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@ptatc and @southsider2k5 you guys are right. There needs to be a sacrifical lamb or two and some actual consequences. This is some more "unwritten rules" crap IMO. Can't snitch, if you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin', all that crap.

Quite interesting in light of this article today. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/pitcher-zstats-at-the-quarter-mark/ Lynn is a big over performer of Dan's zFIP, which is some sort of statcast based FIP, above my paygrade.

I wouldn't give up anything for him. He's injury prone, on the wrong side of 30 and at best he gives you maybe 1.5 more WAR rest of the season than whatever combo of Leury/Eaton/Engel/Vaughn/Mendick mans the corner spots the rest of the way. That's at best. There would be many middle case scenarios where it's closer to .5 WAR. Of course the Mariners would be smart to sell him NOW, before he gets hurt and while he's at peak value contract wise -- which is probably why they won't.

That reminds me, the moron JR passed up a chance to work with Chance on a custom Sox hat and then Chance created his own hat instead. Oof.

lol. Trust me, after awhile it's just a gig like anything else. I'm actually looking to sell my stake in it and move back to the regular economy within the next year. There are benefits of working for yourself but it also has pretty big drawbacks.

The entire team was so tight that if you shoved a broomstick up their ass it would have come out a toothpick. To me, that falls on the manager.

Pretty crazy article, with Sox' hitting coach Menechino quoted. Here are some excerpts, it's paywalled.

I see so many Bulls and Sox hats out here and 9/10 when I ask they say "I just like the hat". Blessing and a curse I guess.

I'd be curious to see if people think Renteria and the Sox choked down the stretch last year. I certainly think they did. You could see panic in their faces and to me that falls on the manager. I've said this before but TLR is on a pass fail grade this year. If the team plays well down the stretch and under the bright lights of the playoffs then he gets a pass, if not, fail.

I read the Sox Machine comments on this as well this morning and good lord, does Jim have a fainting coach ready for his commentators at all times? At least the people here ripping TLR aren't ready to curl up in a ball about it and not watch Sox baseball. Goodness we have become largely a society made of people that find comfort in each other's neuroses online.

My workday is just starting in about 20 minutes. I do my own thing so no boss but being self motivated doing what I do as long as I have comes and goes. I wish we had a day game today to help pass the time.

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.