And Robin lets him walk in a run to tie the ballgame, THEN goes to get him. What an incompetent turd. Both of them, manager and pitcher. Fuck this team.

Or pitch a strike, whatever.

Robin loves to burn through the bullpen

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

What a fuckin shit show. An entire bullpens balls fell off. My god you fuckin burritos get somebody out.

How could you possibly blame this on the manager? My god what are you lookin at??

Ventura sucks.

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Snake-bitten.

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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.

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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.

Nate Jones has never, EVER, been good in high-leverage situations. At his best, he is league average when the game situation becomes critical. As soon as he started to get himself in trouble out there (why was he out there to begin with?!), it should have been stall-tactic after stall-tactic until someone else in the 'pen was ready.

This shit is as much on the idiot manager as it is previously-mediocre-at-best bullpen guys all being mediocre-at-best right in a row.

Robin should have thrown more strikes.

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Because he took out a cruising starter who hadn't been in a lot of high-stress situations recently for a guy that has rarely been good as games get tighter, and then let him piss away a lead across, what, four, maybe five batters before going to get him?

This series has been a 100-level course in bad bullpen management.

1-2-3 inning for Wade Davis and KC's bullpen protects a 1 run lead. Ned Yost is a genius. Fuckin idiots.

Ned Yost throws strikes.

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Unlike Nate Jones, Wade Davis has, over his career, demonstrated his ability to thrive in high-leverage situations.

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Wade Davis is part of a Royals like bullpen. Nate Jones is not.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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Guys..relax, this was inevitable.. It needed to happen soon, I couldn't bare watching good dolphin repeat this ridiculousness again..its embarrassing.. These usurpers were getting exposed, better in May than July..

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Yep, even without Moustakas and Gordon, the Royals sweep and hand the Sox their 6th straight series loss. They are 4-14 over the last 18 and now a game out and in 3rd place. Nate joins in on the bullpen implosion in the series today.

Another great day in Chicago Baseball.... Cubs win/ Sox lose.

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Go Cubs!!!!

June swoon just little early.

The Sock aren't as bad as they're playing right now. Just gotta fight through a rough patch.

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We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.- Eric Hoffer

I'm fairly certain this is who the White Sox really are. This is what they were last year. The first month was an anomaly.

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Through March and April, their batting BABIP was a paltry .275, pitching .284, and their HR/FB ratio was 10.3% while hitting, and 10.1% while pitching, all well below what becomes league-average over time. They weren't getting lucky against defenses, and their fly balls weren't magically turning into home runs at alarming rates.

Similarly, in high- and medium-leverage situations all year, their pitching has had a BABIP of .270 and a wOBA of .284 and .292, respectively. For comparison, the league has a BABIP of .291 and wOBA of .311 in high-leverage situations, and .300/.321 in medium-leverage.

Unless I'm missing something big, any luck that brought them their hot start exists outside of current baseball metrics, even the ones that attempt to value random-ish chance.