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I think there is some merit to what you say. People are used to paying for their sports through cable and satellite and the sports packages offered by the league. If you're a cord cutter and many are you don't really expect to get free over the air sports unless you can get it through antenna or other more nefarious means. I'm not in Chicago but cord cutters are usually quite used to monkeying around with their smart TVs and various " other" methods to watch sports. I watched plenty of Hawks and White Sox games. Yes I'm usually a few minutes behind the live action and the picture quality is HD instead of 4K and the signal sometimes has to be rebooted often but free is free. And this is without using the advice you get about hiding your ISP through the use of a VPN. People are innovative which is just the opposite of lazy and stupid but I do agree that there are some people who just say f*** it and won't put the time or effort into it because it doesn't involve the ease of use that handing over your cash provides. Where there's a will there's a way .

Is this the gamethread ?😋

You have to hope that whatever maturation process or strength building that Crochet transitioned to can be somehow duplicated in Taylor. No one besides me ever talks about this but physically Crochet got much bigger and stronger than when he was drafted and pitching in relief. I don't know if that was just natural growth into a men body or some combination of body maturation and rehabbing and strength building after Tommy John surgery. Whatever he did the question is can it be duplicated in other pitchers ? How players physically mature and gain strength gets way more scientific and investigative then by just knowing body types . Family medical history very important too. You pitch so much of your life in a boys body but then suddenly you are 20+ lbs heavier. This happen to men at different ages. You hear a lot of talk about players being in their prime in late 20s to early 30s when body and mind and experience all comes together . Sometimes you physically peak before you're mentally ready and vice versa. And just the pure talent needs a good mind to process and make necessary changes along the way with the calm needed to face your failures along the way. This is where you delve into character. Drafting and developing is actually just gathering as much info as you legally are allowed to physiologically and psychologically and being smart enough to know what to do with that info. The best at it make their best guesses because you have to have an intuitive sense of judging character and talent despite all the information you gather.

That's a controlled dive though more than anything. He is brittle though that's for sure

I think it's good baseball discussion about how we saw the play. Keaschall scored from 2nd mainly because as a fast heady base runner he saw Quero too far up the line to get back and Davis had his back turned to the plate also. If we were side by side we'd be like check the replay that shows the position of both Quero and Davis and you'd be like check the replay on Quero's throw. 🙂 I still hate the umps though . I'd rather blame them.

When you're as fast as he is, that wall comes at you awful fast. Better, if you have to lunge for it like he did, that you just catch it falling down rather than risk trying to regain your balance as you stumble towards the wall . Even with a padded wall those abrupt stops in an awkward position will do damage.

Pitcher should've been doing that. He was much closer to home after Quero made the throw and was standing there watching the throw instead of thinking about his fielding responsibilities. Any way, you look around MLB, not going to win many games scoring 1 or 2 runs a game . Sox have very few games scoring 4 , 5, or 6 runs. Usually it's 0-3 or 7+ runs. Not a whole lot of in between.

Eh that error on Quero was more on the ump letting the runner run to 1st in fair territory.

I don't think it's that. I think he knows the team is terrible and he's saving as much service time as possible trying to turn the turds into silver. That's been the plan since he took over. I've said it's a bad plan but likely his only option without spending money and few minor leaguers showing they're ready. I think he's too active too early in the off season. If you're going after bums might as well wait til teams DFA some younger guys or those with options and a glimmer of promise.

Defense has been ok most of the year. It's mostly the hitting as usual.

That's the spirit but who are you and what have you done with Fathom ?

Can't wait for the ABS system .These umps blow.

Cmon Sox. Barrels .

Ober's been alternating good and bad innings but the bad innings haven't hurt him much. Got to rough him up in what should be his good inning 3rd time through.

Being in a message board game thread of a terrible team is called love not hate 😂

Sure did and he's looking to pull everything. No attempt t all on the off speed to hit behind the runner at 1st.

They don't have enough hitting or power to get rid of either one of them. Korey Lee could be traded though. Power bats always get some interest and he's got defensive value too.

Dalbec nice arm at 3rd.Can understand why he was playing some RF @ Charlotte.

Lot to learn to be a good big league hitter.

Larnach was running out of the line purposefully to make the throw from Quero harder and it worked. Throw was right on target but needed to be on the 2nd base side of 1st base . Larnach got away with it. Not a reviewable play even though Venable came out to argue.

Stretch ! Most here were crying about last year because JR mentioned a quick turn around. It was obvious it was going to be the 1st year of a rebuild pretty early to me but apparently not to many others who apparently believed JR as if he's the beacon of truth. But, frankly ,your narrative is about as honest as JRs.

Dalbec's been playing RF too in AAA which I then assume to mean he can also play LF.

There are a lot of lousy hitters in baseball with their careers hanging by a thread at every position. I suppose when you pick from the bottom of the barrel you factor in things like options the most . Maybe then it's position of weakness or certain skills such as power, speed, defense, positional versatility. Since they are all bums its really easy to pick someone who doesn't perform. Making mountains out of molehills for picking the wrong bum is about the silliest thing ever and is not indicative of much of anything. This is still a rebuild .The pitching has sustained a lot of damage throughout the entire organization . What was thought a strength is all of a sudden a weakness since much of the higher end depth has gone under the knife. Seems like the Sox are paying for Robert's health with the health of every other Outfielder counted on for average production. The losses of games played on the field are not nearly as important to the future of the franchise as are the young players sidelined by injuries . There's a lot less things to follow when the loss of personnel has a trickle down effect on development and wins at nearly every level. Sox may set a record for most bodies used in a season with the way the roster has been churning.

Amaya still with 9 lives voodoodied Meidroth.

Can Drury be far behind ? Then Rojas. Sox pitching devastation is unreal throughout the system.