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Great bounce back win from Cease. Marshall looked nasty. Let’s try to win 2 or 3 more from these guys. The season is defined by how you bring it in series like these.

Oh. Great.

They should just rebrand the Kopech injury video "Kopech shows off breakdancing skills on the mound!" and then I'd feel better

Thanks. Guess I should've been searching for "web gem" instead of "horrific injury"

White Sox may not see a clearer path to the playoffs in their window. Let's get our horses back and make a run at this thing, shall we?

According to the Score Sheets took a wicked fall into the dugout, though I can't seem to find the video.

People who don't like the Cubs. Are we going to do this again?

If the starting pitching continues along its current trendline that will keep us afloat for a couple months with this lineup. Plus I think the bullpen will improve, and Vaughn will improve to offset possible decline in Yermin's production. I hope we don't blow any significant assets for what will likely amount -- at very best -- to an additional win or two in July 2021.

Are you a PT?

Could be a long summer. People trippin'.

RIP Ragah. Off to that great circular, self-referential meta-argument in the sky.

Come on you little shartsmen

Well, not as I read the exchange, since the poster making the original point conceded that elements of both types of job were "grueling" (and hence there was no real disagreement about that point.) I think the poster's point was really that the difference in difficulty between the two is so astronomical that it's a little crazy to complain about baseball being "grueling" when so many people have it much, much harder. But starting to devolve into semantics here, so I'm going to leave the salt mines (i.e. my air conditioned office) and watch some baseball!

Never worked in baseball (which, let's be honest, doesn't really have the reputation for being a tough industry)...but I've done physical grueling and "professional" grueling (travel/hours/stress) and the former is infinitely harder, though I've heard a lot more complaining about the latter. My equally pointless 1.5 cents.

This is exactly how I remember it. They were resting players, putting injured Rodon/the bottom of the bullpen in the game during the highest-leverage situations, etc. -- essentially giving away games. I think this killed their mojo a bit and the losing seemed to build on itself once they were ready to right the ship for the last week. Even still they looked pretty good in their playoff series but had no starter for game 3, a problem compounded by the Crochet injury and Ricky's skittish and reactive pitching management. And since we are on the "unwritten rules" topic, how can we not talk about Ricky's truly embarrassing moment getting his whipping-boy Cordero to throw at the Cubs for *bat flipping* of all things?! The FO was rightfully outraged about that. Ricky was horrendous. Let's not let TLR's horrendousness fool us into thinking otherwise.

I will have no problem with it. It's kind of like when somebody jumps my friend at the bar for bumping into them. Of course, being a tough guy, I always jump in and help beat up my friend. I mean, if he didn't want to get beaten up he shouldn't be bumping into kind strangers out trying to have a good time. And if the guy comes back for more later because he's embarrassed for being thrown out of the bar, I'll jump right in again. Maybe offer to buy the kind stranger a beer, too. All just standard tough guy code.

They will probably throw at him every at-bat for the rest of his career. I just hope he doesn't get arrested next time he enters Minnesota. What he did was Very Serious.

I attended the final Twins Spring Training game in FL this year and clearly put a White Sox hex on them. You’re all welcome.

March 2021 me says "well, at least we'll have Keuchel"

Perfect, super on-brand, and very productive. Maybe flags are in order? And be sure to uncritically support every decision he makes from now on just to "own" his critics. Who knows, maybe you'll get really lucky and he'll manage us right out of contention, or blow a playoff game -- then there'll be "tears" galore!

So? Don't play dumb here. It's possible to NOT publicly blurt something that's on your mind when you're asked about it. You know, for fear of it damaging the team and the relationships between the people on it? It's the normal way to handle these kinds of things, actually. It's the reason TA doesn't say "fuck that guy" when people ask him about TLR. It's the reason documentaries like Last Dance are interesting, because you get to hear things people were actually thinking at the time but were too savvy to say out loud.

I love this, but to be fair it's easy for somebody to sound refreshing and hilarious in their first public, impassioned, profanity-laced tirade.

"Weird-ass Minnesota Twins" captures it perfectly. Fuckin dorky, corny identical-blonde-facial-hair-looking-fan MFers. I can't stand that team

As much as I like to see TLR get his comeuppance, I'm not on board with egging on the circus wagons now circling this team. The shittiest part about this situation is we have no recourse -- TLR is going nowhere. Given that, plus my love for the team above all else, I think the best we can hope for is that either TLR and the team have a come-together moment or this blows over. This all needs to stop soon.

Yeah, NOW it looks like the Post might start spinning things...That’s hysterical ?