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Good point, I own Top Golf, Drive Shack, and Organigram.

As I've said it's the worse franchise in baseball.

I'd leave him on. If I invested a share of $20,000,000 and it was now worth $1,600,000,000 I'd leave him in and pray he doesn't die.

I think we all agree that of the three options the staff picked the worse one.

Agreed. Yet fans somehow believe guys he's hired and kept on like Hahn would be grabbed up in a hurry by other teams. Only an inept chairman ( he owns less that 20% of the team ) would keep these guys after so many losing seasons. I don't know why we, myself included, keep calling him the owner. He's the chairman and owns less than 1/5th of the team.

Thank you. 1st ballot? I'm thinking second.

Wait until the homerun derby to decide tie games (now being used in the Pioneer League) gets to MLB. YeaHaa!!

Most of these guys were the best everything on their high school teams. I wish MLB would go full platoon. Have a defensive lineup and an offensive lineup like football.

For such a simple rule there sure are a lot of obscure variables.

I don't have any stats to back this up but I'm guessing Abreu is less likely to be injured running the bases. Could you image the shit storm if Hendriks was injured while out their running?

Thank you for clearing that up. I appreciate it. So someone saying are we going with Abreu or Hendriks running would have been better? Maybe Tony thought he could catch lightning in a bottle twice. Hell of Cease can be 3 for 3 maybe Hendriks could be Henderson for a half inning. It still makes me loath the NL and a lack of universal DH.

Correct. I should have phrased it as a rule that only pertains in NL stadiums. So 12 games this year. And to be accurate it wasn't implemented until this year.

I didn't catch that about the steal. Interesting take on the situation. Tony hasn't thrown anyone under the bus and is always taking the blame. It's a huge change from what I was expecting (arrogant, never wrong).

Wouldn't it imply the staff knew that the NL rules allowed for pinch running for the pitcher in that situation while allowing the pitcher to stay in the game?

Wouldn't it have been better if someone on the staff said "whose running for Hendriks" Instead of confirming Hendriks was on second?

No. I think it's a long shot but if for some reason he does want out, I'm certain they will manufacture a health reason. Who on the bench would take over?

We're seeing this multiple times, in several situations. Players, coaches, and the manager just don't seem to be communicating. That falls on the manager's shoulders. Normally a manager taking responsibility and not throwing any of his coaches or players under the bus is a good thing. But here we have a manager whose competency is being questioned every day. He's not building any confidence in the fan base.

Not worked up at all. Just responding while videos are getting converted and uploaded. How are you doing?

Having the pitcher anywhere other than the pitcher's mound. Batting, running, all that is a NL thing. Then putting a runner on second to start extra innings is also a fucked up rule in my opinion. I understand you might like that stuff. Free pass? You mean because I'm not all pissed off and complaining? I got better things to do that get all worked up over a situation that may never come up again in White Sox baseball. But feel free to punish him all you want and not give him a free pass.

I just went through with the major changes to the rules of golf. I read them. Passed the USGA test. And you start getting into situations that are more complex than you’ve encountered before and it’s tough to get them right. We see umpires huddling at times trying to figure some variation on rules and how they apply. When you say the league was that the National League, the American League or both? Look at all the variables that happened in this specific situation. It wasn’t basic by any stretch. If people feel compelled to yell about every misstep he makes, go for it. I’m complaining about a few things myself. But I’m just not too upset about him blowing a fucked up National league rule as an American League manager. I’d rather complain that we need to stop playing these games until there is a uniform set of rules in place for all of baseball. I’d rather complain that putting any guy at second is teeballesque bull. Let’s just have each team put out in their best gamers and spin a wheel to see which esports game they play. That will help attract new sponsors and younger fans. Why even play baseball to end a tie?

I didn’t want Tony to manage and now want him even less. But I agree with you. Plus there is no advanced stats to guide the manager. I would be more inclined to criticize him If this was even a rule that was in place when he was managing in the NL. But it’s made up COVID, speed up, attention deficit, finish the game before the 10 o’clock news rule that no one has much experience with.

I like the thought but the biggest stumbling block for me is why dump Renteria for a one season stop gap when he only had one season left on his contract? He just came off his only +.500 season.

So could that be the answer to why Mercedes' is suddenly playing so well at 28?

Post three and I'm thinking thread over. Then I remembered where I was lol