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Nope. We learned the hard way back in 2020 when Eloy let a harmless fly ball turn into an inside the park home run.

Lynn's rehab start didn't exactly go well yesterday either. He said he felt good, but he also gave up 7 runs in 3 innings.

Yankees fans were confused af with his decisions during our home series against them.

Range anxiety is definitely real, but if you plan stuff out, it's not really an issue. I did a round trip from Austin to Chicago this past winter in a Tesla and it was fine. I actually enjoyed not having to drive for 7 or 8 hours straight and getting 20-30 minute charging breaks every 2-3 hours. I never ran low enough on charge that I was scared I wasn't going to make it to the next charging station. I'm not sure how wide spread charging stations are for non-Teslas, but the Tesla supercharging network is pretty accommodating and there's usually one every 150 miles along most major highways.

On the bright side...we get to face Kimbrel in the 9th.

Yeah I got nothing against Leury, it's the management that's failing the fans.

At this point you gotta just play your best players. The lefties and switch hitters have all been worthless. A platoon advantage doesn't do shit when the guys with the advantage can't get hits. In the end, this is on Hahn for failing to address our weak hitting from the left side.

Yeah cause baseball genius TLR decided to reshuffle the lineup that was actually working.

Leury sucking in the leadoff spot once again.

Cueto's stuff doesn't look real good today.

Kopech at his best is totally one of the best pitchers in baseball. He just needs to work on his consistency from start to start. I guess it's part of the growing pains of ramping up his innings.

Cooper tried to reign in Sale in 2016 cause he was worried his arm wouldn't last. He wasn't throwing as hard and tried to pitch to contact. Boston didn't care and they burned him out in 2 years.

Banning the shift might revive Grandal's bat. He probably gains 50 points of batting average if they can no longer play the 2B in the outfield for him.

Would you trade DeMar in a deal for AD?

Gotta thank Dave Roberts for bringing in a lefty to face our righties. It's almost the only time we have a shot at scoring.

The Pirates scored 3 runs off White in 5 innings. We don't even have a hit through 4.

Mendick always has a nice stretch every year and then ends up sucking for the rest of the year or gets sent down. His statcast numbers aren't exactly encouraging or saying that anything is different this year.

Pretty much any position player we sign or trade for ends up regressing. The lone exception recently is Grandal and we're seeing the regression right now, 2 years after signing him. James McCann is probably the other exception, but even he regressed back to the mean after we smartly didn't re-sign him. Just look at the track record for the past 5 years. 2017: Didn't really sign any one 2018: Wellington Castillo - Came off a strong year with Baltimore only to put up 0.2 WAR and eventually got busted for PEDs. 2019: Yonder Alonso - Became the 2nd coming of Adam Dunn after a declining season with Cleveland in 2018. Retired after 2019. James McCann - did end up improving with the Sox and had about 140 games of production on offense. Is now a pumpkin with the Mets. Jon Jay - brought in cause he was Machado's friend. Was pretty much worthless. 2020: Edwin Encarnacion - Regressed heavily with the Yankees at the end of 2019. Basically forgot how to hit a baseball in 2020 and is out of the game. 2021: Adam Eaton - Terrible with the Nats in 2020. Was good for like a month until his body gave out. Is now retired and a coach. 2022: Josh Harrison - had a good few months with the Nationals in 2021 and then bombed after a trade to the A's. Heavy regression (seeing a theme here?) AJ Pollock - had a near career year in 2021 only to forget how to hit any sort of breaking pitch with the Sox.

In an interview with The Athletic: Looks like the FO was way more interested in new-age analytics than Maddon and that's part of the reason he got fired. I guess it kind of makes sense as Maddon was known as one of the big analytics managers in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Pre-Statcast era. It's a different ball game now.

Maddon did intentionally walk a guy with the bases loaded this year though. Maddon does his share of weird moves, but he's at least a manager from this decade.

Gobert raises the floor of this team a ton in the regular season. But his effectiveness in the postseason is an issue and if the Bulls were to acquire him, they'd have very few assets to acquire any shooters outside of the MLE and the 18th pick. You can also argue that Gobert would clog the paint up for DeRozan quite a bit. I'm not sure those 2 are a great combination. If Zack were to sign elsewhere, you can possibly acquire shooting help with a S&T. I've seen some Herro+Lowry trade situations for LaVine pop up, although I'm not sure why Miami would be into a trade like that.

Sox and Angels have the same record, yet TLR's job security is not even in question to the White Sox. Just crazy.

I'll take Maddon over TLR any day of the week.

His numbers aren't awesome or anything this year, but man, his OPS is like 200 points higher than Leury or Harrison's. Those 2 combined make more than Escobar this year.

There's a chance we'll face him when we play Arizona in August.