The cartoon bunny behind left handed hitters needs to be shot. 

Just now, WestEddy said:

Vasil is Rule 5 and cannot be sent down without passing through waivers. 

Vasil holds his own in the bigs. There's no reason to send him down. 

right, but he was initially on the Mets, then selected by the Phillies and traded to Tampa Bay. Tampa put him on waivers and the Sox claimed him. Unique path to be sure. It's a different situation than Shane Smith who would've returned to Milwaukee if the Sox 'waived' him. The question is simply: do the "Rule 5 rules" even apply to him? I stated it was my opinion that he's doing well and the MLB team "needs" him, I'm just wondering about the rule. At the same time, I'm speculating if it isn't better for future purposes when the team is actually good to try him as a starter. I think so, but maybe being a reliever for a terrible team doesn't preclude one from being a starting pitcher in the future. If they 'could' send him down, you wonder why they'd try to do it for Clevinger and not Vasil. You wonder a similar thing about Grant Taylor, but he might just straight up be a reliever.

This MoFo smith pissing me off

Come on leasure. Come through

Are you kidding me

Chase. Cmon man. 

That's 2024 sox right there

Can't blame leasure for that

53 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

so how do we blow this one?

67.3 MPH duck snort double and a throwing error by Meidroth

7 minutes ago, nrockway said:

right, but he was initially on the Mets, then selected by the Phillies and traded to Tampa Bay. Tampa put him on waivers and the Sox claimed him. Unique path to be sure. It's a different situation than Shane Smith who would've returned to Milwaukee if the Sox 'waived' him. The question is simply: do the "Rule 5 rules" even apply to him? I stated it was my opinion that he's doing well and the MLB team "needs" him, I'm just wondering about the rule. At the same time, I'm speculating if it isn't better for future purposes when the team is actually good to try him as a starter. I think so, but maybe being a reliever for a terrible team doesn't preclude one from being a starting pitcher in the future. If they 'could' send him down, you wonder why they'd try to do it for Clevinger and not Vasil. You wonder a similar thing about Grant Taylor, but he might just straight up be a reliever.

Rule 5 restrictions carry over through waivers, trades, etc. Basically they apply to all 29 teams other than the original  until fulfilled. That's why he was on waivers to begin with; Tampa was restricted from sending him down even though PHI was the team to actually draft him.

7 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

67.3 MPH duck snort double and a throwing error by Meidroth

They had technically already blown it on a wild pitch but tied it back up. 

16 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

Chase. Cmon man. 

He's having a tough series

7 minutes ago, wegner said:

He's having a tough series

Two games he has blown for the Sox in the late innings. Obviously his good outweighs the bad, but that’s brutal. 

God I’m fucking tired of Robert. Swing at trash and then take a fastball way too close. 

Michael A. Taylor the hitter!!!

Thought Schriff was gonna blow out the mic there

I thought that was gone. This ballpark blows. 

Taylor doesn't hit that often, but I feel like half of those hits have been timely doubles.

Baldwin needed to be all over that first pitch. 

Not watching the game but am I the only one finding it impressive that a Sox catcher scores from 1st on a double?

I’m sure a Burger walkoff is coming but they tied it up twice. I like the heart. 

8 minutes ago, kitekrazy said:

Not watching the game but am I the only one finding it impressive that a Sox catcher scores from 1st on a double?

He has some wheels. Did play OF in college a little. 

i'm locked into US Open to be fair. 

not a single walk today lol

7 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

i'm locked into US Open to be fair. 

Those scores are fuckin crazy