chitownsportsfan

Whenever someone makes a silly thread over reacting to a small stretch of games this happens. It's like clockwork. Someone should make a thread saying we're looking like the worst team ever again.

Mariners did an incredible job at the deadline I have to hand it to them. Not sure they are anything more than an 86-88 win team but without the additions I'm not sure they even get to 86.

Cold and damp. Roof might be closed.

How the hell does he play the field three nights ago and then is IL'd today? Just makes no sense.

All these guys must do massive amount of hammer curls. It's uncanny. If you ever get a chance look at older players too. Even guys retired for 20 years have massive forearms.

His bat to ball skill in this day and each will keep him on a roster. So far this year his move to 2B has been a undeniable success as he's played it mediocre while hitting 8% better than league average across all positions.

ah nm. good effort. SP sucked too bad to win tonight.

missed his spot but still a pretty tight breaker. good pitch.

lol ok John I see you. It was an epic AB.

lol bro is playing pepper up there.

what a great AB from Mike one way or another.

lol taylor making a fool out of me tonight

lol, honestly when I read that I figured he just went down on 3 pitches and walked back to the dugout late stage konerko style.

Can only squeeze so much utility out of a defense first guy that plays corner OF so fucking much.

Welcome to The Book Colson Montgomery. Time to get to work. Nobody is going to throw him jack s%*# middle in and will pitch him backwards until he can prove he's not just hunting fastballs.

I think Katz has done a solid job turning chicken s%*# into chicken salad (at times) but it was pretty wild seeing Cannon at times doing a full behind the head windup and then other times barely scratching the back of his head with hit. Sure vary and time your delivery so guys don't get comfy but that wasn't that, it was just having zero confidence in your mechanics on a MLB mound. He now has a FIP over 5.25 in his last 150 innings. He is what he is. Cannon fodder. I wanted to believe, but nah.

Isn't there anything they can do about the park effects there? Seems like it really makes scouting any progress or otherwise hard.

He's coming into his own as a player. I think it's a real true talent jump. He went from like 1 WAR to maybe about 2.5 or even 3.5 this year. If you hit 280/300/450 and don't butcher it at 2B that's 3 WAR in today's run environment.

sorta wish I was still there, also enjoying sitting here with a beer that didn't cost 15 dollars.

Pregame Sosa looked extremely relaxed. Was hitting bombs into the bullpen in BP and then after that did a pretty involved warmup by himself. He then took a great walk against Kirby early when everybody else was struggling to ID his breaking stuff.

Seattle just oppresses offense. It's on the waterfront so it's frequently cool and damp, and in the PNW that can mean well into June and even throughout summer at various times. They've brought the fences in numerous times but the park still plays pitcher friendly. To your question I think it was the center right field power alley that was really a problem. That is the fence I believe they brought in like 25 feet over the last decade.

It is going away thankfully but his framing was awful in person. I honestly saw some better stuff from the LLWS this weekend that I caught from the gym treadmill. He has no subtlety with it. He jerks his glove into the zone.

Teel also had a horrible throw on the Raleigh steal. Looked like he wasn't sure if he should throw it or not. I left in the 4th there's no way I'm drinking 15 dollar beers to this crap. I already dropped 35 on the first three. At least I got my Ichiro funpop. Will be a nice little addition to my office decor.

Sobering game for Colson, completely lost.

Headed out. On pace for a 4 hour game. Too old for this s%*#