I guess Cub fans need an announcer to tell them when there's a double play.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Beckham was able to take third base on a ground out to the SS because it was hit to his LEFT. Rocket surgery.

They won. Yea.

DERP!

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

The Sox optioned RHP Andre Rienzo and will call up SS Carlos Sanchez.

Give him #30 and call him Dirty.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

This team is a reflection of Robin...blah

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Gillaspie doesn't play with enough fire and passion. Trade him.

http://deadspin.com/mike-aviles-makes-m ... 1604372883

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Robin should have told him to run hard on the bases. Embarrassing.

That was a hell of a throw. How was Boston not screaming at him to hurry the fuck up?

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

How Keyser continues to defend Robin is incomprehensible to me.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

I 'm blaming the guys who are actually playing the game. I feel like I'm in a bizarro bizarro world.

Robin should do nothing ...that's why you have had bad base running for the past 2 years and it hasn't been corrected...WTF?

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

says the guy that rode Quades ass all year long while he was manager of the Cubs.

Yet you will not give Robin any blame.

that is bizarro world mr fanboy

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Tells you what a Pud Keyser is ....I'm agreeing with RFDC

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Base running drills for major leaguers to run hard. Do they go out for I've cream cones afterwards?

no doubt

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

you pull him from the game before the next inning and give him the next few games off?? This is not something you need to teach but it sure as shit is something you need to address afterwards.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Robin totally shouldn't let him play again until at least Friday at the earliest.

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And no ice cream cone after the next game.

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Good people drink good beer - Hunter S. Thompson

<º)))><

Waiting for the time when I can finally say
That this has all been wonderful, but now I'm on my way

He also has to rake the infield and carry the equipment bag.

The players (clubhouse, dugout) AND manager deserve blame. The Sox have been awful at baserunning for the better part of 3 years now. You don't think part of that is because of the coaching staff and manager?

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I actually agree with Keyser that by the time a guy is in the big leagues, it's probably too late for him to learn this stuff. That was another issue addressed in that MLB roundtable on declining offense. During the explosion in power during the 90s, running the bases became far less important and certain skills were neglected. Now the power is largely missing but the skills haven't returned.

But the White Sox baserunning woes have been evident for a long time. I think they go far beyond Robin Ventura. They were atrocious on the bases before he arrived. I watch the Sox everyday though. I'm not sure this is simply a problem for the White Sox or if it is pandemic across all of baseball.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

So once your in the Big Leagues you is what you is.....how stupid

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Pretty much. A guy is 22 years old, has been told how great he is his whole life, is now making huge money and fucking whatever hot pussy he wants, I really think expecting him to work Little League drills is unrealistic.

I'm not Ventura fan, but it certainly isn't fair to blame him for the stupidity of Alejandro DeAza.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Same as it ever was


Because it doesnt require physicality and most of us mortals could do it (tag up, take third, pick up coaches) we see it as easy and expect everyone to be good. But they arent.

Like you say, these guys are the best all their lives. Many times they never learn.


Fuck, Billy Hamilton hit a ball last week off the wall that should have been an inside the parker for sure. He had his head turned watching the ball instead of seeing it on the angle and picking up the third base coach.

So once a player is called up why send him back down for "seasoning"?

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

Another thing they talked about in that roundtable is how with travel ball and the way kids play baseball now, they are never not coached. So they don't learn stuff like that. When guys played pick-up games on sandlots, there were no coaches and they learned how to watch the outfielders and make their own judgments. One of the guys talked about his friend who coaches Princeton and how he makes his team scrimmage without coaches on the bases.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

That just means he didn't hit.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Jeez...this 7-8-9 is just brutal for the Sox.

Eaton CF
Ramirez SS
Abreu 1B
Dunn DH
Viceido RF
Gillaspie 3B (his birthday is today)
Beckham 2B
DeAza LF
Flowers C

Quintana P



Altuve 2B
Castro C
Springer CF
Carter DH
Dominguez 3B
Singleton 1B
Grossman RF
Hernandez SS
Hoes LF

Feldman (from across the hall) P

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