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I'll never understand how a catcher can't pick up a breaking ball.

Two great ABs from Adam

Great piece of hitting

So much for breaking his rhythm.

Adam needs to start next inning with a bunt....gotta try to get Kluber out of his rhythm.

QUOTE (LDF @ May 4, 2015 -> 08:19 AM) i am going to be pissy with this post, but what makes you believe it was built to be competitiveness as oppose to show the fans of actually caring, to sell tickets and advertising. The team friendly contracts that have been signed. We have a very nice core locked up for several years and at a very reasonable price....surely we don't need to dig up the offseason threads where we were all swinging from RH's nut hairs for securing our core? All that didn't go out the window because we've gotten off to a bad start. I think the plan all along was to compete in 2016 and beyond, with 2015 being a "let the cards fall where they may" kind of season, with the hope that we'd be at least in the hunt for a wild card spot.

This team was put together to be competitive for the next several seasons....while they may say that they expected to be competitive this season, I think that this season is still considered part of the rebuild given some of the glaring holes we went in with. I don't think we deal anyone but Shark, assuming he doesn't want to extend.

Other than a few posters, I think this team has greatly underperformed in relation to pre-season expectations. How do you blame the FO for under-performance? If changes in non-playing personnel are to occur, you have to look at the coaches in the dugout, including RV. IMO, the FO did a fairly good job with what they had to work with this past winter. Yes, we have holes but this team is playing like garbage top to bottom other than some pieces of our bullpen (which RH put together).

Where is the veteran leadership on this team? I get it, RV is docile and not a typical leader/motivator. I want him gone. But there are vets in that clubhouse with reputations as leaders that should be picking up the slack until the FO does something about it. I thought that this leadership was one of the least mentioned benefits to the moves we made this winter....apparently I was waaayy off.

QUOTE (Capn12 @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 01:00 PM) Well, it's just that more was expected. So far, this season he has had 2 really good starts, 1 average at best, 1 bad, and today which is the worst. Hardly what most people expected out of what was hoped to be a #2. What's interesting is they said before the game that Shark hasn't pitched a night game yet. I pulled up his career splits and he's 1.50 lower on his ERA at night (3.18 vs 4.59), 40 points lower on his BAA (.226 vs .263), and about .3 lower on the WHIP (1.14 vs. 1.42). Point being, maybe it's not fair to judge his performance thus far based on nothing but pitching in conditions in which he's historically struggled.

A lot of Shark hate here....I think he's been decent this season (outside of today, which there are a million and one excuses to explain).

It's like they're stealing signs...they're on top of everything.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 12:34 PM) Any details? His pick to click was for all the police in Baltimore who were put in a tough situation to watch businesses burn, etc.....went on to mention how disturbing it was to watch TV, seemingly trying to get some dialogue going with Stone, and it was just silence as Stone obviously wanted nothing to do with it.

Ha! Stoney wants nothing to do with this conversation.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 28, 2015 -> 01:01 PM) How long is it going to take until someone speaks out for the Sox. I think this is a situation where we can really benefit from having Rick Hahn (JD) as GM but please, someone start the conversation. The O's have handled this terribly regardless of the situation. I wholly believe that the Sox are likely raising hell behind closed doors. Unfortunately, it's going to take MLB to make a decision public. The Sox would look REAALLLYY insensitive to seemingly put baseball above the concerns of a pretty major riot.

Forfeiture should absolutely be on the table. The Sox are likely to get absolutely screwed if these games have to be made-up on off days. The Sox are in a tricky situation...it would lead to horrible PR if the Sox complained about this in the press but, as a baseball fan, they have every right to be livid about this.

Is RV awake over there?

It shouldn't, but seeing Addison Russel go 0-5 with 3k's helps soften the Rodon blow a bit. If he'd had a big game I would've been extra glad that I don't live in Chicago the next few days.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 09:23 PM) Just so you know, the bench does not call pitches. Is that why Tyler looks over at the bench every time before throwing down his signs?

QUOTE (ptatc @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 09:26 PM) They cannot start him and then have his innings limitin August. I agreed with the decision to put him in the pen before tonight. I did not foresee our totes awesome manager putting him in a pressure situation for his major league debut in a tight game. They literally threw the game to watch Rodon pitch. If that was the goal, they should've just started him. If the goal was to acclimate him to the bigs, he shouldn't have been inserted into a pressure situation like he was tonight. It's management 101, baseball or not...you put your people in positions to succeed.

QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 09:17 PM) He was a friday night pitcher in college, and is the #3 pick overall. I dont believe confidence will be his problem. Confidence in this organization. You don't think he's going to look back on his performance, as all athletes do, and not wonder why in the hell he was put in when he was? Pissed he's coming out of the pen?

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 09:15 PM) I feel like we just threw this game with no care just so Rodon could pitch. And if that was the plan, why not give him a start? Now you've wasted a QS from Noesi, shattered Rodon's confidence, and lost a game to a division foe. I just don't know what to think of this org.

They're just sitting dead red. This is some of the worst coaching for a debut I've ever seen.

Can we have a f***ing slider, please? Change? Jesus.

I barely know anything about Carlos but I do recall reading that his fb is what he has the most trouble locating. So why in the f*** is the dugout or Tyler calling nothing but fb's when he's struggling with the zone?