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Even if he is. DFAed and is picked up, can’t we work out a trade with that team?

Sure is shaping up to be 💪🏼🤞🏼👏🏼

Moving the deadline to August 3rd sure has sucked balls.

I like that move for the Braves and is another example that the cost for rentals shouldn’t prohibit us from adding another arm.

Sure are a lot of guys that are expected to move by the deadline in 18 hours. It could really be a buyers market for rentals. Didn't love the Castillo deal but we only gave up money and honestly I'm glad we are spending something now. Have a feeling it's going to be a wild entertaining Monday

No s%*#. You missed the last part ( and primary point ) of posting yours.

And you’re leaving out the part where after they stopped dicking him around - he threw very well. Starting pitchers beginning the season still building up happens all the time and Seattle, being flush with pitching, was in a bind because they didn’t want to regulate a fan favorite to the pen.

He’s going to need to limit Yoshida who has gone 5 for 8 against him. Otherwise their lineup hasn’t had much success against him. Castillo owns Contreras.

EIGHT factoids today: August 3, 1920 - During a robbery attempt at the Illinois Vinegar Manufacturing Company, three-armed bandits gunned down highly-respected Detective Sergeant Frank McGurk, a veteran of the Chicago Police Department. His fellow officers were able to start arresting the individuals who committed the crime after getting tips from individuals. On August 26 thanks to another tip, police were able to stop another robbery attempt, this one was going to take the payroll of the Wilson & Company stockyard meat packers of around 40 thousand dollars. One of those arrested, James Ryan, confessed to being part of the group that killed Detective Sergeant McGurk and then told police that he and his gang were planning on robbing the Comiskey Park box office in mid-September after “Babe” Ruth and the Yankees came to town. Further, Ryan said they were going to kill everyone in the box office including Sox owner Charles Comiskey! Ryan said he knew Comiskey would be there because he had been advised by his doctors not to actually watch the games for health reasons. Thanks to the arrest of Ryan on that late August day, Comiskey’s life was spared as well as every other person who would be in the box office at that time. August 3, 1940 - At Comiskey Park the White Sox held off the Senators 7-6 to record the franchises 3,000th win. The Sox had a six run fourth inning which was the difference. Jack Knott picked up the win and helped his own cause as he doubled in two runs in the big inning. August 3, 1956 - The White Sox set the franchise record for most runs ever scored in the first inning of a game when they picked up 11 in Chicago against the Orioles. Billy Pierce got the win as the Sox cruised 13-3. Billy’s record improved to 17-4. Catcher Les Moss drove in four RBI’s to lead the way for the Sox. 14 Sox batters came to the plate in the inning with seven hits, an error and four walks. August 3, 1959 - At the second All-Star Game, this one played at the Los Angeles Coliseum; Nellie Fox of the White Sox had a splendid afternoon. Fox was on base when the Yankees Yogi Berra blasted a two-run home run giving the A.L. a lead they never relinquished in the 5-3 win. For the game Nellie had two hits and a walk and drove in a run with a seventh inning single scoring the Yankees Tony Kubek. 1959 was the first year two All-Star Games were played, an experiment that went from 1959-1962. August 3, 1986 - Sox rookie Russ Morman collected three hits in his first three at bats in the big leagues. Morman also tied the record set by Billy Martin by getting two of them in the same inning in his debut game. That happened in the fourth inning of a 10-1 win at Comiskey Park against Detroit. Morman led off that inning with a home run then later in the same frame had an RBI single. August 3, 1989 - Sox G.M. Larry Himes is best remembered for his drafting of future stars like Robin Ventura, Frank Thomas, Jack McDowell and Alex Fernandez but he’d pull off a good trade or two as well. Case in point, on this day, Himes shipped outfielder Mark Davis to the Angels for pitcher Roberto Hernandez. Hernandez would go on to save 134 games for the Sox with three seasons of 30 or more. August 3, 1997 - Sox All-Star second baseman, Nellie Fox finally entered the baseball Hall of Fame. Fox, the 1959 American League M.V.P. was voted in by the veterans committee after missing regular election to the hall by the fewest votes in the history of the shrine. Technically he received the 75 per cent needed by rounding out his original vote total but the Hall had no provisions for that, so his total of 74.6 per cent stood and was deemed short of the 75 per cent needed. Fortunately, he was finally admitted in. Nellie was an 11-time All-Star who hit .368 in those games and was one of the most beloved players in Sox history. August 3, 2001 - Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle threw a lot of big games both in the regular season and in the playoffs. This was one of his best as he beat Tampa Bay 4-0 at U.S. Cellular Field. Buehrle allowed only one hit, to Damian Rolls leading off the seventh inning. He was the only base runner on the day.

As would I.

Pie in the sky is completely right.

Cubs got a good one to be sure. We'll see if the Sox do anything more. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if they didn't which would be unfortunate.

I would be happy to grab 1 game

Sure if you go back far enough. The Mets had a stretch like that too. I was commenting on the last time I can recall a team getting that hot. July 11, 2010 - The Sox closed out the first half of the season crushing the Royals 15-5 at U.S. Cellular Field. The win capped an incredible 30 game stretch heading into the All-Star break that saw the club go 25-5 and vault into first place in the division. The 25-5 sprint tied the Sox with the legendary 1975 Cincinnati Reds and the 1990 New York Mets for the best stretch of wins in baseball history heading into the second half. Included in the run were winning streaks of 11 and eight games. They also won their first game back after the All-Star break. They’d finish the season 88-74, second place in the division.

The issue with speech to text is that you have to go back and correct everything the text got wrong, just like on your phone. I retired from broadcasting in March and was supposed to do some writing for Idaho State's sports information department and cover their football program for the Idaho State Journal but that's on hold. It was simply things that happened over the years from pitching to working out at Planet Fitness, it finally snapped in May. It could have been worse... originally they thought I was going to have to have reverse shoulder reconstruction (look it up) but because the main tear is in the back of the shoulder they can fix it arthroscopically.

This leaves out the part that he was getting piggybacked because he had sucked before that

The White Sox finished the ‘83 season on. 30-6 tear or something like that. I believe the Tigers opened ‘84 35-5.

We'll find out soon enough.

Since late June Boston is now 28-5. Incredible. Last time I can recall a team getting that hot was when the White Sox went 26-5 in 2010.

Well, f*** me. Fooled again. 😁

I still think we could see up to three more trades tonight or tomorrow. The Sox are adding a catcher…that’s a 100% happening. My money remains on Stephenson. I think Wolkow plus a backend top 30 feels about right (and many here will hate that). I think there is a 75% chance we add another SP. While a rental feels more likely, the way Getz framed things up earlier today suggests he’d consider languishing some top 100 prospects for a controllable arm. My gut tells me the Sox like Detmers, but don’t want to give up Carlson++. I could them offering up Hagen, McDougal++ and hoping no other team is willing to offer a big time positional prospect. Very unlikely that trade package works but we have seen stranger things. If we ultimately go the rental SP route, it still feels like Holmes is the most likely dude for us. I’d love Mize but feel like the Tigers would tax us hard. Ray makes some sense but he’s not the perfect fit for our park. Rogers & Singer are other possibilities. Prices have been reasonable so far for rental SPs and I think Getz prefers that over further bullpen help given the need for bulk innings. Finally, it feels like we need to make a decision on Hays tomorrow. Are we keeping him over Grichuk or Pereira? If not, does he have any trade value? I’d think some team would take a chance on him if we ate part of his salary. You won’t get much in return, but a trade tomorrow is better than DFA’ing him after the deadline.

Honestly, I hope the Cubs trade for Mason Miller. It's hard to think of a worse way to spend all your top prospects. (He's phenomenal but ultimately only impacts 1-3 innings per week)

Not even close to realistic. A pitching heavy deal would have to include to Hagen & McDougal to have any shot. And regarding the Cease trade, a few publications had Iriarte as a top 100 prospect. As bad as that trade looks right now, you’re underselling it a bit for what it was at the time.

Tomorrow better be all-time or else this deadline will be a massive bust. So boring.