Jack Parkman

This was supposed to be a good bullpen. Bummer, Hendriks, Kopech and Crochet are fine. Ruiz is ok. I think Heuer will be too if Tony doesn't pull a Ricky/Cordero. The middle relief is a problem though. Foster and Marshall need to go bye bye.

Mods, if you want to split this into another thread be my guest.

What sucks is that Giolito used to have a great curve, but I don't think it would be as good with his short arm delivery. I'm wondering if he should experiment with a cutter because his slider is completely hit or miss.

Hawk used to say that it was really hard for RHP with both a curve and slider to have great command of both in the same game. He said that the pitcher in question should go with whichever one is better on that given day and ditch the other one for that particular start.

I'm mildly annoyed that Moncada is hitting frozen ropes all over the field lately and they're going right at people. He still has a BABIP over .300 with all of the bad luck he has lately which is insane. Beginning to think that he's being negatively affected more than most by the de-juiced ball.

If the Sox put Eloy in LF after both he and Robert are coming off serious injuries then they don't deserve to win anything. It might be the most stupid thing in baseball in the last 20 years.

When Andrew Vaughn proved he could play LF.

You trading Eloy instead? Yermin and Eloy both play DH.

Vaughn is fine in LF. Looks like a natural out there, even if a little slow. Eloy should never use a glove again.

I didn't I just quit posting. Had the game on and was reading the GDT the whole time. Fuck the Twins.

Hanger and he fouls it off......I'm done guys. Night.

This is game one against the twins. I expect them to play well against everyone other than the Twins and Indians. They can't beat their main competition. It's more the other team losing than the Sox winning when they had won the division. (notable exception of 05)

No. No matter who the players are it's been 20 years of mental weakness vs the Twins. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

They're going to fold like cheap tents like they always do.

A bunch of mental midgets, the Sox are.

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here we go again......

Good lord this rotation if they can get Giolito back on track. I never thought Cease would ever find control like this.

We come in from 290 usually. 290 ends, turns into Congress Pkwy that goes to Columbus and then you're basically right there. It must be a b**** to get to from the north part of the city, but from south and west(and the Burbs) it's easy. This explains the disconnect.

Yeah I'm mostly talking about a geography perspective, and with a baseball stadium there you'd want the lake behind the OF. Like RF would face due east.

Idk maybe it's worse now, but I lived at IIT for a bit and did a lot of driving around the city when I was going there. My extended family lived in Ravenswood for years. There were signs that said No Wrigley Parking near their apartments. My dad works not far from Soldier Field(near McCormick Place) and I've driven in that area A LOT and and it's nowhere near the shitshow that the North Side is. Not even close. I've been on Columbus/Michigan at 5pm and I'd rather be there than on Addison, Irving Park, or Montrose. (and there was A TON of construction around Columbus at that time) The North Side/Wrigleyville is an absolute shitshow compared to anywhere around the SL. However, this may be a difference of me living in the far NW burbs and you guys living elsewhere. It's taken me an hour(or more at times) to get from like Irving Park/Ashland to the Kennedy. Listen, I'm not saying that SF isn't bad(it is) I just think that it's not any worse than Wrigley. And if you really think about it, getting to GRF or the UC is a royal PITA as well. If you're going to a sporting event, you have to be prepared for the traffic. Traveling to and from any sporting event in Chicago is a royal pain in the ass and I wouldn't say any of them are pleasant. Also, if you want to talk about lack of access to Public Transit, the UC takes the cake. My dad and I walked from the UC to the Western Av Metra station in a fucking blizzard when I was a kid. Felt like forever.

Do we live in the same city? idk what you guys are smoking.