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Just stop. Sheets was playing OF in spring training bro.

You are what your record says you are. Period. This is pro sports. Getz quite loudly announced a plan for the team to immediately become solid defensively and with enough otherwise to field a competitive squad the fans could appreciate. And now where are we?

They have a mediocre, but fun team with a club legend in Cutch still performing well enough to give the fans some cheer once and while and are running out some young talent in a stars and scrubs configuration. It really is amazing we can't even match that mid aughts definition of White Sox success.

It makes sense don't overthink it. Getz put together one of the worst offenses of the non deadball era. It's so bad that the impetus must have been trying to get shutout, otherwise it makes no sense.

i ran your post through the ai.

Listening to John?

this is one of the 60 of the 120 you're gonna lose.

@WestEddy when he's making game threads in August, he's going for 54 in a row and the forum has long moved onto ND and Bears fall camp.

It's funny I would have really thought @Harold's Leg Liftwould be more in this thread. If there is a singular data point to congrats Getz on it's making Garrett train like a starter in spring and execute it into mid summer to the tune of a Cy Young winning type first half. Cool.

You can get a haul back for Garett now, probably a top 30 guy, a top 70 guy and then a top 150 guy and maybe if Getz plays it right he gets a bidding war going and you get two more decent lotto ticket type 17 year position players. Pull the trigger. I've argued for extending but this is as good as it gets for a pitcher. He'll never again be this healthy and valuable.

If he *only* had a history of hamstring injuries I'd agree with you. But, hamstring issues are usually caused by poor training and too much tension on the hamstring muscle and tendon relative to the quad and even then will often by the first thing to go on a well trained athlete giving it the max effort. But Eloy? Every soft tissue in his body is constantly barking at him. Like, is he chronically dehydrated or something? Someone slip him some fucking advanced PED like the russian swimmers use or something, crikey.

Nice, I've only been to LA once and didn't get to check out Chavez Ravine and Dodger Stadium. Dodgers fans seem fun, saw a bunch at Camelback the couple times I was at ST.

I think everybody here can remember being 25-28 or so as a weekend warrior or part time athlete or whatever. You know how fucking hard it was to strain a muscle or do similar soft tissue injury? Some guys have weaker ligaments some guys have weaker connective tissue in general, some guys put on too much muscle too quickly and their joints and connective tissues aren't prepared for it and they pull an oblique or hammy or something: Eloy? He looks to play at about 18% body fat, and while he has muscle, he isn't a guy like Robert with tree trunks for thighs and a massive upper body. I have no fucking clue how a guy at his age, with his body type, keeps getting so many soft tissue issues unless he's simply not doing anything needed to stay on the field. I'm not even talking about doing a little work, it's almost like he's doing no work. At best, it's like he's lifting and training with no plan, and then in season he's just stupidly prone to soft tissue injuries that should not be happening to anybody at age 27. Eloy, at least to me, comes across as a guy that expected to roll out of bed and hit 280/340/500 for his career and just expected to never train. That's pretty much where I'm at with him. He's a guy that coasted on natural ability for too long and when he got to MLB and everybody has natural ability he got got.

a game thread breaking out into a orioles piss fest has to be a new low.

Yikes.

After the inaugural pitchfork we broke into the chicago yacht club, smoked a joint on one of the boats, then the CPD showed up, busted us, cuffed my buddy, and then thankfully a domestic violence stabbing call came in and they told us suburban boys to not do dumb s%*# in the Chi anymore. You should have seen the 5 of us trying to swim and hide from the cop boat. One of my buddies actually managed to hide under a yacht the rest of us got busted and hauled into shore.

Can totally see that. That's fine, just stay healthy for a few years and be a solid 4th starter. That's all we ask. Nice to see Vaughn and Lee hitting today, if we have any hope of competing in the next few years those guys need to turn into solid regulars.

The Soxs favorite dilla album is clearly donuts.

He's almost certainly been told to play 80% until he's moved. It's the smartest thing the Sox have done all year.

Sox appear to have been good with that as well.

how the f*** do you find yourself on this message board, in 2024, and still call the guy roberts? I'm legit thinking it must be almost impossible. Anyways, Sox about to lose again and get back on pace for 125 losses. HISTORY!