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Sure, they’re all pressing because they don’t totally trust their teammates or manager. That pertains to both offense and defense. Pitchers can’t trust the defense behind them. Pollock can’t trust Vaughn or Eloy or Sheets to his right or left. Moncada Anderson and Abreu can’t trust Abreu this year. Pitchers can’t trust Seby and Grandal. Every little distrust perpetuates itself and the cycle just continues with no end in sight. Same with hitting with the bases loaded. Or the starters not trusting the first reliever following them.

24.5%. Good work. What’s an interesting thread that you have started that anyone can recall?

Please take out Kaplan/Levine and install Chuck Garfien on Mt. Olympus. Make Gordon Beckham roll boulders up the mountain until he learns to 1) hit a fastball, and 2) stop saying “competitive at bats” incessantly like he trademarked the saying..

Let me guess, he knows Portillo’s, Al’s Cheesy Beef and all the foodies? Notstevechisek?

While we’re at it, please tell Heads22 to take over HawkeyeNation.com. Not the same since Jon Miller left, even though he was a douche.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/south-korea-virtual-influencers-beauty-social-media-intl-hnk-dst/index.html Here’s my tip for Ron. This will blow your mind. Just use a female avatar like this and talk Sox/Cubs lol through livestream…dressed as one of the Sox Pride girls or Korean baseball cheerleader/first pitch thrower. You can even have fake vacations and trips to all thirty parks in the US, well, one in Toronto. Get lucrative endorsements across the board.

Something that Elon Musk will somehow manage to screw up…but might want to control through the next election cycle and possibly into 2028-2036 when Ivanka Trump is named Empress of the Confederated Red States of America, with White House South located at Mar A Lago.

I really hate that Dave Portnoy dude. I hope he flies directly into the sun. Unfortunately I am married, neither rich nor twenty years younger, but Silvana Mojica makes me wish I was retired in Colombia about right now. So I can at least root for her to dump him if all his stock and crypto/gaming advice blows up.

Honestly, Fathom does more one liners. Same with Dick Allen. I could see southsider2k5 combining that with financial guru stuff, definitely Balta for progressive Sox fans lol, CWS…the Nashville/Chicago guy. Ray Ray needs his own talk show to have a bigger audience to argue with, but would need to expose his identity. Bmaggs and Tony maybe. KyLle, no comment. TexSox and PTAC could have their own middle of the road slightly conservative and slightly liberal but “reasonable” show. Greg775 can do Bob Dole impersonations at the Lawrence Applebee’s.

Just found our next pitching coach at least…

Jay Cuda and Leo DiCaprio’s Michigan State physics/astronomy professor match up almost exactly in “Don’t Look Up!” Hector Gomez, lol? The Joc Pederson rumors breaker with the Sox employee relative in his family from the Left Coast? Mark Liptak? Would have to give it to James Fegan at 25,000ish. Harold/Kelenic? Jimmy? Quin? Surprised Ray Ray and Fathom don’t have their own twitter aliases, lol.

It’s Ron883 or Rabbit I think….but not sure how much for sports/Sox and how much for politics, and connection to Shapiro? Brian Bilek and Cuda are similar, 6000ish. Jim Margalus is 9000ish. Jay Cuda @JayCuda I post about #WhiteSox & MLB statistics @Stathead • 32 • Golfer Woodworker • MSU '11 Civil engineering Chicago Joined February 2011 996 Following 6,137 Followers

It’s Ron883 or Rabbit I think….but not sure how much for sports/Sox and how much for politics, and connection to Shapiro?

Poor KD. But there’s a slight difference between leading your team like Soto at age 20-21 to a World Series title versus joining a pre-existing, ready made operation already at the summit in GS. That and the fact that having baseball’s very best player in Trout doesn’t even guarantee playoffs nor even a playoff series victory even once.

It’s a deliberate exaggeration to provoke. But that’s how this organization ended up throwing out McGuire’s fWAR and 45% below average hitting for a Seby patented inevitable regression accompanied by poor defense and game calling. It’s how we disregarded Brian Anderson’s great defense/lousy hitting combination for Mackowiak in 2006. (Well, the fact that Ozzie hated Anderson personally didn’t help him much.) The same front office keeps repeating the same mistakes decades later. Did we also not learn how not to overspend on bullpens from 2000-2008? Not really, The Koch Experience wasn’t enough, because we went Dotel/Linebrink then Robertson then REALLY went insane the last two years. And here we are now. Stuck in the middle with you.

And there you have it. John Danks, Dunn, Grandal, Hendriks…there’s always going to that built-in excuse about adding one more year, like Machado and then the reported Giolito extensions as well. Think back to not paying Maggio and C-Lee after 2004…or not paying Buehrle in 2011. Otherwise, we’re almost always limited to three years, like Keuchel and Lynn. Or at least “almost always,” with few exceptions. The other remarkable one would be Konerko, for obvious, well-covered reasons. You have all the internal extensions, but all those except for Moncada are not threatening to blow the budget sky high. So, if you think quite carefully, you can see why Giolito and Tim Anderson will both be gone eventually. Out of those five bolded names, how many would JR, Hahn and KW undo if they could? Konerko would be the only one to stand…in the same way JR’s only choice for manager could be LaRussa.

Great, math jokes.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kelenja01.shtml Kelenic at 495 ops. Menechino will fix him. Or f#%k him.

Probably because there’s not much to poke fun at yet…and Kelenic/M’s are doing well, also.

Maybe it will pick up with all focus on Dodgers/Padres despite the huge differential in the standings, 12 1/2, when it was tied about a month ago. Actually, the biggest concern now is Clayton Kershaw’s troublesome back again. Fortunately for LA it will be at Chavez, which is somehow fitting with Vin Scully passing away this week and the funeral this weekend. Also, Nationals did the obvious thing and sent CJ Abrams down to the minors despite a 230ish average.

Then you destroy all of TA’s value. It’s why Strasburg or Corbin ultimately didn’t go out with Soto…and there’s only 3-5 teams who could handle the financial hit, so you’d basically be surrendering all your leverage. Then you’re going to end up Burger and Mendick? Sosa? Popeye Rodriguez? Pushing Montgomery and Colas up next year?

If we do wRC+, we get Leury and Grandal as two of the ten worst in baseball (280). #272, Grandal #276, Leury #266 Jackie Bradley, Jr. #258 Moncada #235 Pollock #234 Cody Bellinger #225 Engel OPS is virtually identical…and, fwiw, Reese McGuire clocks in as more than 45% below average for his part. Six Sox players this year who have been particularly awful and sabotaged the rebuild in different ways…but there are four chief culprits as we know, and Leury simply can’t bench himself.

Phillies actually trying to make the postseason, firing managers and benching or DFAing unproductive hitters…

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/sports/baseball/dunn-a-mighty-free-agent-has-struck-out-with-the-white-sox.html Well, first of all you need to double Grandal’s negative fWAR to account for differential in games played… Then, if you take out the positional bonuses for catcher vs. DH, it turns out to be very even…not to mention he’s (Grandal) basically being paid 2-3x as much for his numbers since only 211 at-bats. For example, $1.825 million per extra base hit. That’s the net worth of the average American in around the Top 3-4%…for lifetime wealth accumulation.