chitownsportsfan

God I can't stand 1B that are lazy getting off the bag. Thanks Vladdy.

why is graham platner on the mound for Toronto?

it wasn't even close. it was both low and outside.

jesus christ just go to full ABS. I'm so tired.

has the game started?

take it up with lance johnson and hawk then. goodness.

Hahn was always alluding to some sort of "process" that imo likely involved both JR and KW meddling in decisions the GM should be making with input from below, not above. That said, I said it over and over: if Hahn didn't like his working environment he was free to resign at any time. But he liked those JR checks.

If he's talking Schriffdog ain't, so that's a win in my book.

The body transformation is mostly responsible, agree. He worked hard and it paid off. It was interesting seeing the Sox talking about their projected weigh gain for Roch and how it would affect his performance. Not everybody can put on muscle and remain great at a skill based sport, so trying to at least model it a bit is important.

90% of what I watch is sports. The remaining 10% is torrented. I'm not a big TV or Film guy, not really my thing. Rather play some OOTP or Football Manager to kill a few hours.

Helpful info but not a chance in hell I'm signing up for another streaming service to watch Ted Lasso and a couple WS games. I'll be watching via other means. No pause or DVR like MLB.tv but free and with zero chance I forget to cancel a sub next month. Go Sox. Interesting the way they decided to order the SP. I'd have come out guns blazing with Burke, but so far most things they've done have turned out well, we'll see how Kay does tonight.

He's a solid 26th man. He'd be an awful regular in CF or at SS. On good teams guys can slot into roles, thankfully we have one this year.

Garrett is "not throwing baseballs" as of 7/13. Something isn't adding up. His lat strain was said to be "mild" and yet he's unable to throw 60 days later? Pitchers, bro. They get injured a lot.

Nobody wants the clubhouse cancer Soto and the 600 or so million left on his deal. One of the greatest hitters of his generation, but a bum in the field and a clubhouse downer unlike Manny and Miggy and Papi, the other 150+ wrc+ type bat only types to come before him. If you're that good of player, being a s%*# leader is a huge drawback, as the org will play favorites and mets fans complain about it. Mets are one of the worst run FOs in pro sports, honestly the White Sox might be better given the resources available the last 30 years.

I was a big Wes Kath guy as well. Seemed like a great pick at the time. HS guys are just wild cards. I get why the greedy MLB owners want to limit them in the draft, but eff off.

Damn you lose a bet with the wifey or something, Sox over .500 at the ASB you gotta give up a 20 year schtick?

It's really nice. I went like 25 years ago tho, not sure how it's aged but sounds like it's held up. One thing is it doesn't feel like a dome, not quite as advanced as the roof at T-Mobile, but similar. We're on Apple TV tmr, dad gumit.

We better get at least one regular plus a star in roch from this draft. It's being praised everywhere, but it's a fickle sport.

About 17 years ago I was on a Spirit flight with SAS before he was really famous. Hence him taking a budget flight with my 20 something ass out of NYC. He was most known for the "cheese doodle" incident at the NBA draft at that point. He was headed to Detroit from NYC to interview for a radio gig there. We were stuck on the tarmac at DTW for like an hour before we hit the gate, that mofo never shut up the entire time he was on the phone with his agent, some relatives, female and male, and lord only knows who else. What you see on TV is def what you get IRL, for better and worse. Dude has the gift of gab. He ended up getting back on the air in NYC, the rest is history. I had a MP3 recorder on me at the time and recorded a lot of his ranting, sadly I lost it in a HD failure years ago.

For Pat it's a little different. ESPN is in reality licensing his show. Pat retains large editorial control, and the costs to produce the show are his alone. That's probably like 15 million right off the top, maybe more. Pat does a good job branding, including on social media, so I'm sure he thinks he'll make more on the top having that overall control. I have no idea why they pay SAS what they do. I don't know anybody my age that has put his show on in 15 years. I think he exists to fill large content holes for ESPN and without a suitable replacement they are willing to pay him more than he's worth so they aren't replaying corn hole or whatever at the 10am hour. As a brand he has value to them more than just his viewership, as he is frequently a social media flash point and generates eye balls outside the hours his show is aired. ESPN in general has been struggling to turn a profit. Their margins are under attack in various directions. They are still profitable but the margins are less than they were before the explosion in cord cutting and broadcast rights fees.

Credit to Vargas and Sox coaching staff. It's not every day a random back end top 75 type guy turns into a 5 WAR star.

Chicago is just a cow town. They sign s%*# in Philly.

Getz has done a great job in this aspect. Having the pretty nice war room and the ESPN reporter tell all was a big balls moment. I'm def enjoying the ways the org is moving these days, however the process arrived at Getz, it's working. I was looking at some of the position player fWAR on those teams and in hindsight pretty mediocre. we had some pretty good SP for a minute, the position player side was a bunch of old guys holding on to some prime, some never would be guys and some talented but injury prone youngsters. Grandal was a s%*# signing overall, damn man, guy just gave up.

It would be fascinating to hear Jose talk about some of the things he experienced. I wonder if the Sox will start to involve him in things.

I'm not trying to pick a fight but for an analytics oriented guy it's sorta wild to handwave away basically a 2 WAR head start as a solid defensive SS over an average LF. Bonemer is a great prospect, but nobody is drafting him 1st overall in this draft. roch's path to 4 war is like 240/320/400 and play a solid, not elite, just solid defensive SS. Caleb's is like 240/340/530 and don't trip over your dick out there in LF. It's easy to see in this example why positional scarcity matters. If you want to argue Bonemer will be too good to move off "the dirt" (this and "shoving" are annoying me) that's a different argument, one I don't really pretend to have an opinion on.