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The message they've been sending for awhile now is that he has a shot at the job. And Eloy sure believes he does. Putting down the sandwhiches and beer (I assume) for a reason. At the end of the day, he and Colas will probably platoon depending on pitching.

Well, he has a funny way of negotiating for an extension. His agent must be pleased at his loquaciousness

Hard to tell if people are playing the race card just to shield Tim Anderson from criticism of not. Inference being, if Garrett Crochet said these things, it would have been completely overlooked. That's interesting thinking.

Depends what filter you're using. I didn't get that?

In a couple months if there’s winners in town, this will all be tabled. Of not, at least Tim will be out of excuses for the team. Unless he doubles down blaming fans/media for poor baseball

Pedro is smooth in front of media. But maybe he’s got a couple faces. Someone planting that seed of victimization into the team might be a way of binding them together and getting a fighting edge. Pedro is the Energy guy right? It would be difficult to just force them to get some physical energy in their bones without first getting them them mentally into the foxhole.

-Media put DHs and first basemen in the outfield -Media hired a senile old man to run the team -Media left major position holes on the roster -Media made poor rotation decisions what else did media do. Derail a train?

Well it’s delusional, first of all. Tim, meet the media.

I think he used to feed on bulletin board type stuff when he was younger. He still might. But being thin-skinned and rabbit earned may not serve him well this time. We shall see. Hopefully everyone is hopping mad, has seen their reflections in the mirror, and are ready to prove something. Lashing out at media and the fanbase in camp is not a great beginning though. He’s only creating more layers to fight through.

I didn’t think he was “being an ass” either. Personally the wife advice comment dropped my lower jaw, but other than that. However, he seems to want a a fanbase completely overtaken by pollyannaism or something. And he hasn’t earned that kind of credit by his own actions. If it was Jim Thome that took us to the woodshed, at least I might be affected by the gaslighting a little.

Happy travels with your approach. I just disagree on what you termed as an uplifting spring as if that was a statement of fact that we should be happy about . Maybe not, and not. TA didn’t get the memo.

how you feel about how fans have reacted to this team, I am not sure why, given what they were put through, why it is the fans fault for reacting a certain way. In that context the team hasn’t made a serious effort to fill all the remaining teams holes on the team. Yet this is somehow supposed a particularly uplifting spring?…..if reaction to a continuous , contiguous dysfunction is disturbing, fair enough. why blame the victims? TLR is gone, and the closer has cancer. I suppose half of that is good. But using cancer as an uplifting factor is not common.

Did he really just try to use treatment of one’s wife as an example of how to act?

Regardless how they feel about team control, they need to take one for the fans here and do something positive. Read the room guys

Yeah, it’s far from an uplifting spring, but sans the normal state injuries parade, its gosh darn a different spring so far.

When has the players union had the power to make up a lineup card? If the union and Clevinger’s agent want to kick up a lot of dust, the Sox can stand up to it and trade/cut him, or they can play him. Its up to the Sox.

This bed was made by the White Sox. They don’t need to be short, and they don’t need to be short for this reason. My only point is that it’s their choice, not fate. Comments about there needed to be some kind of court judgment to sit him down are not accurate. Don’t be hiding behind the courts and claim he has to play. If this is what kind of players they want on the field, then its on the Sox 100%.

Well, the only running Giolito has to worry about is to cover first base. History is replete with good, yet fat pitchers. Outfielders, not so much. This is a stretch, if you will.

One thing is true. There aren’t a lot of circumstances that can discourage me from having a beer under those circumstances.

Appreciate the reply. I don’t know man. If I’m making millions of dollars a year, and Im trying for more in the outfield, Im doing a lot of research. And being as light as possible seems a no brainer as a goal for a big man. While a good guy, Eloy seems immature, and somehow insulated against positive suggestions watching his career. I would be surprised if he wasn’t just fat and arrogant instead of overtrained on the wrong program.

Agent was hoping there would be a desperate situation cropping up other than just Chicago to leverage

The rest of the league seems unimpressed. Im just glad Leury is kept at arm’s length

Maury Povich: Romy, you are NOT

Well its better than nothing

Just because you think you’re right. Lots of hubris in here.