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Tigers play this Monday through Wed so would have to be made up the following Monday, if necessary doesn't look good but could actually end up a badly needed extra two days of rest for the bullpen

Martin vs. Melton Not sure if they are gonna get this one in. Looks like the rain clears eventually but they would have to wait quite a while. Lineups TBD

These stats are heartwarming and all but we’re talking about a small pool of teams to start with. I think only 13 teams total, and only four in the modern era.

I wonder if they’ll go with Burke on Thursday and Martin on Friday. That way you’d them available to start to the first two playoff games if we get there.

The people in the biz saying the playoff format is the reason why the AL sucks this year I think are misleading in that assertion. The NL isn’t that way and they are under the same format. For whatever reason it’s just a bad season for the AL. Not sure if anyone can point to one specific reason. One contributing factor could be more interleague play…if NL teams are better then theoretically they are going to beat up on AL teams more.

Dobnik ex Twin pedestrian stuff

I mean, it’s the entire AL thats mediocre this season so all the records look shitty and undeserving. Then you look at the NL and it’s all higher win totals and it looks like an inspired race to the top. more playoffs is fun, I like fun. Never go back, always have fun

The 1973 Mets took the NL East with an 82-79 record, then beat a 99 win Big Red Machine team for the NL pennant. The Mets gave the Oakland A's all they could handle but lost 4-3. For me that was one of the more entertaining playoffs and WS I watched. I would not change the present format for the playoffs based on one outlier season.

I'll cut Lori some slack because she is a White Sox fan but it's a reach on her part.

Need more Houston Horrors/Rangers in Danger

all time Sox playoff team since 1905-1919 versus perhaps the poorest Sox post season team at least W-L record-wise

Black Out 2 The Detroit Demise

Gave up on SD when down 5-1 for Ole Miss/LSU crazy game a lot of youngsters contributing, including 20 year old catcher Salas w/ game winner another Miller blown save in recent weeks Tatis headed for Top 6-10 fWAR finish after being total garbage first two months Mize won't even make playoff roster

Never say never, we were pretty good against them in the 2005 WS.

That's what happens when winning the division is no longer in your own hands and you have to rely on other teams losing!

Me too. Houston seems way low to me. After tomorrow, they have 2 @ Sea and 4 @ Oak. That is 5 wins almost guaranteed. Since they have the tiebreaker v. the Sox, we can't afford any slippage. Texas has 3 v. Mets and 3 @ Minny. Not a tough road either. We need 6 more wins and a little help before I'll breathe easier.

Well regarding what Getz has accomplished building a competitive team, judging by what’s happened lately, we don’t quite understand which is the real team. The current squad or the one that led up to this lower level of competence. The Yermin Mercedes team was fun until the wheels fell off. I think we can safely say that Getz has built a floor more than a roof. The ceiling is not the roof tight now. So Getz has been overrated, but he’s done his job of pointing the team in a positive direction. I will take it and hold off on the pink slip

if we can't win 4 of 7 against this slate of upcoming body bags well, s%*#. we have some favorable matchups too sp wise.

Kay, Fedde, Sandlin? Then Burke, Martin, Kay to end the year I assume

Yes keep them out

Any updates on just how banged up Tristian Peters is? Hopes for him to be back by Tuesday unrealistic?? Come back soon TP - We need ya.

This is the reply I had to your post in the pathetic format thread. “Lynch, Lugo, Dabnak. Guardians get Wacha on Saturday.”

Three factoids today: September 20, 1902 - Jim “Nixey” Callahan threw the first no-hitter in franchise history as he beat the Tigers. The Sox gave him all the runs he needed by scoring three in the first inning. The Sox wound up winning it by that same score in Chicago. The Tigers got one runner as far as third base but that was it for the afternoon. Callahan walked two batters on the day. Callahan was a two-way player for a good chunk of his career, from 1897 to 1903. So, at the time of this no-hitter in the 1902 season, he pitched in 35 games and played outfield in 23 others. By the 1903, he’d shift more or less full time to third base. September 20, 1908 - Sox pitcher Frank Smith tossed his second no-hitter beating the Philadelphia A’s 1-0 in Chicago. The Sox scored in the ninth inning to win the game. The run was driven in by shortstop Freddy Parent. Smith pitched that day with the little finger of his hand being stiff and sore from trying to stop a hot shot against the Indians in his previous start. This date, September 20, is also the only date in franchise history where multiple no-hitters have been thrown on over the years. September 20, 2005 - With the White Sox struggling through eight losses in 11 games — the worst slump of what would become a rare, wire-to-wire first-place season — Joe Crede slugged a leadoff homer in the bottom of the 10th for a sayonara shot that upended second-place Cleveland, 7-6. The White Sox had the game in hand, but rookie Bobby Jenks blew the second save of his career in the ninth, furthering the trend of the club over the past 13 days, as Cleveland shaved six games off of a once nine and a half game lead in the A.L. Central Division. Chicago wasn’t out of the woods yet, as over the next few days Cleveland would trim the division lead to a game and a half but a late kick saw the White Sox swell the lead back to its final six games, including an end-of-season sweep of the Tribe that knocked them out of the playoffs entirely. Combining the five-game winning streak to end the regular season with the 11-1 run in the playoffs, the White Sox ended 2005 winning 16 of 17 games. The homer was Crede’s second of the contest, capping a 3 for 5, three-RBI day.

That certainly helps. Of course the flip side is also an issue. Who the hell are the Sox going to use?

Everyone besides their top two guys.