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QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 23, 2016 -> 02:42 PM) what's your deal? He inserted Chris Beck into a high leverage situation. he does this repeatedly. It's playing with fire. It's also very unbecoming for a mod to troll like this imo. I'm not a mod. And this is hardly trolling. Also, you can't have the same guys pitch every single night. Otherwise we wouldn't even have Chris Beck on the team in the first place.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 23, 2016 -> 02:41 PM) I like the RV bunt call for Bradley. Yeah, the pop-up was an underrated call for sure. A lot of managers would be content to go with "throw out the lead runner." He's subtle, man.

YEAH ROBIN! GOOD CALL!

Good call by Robin there, having him throw a sac fly instead of a grand slam. I would have called strikeout, though.

Great job by Robin there, having Abreu hit that three-run homer. Would have been easier, admittedly, if Robin just would have had Shields keep pitching well in the first place, though, so the homer wouldn't have been necessary. Oh well, guess he doesn't deserve to be fired today -- unless he makes Jones or Robertson blow the lead, of course.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jun 21, 2016 -> 11:42 AM) This is fine and dandy, but bunting in certain situations makes sense for a team like the White Sox that has trouble scoring runs consistently. I don't necessarily agree with their philosophy either, but I'd rather play for one run than not score any at all. Pretty much the only time it actually increases the likelihood to score is when you're bunting a runner from second to third with no outs. That's also pretty much the only situation the Sox NEVER bunt in.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jun 17, 2016 -> 01:04 PM) That's awesome. Let us know how it goes. I'm basically at the point now where they are finally implementing serious shifts and new theories. Can' t believe this player in the league that homers like every at bat. So insane. Yeah, you'd think that would be impossible at ANY pro level, considering it doesn't even happen at college.

This is a killer book, one of the best baseball books I've ever read. I've got Ben Lindbergh coming to our ballpark for an event on Sunday, I'm excited to pick his brain about it a bit.

QUOTE (harkness @ Jun 6, 2016 -> 09:35 AM) Why keep ventura? What's to lose by trying someone else? Other than the support of the entire baseball team?

QUOTE (CB2.0 @ Jun 6, 2016 -> 07:28 AM) Fire Robin, don't....I don't think that's going to really matter. This team needs hitting - particularly against RHP. No manager in the world can cover up that glaring fact.

If Ventura is fired, the players will clearly start hitting. Obviously Ventura is the problem.

It's miserable watching this team at this point.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Jun 4, 2016 -> 12:54 PM) If his last start wasn't as bad as it was, would you be saying that? He had a bad start. It happens. Every other game this season that he's pitched, he's always less than 4 runs with the exception of two (four each game). Is he the same pitcher he was 3 years ago? Obviously not. No one gets younger, but "cooked" is harsh. Yeah, I would -- I'm never too worried about ERA. The signs I'm talking about are a dramatic increase in walks and homers given up over the last year and change, to go along with an expected decline in strikeouts in 2016.

I'm not going to feel good about this unless the Sox give up next to nothing. Shields is showing a lot of signs that he's cooked.

Man, wins feel really good, no matter how they happen. Also, Matt Albers is a f***ing ATHLETE. He's just way way out of shape.

QUOTE (He Gawn @ Jun 1, 2016 -> 04:34 PM) Cat Albers is gonna win us this game. *Bat Albers now

LMAO

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 23, 2016 -> 07:07 AM) Boston/ESPN/East Coast media bias, lol? You'd think that Betts, Bradley, Jr., Pedroia, Shaw, Hanley Ramirez, Bogaerts and David Ortiz were a legit threat to the 1927 Murderers' Row Yankees.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ May 20, 2016 -> 01:32 PM) Eaton Abreu Frazier Cabrera Lawrie Garcia Avila Jackson Saladino This is a different lineup. I like it and we'll see how it goes tonight. Honestly it just makes sense. Eaton getting stranded after that leadoff triple is a perfect example of why it's pointless to waste an out in the two-hole. As good as he is at getting to scoring position on his own, let's just maximize the at bats with our best hitters after him.

I didn't start paying attention until 1995, but I'm grateful to have logged many Frank Thomas at bats on WGN (I lived in Columbus, OH). Also consider myself very lucky to have witnessed a Frank Thomas homerun live at the Jake at my first MLB game in Cleveland.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 20, 2016 -> 08:05 AM) Sale had an interesting quote after the game: "I'm not throwing as many anger pitches or hate pitches. And rely on my defense. That's the key to all of this. That's the master plan." http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/i...-and-chris-sale Someone should make a Chris Sale "Hate Pitches" T-shirt

QUOTE (Lillian @ May 20, 2016 -> 09:26 AM) Just as a point of information; Shields actually has pitched better on the road than he has in Petco Park, since joining the Padres. Yeah, I think I've read that Petco has actually been playing more like a neutral park the past couple years, so much so that SafeCo is the new consummate pitcher park.

Dillon Gee rofl

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 6, 2016 -> 09:12 PM) He won't make it out of the first inning. Let's just hope the ump warns him only. I can't believe the Twinks immediately retaliated tonight. That means the new unwritten rulebook in baseball is "retaliate immediately" when your guy gets hit. 10-4 lead I doubt Nate drilled the guy on purpose. If he did, that was dumb. You don't awaken a sleeping dog. Nate's didn't look intentional in the slightest, nor did the situation call for it. The fact that Abreu was so angry, to me, is additional evidence that Nate's was an accident -- he's been drilled in retaliation before, and he's always very calmly taken his base. I've NEVER seen him angry like that about anything at all.