1 minute ago, fathom said:

Fine, nothing special. Not throwing a lot of change ups. Slider has good break.

It's crazy how he's gone from throwing 1/3 change ups to maybe 1/5 change ups. 

That Sox Math winner reveal was the best moment in the history of Sox Math.

Sox have brought back the 3 run homer weapon that we had been missing.  Team looks awesome now with Eloy, Cesar and Robert. I would venture Sox are now in very top tier in MLB.  We can now compete well with West Coast teams, Astros, Brewers, Rays, Yankees.  Fear no one!

17 minutes ago, Tony said:

In the thread Jack was posting in, I made the comment people just don’t understand what it means to add guys like Eloy/Robert/Grandal back to this lineup, which means you take out guys like Burger/Leury/Hamilton/Zavala, etc. 

Not saying it’s going to last…they’ll still go cold at some point…but come on. 

Jack and a few others didn’t see this, but most did anticipate a vast improvement, both in ability and just the overall demeanor of the team, with or without shaking off some rust and regaining timing.

Hope you are right one day/year on the player in bold.

I just checked the standings and god damn the Padres might miss the plyoffs

Not sure how I remembered but they actually gave Ed Hermann's number away to Cesar. Pis me off. 

I miss last year Abreu. He’d prolly be over 100 rbis at this point.

1 minute ago, mqr said:

I just checked the standings and god damn the Padres might miss the plyoffs

Cincy would probably be even closer if they had any semblance of a stable closer. 

Just now, ShoeLessRob said:

I miss last year Abreu. He’d prolly be over 100 rbis at this point.

2020 Abreu would have 30+ homers by now. 

2 minutes ago, mqr said:

I just checked the standings and god damn the Padres might miss the plyoffs

That would be lovely 

Just now, JUSTgottaBELIEVE said:

That would be lovely 

I’m sure we would get twenty paragraphs about how they should have made it

Did he really throw 3 change ups in a row and expect Kepler not to hit it hard? 

lol goodwin

Just now, chw42 said:

Did he really throw 3 change ups in a row and expect Kepler not to hit it hard? 

Didn’t that ball look 425 ft off the bat

Lucas actually throwing that curveball for a strike in the zone? 

7 minutes ago, South Side Hit Men said:

Jack and a few others didn’t see this, but most did anticipate a vast improvement, both in ability and just the overall demeanor of the team, with or without shaking off some rust and regaining timing.

Hope you are right one day/year on the player in bold.

Don’t forget about Cesar Hernández.  He has been a major upgrade.

Just now, fathom said:

Didn’t that ball look 425 ft off the bat

I definitely thought it was gone. 

He Gone 

4 minutes ago, fathom said:

I’m sure we would get twenty paragraphs about how they should have made it

From caulfield

12 minutes ago, chw42 said:

It's crazy how he's gone from throwing 1/3 change ups to maybe 1/5 change ups. 

Not crazy if it's obvious they're sitting on your changeup.  And it was.

Perfect fastball there by Gio at 96

let's fucking go!

3 hours ago, Bossanoveralls said:

Right. We need to stay within ourselves. Take it one game at a time.

Nuke Laloosh we thank you.

4 minutes ago, chw42 said:

I definitely thought it was gone. 

This is not Wrigley or GRF....

1 minute ago, hankchifan said:

This is not Wrigley or GRF....

That ball is nowhere near gone in Wrigley if it gets into that deep corner. I think RF at Target Field is actually shorter than GRF, it's just very tall.