your guys to just run into any base-runner, even if they are on the base, during any infield fly. Literally no downside. At least we got fucked by a bad call in a year it won't matter at all. Hard to even get too upset given our team is so awful.

Love ya bud but that doesn't make any sense. It's the opposite for Acuna, as you noted they have a deep lineup. Mariners have Raleigh, Julio and a bunch of average at best players and few below average at best around him. Atlanta's entire lineup is pretty much solid regulars or stars, at least when healthy.

Inverse sports media law: the worse a team is on the field, the more the media will cover the off the field drama.

That's a really bad call. I like John getting upset, f*** it. Has nothing to do with the IF fly rule that is not interference by even the strictest interpretation imo. Like how is the SS "hindered" from making the play there? He camped under it if this is how they are going to interpret the rule then defenders should just purposely go hit baserunners every time there is an infield pop up.

He's under the expert care of the Sox' training staff, so maybe?

Lee has a long ass way to go with his hitting but defensively with that arm and with robot zones coming he has a long career as at very least a solid backup and if he ever learns to hit for any average he'll be a star.

It was almost like the baseball god's having a laugh and throwing in one good player among the dozen replacement level ones Gets has brought in.

Clevinger currently rocking a WHIP of 2. Lovely work from Getz bringing him in and getting him much needed work...

In my experience the 4K broadcast will look better on non 4K tvs just because of the higher bit rate. Even if you don't have a 4K TV. In reality unless you are sitting within 10 feet and/or have a 60" TV you won't really notice anyways. The Amazon 60FPS HDR 1080p broadcasts are stunning on sunday night football.

Great idea we'll make a thread. Let me get off work and get a few in me I'll start one.

wut?

Two out RBI. Finish your drink!

The first generation nissan leaf had more range.

f*** off Vaughn. b**** ass.

lol who is this pitcher? he sucks. we wanted the NOBLETIGER.

No idea why you'd shift on the ground against vaughn but we'll take it.

Oh joy Lopez and Vaughn back to back.

Stock neutral at best. -4 RD now at 27-24. Julio is playing like a 2 WAR CF and not a 6-8 WAR CF. They are in trouble. I've said many times they are putting too much pressure on him to be a top 5 player every year. Just rarely happens in baseball, sport is too hard year to year.

I was thinking about this last night as well. I have been inclined to say "be patient" and "give him a couple years" but as you said, it's quite hard to swing and miss so badly on all the types he brought in without a serious flaw in your player evaluation process. Given that Getz was part and parcel of the failed Hahn era that saw the same flawed process maybe it is already time to say enough.

Picked up .1 WAR somehow in that drubbing yesterday. Getz talked about defense right? Well, FG's has the Sox a staggering 28 runs below average so far, easily worst in the majors. Next worst is LAA at -21. Three of the four worst players in MLB are on the Sox. Only Nick Castellonos' poor start saved us from having all three. Beni at -1.6, Vaugh at -1.2 and Martin at -1.3.

Over the last 210 or so games the White Sox have zero or slightly negative fWAR for their position players. Yes, you read that right. We are fielding a AAAA team, almost literally.

this might be the game that breaks me.

Martin now has an OPS below .300. HOLY f***.