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  1. USAFChief
    Don't count something really odd from LaRussa out just yet.
  2. USAFChief
    The Sox tv crew is doing the game on the MLB network. Might be the best tv crew in the game. Steve Stone and Jason Benetti.
  3. USAFChief
    Or don't hang a 2 strike slider middle middle. Lucky it wasn't a dinger.
  4. USAFChief
    Pretty bad pitch to Abreu
  5. USAFChief
    Hang around us for long and that confidence level will regress to something more reasonable.
  6. USAFChief
    Are you ... Tony LaRussa? . Based juiced, 1 out. Kirilloff taps ground ball towards Anderson in the shift. Anderson "tags" Kepler going by (with his glove which doesn't contain thr ball) and throws to 1st completing DP. Twins challenge, overturned. 1-0 Twins.
  7. USAFChief
    There's your run, Ryan.
  8. USAFChief
    He didn't.
  9. USAFChief
    Gift run. Terrible baserunning overcome by even worse infield play.
  10. USAFChief
    Kepler...what the ? Just stop running. No GIDP. Run scores. Edit: we got lucky.
  11. USAFChief
    Not saying that. Just saying he had a pretty bad AB.
  12. USAFChief
    Holy bad AB, buck.
  13. USAFChief
    Don't let scorching hot Jose Abreu beat you, Mr Ryan. Then we're good.
  14. USAFChief
    Concur on all points.
  15. USAFChief
    I don't think that's true, but in any case it's irrelevant. The question is, will a fresh reliever have better success against the top 5 in a lineup than the third time from the starter? As RB noted, the runs given up count the same no matter the actual reason. I don't care if Bundy's ERA might be slightly lower if he got to face 27 hitters instead of 22. I care about not giving up those runs in the first place.
  16. USAFChief
    Completely, totally, utterly wrong. At the end of the day, RBI are the single most valuable contribution a player can make on offense. Sometimes not predictive, sure. But when evaluating performance in terms of contributions towards winning, nothing a player did was more valuable. Nothing.
  17. USAFChief
    Buxton just turned and got the ball into the IF as quickly as possible, in the general direction of 2nd base. He didn't have time to aim to a specific teammate. What's kind of funny is in each snippet of replay, none of the announcers quite knows what's going on (except possibly Perkins). Like me in real time, they thought Urshela needed to throw to 1st to complete the triple play. Even the last one, where Dick is back after the commercial break, he calls it a "9-5 triple play. That's 8-5, Dick.
  18. USAFChief
    Kep!
  19. USAFChief
    In case anyone needed a reminder that walks are indeed NOT as good as hits.
  20. USAFChief
    I don't think his run would have counted. In this case, tagging Moncada was the second out, stepping on 2nd the 3rd out. There was no time out, the ball was in play the entire time. There was no needed "4th out." The two plays weren't similar. edit: I just re-read your post and noticed you said "1 out." In the immortal words of Emily Littela, "Never mind." In the also immortal words of Bert Blyleven, "I ****** that all up."
  21. USAFChief
    I'm not at all convinced his bat will continue to be playable, but happy to concur I've been wrong so far.
  22. USAFChief
    Rocco gets off easy compared to their takes on LaRussa though.
  23. USAFChief
    Planet? Call me a homer, but I'd argue best in entire universe.
  24. USAFChief
    I found this exact quote on "White Sox Interactive" only they seemed to think it was Twins pitchers getting all the calls.
  25. USAFChief
    Regardless if you support or question removing Bundy--and for the record I support it--IMO it was most certainly NOT a "gut level decision." I believe this was a decision made--using data and a plan to compensate for weak starting pitching--prior to the game starting. The definition of managing by spreadsheet. I don't think that's even controversial. Hell I'd argue it was a decision made before THE SEASON started.
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