southsider2k5

I am fine with a guy like Hamilton on the roster as a PR and a late inning D guy, though when you get Engel back, you kind of already have that. It's shame Mendick will probably go, but I would love to keep him, Leury, and Engel as the bench pieces.

I have been following these stories since Trever Bauer brought this up, and then all of the sudden his spin rates went nuts. If they really want it to stop, they need some sacrificial lambs. When MLB started taking baseball's I figured it was coming, but nothing has happened yet so we wait and see.

The one thing about Soxtalk? Everybody's got receipts.

Seeing this list I might need to revisit my position. Then again, seeing the other side makes it OK to be here.

I don't think last years team choked as much as they ran out of gas. The pitching staff was toast. Throw in the late injuries and the attempts to cobble something together with anyone that they could, and that's what ended it.

And if they do, maybe our manager will finally actually protect his player instead of giving it his blessing.

Good now, you can leave this thread and quit polluting it with childish nonsense.

I like how you completely ignored everything that didn't fit this narrative.

Aren't most signs longer than half a second to give? Besides that, Tony already said Yermin missed the sign.

I don't know why you keep making these claims when Tony has directly contradicted them. He also never defended his player when it did happen.

Is this more of your respect?

Sportsmanship is launching a deadly weapon at someone else for violating an unstated protocol? That is a messed up view of personal responsibility.

This is your argument. The nonTLR stans aren't trying to defend an antiquated system. You are the one telling me that in this situation players aren't allowed to try, and if they do, they can be attacked physically with a deadly weapon as punishment. So where are the Twins obligations? Should the Sox have attacked Donaldson for hitting a home run the previous inning and putting on a show after hitting it with his team down 12 runs? If Yermin has an obligation to not hit, why do the Twins not have to follow the same morality? Why don't they have to quit trying and/or substitute players like you said in your previous post? Get past the ignorant boomer rant about the younger generation and tell me why the other team isn't following the same standards and why they are allow to assault someone who doesn't follow this morality, even though they are not. Let's hear your rationale go to a l9gical conclusion.

I had better see a beaning ASAP for that extreme disrespect.

We have threads loaded with this topic, including the game thread, the TLR manager thread, and the winner thread from that night. No need for another. The TLR stans will have a meltdown.

I wonder if Tony LaRussa has appealed the suspensions and fines yet?

Hope it was worth it Rocco.

Then why did the Twins send up 4 starters in the 9th and get two hits? Why didn't they just take a knee or send in their scrubs?

Or the meeting room at the Public Library.

Wear your Hall of Famer Person hats!

Of course Tony doesn't think this is a big deal. This a part of his demented moral code where swinging at a 3-0 pitch is worse than 2 DUIs. But again, once he opened his mouth to the media, he no longer gets to decide how big this story is. It is now free in the world. Of course Tony doesn't want to get publicly mocked for this, and thinks everyone should do think what he thinks. If anything, it tells you how out of touch he is that he sees this as completely normal.

Again, if Tony has nothing to say, this never gets off of the ground. But when you say something stupid to the media, you lose control of your words.

Just because it doesn't fit the narrative doesn't mean the disctinction isn't important. Missed means he didn't know. Ignored means he did. That is REALLY important to the story at hand here.