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It was never going to get higher leverage than bases loaded with far and away the two most dangerous CLE hitters up. How in the fucking world was Bummer not the choice there? Even if Rodon needs to pitch, give him a clean inning! He is a starting pitcher, and a notoriously slow starting one!!! Players play the game, but managers either put them in situations to succeed, or puts them in situations to fail. This is an example (yet another of many many many) of RR setting his players up to fail.

It doesn't even make sense either. Does he know which Sox team he is tweeting about? Red Sox -> Dead Sox, ok that is clever, but this is the White Sox. Should have gone with the White Flag Sox, or maybe the Fright Sox? Plight Sox. Oh! The Not Quite Sox!

Please tell me what he was supposed to say to the media? "Yeah the rookie phenom we signed for 88mil sucks ass right now. No really. Kid couldn't hit off a tee. What a loser!" Some of y'all really don't understand how teams talk to the press.

Ahhhhh yes. No White Sox loss is complete until Ray tells me how to be a fan. Now I can sleep.

And you just KNOW that if we get swept out by the Yanks, the excuse was going to be "We ran into the hot team, it happens in baseball, nothing you can do" when it was completely in our control this week.

Hard to be a team leader when your batting average couldn't even buy you a pair of Jack in the Box tacos.

Oh come on, that was a tough bounce ?

Where the McStans at tonight? They're awfully quiet lately....

Around the league, there are as many as 10 college scouts sending a video link to their GM saying "I told you so."

This was posted a full hour ago lol. You can decide if that says more about Giolito, RR, or ChiSox1917,

The negativity has been flushed. So Eloy homerun now right?

The TWINS are scoreboard watching, just hoping and praying to get lucky enough to catch the WHITE SOX. Take that losers.

Don't you start now too goddammit

2 walks. Please don't swing at a breaking ball out of the zone on the first pitch Eloy.

This is known as a "false choice fallacy." There are numerous ways to achieve both of these so comparing their value is not an actual argument against Dyson. Hope that cleared things up.

Dyson has already demonstrated his value to the club multiple times in the few weeks he has been here.

Like I said in my post, there are plenty of reasons to think he can't/shouldn't do this. I have no idea if he is right about being able to manage this schedule, so I am not advocating for or against it. I just didn't think the effect on other SPs was anything worth getting worried about. The rotation would go: B 2 3 4 B 5 2 3 B 4 5 2 B 3 4 5 | B 2 3 4 B 5 2 3 B 4 5 2 B 3 4 5 Where B is Bauer, and 2/3/4/5 are your other pitchers. I put a bar where the pattern repeats. You can count and see, but also the pattern is that the pitcher who throws the day before Bauer is going to have 1 extra day of rest, and with 4 other pitchers that rotates each time so 75% of starts are still normal. Off days could further impact this, but you could just shift everyone back a day (like normal) or use this to actually skip the 5th starter even more often (especially useful if we are trying to keep young pitchers on limited innings). Again, not advocating that this is actually something he should do, but the impact on the rest of the rotation is not really problematic.

I'm shocked how much pearl clutching there is about the "pitch every 4th day" thing. If you have 4 other pitchers, they still pitch on 4 days rest 3/4 of the time, and 5 days rest otherwise. That already happens all the time due to injuries, off days, rotation realignment, etc. Hell, we just skip a 5th starter all the time. It actually gives you more flexibility to skip a guy or find some extra rest for a guy who is pitching through discomfort. There are reasons to be dubious about him pitching every 4th day, but the effect on the rotation is not one of them.

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How do you even hit Nicky Madrigal? He is smaller than most strike zones.

That this post is coming from this poster is just so depressingly unsurprising.

Is it just me or has the PbP guy been announcing the batters name as "wanker"??

Where's our ultra-rare historical anomaly? *stomps foot*

I missed the first half of the game so I figured the gamethread was exaggerating on how bad the on-field interviews were. boy, was I wrong. TA7 was so charismatic he may have saved it though