There should be punishment that is handed down by the FO to Venable. Not sure what it would be, but your job is literally to put your team in the best position for success, and he failed in a huge way, after a 13 inning game the night before. I don’t care that he “owned up” to the mistake. You teach your players to be focused and not make mental errors, Venable’s main job duties are to sit on a bench for 2.5 hours a night. You can’t make that mistake at this level, and their should be repercussions for his actions

Gonna be a long weekend I’m afraid. Sox have to deal with 2nd half Gavin tomorrow, who is on a 5 game double digit K streak. Then another lefty Sunday which means Venable will trot out his God awful LHP lineup.

4 minutes ago, Bad Hombre said:

Gonna be a long weekend I’m afraid. Sox have to deal with 2nd half Gavin tomorrow, who is on a 5 game double digit K streak. Then another lefty Sunday which means Venable will trot out his God awful LHP lineup.

Cantillo hasn't been great. I know he's a lefty but there is a huge gap between what we saw tonight and him.

14 minutes ago, Tony said:

There should be punishment that is handed down by the FO to Venable. Not sure what it would be, but your job is literally to put your team in the best position for success, and he failed in a huge way, after a 13 inning game the night before. I don’t care that he “owned up” to the mistake. You teach your players to be focused and not make mental errors, Venable’s main job duties are to sit on a bench for 2.5 hours a night. You can’t make that mistake at this level, and their should be repercussions for his actions

This is something I’d expect 2021 TLR to do

19 minutes ago, Tony said:

There should be punishment that is handed down by the FO to Venable. Not sure what it would be, but your job is literally to put your team in the best position for success, and he failed in a huge way, after a 13 inning game the night before. I don’t care that he “owned up” to the mistake. You teach your players to be focused and not make mental errors, Venable’s main job duties are to sit on a bench for 2.5 hours a night. You can’t make that mistake at this level, and their should be repercussions for his actions

I don’t think it was a huge deal. Schultz was getting rocked anyway. Honestly that probably saved the first inning from being 6-0 instead of 2-0.

Dodgers have now lost 7 in a row

Diaz walked off by AZ

5-2 Tigers down in the 8th

Today sucked but when we take a step back, the level of consistency this team has shown this year has been remarkable. We have yet to deal with the kinds of losing streaks other teams have been.

53 minutes ago, AntMan26 said:

I don’t think it was a huge deal. Schultz was getting rocked anyway. Honestly that probably saved the first inning from being 6-0 instead of 2-0.

If a dude drives home drunk but doesn’t hit anymore, did he not make a mistake? No big deal, right?

Victim or not, you still made a grave mistake that was a totally uncalled for and was just sheer incompetence from a manager in the dog days of August trying to get this team going again after a very lackluster series in Boston. Taking your starter out, by mistake because you weren’t paying attention is inexcusable

17 minutes ago, Tony said:

If a dude drives home drunk but doesn’t hit anymore, did he not make a mistake? No big deal, right?

Victim or not, you still made a grave mistake that was a totally uncalled for and was just sheer incompetence from a manager in the dog days of August trying to get this team going again after a very lackluster series in Boston. Taking your starter out, by mistake because you weren’t paying attention is inexcusable

Well, I think it’s kind of wild to compare what Will did to a drunk driver not killing anyone. But, to your point I guess, it was a brain fart, at the beginning of a game, that was about to get out of hand, that ended up not getting out of hand (in that moment) probably because of that brain fart. Situationally, not a big deal. Had it been in a much more important situation, like a tie ballgame in the 8th or something, then I might agree with you a bit more. But it wasn’t, so I’m inclined to think it really wasn’t a big deal as you think it was.

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Amazing what 5 days in baseball does. Riding high after taking 2 of 3 against Tampa then we have a poor trade deadline then lose 4 in a row. Somehow still up 2 games in the division but that will be gone quick if we don't stop this skid by this weekend

Just looked at remaining Guardians schedule. To say it’s easy is an understatement.

4 hours ago, TheBooneLoganEra said:

Our 3 most important hitters are just ass right now

We need the big 3 to start hitting homers more frequently again.

2 hours ago, Colome's Hat said:

Cantillo hasn't been great. I know he's a lefty but there is a huge gap between what we saw tonight and him.

Then Will should start Antonacci against this lefty.

5 hours ago, Colome's Hat said:

They need to snap out of this. Like show some life. This is fucking corpseball.

Doesn’t help that Venable shows no energy and looks like a zombie in the dugout.

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/white-sox-forced-to-remove-starting-pitcher-noah-schultz-after-only-1-out-due-to-manager-will-venables-blunder-023920224.html