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Gas he gawn!

This is emotional wow

Let’s fucking go mike!

Lol robots

Totally. Be better make the play.

I will reiterate: Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ

Town up there slashing then does that lol

Love giolito there in the dugout giving Robert dap for the walk

Abreu! Great inning!

Correct

Lol Vaughn overmatched against 93

The only thing I'll say on this: as someone that worked in electoral politics -- the public badly misunderstands how elections are secure even without showing ID at the polls. The major conflation is that voter roll database errors create potential for fraud without ID. They don't, for various reasons.

Cool.

John Sickels was dead wrong on Nick's physical profile. https://www.minorleagueball.com/2018/4/20/17262286/2018-mlb-draft-nick-madrigal-2b-oregon-state-university-scouting-report Speed is the best tool overall, with grades between 60 and 70 depending on the source. You can split the difference at 65 if you like, but everyone agrees that he’s an excellent baserunner with an ideal combination of instincts, athleticism, and aggression. Speed doesn’t matter much if you can’t get on base but Madrigal excels in that department, with a superior batting eye and contact ability. There’s plenty of bat speed and his power production has improved steadily. He should hit a substantial number of doubles and triples and has a shot at hitting double-digit homers down the line. He can bunt, too, if you’re interested in small ball. Madrigal plays second base for the Beavers due to the presence of Cadyn Grenier at shortstop. Madrigal is a tremendous second baseman, MLB.com going so far as to say he could be a Gold Glover someday. His arm and range are good enough for him to be a plausible shortstop, too. To top it all off, his makeup is considered superb.

That's a good post, takes some guts. I quit drinking after a couple glasses of wine and did some chess puzzles to blow off some steam after the Madrigal error. We can rip Nick, and god knows he deserved it last night, but he's an important piece to the present and future and for know I will try and lay off him a bit in the game threads. @Kalapse, nailed it! Game thread are their own entity. Quite a few forums have a "what happens in the game thread stays in the game thread" policy and it works pretty well.

I think that yourself, fathom and myself were the main brake pumpers last year. I bought into the hype until I saw his in game athleticism last year against MLB talent. It is average at best and his arm is also borderline. It makes me wonder about the draft scouts (paid and otherwise) who kept telling us he was only playing 2B because of an elite SS next to him at OSU. Nah he was at 2B because he's not a SS, at all. At least the Sox realized this when he got in the system. There was an interesting moment on a popup last night with TA where Madrigal fought the lights and called off Tim. It looked like Madrigal called Tim off, correctly, then almost dropped it and he laughed it off. it was a prelude to a couple innings later when he almost threw it into LF on a routine fielders choice. He seems like a borderline starter unless he's hitting 300. Good luck.

eh, reached the point in the night where it's pointless to keep posting. go sox, I can rip nick tmr.

he's a cocky b**** and he just lost the sox this game.

Jesus christ.

That's the ballgame, right there.

I can't fucking stand this kid.

Ohtani bails against LHP, keep it outside.

That's a bummer.