Chicago White Sox

Fully disagree on the idea to steal. Why are you playing for two with the bottom of your lineup up and your star closer scheduled for the 10th? With a runner on 3rd and one out, you have to do everything possible to optimize your chances of getting a single run. Winker was a really bad decision too, but playing for two with one of the worst hitters in the last half decade up to bat is the definition of insanity.

Great post Balta!

What in the world are you talking about? We all know you wanted to hire your buddy Tony.

We’re not paid to know the rule and neither are the four people you mentioned, so who cares?

It’s really bad although the one positive is Tony is actually getting ridiculed for it all over the place. That probably won’t change anything, but it puts a tiny amount of heat on him.

Lol...there really is no hope. La Russa is going to do things his way and we simply have to pray we can somehow overcome them. I still think we can win the division, but our margin for error will be incredibly slim with Eloy & Robert out and Tony actually costing us games on a somewhat regular basis.

I’m just playing around, it’s 100% inexcusable to not know the extra innings rules.

I’m 100% not serious...lol.

Plus it’s the bottom of the order. You play for one there all day and hope that Tim, Nick, Jose, & Yoan can win it in the 11th if it comes to that.

To be fair, the rule didn’t exist in Tony’s time, so how should he know these things?

This is a fantastic analogy

I agree although Grandal does have make some adjustments and stop pounding the ball into the right side of the infield.

Can someone post Tony’s post-game comments on the steal attempt? Would love to hear if that was a poor dugout decision or a Leury brain-fart.

I’m not worried yet, but we definitely getting our money worth so far.

Good points.

Ahhh...see that now. Still incredibly dumb to steal there and it may have cost us a game.

He’s literally one of the worst offensive players in the last half decade. His value is a pinch runner and defensive replacement. The fact we keep letting him bat in big situations is insanity to me, although perhaps there were no other options today.

Can someone smarter than me explain the logic there? Are we really that concerned about Billy hitting into a double play? We literally just threw away a chance of Tim Anderson being up with the go ahead run at 3rd.

Why the fuck are we stealing???

All we need is a god damn sac fly...get it done Billy!

Ball four base hit

Crazy

Does Grandal start off in 2nd? Unfortunately the game is blacked out in my market.

Stiever the only announced starter so far.

I said it in the offseason, but the amount of low hanging fruit under Cooper was incredible and just getting any modern pitching coach in place would likely to pay major dividends. Obviously there is more than just that with Rodon, but it’s clear as day Don was holding us back in recent years.