chitownsportsfan

Ok we know when people are pining for Renteria, who did bullpen stuff way more egregious than anything TLR has done this year (and without nearly the amount of out of the box GOOD stuff either) that this thread has completely jumped the shark. I honestly don't know what else can be said on this topic I'm not a mod but IMO this thread should be everything NON UNWRITTEN RULES and then create a thread just for UNWRITTEN RULES. Wading in here this morning I felt I was back in Wednesday, which isn't good as I'm already feeling like I don't want to work today, which, uh, I think is a Friday.

Think Jose is 50/50 for today. Hopefully he's feeling better.

I'm surprised TA hasn't faced any backlash for very visibly calling the Twins pussies.

I like CC and I respect him but it's a bit rich to hear him ripping La Russa when he literally walked on his team due to his drinking problem right before the start of the playoffs.

Rumor has it he went to pour one out for Duffey but the bottle was already empty.

I mean he's right there have nearly been fights started in the NBA about guys dunking in blowouts on the last possession. It's considered very, very bad form.

He's a blow hard but I enjoy him. His rant on the the Giants is legendary.

The Mad Dog weighs in: Interesting point on Henry Aaron. Mad Dog is looking a helluva lot better than Mike these days.

possibly. As I noted yesterday it was a full session on talk radio out here. That's quite rare for this Seahawks mad town.

How the fuck do we have another off day? I thought this was the 40 games in 41 day stretch or some shit. Happy for the players to get a win on getaway day and enjoy a relatively normal NYC however. They deserved it. Just don't be too hungover for the opener.

I mean it happened last year with Tatis JR and uh, nothing seemed to have changed.

Totally. I usually will play once a month for like 20 hours in a weekend and then get completely bored. In my 20s when it first came out me and this other guy I teamed with would play like 50 hours each in a week. Can't really do that anymore for various reasons.

It's hard to attack Grandal because he just doesn't swing at tough breaking pitches. He has one of the best off speed eyes I've ever seen. When pitchers get ahead in the count on him they often make a few good pitches that he either fouls or or takes and suddenly it's 2-2 or 3-2 and the pitcher tightens up with a fastball that often misses -- because Grandal can launch a meatball 400 feet.

lol I use discord for playing Rust but I feel old everytime I fire it up so imma have to pass.

I'm done defending his comments as not even I, who thinks TLR is doing a lot of good things, will defend this leaving the clubhouse and I've been consistent on that. I will say that if you watch his actual presser you get a very different tone than reading his words in print. You get the impression watching him that he almost considers this entertainment during a long season. I don't know if that's the right way to say it but I got the impression that after 5K or so games there really isn't much new ground for him to cover on his feelings about how the game should be played and that he knows that and his players know that.

The Mariners rushed Kelenic to MLB as a publicity stunt after pissing him off by low balling him on an arb year buyout contract. If the White Sox had down that this board would have a 100 page thread on it by now. As I've said: the Mariners are one of the worst run franchises in all of pro sports. They have an argument for the worst.

A 139 avg with a wRC+ of 127. Amazing. .9 fWAR they aren't liking his defense as much this year which yea it's been bad at times. Still a top quartile catcher in MLB.

One of their better known followers Aaron Gleeman posted the other day that a team that had lost 25 of their first 38 had never made playoffs. Obviously 2nd WC changes this a bit but they are in dire straights. They aren't quite dead but they are one foot in the grave.

I was going to ask and since you mentioned it: what is the most posted in thread of all time here in one season? Any idea?

I think it complicates things that the Turtle himself, a Latin player, was pitching and appeared to be staring into the Sox dugout and the Twins broadcast noted it. If a younger Latin guy is glaring at another youngish Latin guy, what's the media to make of that and the prevailing "old white guys enforce the unwritten rules" easy narrative?

Big Jomboy fan. Listening to TLR it wasn't like he was even that mad. I dunno, interesting video. Jomboy has some nuanced takes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjz2UKPdFCU

lol now that you mention it he didn't even have his chain out. Clearly TA is not a team player!

I fucking love it. Do you out there. Dude got the 5 out save the other day and was light's out today so keep yelling.

Well that's my point as long that "unwritten rules" shit gets passed on to someone younger it will go on. We agree the mercy rule completely eliminates this thinking. Not only does it give everybody incentive to swing away in blowouts headed to the 8th it also puts the onus on the manager to end the game so nobody can get all ass blasted if they continue and the lead balloons. In a situation like last night I'd imagine the Twins take the forfeit.

I don't really see anybody defending it. I see people trying to figure out how to get rid of it. If you want a revolution you often have to wait until everybody of the thinking dies out -- literaltly. I'd prefer not to wait that long. Introduce a slaughter rule and then you completely eliminate the bullshit surrounding all of this -- including the absurdity of having a position player "save his arm and the bullpen" by lobbing up 45 mph softball pitches. I mean, why not just throw underhand at that point? If you think a mercy rule makes a "mockery" of the game, WTF does a position player doing that shit do?