Balta1701

Yay we're even! This is a joke. The guy who made it is somehwere in the comments. Edit:

I think his kids will get short term sentences, if at all. Ivanka has clearly proven tax fraud, but that will be a couple months.

I spent a little while looking through the statcast stuff, his fastball velocity has decreased each of the last few years at the same time as the effectiveness of that pitch has consistently improved each of the last 4 years.

(Reusing from November. Don't care.)

I think the effort a pitcher puts into a big league game is likely a lot higher than a minor league game, and there’s ping to be way more pressure to extend outings or throw that strikeout pitch harder on a team that could compete for the AL. Plus, what’s the big league rule - don’t get beat on your second best pitch? We need him time to work on secondary stuff, without worrying about it if he struggles with it. I also think any concept of “The Crochet Rules” being enforced by the big league team is fantasy. If Crochet isn’t supposed to pitch that day, but LaRussa needs him in innings 10-12, he will use him. And hell, those innings start with someone on! If you’ve got a roster spot on the big league team reserved for a guy you can’t use when you need him, you’ve created a real disadvantage. I will rethink this is there’s no minor league season at all, the big league bullpen and some openers might be our best option. But this team will not give up big league games to develop Crochet as a starter, nor should they.

I’ve got zero problem with that if he’s not burning big league service time. Just get me more than 75 innings and work on the routine and the secondary stuff. If he’s in the big league bullpen in September and helps down the stretch, so much the better.

I don’t know of many relievers who are kept on a schedule like that. Especially not on a team trying to win a pennant.

NO ONE SAID THAT EXCEPT YOU. We are saying some were, the video at the time showed it, and the case has gotten stronger over two days.,To you, that equates to they all must have been.

Better than the choice the White Sox made.

That works for me. I especially like him being on an every 5 day schedule.

They put some of these rules in place after those people in Tennessee turned away eligible elderly people who had waited for hours to vaccinate their friends instead. I assumed they wouldn’t have put strict rules in place unless they could avoid this happening. I was wrong.

No one said that. In fact, I just checked, there are several posts, including by Jack, saying "we know not all of them did this, but there are a substantial number of them that are complicit". We did cast blame on the ones who did that, and you used the honor of those who did their jobs and were hurt to say "how dare you question the officers at all!".

I don't think it's short sighted to bring him up to the big leagues after doing a certain number of innings in the minor leagues, because while they're burning a little service time, they're winning games down the stretch. If you're developing him as a starter, and he gets a little bullpen burn, great! It's the "Full season in the big leagues as a reliever" I would question. You could trade him for something way more impactful than that, someone who would make this team better right now and in 2022. It hurts the 2021-2022 teams because they won't have whoever they would have gotten by trading Crochet, and it hurts the 2023 and on team because they don't have him as a starter. And on top of that, it holds all the injury risk with the White Sox. It's just the all-around riskiest, worst play. Even if it somehow works out in the end, he stays healthy and becomes a solid contributor and they win a title, it's a bad move and they won that title in spite of making a bad move.

I'm not currently interested in a brand new Mercedes. But I will put an offer on the table of $5000 for one right now. Cash. Take that to any dealer you want, I'm good for it if they are.

I've said this before in here, but aside from the selfie, the one that really disturbs me is the moment the woman was shot. There was a crowd approaching a door, trying to breach it. I don't' know for sure, but it looks like it was plausibly the Vice President and his security on the other side, so literally some risk of having a high ranking elected official assassinated. The security has a gun, but no gear. One of them fired. On the same side as the crowd, there are 5 armed, geared riot police standing by and watching the mob. They did not try to delay the mob from breaching the door. They rendered aid to the woman that was shot when she was hit. They would not have had to hold that position all afternoon, they could have even opened the door later to retreat for all I care, but literally there were people on the other side of that door trying to evacuate, they had the gear and equipment to at least slow the mob down and buy them several minutes, and they stood by and said "welp, good luck to them". Those 5 officers standing aside could literally have allowed Pence to be assassinated.

I don't believe anyone would say it was all of them, clearly one of them died fighting these people and 60 were injured. But I would say this: 1. The administration conspired to keep the National Guard from assisting. 2. Whether the leadership of the Capitol Hill PD is ignorant or conspiring, I cannot say, but as noted an officer is dead because of their choices. 3. If a handful of them worked with the rioters, that's plenty. "We had a 99.8% success rate at not unlocking doors for armed, bomb-wielding terrorists" is not an acceptable rate. And frankly, whichever ones of them opened the doors, took selfies, stood by as the mob moved on secure areas - they let their colleagues down too.

So at what point do we go back and quote the people in this thread who said how dare we say there was absolutely zero evidence and no way that there could have been substantial numbers of capitol police conspiring with the rioters?

Isn't pitching 60 innings as a high leverage reliever comparable to all of a sudden trying to race Usain Bolt?

Why isn't that an option? That's exactly what a team wanting to develop him as a starter should do. It's not an option...for the 2021 White Sox because they're willing to sacrifice him to win now. Which is why...trading him should be considered a better option.

I would do exactly that. Get him up to 100 innings, give or take a few, and then shut him down. He may even be effective enough as a starter that you could do some of those starts in the big leagues, but I can't speak to that until ST happens. If you wanted and you thought he was ready, you could bring him back up in September as a reliever down the stretch, a-la David Price in his first year. Making this extremely convenient...An additional starter named Michael Kopech probably will be coming up in June or early July and could take over additional innings.

Here's the trick with that. There are 3 options: 1. Put him as a starter in the minor leagues for some time, stretch him out, with the goal of him being a long-term starter. 2. Trade him for the most impactful piece you can find right now, let the other team do that development for when they can compete in a couple years (fathom is right, Luis Castillo is an excellent potential fit here). 3. Put him in the bullpen in 2021 and figure things out afterwards. If I had to say which gets the greatest overall value for the White Sox franchise, it's the first. If I had to pick which gets the greatest value for the 2021 and 2022 White Sox, and maximizes their chances of a World Series right now, it's the 2nd. If I had to pick the worst option for the White Sox, that minimizes his value both now and in the long term and at the same time maximizes the risk of him being useless to them because he got hurt, it's the 3rd. Hence, the White Sox are choosing the 3rd.

See here's the thing...I think it would be far easier and better for him to say "we're going to start him as a starter in the minor leagues", work him as a starter in spring training, and then have it turn out that there's no AA season he can be sent to so you move him to the big league bullpen at that time. At the worst, you've stretched his arm out to do the occasional 3-4 inning burst that way.

Remember how a few days ago we were saying that the Republicans would do this all again for the judges and the tax cuts? Lindsey Graham literally outlines all of that in a Press Conference yesterday. This video will start at that answer. "I have absolutely no regrets for helping this president make this country safer and more prosperous".