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Anyway, Josh Harrison has been worth the same fWAR (-0.2) as Madrigal. Semien (-0.4) is only slightly better than Leury (-0.5). Whole lotta suck in that sentence.

But he's not. We can make "Caulfield's Thread About Joc Pederson" or you can just post about him in the MLB thread, but like, this thread is explicitly about former Sox players.

I could tell you why this young savage is doing fine, why the scouting reports are great, etc., and everything else you'd know if you didn't poison the FS well, but instead I'll respond appropriately.

Just to give you some closure, I didn't close the previous thread and was in the process of replying to you while it was being locked, and therefore didn't see that it was closed when I hit reply. Because I'm an admin my reply went through despite the thread getting locked.

Man, I just explained to why Donaldson's trolling was racist, because yes, words have meaning. I explained why Tim's comparison (three years ago) shouldn't really open him to trash talk from any sane player (again, note the lack of Donaldson support from Yankees players). If TA called himself "the new Frank Thomas" (who did make baseball real fun in the 90s), Donaldson wouldn't have said "hey Frank," and you and I both know that. That's because there's an enormous legacy tied to Jackie.

It definitely was. Josh Donaldson was using the name "Jackie" to get under the skin of one of MLB's most prominent African American stars - which isn't a big list to begin with. And because people keep bringing up the 2019 article, I'm gonna bring it here so people can read the passage: So TA was talking about changing the game to make it more fun, but also more appealing to Black kids in America. And he's saying this after taking kids from the ACE program to see 42. TA knows better than most of us the weight his words carry and he damn well knows better than Josh Donaldson. Donaldson may be too stupid to know what he said was racist, but at the core of it, the only reason TA's original comments happened are because he's a Black star in today's game. Corey Seager isn't going to compare himself to Jackie, because he doesn't need to carry that legacy like TA does. If Donaldson called Seager "Jackie," that's just fucking stupid. Calling TA, who does have to carry that legacy and is trying to make the game more appealing to Black kids - we know this because of his words and actions - as a taunt, is racist because he's trying to belittle everything TA has gone through to get here and is trying to do. Plus, it's been 3 years since the damn article, so Donaldson's just being a dick.

I hope no one here has any ancient White Sox love for Jimmy Dykes' White sox tenure as a player and manager in the '30s and '40s, because he was a racist asshole according to Minoso's autobiography / interviews.

The only real baseball analogue for a great, old-time player whose legacy has been overshadowed by racism is Cap Anson.

A double header starting at 5 PM sure is something.

I cancelled all plans to buy Yankees tickets until they get rid of Josh Donaldson!* *Unless the Sox are playing them and I can see TA fuck with them. So basically, unchanged.

Yeah, but it's like, of course the comments on the NY Post are gonna be against Anderson in this case. Here? Still disappointed. Especially in the guy who called Anderson "soft as baby shit."

Man, it's the NY Post.

Both have a Cy Young winner, but the Sox are so good that their winner is their #6 starter. Obviously, point to the White Sox.

EAT SHIT YANKEES FANS

I love Andrew Vaughn.

Suck it Yankees.

Since when is Heyman a Reinsdorf mouthpiece?

I love this purely for sentimental reasons.

Tim Anderson should call Josh Donaldson "Jake Powell," then claim it's only a joke. He's merely referencing Yankees players who make controversial statements when the Chicago White Sox are in town. See, jumping through hula hoops is fun!

Ah yes, legendary friend of the White Sox Josh Donaldson.

Engel tried.

Yolbert ground rule double moves Mendick to third, Jake Burger fielder's choice scores Mendick.

Charlotte has 2.5 catchers playing tonight with Perez, Seby, and Yermin. Perez got another hit and run scored, of course. McGuire gotta keep a lookout.

They'd also need a team that's willing to take on Russ, knowing the Lakers can barely offer any compensation in return I don't see the Lakers happening at all.

When we said fire the manager this is not what we meant. Also, this makes me feel like something awful is happening down in Charlotte.