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  1. mikelink45
    In my frustration with unwritten rules and the reactions to on written rules I have come to an understanding of my own weakness in this arena. I believe that the only good response to an unwritten rule isn't on written response and therefore I am going to save myself from frustration and ulcers and just let the silliness continue with no further words. Maybe.
  2. mikelink45
    Sorry, I want to say bull****, but I will refrain. Just pitch the ball, hit the ball or call the game when one team gets 10 runs. And thanks to the editor who cleaned up my post!
  3. mikelink45
    I hate the unwritten rules. I like a batter who does his best no matter the score or who is pitching. I like a pitcher who throws his best pitch and not a screwy message pitch. Play the game with the written rules. Should a players batting average, OPS, or any other measurement be unaffected once a certain score is reached? Should they just walk up and stand there? I have been watching this game for about 70 years and the unwritten rules remain dumb - maybe even dumber than when I started watched.
  4. mikelink45
    What is lame? Should he not get the best out of his bat? If a batter is just supposed to go out - end the game!
  5. mikelink45
    http://e.startribune.com/Olive/ODN/StarTribune/Default.aspx Reusse joins us in despising this charade. " Then, on a 3-0 count, Astudillo lobbed another one and Yermin Mercedes slaughtered it for a 430-foot home run to center field. Mercedes is Astudillo’s twin with the White Sox — a chubby catcher long buried in the minors, finally given a chance and producing, and with more power than the Turtle. The height of silliness followed, with the Twins deciding to be offended that someone had the audacity to hit a 3-0 pastry from Astudillo for run No. 16, rather than wait for a 3-1 pastry to do the same. Mercedes was disrespecting the Turtle as a pitcher, and disrespecting a team that had put the Turtle on the mound for the laughs? We have to protect our dignity by having Tyler Duffey throw at this make-believe villain a night later? That Twins reaction was more pathetic than the putrid manner in which Baldelli’s club has had to play to overtake the Detroit Tigers for the title of Baseball’s Worst."
  6. mikelink45
    How do they account for the shifts? 3B often is playing the SS position.
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    I loved it - Sano keep hot - I will still criticize you if you go back to being a whiff monster, but what I just saw was a player making contact and that is great. Ober was mediocre - not sure the praise is earned. Happy to have him try another game against another team, but a 9.00 ERA is not brag worthy even in a year where we are searching for good news. Finally, am I the only fan who does not care that Yermin hit the HR off Astudillo. If we pitch batting practice the hitter has the option to clobber anything any time in any count. I am so sick of the unwritten rules and the minor infractions that are supposed to be insults to the integrity of the game. If I am a hitter and can pad my stats, I would do it. The game is changing with bat flips, joy and excitement starting with the Padres and that is just fine with me.
  8. mikelink45
    Sparkman gone, Law gone, the dominoes keep falling from the off season reliever list.
  9. mikelink45
    Astudillo is has the second best BA out of players with 80+ ABs. Astudillo has the fifth best ERA+. And he has the best attitude, joy, and energy. He came in to be the catcher when Garver was hurt despite the fact that he is hurt. He is 8th in WAR among batters. Only three RPs among all we have had this year have an ERA+ over 100 - Robles, Rogers and Astudillo. I love having Astudillo on the team, but I do not want to see him leading our team in so many ways. Our full season roster has 17 players with negative WAR out of 41 players. Seven players have zero WAR (zero value?). And 14 of these zero and negative players are on our current active roster. Larnach has proven he belongs. Refsnyder and Garlick give the FO more hope that they can find cast off that they can turn into "stars", although Garlick is a negative WAR. Happ and Shoemaker have ERA plus of 60 and 74! No that is not good enough for your 4th and 5th starters. Kenta Maeda has ERA+ of 75. Just a tick above these two, but not enough to even be a fifth starter. Maeda, Shoemaker, and Colome are the bottom three in team WAR. Can we trade rosters with one of our minor league teams? Is there any reason Jeffers is not back up with the team? I am, learning to enjoy the angst in the postings and I hope no one quits filling these spots with your thoughts and tears.
  10. mikelink45
    One game, one play, one rookie - not worth all the angst - this team is such a mess that that only diverts attention from the real problems - Front office errors, coaching and manager errors, veteran errors. Where are our winning ways? Our team work is missing. These are just a bunch of miscellaneous ball players occupying positions, but not taking responsibility for leadership, doing the small things, getting hits and not wild swings, getting ground balls and letting the strikeouts come naturally. I am frustrating that Bally Sports blacks out so many games that my MLB package is worthless, but maybe they are doing me a favor.
  11. mikelink45
    A trade won't make it better, it is time to see the next generation of players. Put in Jeffers, he is doing fine in St Paul, Garver continues to struggle. The OF depth is really being stretched, but please bring up a real CF prospect, even if not quite ready so we can at least see some Defense. Get the AA BP into the Twins and send these guys on a vacation to Wichita. Bring up some SP from the minors - Ober, Winder. Let's jettison the flotsam and give fans a reason to watch. The mask rule means more fans can come to the stands, the team as it stands right now means less fans will come to the stands.
  12. mikelink45
    "Ian Gibaut allowed three singles, a HBP, two walks, and two doubles. Iowa took a resounding 8-3 lead and stole the series finale." Yes another scrub we knew we could make into a RP star. I want the team to continue to make changes until we get a roster we can live with. Rob the minors, make the majors an interesting team again.
  13. mikelink45
    In a year when we were addressing defense - we failed. In a year where we knew we could pick up any scrub and make him into a RP - we failed. Sano has one good game - yesterday. Kepler has one good game - today. Can we get these professional hitters to do something regularly? By the way Larnach looks like he belongs - that is the positive. And Maeda is still reading last years press clippings.
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    I am willing to just be happy with a win. I was on the shared site and left to go have a whisky. I could not handle it anymore and then they came back. I am delighted. If they want to make me look bad by winning the rest of their games I am willing to take the pie in the face for it. Do the hitting coaches deserve to go? I do not know. I know that we have a team of regression. Kepler, Polanco, Sano, and Garver seemed to be on the verge of greatness and slipped back into mediocrity. I know Sano had a big hit today, but how many times has he failed? If Big Papi is his model, he has a long way to go. Berrios is our best pitcher, but is he elite? No. The BP had two studs - Duffey and Rogers then they hit the wall and regressed. Something is missing. I do not know what.
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    Do we take comfort when we disliked the addition in the first place and now he has given us all the reasons we need to have to know that he is not going to rise much above the bottom of our expectations. I do not believe in Dobnak, Smeltzer, and Thorpe. I think it is the next level of prospects which will have to save us, but that does not mean that they should not have the same opportunity that Shoemaker has had to prove us right or wrong. Each is an interesting story, but that does not make them the right components of a pennant winning rotation. So now we look at Maeda and hope he is not a one year wonder, Berrios seems to be the same as he always has been, good but not great, Pineda is steady and valuable but only signed for this year. Happ is the perfect number five, but has to serve as a four. In other words we have two dependable starters which makes the acceptance of a mediocre five less viable.
  17. mikelink45
    Descalso is a mystery signing. I want the young players to move up, not fill the roster with old and incompetent. That goes for RP too - Hamilton is another of our questionable signings and Albers is not going to prosper in MLB - I can't wait for Balazovic and Duran to come back. Whitefield is giving us some hope - what a contrast in CF between Whitefield and Kepler/Cave.
  18. mikelink45
    Remember that Molitor won MOY too and then was let go. Was Derek Shelton the reason we were better? I know people believe in Rowson as hitting coach and he is gone. There are so many weak spots right now I have no idea how it can be fixed,
  19. mikelink45
    Wow that was depressing. A cold shower might be invigorating, this was a hail storm. I will go back and read it again to see if there is anything I can find that gives me hope. Nope. By the way - I bought the MLB package so I could follow this wonderful season and the Sox series was blacked out and now Oakland is. Is Dr Fauci trying to save my sanity?
  20. mikelink45
    The weakness in this satire is that it almost makes sense.
  21. mikelink45
    Shaun did not look good, when you make exceptions in a performance everyone looks good, but he also did not look that good in ST or they would have kept him up. I believe they wanted to the way they used him. Cano is perfect. At his age the only reason to keep him in the minors is because he will always be in the minors. Use his arm now while it has life. The peak comes and goes quickly. Is Chalmers really the third choice? If these are the top three I am not hopeful. And no more retreads. We have already seen how that works this year. I assume we started with the best and are working down - go no further. Get fresh young arms into the BP. And that is not Smeltzer, Dobnak, or Thorpe. We need better.
  22. mikelink45
    What a list, it is listing the most obvious - Maeda (all the articles about we have our Ace) - and then we have Rogers and Polanco in the wings. Do you count Colome or doesn't his White Sox time count? This is sad because we had this group come up together and gave us the feeling that the future would be ours - just add a few arms and legs and we would be ready to go. Dobnak has to go on the list too. He isn't even looking good in St Paul. Jeffers would be on the list, but he is awake in St Paul and needs to come back up. Jake Cave wasn't too high so his regression does not seem as much, but he is killing us - why does Rocco love him? Maybe the biggest regression is at Manager and coaches. In 2019 we were so excited that we had a team of genius coaching. Now?
  23. mikelink45
    Hill just shut out the Yankees for 6.2 innings with 9 Ks. https://www.mlb.com/gameday/yankees-vs-rays/2021/05/13/634126#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=634126
  24. mikelink45
    At this point if the pitcher has anything put him in the MLB bullpen. This pen just stinks and if we are going no where we can at least audition arms.
  25. mikelink45
    From the team's future view - he will be a free agent - use him, get your dollars worth. Pitchers some how survived the previous decades throwing 9 innings and sometimes more.
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