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Good points by Beefloaf 1 - He was able to maneuver around the man the front office wanted to play CF (Luisangel Acuna) into the man he knew he wanted to play CF Tristan Peters, without much issue. I was calling Peters his teacher's pet, but Will knew best. 2 - Andrew Benintendi a veteran had to take a reduced role, no longer an everyday player, no longer a position player basically at this point, just a DH by handedness and I haven't heard a single gripe about this during the season. 3. Anthony Kay - opener situation didn't quite work, so he adjusted back towards the player's wants of starting the games and Kay has been a nice solid addition. 4. Munetaka Murakami and what has been an unprecedented media circus around the Chicago White Sox 5. Bryan Hudson - He took a guy who was waiver bait and quickly saw he was shoving and elevated him to a top leverage guy 6. Sam Antonacci totally getting rushed to the majors but Venable easing him into the lineup, easing his transition into LF from 2b, not benching him for some goofy ass moves on the base paths....letting him learn on the job 7. Mike Vasil being assigned the role of ELITE VIBES GUY in the dugout 8. Managing up and down (management and player) to get Seranthony Dominguez out of the closer role. That was the guy the FO brought in to do the role so he had to left him fail just enough in the role to ultimately get his way of using players opportunistically in the role

It's a change in wind direction that's pushing the high smoke levels further N/NE out of the Chicago area today. The weather forecast I saw this morning suggested some of that smoke could make its way back here later today or tomorrow, but they're not expected anything in the Hazardous range of the AQI.

Six factoids today: July 18, 1921 - The trial for eight White Sox players known as the “Black Sox” began in Chicago. The players were accused of trying to defraud the public by throwing the World Series. A jury found the players innocent; however, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned them for life and destroyed one of the finest teams on paper in baseball history and perhaps the only team that could have stopped the emerging Yankee dynasty. July 18, 1936 - Sox outfielder Ray “Rip” Radcliffe became the first player in franchise history to ever collect six hits in a game. He went 6 for 7 with four RBI’s and four runs scored in the Sox 21-14 win over the Athletics in Philadelphia. July 18, 1948 - In the first game of a double header in Philadelphia, Sox outfielder Pat Seerey hit four home runs in a game against the A’s. The Sox would win the slugfest 12-11 in 11 innings. He’s the only Sox player to ever hit that many in a single contest. He went 4 for 6, with seven RBI’s and four runs scored. The seven RBI’s is one off the franchise record for a single game. His home runs came in the fourth, sixth, seventh and 11th innings and his blow in the 11th was the game winner. July 18, 1984 - A dud of a deal because of the long-term implications. The Sox traded Chicago native, relief pitcher Kevin Hickey and prospect Doug Drabek (the player to be named later) to the Yankees for Roy Smalley. Smalley did nothing on the South Side...eventually Drabek would wind up as the ace of the great Pirate teams of the early 1990's winning the Cy Young Award. He finally pitched for the Sox in 1997 going 12-11 but his ERA was 5.74. July 18, 2008 – The White Sox brought their hitting shoes to the park for their game with the Royals. The first eight batters for the Sox reached base safely as part of a six run first inning. They’d wind up winning the game 9-5. Orlando Cabrera led off with a single, A.J. Pierzynski singled, Carlos Quentin was hit by a pitch, Jermaine Dye singled, Jim Thome singled, Paul Konerko singled, Nick Swisher singled and Joe Crede singled. The hits all came off Zach Greinke. July 18, 2021 – In the Sox 4-0 win over the Astros in Chicago a couple of franchise records were set. Shortstop Tim Anderson became the first player to have a hit and score a run in 11 straight games breaking the tie he had with several other players. The record came when he had a solo home run in the fifth inning. Also, that afternoon Carlos Rodon set the team mark by striking out at least eight hitters in 10 straight starts. He was tied with Juan Pizarro for that record. Rodon struck out 10 batters only allowing one-hit in seven innings of work.

Kind of shocked Teel is started a day game after a night game but I am glad Would be really nice if the Pirates could sweep CLE today

It's wild right now...Cleveland, Minnesota can't lose and Detroit is still in the hunt.

Good call. Quick glance at the lineups this is is the first time all year with 3 games in a row with the same exact lineup. There was a 4 game stretch from 6/12-6/16 that was very close with only difference being Quero replacing Romo in the 9 spot 2nd game.

I actually don’t today which is weird. Last two days real bad, but nothing today’s. Maybe yesterday’s rain and today’s humidity is keeping the smoke dust down

Didn't smell smoke and it looks pretty clear here, so I think I'm okay in that regard. If not I had a good run for the most part.

If you still smell smoke, I hope you guys are wearing masks.

Happy "Same Lineup, Third Game in a Row" Day, for those who celebrate.

The last 10 minutes I felt like I was going to die 😂, and my lawn is not big enough to justify that death

Lineup added to the original post.

Yeah I just finished too. Assume it’s still the air quality because I was STRUGGLING.

Leave the guy alone, he is jawmaxxing

Got the lawn mowed and I feel half melted right now. Going to sit on the couch and let my body solidify again until game time. I picture myself like this

Yeah, he's only 19 years old.

When a team is good, it’s because of the players. When a team is bad, the manager sucks. It reminds me of football. When a play works, great execution by the players. When a play gets stuffed, horrible play call.

I keep hearing this idea that he was blocked. He'd be leading the White Sox in wRC+. Pretty sure that guy should have a home and not be released for free. He was 3 years removed from his wrist break finally, so the idea his power could return was always possible. He always hit the ball hard before his injury. Edit: he'd be second to Mune. Also, you have a source for the Sox changing Mead?

These players are making him look awfully good.

Plus, by extension, Mead's success (along with the success of our other youngsters, Grichuk, etc.) helps to build a little more trade value for all of our hitters and reclamation project bats.

Monty's each cleared the bases. Thought Heidi Watney went to Apple.

Seems pretty apparent he is going to win manager of the year to me.

This years draft might sustain the minors for 3-4 years all by itself.

The Sox catching core is deep. What if Boston Smith keeps going strong until September? I honestly know nothing about his defense. It's hard to judge a trade this early, but this guy looks like Willie McCovey in his prime right now. Weirdest part is he keeps improving the higher up he gets.

Game 2 Konerko GS, Pods game winning bomb. Game 3 Crede bomb, multiple hits in 5 run inning. Blum bomb on the 14th. Anecdotes are fun.