Agreed. If that is the case, then flip Grandal and Moncada.

This is kind of a big game. Would be really nice to take 3 of 4 from Cleveland.

Tony submitted a good line-up today. I wouldn't have Moncada 4th, but other than that it's the best line-up you can make with the available players

I understand the need to baby Moncada. He got a big hit in the 1st.

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There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

There is not a damned thing wrong with people who are bull shitters.

You guys are overreacting. Being .500 at this point in April is good for the Sox.

La Russa will be fine. Relax.

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The Sox are 6-7 right now, ya dumbshit.

The Sox are 6-7 right now, ya dumbshit.

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There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

:lol: Do they "round up" at the end of the season if the Sox were to miss the playoffs by a game?

That's not nitpicking. The White Sox are not .500 right now. You're a dumbfuck and you were wrong.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

La Russa makes Biden seem lucid by comparison.

Can Dave Duncan do anything about the shit defense? That’s what’s hurting them the most. That ain’t on LaRussa.

Can Dave Duncan do anything about the shit defense? That’s what’s hurting them the most. That ain’t on LaRussa.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

You're not entirely wrong.

There's the obvious stuff, old and and out of the game, won't be able to relate to his players. But there's the added technical factor that the guy he leaned on for 35 years isn't there anymore. Dave Duncan was HUGE. He was doing sabremetrics before it was in a computer. It was in a train trunk that he hauled around to every ballpark. It was he who invented the set up guy. Not Tony. Dave was the innovator. Tony was the implementer. He's not, nor ever was, the genius he's been cracked up to be. The argument will be, "well, he's got 12 Dave Duncans, spitting out all the info that he could possibly want." Yeah, but Dave Duncan ain't there to collate it for him in the manner that he's been used to for 35 years.

LaRussa is going to be a problem. He's already shown it. He's even admitted it.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Isn't Duncan working for the Sox as a consultant?

:lol: Do they "round up" at the end of the season if the Sox were to miss the playoffs by a game?

That's not nitpicking. The White Sox are not .500 right now. You're a dumbfuck and you were wrong.

The White Sox have dealt with injuries, to be sure, but a number of early-season losses are being chalked up to playing time, lineup, and pitching decisions that White Sox observers find to be reducing the total production of this talented group. That all is apparently already causing issues in the clubhouse. From Jeff Passan today (emphasis added):

One can forgive Tony La Russa for a difficult transition back into the dugout. He was away for 10 years. And yet at some point, that excuse gets tired, and with some of La Russa’s maneuvering, one can understand why the patience in some parts of the White Sox’s clubhouse is growing thin.

The latest came last week, when, trailing by three, with runners on first and second and one out in the eighth, La Russa allowed Billy Hamilton and Leury Garcia to hit, even though Robert was available on the bench. La Russa’s explanation after the game was that he was “looking for a single there.”

It wasn’t the only mistake he made that game. After an awful start in which La Russa let his best pitcher, Lucas Giolito, languish for seven runs in one-plus innings, Giolito had bounced back with a solid six innings. La Russa sent him back out for the seventh. Giolito wasn’t going to ask out of the game. That responsibility fell on La Russa, who after the game said he didn’t realize Giolito was gassed.

He’d made the same error three weeks earlier with reliever Matt Foster and admitted “that’s lousy managing.”

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I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

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Maybe because back in the 90s and early 00s, starting pitchers regularly threw into the 7th and 8th inning?

But yeah between Katz who has known Giolito for 10+ years and LaRussa who has managed like 20,000 big league games, that is a mistake that simply cannot happen. Especially to a last place team like the Tigers.

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Thats bullshit though. You want to be a number 1 starter, get your ass out there and get some outs and then dont tell the media after the game you were " gassed" when you didnt. You think Wainwright, Dave Stewart, any of the horses LaRussa had previously wouldve ever done that ?

I usually don't put too much stock into these reports good or bad, but for some reason I think there might be a little smoke here.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/ ... eout-rates

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

My issue is, if you are going to take the ball and go out to the mound (i.e. not tell the manager you are gassed), then you cannot use that as an excuse after the game. Speak up....

Hate to tell ya this "Amigo", but that is sort of the essence of how life works.