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Newcomb hasn't given up an earned run in 12.1 innings. in those 8 games the Sox are 6-2. Taylor had a streak going back to July 4th of 22.1 innings that ended today. in those 16 games the Sox were 12-4. Since 6/21 in 22 games covering 21.1 IP Jordan Hicks is 2-0 with a 1.27 ERA & 1.82 FIP with 32K & 8 BB. Also has 5 holds in that span and 1 blown save. Sox were 10-12 in his 22 games

If anyone else is confused about the Drew Thorpe timeline this is what I found out. The Start Date: Thorpe's official rehab assignment clock began on July 18, 2026. The 30-Day Deadline: This gave the White Sox until August 17, 2026, to conclude his rehab. The Catch (Rainouts and Delays): Days where games are postponed due to weather, or built-in travel/off-days between moving to different minor league affiliates (like his move from Double-A to Triple-A), sometimes do not count against the 30-day clock, slightly extending the calendar window. The Goal: Because Thorpe missed an entire year following April 2025 Tommy John surgery, the White Sox are using every single allowable day of this window to let him build up his pitch count and stamina in the minor leagues, rather than rushing him back to the majors. Once this strict window officially expires, the White Sox cannot keep him on a "rehab assignment" anymore. They must either activate him to the major league roster or formally reinstate him and option him to the minors. So what I glean from this is pay attention to The Catch section. Basically by starting in the low minors you extend his 30 days to extra days for each subsequent move up the ladder. I do not know if there was also any weather days added to this. But it's been 6 days since his 30 days rehab assignment ended but we have no clue about how many extra days they have been allowed. They will either use an option to officially option him to AAA or call him up but nothing has been announced but you'd think it would be soon.

We'll see on Thursday, but yeah....it sounds like the city council was part of the revised deal that has been announced. The Rays agreed to chip in more money to the project to get this agreement. Surely they wouldn't have the city council as part of this announcement if they didn't have the votes to approve it. Hopefully this will help address their attendance problems. It also looks like the Royals are well on their way to getting new ballpark deal done. If both the Rays and the Royals get their stadium projects approved, does that leave only the White Sox in MLB with questions lingering about the future of their ballpark? I think everyone else is otherwise set for the foreseeable future. Maybe the Angels at some point.

The one dude did the Macho Man elbow drop. 🤣

When Crochet signed his six-year, $170 million extension with Boston, the contract included a player opt-out following the 2030 season. However, there was also a protection clause for the Red Sox if Crochet missed at least 120 consecutive days because of an arm injury. That clause has now been triggered. Crochet's 2030 opt-out is voided, meaning he can no longer choose to leave Boston after that season. Instead, the Red Sox now control an additional year of his contract and have gained a $15 million club option for 2032. In other words, what has been a nightmare season for Crochet has created a significant benefit for Boston from a contract standpoint. Yahoo sports Of course 2030 calls for $28 million and 2031 $30 million… Also, Crochet is back to throwing from 90-120 feet in recent days.

As a kid I was scared of the upper deck due to how steep those steps went. Hopefully a new stadium avoids that mistake.

That was my first thought seeing that. I remember sitting up there a few times and feeling uneasy near the railings. And these idiots were jumping from one row to another like it's WrestleMania.

Difference is almost certainly due to park factors.

The White Sox/Reinsdorf traded paying off $150-175 million in accrued debts largely caused by the 2020/Covid year, attendance collapse in 2022-23, bloated payrolls and broadcasting revenue shortfalls for an undisclosed percentage of minority shares in the team. https://nypost.com/2026/08/23/sports/fan-leaps-down-to-stomp-fellow-spectator-in-wild-brawl-during-mets-white-sox-game/

Clever move sh1tcanning Armor Park and Rate Field without spending a dime of his own money. And, as SS2K pointed out, it would be difficult to stop Amtrak/Ishbia from doing this. The agreement with Reinsdorf and Ishbia provided inter alia that " Ishbia will make capital infusions into the White Sox as a limited partner in 2025 and 2026 that will be used to pay down existing debt and support ongoing team operations." Was there any infusion of capital that assisted or could have assisted the White Sox in 2025 or more importantly, in 2026? As an example, a relatively small amount of financial support may have made a big difference at the trade deadline. Instead Getz appeared to be cash strapped during a pennant race. There are a lot of questions and it would be helpful to hear some answers from Ishbia himself rather than having to listen to his surrogates and attorneys.

Alcohol is a powerful thing

https://www.statmuse.com/mlb/ask/ops-for-dh-by-team 7th by ops

If we get swept by Cleveland, we essentially lose 4 games in the standings. 3 from the sweep, 1 from the tiebreaker. If we win 1 in the Cleveland series, we essentially lose 0 games in the standings. Minus 1 if we lose 2 of 3, but plus 1 for clinching tiebreaker. 1 win in that series sort of equals 4 games in the standings. Or is my math/logic bad?

We’ve gotten 0.9 fWAR out of the DH spot and that’s 9th overall in baseball.

If you put the ball in play it can be a DP. If you K with 1 out you have another hitter to try. Thomas was one of the greatest RHH in baseball history. Sox don't have a guy like that now. I'd take it more seriously if you were telling me their wRC+ or wOBA was bad instead of their batting avg.

Fighting in the upper deck at the Rate is legit terrifying given how steep it is up there. Can’t believe that one dude jumped multiple rows and drop kicked another guy in the face.

Win one game against Rangers and will almost definitely have tiebreaker over them as well

A bunch of our top guys have graduated and are reasons why the big league team is winning. They’ve also got about zero from Latin America. You’re also responding to a thread about what to do with all these good young players like Colson, Bonemer, and Sam.

We don't have to trade any of these guys. Mune may not be here in 2027; if we don't/can't resign Vargas, we'll have an opening. Sam's a gamer, but that position could be upgraded. And yes, putting an IF out there my not be ideal. But IFs are drafted with the idea that they are athletic and can move positions; and frankly, our farm is about as weak in the OF (understandable, given priority on MI) as it is in pitching (not so understandable). And with all due respect to "Clutch" it's still a 0,00 FWAR at DH. That's a Zero WAR. That's another opening. Fangraphs loves our up the middle defense (some of that may be WAR factory stuff; I don't know). Colson is struggling with the bat; can't have him at that low OBP, but I suspect he'll figure things out. And if we do trade one of the young studs, it must be for multiple young pitchers. Multiple and young. None of this 2 years of pitcher X stuff. We just don't churn out enough young talent to make trades like that. After all of this,the farm is ranked, what #15?

Two factoids today... August 24, 1910 - It was a noteworthy publicity stunt. With the White Sox in Washington D.C., catcher Billy Sullivan caught a ball tossed off the top of the Washington Monument from pitcher “Big” Ed Walsh. He caught three balls in 11 attempts. The ball was traveling at well over 100 MPH. The ball fell 555 feet. Two months later, Sullivan opted out of a challenge to catch a baseball tossed from an airplane flying at a thousand feet. According to a comment from the Associated Press Sullivan said, “I might as well try to stop a bullet as be on the receiving end of one from an airplane.” August 24, 2008 – One thing White Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski had going for him was his brain. A.J. was always thinking, always trying to get into the heads of the opposition and always willing to try something to gain an advantage. On this day his quick thinking directly led to the Sox winning a game, in the middle of a pennant race, that perhaps they shouldn’t have. The Sox were tied with Tampa Bay 5-5 in extra innings when A.J. led off with a single. He was on second when Jermaine Dye hit a ground ball to the Rays Jason Bartlett. Pierzynski broke on contact and was caught in a run down. However obstruction would wind up being called on third baseman Willy Aybar by umpire Doug Eddings when A.J. stuck his arm out and made contact with Aybar after he had already made a throw. The ruling was that even though Pierzynski initiated the contact it was the responsibility of Aybar to get out of the way. A.J. was awarded third base and eventually scored the winning run on a single by Alexei Ramirez.

I like Benetti just fine and appreciate his knowledge, but it's essentially a standup routine with a baseball game going on in the background. Go listen to some Tigers games as a refresher. Talking about another sporting event happening seems like a perfectly normal thing for any announcer to do. Also, that moron Enes Kanter just got ejected from the Sky game for going onto the court and arguing with players.

Benetti talked about the history of the White Sox all the time! And he did incorporate things like "Sox Math" or whatever it was called...but even that included White Sox history! Night and day difference between Benetti and Scriff. Not even close! As I said in my post...time and place! Scriff doesn't get that! It as though he forgets he is broadcasting TO White Sox fans...and the basic interview type questions he asks Stone to answer are annoying as well! Maybe he is better suited for an ESPN type broadcast...maybe!

A clutch late inning victory at Irate Field. We even got a little MMA action in between it.

I'll have to go back and listen. For anyone with MLB.TV, you can re-watch games locally (no blackout) after a few hours and you can select the radio broadcast for the audio.