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Except Yermin Mercedes is an adult, and seeing he is a 28 year old career minor league player making his ML debut this season......I'd bet all the money in my pockets, against all the money in your pockets, that if you asked Yermin Mercedes 1. Would you take the trade off of hitting a HR for having someone throw behind him and/or hit him with a pitch 2. Would you still have swung 3-0 on that pitch knowing the future outcome......both answers to the question would be "Yes" Tony LaRussa called his rookie clueless and made it a point to publicly apoligize to a division rival.....but now the LaRussa stan's are saying "All Tony was doing was protecting Yermin..."

I don't understand how someone like you can function at a human level if you believe the bolded to be true. Boggles the mind.

It was still the wrong call. It's the same line of thinking saying "LaRussa isn't an issue, this team is winning!" Bunting in the 5th inning is wrong. It was wrong today, it will be wrong tomorrow.

Awesome to see Gio and Hendricks have two nice bounce back games. As @fathom mentioned, going to be really nice having a win to talk about tomorrow on an off-day

That's the Hendricks I wanted

There would be very little incentive for Gio to sign anything right now.

I've been working and had the game on in the background.......score aside...has Gio been good today?

So that's a win? Let's see what the score is in an hour, and if that 1 run won the game. Right now....it didn't earn them a win. Stop giving away outs for less runs.

Leadoff double in the 5th by Leury Garcia Twins lead 1-0. Danny Mendick up....and he bunts.

Bunting in the 5th inning. Got it

Thought about that as well the last two days. Little surprised we didn't see a "leak" from Nightengale or someone with a report on the Sox Front Office. But weird....looks like they are keeping it in house, what a weird concept.

How has Rick not had an aneurysm at this point? Spend 3+ years building a roster you think can compete, and this is the guy you have running the show.

Has anything been made of what Tony said at the end of that Jomboy video? He was asked what he would prefer in that situation over Yermin swinging, with a pitcher on the mound. Tony said "Ideally I'd send 3 pitchers to the plate, and have them just tap the ball back to the mound." 8 minute mark.

Awesome change

It's made national headlines and I can only image what sports fans that don't follow baseball think. "Wait, you're telling me the White Sox manager is mad at his own player for hitting a home run and wanted him to not swing, apologized to the other team for it, then the next day the player got hit by a pitch, and the manager said it's OK that he got hit?"

It's seemed that way for a while, but he keeps taking the mound every 5th day and the MPH isn't that far off from career norms. I think it's his delivery.

This took me 8 seconds to find.

Then why ask the question if all you are going to do is repeat your same points? You don't want to hear anyone else's opinion, you just want to keep defending Tony, because you met him once and he was "polite" to you. You're a waste of time.

No. Because even if I waste that time, you still won't understand. It's not worth it.

You’re completely missing what this entire conversation is about.

WE CAN'T LET THE PLAYERS RUN THE ASYLUM!

The more Tony speaks, the more I'm ok with Yermin doing what he did. LaRussa has admitted the take sign was on because he wanted to "respect the Twins" and keep sportsmanship alive. Having Yermin keep his bat on his shoulder during a 15-4 game for that reason, when stats are king and that's how these guys make a living.....no dice. Fuck LaRussa and his old school thought process. I would have done the same thing Yermin does.