Twitter debate: Roster management

by Jim Margalus on Aug 28, 2011 1:26 AM CDT in Events

On Saturday afternoon, I tweeted a link to my post about about the insincere promotion of Dayan Viciedo, noting that the Sox basically made sure to kill any possible joy from the event. Chris Rongey tweeted a response:

@JimMargalus To be "joyful" of his promotion is to have expected him to save the season a month ago. That's unfair to him.

I responded to Rongey. Then Scott Merkin responded to both of us. And then Larry jumped in to make it a four-way crossfire (yeah! yeah!) for a good 45-minute discussion on why the White Sox dragged their feet, why they shouldn't have, and what difference it might have made.

I cobbled together the tweets below in chronological order. I'd originally attempted to rearrange them to keep the topics together, but due to the nature of the beast, it seemed even more confusing.

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I was following this... live as it happened

The Hurriapocolylpse (hope all our East Coastah’s are okay) provided a good backdrop

I remember posting about it here. I had a pretty similar with discussion with Rongey. Started on Twitter ended on texts. For some reason I remember this was when I was driving up to Janesville, Wisconsin. This was late June.

Basically lots of red herrings. When I said replace JP with DV I heard “Its like a band-aide over Dunn and Rios”, yes but it would have helped. I than said if not DV than Omar. The response was “Who will back up the infield?”. My point was that the Sox had to do anything that could help on the offensive side. This was when our starting pitching was on total lockdown mode.

I like Rongey, I think he does a good job of handling the meatballs. I just sometimes thinks he tries to treat everyone as such. It feels like he applies his entire experience with post game callers to the entire fanbase. It might help him to read this blog and see that their are intelligent baseball fans (or maybe semi-intelligent in my case).

god help us if the average White Sox is the Score White Sox Post game caller.

by 815Sox on Aug 28, 2011 9:41 AM CDT reply actions

Where Rongey blew my mind

“Again, you’re still assuming one player would make up the difference of 3 unproductive regulars”

Apparently, when multiple people are useless, it’s pointless to even try replacing one of them.

I can understand giving veteran players long leashes even if I don’t entirely agree, but when they were not coming around at all, yeah, things should have happened.

I respect that personalities need to be managed, but the choices made tell me that the people responsible for doing that punted on doing so.

by Titan52 on Aug 28, 2011 11:52 AM CDT reply actions

He has been saying the same thing the entire year

As noted, It is a red herring argument. The play of Rios and Dunn has nothing to do with the potential impact that Viciedo could have on a team.

The issue was that at the time, the White Sox were not scoring any runs, with white hot shutout pitching. You had an organization refusing to make a move. I understand at the time trying a little to get Dunn going by playing him. At that point, you had two easy candidates to DFA, JP or Omar, in order to make room for Viciedo’s bat.

by 815Sox on Aug 28, 2011 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm with @JerodMorris

I need to see what @NotHawk says about this before I can have a real reaction.

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by Kyle321N on Aug 28, 2011 2:41 PM CDT reply actions

i love when your weak argument is shot down,

you use the ol ‘this isn’t fantasy baseball’. rongey should have busted out the ’parent’s basement in your underwear’ while he was at it.

i just don’t get it. are they really just being company shills, defending this stupidity? it’s not like rongey seems like a dumb guy or anything. but the stances he takes on things…just don’t make any sense.

by obnoxious american on Aug 29, 2011 7:59 AM CDT reply actions