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  1. I'll be honest, if I were an MLB gm, and my lefty specialist came into a game and walked the lefty he was facing on 4 pitches, I'd be faxing the league office his release papers before he even gets off the mound.

    It's probably one of many reasons I'm not an MLB gm. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:

    It is the left hamstring, not the one that had surgery last season.

    I guess we shouldn't be surprised anymore. Like a poster wrote the same issues that have plagued this team last year are appearing again...injuries, a bad bullpen, little depth and an inability to score runs.

    if you believe in karma the baseball gods seem to be saying again, that until this team is sold they are going to dump on it.

    I was told a story from a source that part of the reason Hahn reacted and said the things he did when it was brought up to him about Eloy being injury-prone was because the Cubs basically keep bringing it up around baseball and it makes Hahn look bad.

    I don't know if the Cubs knew something about his body type of if they are just trying to take advantage of the situation.

    Like I said we shouldn't be surprised anymore but it is damn frustrating.

    Cubs bashing Eloy's injury history as Cease becomes the best pitcher in baseball
    crying wojak mask Meme Generator - Imgflip

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  3. Most of the game I was thinking to myself "welp, same old Sox." and honestly, the still might be. One game is a small sample size.

    But to win this game the way they did, against the Astros especially, felt like exorcising some demons. 

    More importantly, it also felt really really really good

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  4. 1 hour ago, JoeCredeYes said:

    Well gents here we are, we made it, another Opening Day.  Hope springs eternal and I sure hope last year was the darkness before the dawn, there is nowhere to go but up.  I hope the offseason has treated you all well and we have more celebrating than complaining in 2023 on Soxtalk,  Nothing left to do but sit back, relax and strap it down for another season of White Sox Baseball.  Let's get to work!

    Thank you for using this correctly. For whatever reason, I've seen a bunch of people this year (not here) saying things like "Hope springs eternal in the spring!" The pun is already built in guys, that's the point. We aren't quoting a 300 year old poem because we are super into enlightenment era philosophy. 

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  5. 3 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

    Again, it is a public confirmation that everything about the Tony LaRussa regime has been a worse case scenario.

    [Qanon has entered the chat]

    I would not be the least bit surprised if this "information" that Rosenthal got came from Rick, Kenny, or both.

    It makes a ton of sense for this to be Hahn. He essentially got demoted when TLR was hired, and then has seen his reputation go from exec of the year to trash tier in a year. Then TLR finally leaves, the team starts to play to its talent again, he thinks he can save his job and his reputation, only for Jerry to try to enable TLR to come back again. If Hahn thinks he is on the hot seat anyway, or is just tired of being (in his mind unfairly) judged for the team's failures, why not take a shot on a hit piece like this. Maybe he finally got tired of taking Jerry/TLR's s%*# and lashed out.

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  6. Taking two out of three from the Ms is probably enough to keep pace with the Guardians and vault us past the Twins. But if its going to happen, it kinda feels like tonight has to be the night. Luis Castillo is very good and very hot and very right-handed, and our best-case scenario is that we'll be throwing a slightly rusty Michael Kopech, but at this point it seems more likely that it will be Martin or a bullpen day. A win tomorrow will be a tall order, so we better take advantage of Cueto throwing tonight. 

  7. 17 hours ago, Jose Abreu said:

    I should preface this by saying that I obviously don't want him to die or anything, but how are we as fans supposed to react to this? I don't feel bad for him, if it's that hard on him, he should resign. 

    The whole thing sucks. I hope he gets better, and I hope he doesn't return to the team. The fact that failing the former would lead to the latter of course doesn't mean I don't want him to be fine. 

    If anything, this just makes me more mad at the org. I have certainly made jokes about Tony/Jerry dying, weekend at Bernies, etc, in real life if not on here. Obviously I didn't actually want him or Jerry to have health issues -- the performance of my favorite baseball team isn't worth anyone's life, even someone who has made high-profile off-the-field mistakes. But the reason we make these jokes is because we feel that we've been backed into a corner where there is no path to a contending team without these horrible things happening. We won't actually root for them to happen, so we joke about them instead. In a functioning org, we wouldn't have even had the temptation to make these sorts of jokes.

    But those jokes suddenly feel real hollow when a health scare actually strikes. I guess, in the end, it just makes me reconsider whether I should make nihilist jokes or comments about Weekend at Bernie's or Tony coaching until he kicks the bucket or things like that.  This is still a human being, and if I wouldn't say these things to his face I shouldn't say them when hiding behind the anonymity of a message board.

    Anyway.... Jerry when?

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