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You will play him in CF? Well, why the hell not, so tired of Leury and Hamilton should only PR and play defense, period.

Dick Allen is pretty good, too.

Guess you have to wait for the inevitable Eaton IL trip. His dad was a pretty good hitter for the Orioles, at least.

Funny trash talk from a Cubs’ fan....well, typical, at least. Cubs will finish with more wins than the White Sox. Heart over headlines. We are built for July. La Russa is drunk. White Sox will move to Arlington in 2030 and drinking will be banned. Alex Binelas from Louisville will lead Cubs to World Series in 2027. Your White Sox window opened and closed in the same Spring Training.

Goodwin will jump ahead of him...probably Yoelkis too if he shows any signs at all of being ready. And Rutherford can’t play big league CF.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/white-sox-tony-la-russas-220148252.html Vinnie Duber ripping LaRussa... at least some aren't water carriers and obedient worshippers in the local and national media. If he can't handle the heat over May battles with the Reds, Royals, Twins and Indians, there's not much hope for an October refocusing or heck, reawakening.

Simply saying the top priority (besides scoring) was PROTECTING Liam Hendriks from getting injured scoring from third. Can't remember a time where that ever happened with a pitcher for the White Sox on the basepaths...at least not since (much more expendable) Matt Albers scored for the Sox back in the day. A drag bunt to 1st causes a throw home...and it's just as likely down the 3rd baseline...you'd have to bunt it closer to the mound, through the mound or butcher boy it (relying on the defense to make a mistake, which still puts Hendriks in jeopardy sliding in to home.) And how often does Liam Hendriks practice sliding into the catcher for a close play at the plate? You take chances like that, you end up with even more season-impacting injuries.

Indians just took the lead on the Royals, 5-4 in the top of the 9th. Would be four consecutive losses for KC, and pretty sure that would be a three-way tie at the top of the division, at three games over .500. Twins will likely lose to the Rangers again and be -7 and 5 games back, which doesn't sound THAT bad considering all the various problems every team in the division is handicapped with.

Highly recommended... https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/meiselman-avner-landes/Content?oid=87983979 Meiselman is the butt of every joke and barely tolerated by those closest to him, but somehow, I couldn’t wait to see what he’d ruin next. By grounding him in a real time and place, Landes makes the story of a small man’s comeuppance compelling. The town of New Niles, just north of Chicago, is likely a stand-in for Landes’s hometown, Skokie, Illinois. Meiselman’s ancestral allegiance to the White Sox—demonstrated by ritual morning box score checking, as well as regular TV viewing—is in line with the traditions of many local communities, as they moved from the city to the suburbs. The White Sox are his father’s team from when he lived on the south side, so they become the son’s team in the northern suburbs.

Are there any viable CFers currently playing in Japan or Korea? That we could work out a deal to borrow/loan in-season? Just askin'.

Well, the worst part would have been getting Hendriks hurt (or maybe good to receive the insurance reimbursement?) Joking. But it was asinine to have a player whose best strategy in that situation be to pull a drag bunt down to 1st have that taken out of his arsenal because Hendriks was running. There's just zero way in hell I wouldn't have had the bunt order on up there, even with two strikes. Because a short flyball or groundball wasn't going to going to score him, nothing but a wild pitch or passed ball.

Would love to see those Indians, A's and Rays message boards as they're constantly getting awarded imaginary titles for fWAR / payroll dollars allocated. Kind of like those yearly Cubs' attendance title flags over the White Sox.

The playoff odds are going to dramatically decrease if we keep averaging basically one game surrendered every week due to our manager. The Royals, Indians and Twins are at least good enough to overcome that much. Because Matheny, Francona and Baldelli will soon enough figure out some solutions for their teams, particularly the Indians and Twins. The Royals are still basically 18 months out ahead of their next wave of prospects and making do with a mix of castoff veterans (Taylor/Santana/Benintendi, etc.) We might be able to diagnose the problem, but is TLR willing to be flexible enough to adapt to the modern era? He keeps apologizing for not doing his job well enough, but when is he going to start changing his approach?

Kind of like when there's a bridge collapse and we blame the City Council/Mayor's office or "concerned citizens/letters to the editor" and NOT the engineers who were actually in charge of the design and construction process in the first place. Makes a lot of sense. I mean, the average citizen is getting paid hundreds of thousands in consulting fees to provide insights to the Army Corps of Engineers, for example. I can just see TLR as the villain in an old Scooby Doo episode. "And I would have gotten away with it were it not for those meddling message board posters and pesky sportswriters."

Every manager in baseball would like to manage our team, even without Jimenez and Robert. The question marks are salary, KW/Hahn interference...and especially choosing his own coaching staff, degree of control. Biggest of all, Jerry Reinsdorf and how much he REALLY cares about winning another World Series (versus proving points, making up for the wrongs of the past, etc.). Basically, the potential manager has to interview the owner.

And Snell STILL can't pitch deeply into non-World Series game against less talented and patient rosters than the LAD here in 2021, at least his first 6 times out. Dodgers would likely still have won based on talent winning out most of the time in a 7 game series.

Dave Roberts was going to take a massive paycut to come here? The talented roster would have been alluring, but so would a one year layoff with ESPN/MLB Tonight, etc. Well...maybe? But in THAT case, wouldn't it have been better to overpay either Cash to leave (unlikely, but possible) or Bochy to come back out? Or Hinch, whatever, not that there's much he can be judged by with the current Tigers' predicament.

Who do you start, though, Rick Hahn in LF? Overmatched against top pitching probably indicates he needed additional seasoning and some positive results in AA/AAA first before throwing him to the wolves.

Also walked ice cold Tyler Naquin to face India, who was only 9/20 with RISP so far this year. Somehow, that worked out the Sox way. But he had a bunch of homers the first two weeks!!! responds TLR, theoretically.

But it wasn’t even close...and you still need Hamilton to somehow make contact, barring a wild pitch.

Dead to rights and it wasn’t a mistake? This is becoming a daily comedy sketch. As my mom is 92 and suffers from dementia/Alzheimer’s but is totally lucid about the 1930’s and 40’s, starting to feel sorry for LaRussa being so out of touch...but equally angry with Reinsdorf for putting him in this position in the first place. Forced Ventura into managing as well...partly to protect finger pointing at the front office.

At this point, with a competent replacement for Garcia, TLR is holding the Sox back even more than the Jimenez and Robert injuries.

So tired of peripherals when wins and losses count more. By peripherals, the Twins should be 3-3 in extra inning games and not 0-6. Otoh, LaRussa managing has also led to at least a 3 game swing, where we should be 9 games over .500 sheerly from a statistical standpoint. And running away with the division, but now we’re in a dogfight.

Keuchel is earning his money...so far, but good God how bad the Grandal and Hendriks deals look at this point. That said, Heuer isn’t looking good either as a potential closer. Theoretically, Bummer would likely be closer had they stood pat and done nothing.

Won’t get a new manager, but need a new outfielder, at least.