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There’s this excercise being done that precludes such and such other options in CF (or other positions) as if we have a done deal based on what happened this season. I would love to know where this crystal ball level certitude comes from. The magic store. Everything and everyone is on the table, fluid, and also a suspect. Including the late bloomer out of center field. Otherwise, lets just sign him for $300 million this winter. Is anyone willing to do that? No. Anything is possible.

Kind of interesting how the blister might have prevented a suspension…

I reiterate this but anybody who thought the cubs would catch the brewers this year were out of their minds. You cannot drop multiple games in a row and expect to catch a team like that this is so well drilled and basically working from muscle memory about what they have to do down the stretch.

Miz is their Haaland. It's like having a cheat code.

He remarked earlier this year that he pitches better with extra rest. It's going to be tough to give that to him going forward, but hopefully this reset does the trick.

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More cherries for unnecessary commentary.

Cherry picking?

They will come down to earth at some point but let's hope they can take two this weekend

"Mis" kind of makes a big difference...when you have the clear best pitcher in baseball. Cleveland is best described as a solid rotation and pen and an offense starting to find itself gsin versus lesser competition.

We need three starters ( at least ) to step up and SHOVE. Hopefully we get first half Davis back. I also think they’re going to give Urquidy one more quick hook shot.

5 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 5 ks, 1 BB That is much better. If he was able to reset and find something again that would be fantastic

Six factoids today: August 28, 1909 – In the second inning of the opener of a doubleheader at South Side Park, Washington’s William “Dolly” Gray set two Major League records against the White Sox. He walked eight batters in the inning, seven of them consecutive. Pat “Patsy” Dougherty led off the inning with a single, and #5 hitter Frank Isbell either sacrificed Doughtery to second or made an out (a play-by-play for the game isn’t available). And then, the parade of walks — from #6 hitter Lee Tannehill all the way back through the order to Doughtery began. The White Sox scored six in the inning, all driven in with walks. The second time Doughtery went to bat, with six straight walks already in the books, White Sox manager Billy Sullivan suggested Doughtery leave his bat in the dugout. The White Sox won, 6-4, with only Doughtery’s single hit. Gray’s one-hitter came with 11 total walks for the afternoon. The White Sox also won the nightcap, 2-1, walking just twice. August 28, 1938 – It was the most grueling stretch of baseball ever in Major League history. A series of rain outs forced the White Sox to play six consecutive double headers on six consecutive days from August 23 through August 28. They played four games against the Yankees in two days, six games against the Red Sox in three days and two games against the Athletics. All were on the road. For the month the White Sox had to play 13 double headers! Despite the incredible stretch of games, they finished the month with a record of 16-22 which really wasn’t that bad. August 28, 1960 - Of all the crazy games and things that have happened when the Sox played at Baltimore, this one topped the list. The Sox started the day two and a half games behind the Yankees and trailed the O’s 3-0 going into the eighth inning. With two out, Luis Aparicio, Nellie Fox and Roy Sievers ripped consecutive singles, scoring a run and putting the tying runs on base. Manager Al Lopez called on Ted Kluszewski to pinch hit. “Big Klu” drilled the pitch from Milt Pappas into the right field stands for an apparent three run homer except for one small thing… Third base umpire Ed Hurley called time! Nobody remembered seeing him do it but he refused to change his call. Fox was ejected in the confrontation afterwards and Lopez played the game under protest. Hurley called time right before the pitch to tell Sox players Floyd Robinson and Earl Torgeson that they were warming up in the wrong area. The next day Hurley was quoted in the newspapers as saying "I wish to heck I hadn’t called it; I’d gladly take it back.” End result was the Sox lost 3-1, and were now three games behind the Yankees. Kluszewski later recalled that this game was the one that broke the team’s spirit that season. August 28, 1983 - Greg Luzinski completed his ‘downtown triple crown’ by blasting a pitch from Boston’s Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd over the roof in left center field in the first inning. It was Luzinski’s third roof shot in 1983 the others came versus the Twins and Yankees. Greg would have four roof top home runs in his White Sox career. The Sox took care of Boston on this afternoon 6-2 before over 33-thousand fans. August 28, 1990 - Frank Thomas, who would become the White Sox all-time home run leader, belted his first big league round tripper. Thomas connected in the ninth inning of a game at the Metrodome off the Twins Gary Wayne. The Sox would lose that day 12-6. Thomas had 448 home runs in a Sox uniform. August 28, 1998 - The Sox and Rangers combined for 14 home runs in a double header at Comiskey Park, tying the American League mark. The teams hit seven in the first game, seven in the second. Texas and the Sox split the two games on the day.

I will always be a Royals semi-fan because of 08

That’s why it was so classic. Raspy voice was confusing everything with the 83 White Sox, so The Score played his raspy voiced “83” any time they were talking about the Sox potentially winning the division. 🤣

Hopefully is doesn't wear out after today.

Beat Yamamoto too Kyle Tucker 0.0 fWAR

Sale CGSO against the Dodgers 98.6mph on pitch 109 to end it with his 11th K

Wow. I had no idea the 83 joke was from this. TIL

Ok Foxx and DiMaggio ! Knew I didnt have the 2nd name right.

I'm super happy he's doing well but also when he slumped some people wanted to throw him overboard. He's certainly got a lot of talent and if you look at Baseball savant you don't see great things but he has an awful lot of extra base hits from finding holes consistently that yeah this could be a career year but he's been super valuable and doing things that are needed badly.

Pass me that vape, I'm ready to get lit too.

I do think it's interesting that the two MLB teams that resemble City in terms of their relentlessness and ability to go on insane runs to hunt teams down are Milwaukee and Cleveland, two small market teams. I do think the Brewers are a lot more relentless than this model of Cleveland. It basically requires a team to be perfect down the stretch to go toe to toe with them. Don't feel that way about this year's Cleveland.

I will say that as an Arsenal supporter, I do feel like I have some immediate experience of what this is like. In other words, I have supported a team that has felt like it's being chased by the T-1000 from Terminator with Man City. There are some similarities with the Guardians and City but this also feels like how I felt about City last year, being a team with real vulnerabilities. Guardians pitching isn't as good as what it was in their pomp. They got away with it against the Angels. But there are teams they will be playing that won't let them get away with it. It does feel like a psychodrama though.