Tony

Your timeline is wrong.

The White Sox are 26-16 right now. In 2020, they were 32-15 at one point. So I’m not sure how obvious it is.

Do you know why the unwritten rules of baseball aren’t written? Because if they were, everyone would see how stupid they really are.

What did he do wrong? Tell us.

Yeah, I disagree with this.

I do think it opens up pandora's box and ultimately I don't think it's a great idea, but it has some merit. What's to stop a manager from trying to end a game after 3 innings if the score is 14-0? You would need to have some rules attached to it, like it can only be evoked in the 8th or 9th inning...but even then I'm not crazy about it.

This also isn't true because Jayce Tingler is 40 years old and is clearly an old school red ass. It won't change until people stop accepting it. And there are already far too many people on this board defending the actions of LaRussa.

I would actually argue that it could work, but not for the dumb ass reasons the LaRussa stans are talking about. If a rule needs to be put in place to protect old school slapdicks from ruining this game, they can piss off. However......in the 9th inning it was 15-4. The Twins decided to save a bullpen arm and put a position player on the mound. We are seeing it happen across baseball this year, and I believe it's mostly to save the bullpen. If Baldelli came out to to homeplate before the 9th inning started and meet with umpires and LaRussa and said "Hey, we're calling this, you guys win, let's go home........it's then up to LaRussa to accept or say "No, we want to play the 9th out" Clearly, LaRussa would have accepted and the game would have been over. And I'm not sure how many players would really be upset with it...

Except Yermin Mercedes is an adult, and seeing he is a 28 year old career minor league player making his ML debut this season......I'd bet all the money in my pockets, against all the money in your pockets, that if you asked Yermin Mercedes 1. Would you take the trade off of hitting a HR for having someone throw behind him and/or hit him with a pitch 2. Would you still have swung 3-0 on that pitch knowing the future outcome......both answers to the question would be "Yes" Tony LaRussa called his rookie clueless and made it a point to publicly apoligize to a division rival.....but now the LaRussa stan's are saying "All Tony was doing was protecting Yermin..."

I don't understand how someone like you can function at a human level if you believe the bolded to be true. Boggles the mind.

It was still the wrong call. It's the same line of thinking saying "LaRussa isn't an issue, this team is winning!" Bunting in the 5th inning is wrong. It was wrong today, it will be wrong tomorrow.

Awesome to see Gio and Hendricks have two nice bounce back games. As @fathom mentioned, going to be really nice having a win to talk about tomorrow on an off-day

That's the Hendricks I wanted

There would be very little incentive for Gio to sign anything right now.

I've been working and had the game on in the background.......score aside...has Gio been good today?

So that's a win? Let's see what the score is in an hour, and if that 1 run won the game. Right now....it didn't earn them a win. Stop giving away outs for less runs.

Leadoff double in the 5th by Leury Garcia Twins lead 1-0. Danny Mendick up....and he bunts.

Bunting in the 5th inning. Got it

Thought about that as well the last two days. Little surprised we didn't see a "leak" from Nightengale or someone with a report on the Sox Front Office. But weird....looks like they are keeping it in house, what a weird concept.

How has Rick not had an aneurysm at this point? Spend 3+ years building a roster you think can compete, and this is the guy you have running the show.

Has anything been made of what Tony said at the end of that Jomboy video? He was asked what he would prefer in that situation over Yermin swinging, with a pitcher on the mound. Tony said "Ideally I'd send 3 pitchers to the plate, and have them just tap the ball back to the mound." 8 minute mark.

Awesome change

It's made national headlines and I can only image what sports fans that don't follow baseball think. "Wait, you're telling me the White Sox manager is mad at his own player for hitting a home run and wanted him to not swing, apologized to the other team for it, then the next day the player got hit by a pitch, and the manager said it's OK that he got hit?"

It's seemed that way for a while, but he keeps taking the mound every 5th day and the MPH isn't that far off from career norms. I think it's his delivery.

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