7 minutes ago, Snopek said:

I’m sorry this bothers you so much, but don’t worry, being sensitive is part of being human. Proud of both you and Sasaki for your willingness to be vulnerable.

It doesn’t bother me, but it is pretty embarrassing.  Do you also cry when you sometimes fail in your everyday job?  I bet most people don’t and they aren’t making $6.5 million.

6 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

It doesn’t bother me, but it is pretty embarrassing.  Do you also cry when you sometimes fail in your everyday job?  I bet most people don’t and they aren’t making $6.5 million.

Guy is in a brand new country and has a lot of pressure on his shoulders. People deal with emotions/pressure differently. He is still a human and we have no idea what he deals with on a daily basis in his head. You are being pretty insensitive for a guy who cries about Chris Getz everyday. 

1 hour ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

No, that’s weak.  Little leaguers cry when they lose, which is understandable.  He’s a grown ass man…  or maybe not.

Vargas looked depressed last year, which is understandable.  He was traded from the Dodgers to the worst team in baseball.  But I don’t recall seeing him visibly crying.

I feel like people in Japan are more honorable and respectful. He just felt like he failed his team after walking a bunch of guys and being pulled in the second inning. Emotions got the best of him.

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10 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

Guy is in a brand new country and has a lot of pressure on his shoulders. People deal with emotions/pressure differently. He is still a human and we have no idea what he deals with on a daily basis in his head. You are being pretty insensitive for a guy who cries about Chris Getz everyday. 

Yes, I physically produce tears because our GM sucks.

My last comment on this — if this is normal, why don’t we see more baseball players crying after failing?  Probably because they are taught at a young age that…

16 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

It doesn’t bother me, but it is pretty embarrassing.  Do you also cry when you sometimes fail in your everyday job?  I bet most people don’t and they aren’t making $6.5 million.

Embarrassing for who? If you're the one that finds it embarrassing, then yeah, it does bother you.

6 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Yes, I physically produce tears because our GM sucks.

My last comment on this — if this is normal, why don’t we see more baseball players crying after failing?  Probably because they are taught at a young age that…

Because they don't do it while sitting at the edge of the dugout with a ton of cameras on them? Just yesterday Tom Izzo was crying after his loss. 

20 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

It doesn’t bother me, but it is pretty embarrassing.  Do you also cry when you sometimes fail in your everyday job?  I bet most people don’t and they aren’t making $6.5 million.

No, actually, if I just got a huge promotion, then s%*# the bed in front of the world, I would probably visibly sulk, maybe even throw things, then get drunk later on and look for somebody else to blame, which is all more acceptable in our macho world, and way worse in the realm of acting out emotionally. 

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20 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Yes, I physically produce tears because our GM sucks.

My last comment on this — if this is normal, why don’t we see more baseball players crying after failing?  Probably because they are taught at a young age that…

I still see video of Joey Cora crying in the dugout after the Mariners were eliminated by the Cleveland team in 1995. Or of Wade Boggs crying in the dugout in '86. Michael Jordan cried when he held the first Bulls Championship trophy. It's manly to cry. It betrays serious emotional problems to take issue with guys crying. 

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35 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

It doesn’t bother me, but it is pretty embarrassing.  Do you also cry when you sometimes fail in your everyday job?  I bet most people don’t and they aren’t making $6.5 million.

The idea that someone else should suffer in silence because of what someone else thinks is everything that is wrong with this country.  It's why we have depression and suicide rates which are off the charts, and so much of it is preventable by just not looking down on other people for new good reason.

By the way, I wasn’t posting to derail the topic so much, or to say there was necessarily anything wrong with Sasaki. It was about selfish concerns that we could have been dealing with this as Sox fans. On top of our normal burden of being a Sox fan.

14 minutes ago, Chick Mercedes said:

By the way, I wasn’t posting to derail the topic so much, or to say there was necessarily anything wrong with Sasaki. It was about selfish concerns that we could have been dealing with this as Sox fans. On top of our normal burden of being a Sox fan.

I always had a soft spot for Greg Norton. His father killed his mother when Greg was a child, and Greg was basically raised by his older brother. I could never boo the guy, and I'm always happy to read about him getting a hitting coach job somewhere. These are real people dealing with unbelievable pressure, on top of their own life stories. I hope there's a backlash of empathy in the LA media for Sasaki. 

Yeah, I’m not faulting anyone for that. I left the game just before that started, but hadn’t made it back to the car in time. The rain was coming down horizontally because of the strength of the wind. That was some nasty s%*#, as short as it lasted.

Oh wow, more clickbait outrage to feed the haters.  Its not a big deal.

42 minutes ago, Green Line said:

Oh wow, more clickbait outrage to feed the haters.  It’s not a big deal.

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Another BTW…”hater” implies unearned negative attention. That is not the case for our Sox, and our Sox fans. Earned negative attention is not, “hate”. 

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The shadow of incompetence after a historically bad season is going to plague this organization for a while. If this were any other ballpark it wouldn't go viral, or as viral, and wouldn't be more meme fodder. Bossard's crew is well known for being one of the best. Yesterday's storm really came out of nowhere, and hit hard and fast, and could have happened at any open air ballbark in a colder climate. In reality this was just a freak occurrence that happened to happen to the Sox. 

18 minutes ago, Tnetennba said:

The shadow of incompetence after a historically bad season is going to plague this organization for a while. If this were any other ballpark it wouldn't go viral, or as viral, and wouldn't be more meme fodder. Bossard's crew is well known for being one of the best. Yesterday's storm really came out of nowhere, and hit hard and fast, and could have happened at any open air ballbark in a colder climate. In reality this was just a freak occurrence that happened to happen to the Sox. 

I think "grounds crew having trouble in terrible weather" always goes somewhat viral. People acting like this is an indictment on the organization as a whole is pretty wild, but I guess expected because this is the world we live in.

27 minutes ago, Tnetennba said:

The shadow of incompetence after a historically bad season is going to plague this organization for a while. If this were any other ballpark it wouldn't go viral, or as viral, and wouldn't be more meme fodder. Bossard's crew is well known for being one of the best. Yesterday's storm really came out of nowhere, and hit hard and fast, and could have happened at any open air ballbark in a colder climate. In reality this was just a freak occurrence that happened to happen to the Sox. 

They knew it was about to rain, but the smart thing was I think they were hoping to wait as long as possible for the Sox to score and then call it. Missed by about five feet of working 

7 minutes ago, fathom said:

They knew it was about to rain, but the smart thing was I think they were hoping to wait as long as possible for the Sox to score and then call it. Missed by about five feet of working 

Rain, yes, but I don't think anyone expected it to be that crazy that quickly. The tarp snafu could have happened anywhere, it just happened to be the most incompetent org in the Majors. But the org incompetence isn't why it happened, it's just a lazy, yet easy conflation to make across social media.

12 hours ago, Chimpton said:

Well at least they made national news! I can't see the team making much national news unless they break their own loss record.

They can't even make local news.  Cubs being bad for now gets more attention.

kudos to the grounds crew. it's hard work in bad conditions and they do a great job. we joke about "second winter" but the weather conditions have been wild lately. dumb and disrespectful story.

23 minutes ago, nrockway said:

kudos to the grounds crew. it's hard work in bad conditions and they do a great job. we joke about "second winter" but the weather conditions have been wild lately. dumb and disrespectful story.

I was talking to my wife yesterday how it seems like every other day is 50 MPH winds. 

4 hours ago, PaleAleSox said:

I was talking to my wife yesterday how it seems like every other day is 50 MPH winds. 

Yet somehow MLB thinks it is a great idea to schedule teams in the Northeast, Midwest and Upper Midwest to play a bunch of home games in March/April. 

1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Yet somehow MLB thinks it is a great idea to schedule teams in the Northeast, Midwest and Upper Midwest to play a bunch of home games in March/April. 

Complaining about scheduling games in colder cities is pointless. They have to schedule some games in the northern cities. It's unfair to the Southern and West coast teams to give them a preponderance of games before Memorial Day, then give the Red Sox and Twins more summer games. They could just have all the teams play in their spring training sites until Memorial Day.

6 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

Complaining about scheduling games in colder cities is pointless. They have to schedule some games in the northern cities. It's unfair to the Southern and West coast teams to give them a preponderance of games before Memorial Day, then give the Red Sox and Twins more summer games. They could just have all the teams play in their spring training sites until Memorial Day.

Have some barnstorm series at the minor league stadiums. Only semi-joking.

30 minutes ago, Quin said:

Have some barnstorm series at the minor league stadiums. Only semi-joking.

Sure. But it's like guys who fill up the newspaper comment sections of news stories about natural catastrophes, mocking the victims for living in areas where there are hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes or forest fires. "Just out-think the weather."