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He can still be the eyes and ears to Reinsdorf and bring smiles and laughs to the kids. Picture it with me. Coop Southpaw.

Robles looks good. I want to see Robert come up and run around the bases like this.

“Robin is a really good manager,” said team captain Paul Konerko, who was considered for the job before the Sox offered it to Ventura. “He’s good at this. But I also think that Robin is one of those guys who -- in the right way -- he knows baseball is not everything. I respect that, because he can do this. He can probably do this for as long as he wants. But I don’t think he identifies who he is with baseball. So if he doesn’t want to do it, that’s fine.” Players rarely say, this guy fucked me up. I had to go outside and fix this with my own coach. But thanks for helping me with my emotions. I mean really do you think that lots of players on the Sox thought Robin was a really good manager. Sometimes they just say things for the press.

I heard the same interview. Take a look at his arm climb and motion and compare it to last year. Mental issues didnt all of a sudden change that to a short arm action.

Just like Machado did.

Yeah we took that pitcher and turned him into poo.

He is a human trackman. He doesnt need to pay attention to those silicon diodes. His eye tells him that the pitcher needs to drop velocity, throw strikes with that pitch that straightens out. Then throw a cutter.

Maybe in the offseason he can find his old coach to get him back to what he did that was successful. When he was acquired I saw tape of him pitching against Atlanta. That guy was electric. Then coop happened. And we have this. I think Cooper has a specific type of guy he can fix. We however have not acquired that guy since Thornton or Loaiza.

If this was the Astros, they would of worked on spin rate with rapsado and trackman and worked on getting him locked in on pitches that work. But here with the White Sox its what random old school shit Cooper comes up with and an ornery look.

Its time for Cooper to go. However that isnt going to happen. The success for this year is a guy who went back to a previous coach and reworked his arm climb on his own. Tall and fall, sacrificing velocity, and throwing cutters and giving up your breaking pitches is not a formula for success anymore.

Someone wake up the skipper. There is a game going on.

Its a belt high slider that rolled. You dont need know its coming to hit it hard.

The stuff is fine. He however leaves pitches up to much and when you leave a slider up that doesnt have a lot speed differential between it and your fastball you speed up the hands and barrel up the ball for the batter. You can pitch up, however your secondary pitches need to be down. Sending him down is silly. Let him work through this here. Having him find his mojo against AAAA hitters doesnt do anything. He needs to get his location better and attack. Its a rebuild, fix this in 2019.

I like Bleday. The hit stroke has been there. Great baseball acumen. And his power stroke should only grow as he gets stronger.. Not a big fan of drafting right handed 1B types.1

"We tried" is the slogan of the sox.

The HBO tradition of taking a first class long run series and having some over thought ending that makes most angry. They did this with the Sopranos and now they have done it with GoT. Underwhelming.

Post draft go nuts. Its just money.

Yet our management team didnt understand why Manny didnt take mythical future sox monopoly money tied to ABs over real cash tied to years.

I used weighted plyo balls against a wall to shorten my sons arm circle up as an infielder. Its remarkably effective instead of trying to give verbal cues or doing random drills.

Your eye test is flawed.

He would take him over all candidates. We have been through the Ozzie experience. Its over, move on.

That cant be. I was assured that they really work on defense by a poster here.

I am sure they take ground balls. There is a difference between taking infield and spending time on working isolation, short hop, footwork, fielding technique and working through each phase.

I am sure that Timmy Anderson is really working on his fielding craft and its just luck that he isn't getting better. Too much smoke surrounding a team that has promoted fielding butchers who have a single tool, the hit tool.

This is what development looks like. Instead of just going through the motions and hoping they get better based on some sort of experience ladder.