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Blaming Pedro is hysterical, but also, Bochy was the clear choice when they decided not to hire Hinch.

Touché

Way too critical to join Chuck and Guff

I'm trying to figure out what the f*** Sportsnaut is

The Athletic was pretty much founded on the notion of a local touch that you couldn't get... ...from print media. Which The Athletic distinctly isn't. And The New York Times is far from just a print business - they're all encompassing multimedia. Video won't be standing alone at the end of this either. People like being able to read on their phones. Podcasts dominate. The first newsroom I worked in out of college was founded on social media video and they've since expanded to written articles, newsletters and podcasts, because without that, you're relying on a lot of revenue sources that can dry up in an instant due to outside forces (such as algorithm changes).

After Stephen Noh was canned, Fegan was basically what kept me subscribed to the Athletic.

Tweet in question: Absolute horseshit.

My dad. Despite growing up in a Cubs family, his first game was a Sox game and he got to meet players. Since he was a short, left handed second baseman in little league, his hero was Nellie Fox. And then my earliest memory is a Frank Thomas home run when I was 2 years old (which means it was during the '94 campaign). Bonus: My mom grew up a Cubs fan, but switched when she married my dad. She and I will never root for the Cubs because they didn't win while my grandfather was alive. That was the only way we would have rooted for them.

See how easy that was? I miss Liam ?

Lmao at this nonsense

???

I don't want Gio to leave just because Jerry is a cheap ass, but here we are.

It's because they love to hustle down the first base line. Right? ...right?

Kopech on a rollpech

Get that printed on a shirt and it'll sell out among beer league softball teams.

lmao this fucking team

Catchers avoid hitting Luis Robert's bat challenge: impossible

God tier moment in sports.

I know there's the long COVID schtick, but I just saw my doctor on Wednesday for lingering symptoms (although I caught it twice, in July '21 and Jan '23). The first time absolutely fucked up my muscles in ways comparable to when I've experienced seizures. Sometimes that muscle pain lasts a few hours, sometimes a few days, sometimes months. The only reason I bring that up is because post-Herm, the White Sox have such a stupid fucking philosophy with how guys have handled their injuries. It's not unreasonable to think that Moncada has just never properly healed and the med staff keeps telling him the equivalent of a high school coach's "rub some dirt on it." And then yeah, there's the possibility that he's just fragile. That's how I feel about Eloy. But Eloy just seems to full on break and can't even swing a bat, whereas Moncada is at least playing.

I feel like the Sox do better against aces than they do against scrubs, because of course they do.

I hate to be the "if you've ever played sports" guy, but if you've ever played sports hurt - especially with a hurt back - then you know that you have to care more than people accuse Moncada of.

Now for the parts I agree with: Burger is a great DH. Everytime Moncada makes the play where a weak grounder is dribbling down the third base line and he grabs it and guns it to first - that's not a play Burger makes. Moncada did that yesterday. He also definitely plays hurt, which takes a fuckton of effort. I just don't understand the dude at the plate. At this point, as much as I love Vaughn, it's not Burger vs. Moncada, but Burger vs. Vaughn or Eloy. I would honestly say Eloy, because anyone that gets hurt swinging the bat as much as he does, well, that's the problem.

If this is about Burger, that's just ridiculous. His work ethic to come back from the two achilles tears shouldn't even be questioned, let alone the hustle.

Ah yes, I remember when we would say these things about dudes like Brian Goodwin.

It was a short draft, but 2020 still happened.