chitownsportsfan

good looking out I'm older now and don't keep on album releases like I used to. Didn't have any clue Chance was dropping a new one today. Listening now.

You don't want to mess around with nerve damage. Antonio Bass at Michigan about 20 years ago had what was almost surely a long career in pro FB cut short by nerve damage after a knee injury. Thankfully things are a lot safer now and more understood.

I hadn't thought that before but now that you say it makes a lot of sense. "oh it's just the ball". Turns out it was fancy new PEDs including some of that shit the Russians developed to arrest muscle loss in season for their Olympic athletes.

Yikes. I'm looking at the Twins roster, see "Jorge Polanco" has 3.4 fWAR and so I pull up his page and he never hit for much power in the minors and now he's got an ISO over .200 from SS in 2019. Then I see, without knowing anything about the guy, a story from 5/19 on his profile page "Jorge Polanco Puts PED suspension behind him". Yea, he probably started getting the good undetectable shit from Nelson Cruz this season. Fuck the fucking Twins man.

As many Bulls and Sox fans know JR leaves himself open to this sort of speculation because his orgs have a history of weird setups and personnel moves and rewarding loyalty above competence. I'm not going to give a blow by blow of every instance of it but the history of nepotism and intentionally opaque management structures (can't blame someone if nobody is in charge!) is out there in history for anybody to go google.

I'll take it. Give me a 3rd and 4th starter out of that deal and I'm more than happy.

pass the pipe I'm hitting.

so uh what's our dream draft spot and pick?

so much for our shepard. we're just going to the slaughter.

He was in hr rate but again at 96 mph he has more margin for error the velocity drop is a bit worrying.

Sentiment will fuck you more often than not in life.

Jose is going to finish with a OPS+ most likely worse than Palka's 2018. Future cornerstone my fucking ass.

I'm with you man. It's infuriating. against the twins for extra insult a team that is liable to score 8+ on any given night.

The HR/FB regression we all knew was coming has hit Gio pretty hard his last half dozen starts or so. He's going to have to develop a 3rd pitch more on nights he's not sitting 96+ on his heater. 93-94 is going to get turned around often enough to hurt.

He's one of the biggest juicers in MLB. He's the closest thing to the roided up versions of Bonds and Sammy and McGuire and so many others we have in MLB today. Guy turned 33 and turned into Jim Thome.

If they get blown out tonight I'll abdicate the game thread to somebody else. My titles have been a self fulfilling prophecy going on two nights in a row. My reverse jinx is DOA.

save the tread imo. tank year. next year he can run.

They changed it for when you're logged in, as I am at work usually. This is the new UI, there is no "copy link to tweet" option anymore I have to use the URL in my browser. If anybody knows a workaround without installing a twitter extension lemme know, please!

This lineup is absolute trash but you knew it would be. I love how hard it is to simply copy a link on Twitter now. Do they own stock in Tweetdeck I'm at the end of my rope with the web UI.

seems a league wide reaction to "it's a shit market to sell in".

Yes they should. Sox need to be doing due diligence on every SP on the market this summer. It's a buyer's market. @mqr I don't know if Noah is good enough to make that deal but man I'd consider it. I'd probably want it to come with an extension for Noah so we have cost certainty.

The last time I saw this was little league, where it's fairly common. It's beyond embarrassing that MLB's own umps didn't know the rule.

You can think about WAR when Jose fails to properly get off the bag with a runner on 1st and a double play ball turns into runs for the opposition as it did the other night in Tampa. I personally cannot wait to have Vaughn at 1st so we don't have to play with a statue at 1st anymore. @mqr lol.

I think we can do better than a guy projected as a 1 WAR starter at 1B/DH, how about you? Or do you continue to value sentimental bullshit over wins for the team you ostensibly root for?

I think he's a really good 3 in a loaded, playoff expectations rotation. On most teams he'd be a really good 2 or borderline ace. I can see a Quintana esque run for him producing about 20 WAR over the next 5 years. That would probably rank him somewhere around 20-25 for SP so not quite an ace (probably reserve that for only 7-10 guys in all of MLB) but certainly one of teh best pitchers in baseball.