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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.

I love you fathom, but you must have daily nightmares about the Cubs trading for every good player.

None other than the Sox I meant

I can’t tell if you’re just not reading anyone’s response or what. He HAS progressed. The pace isn’t even weird. He was drafted in 2021 as a two way player, who converted to pitching full time in 2022. He then “progressed” all the way to the majors in 2024, and pitched really well, before going down to TJ. So he missed all of 2025 and started pitching again this year until he hurt his hamstring. So, college draftee. Wasted one year hitting, took two years to get to the majors, succeeded, and then lost a year and half to Tommy John. That’s why he’s 27.

Boston just swept the dodgers. Should be a tough series. No Tolle or Bennett, though.

No connections between Chase and Nick. I was just saying.

Like us. At least he's not pitching like a clown and shouldn't cost that much. I'm moving this idea here. For Cease, we received a back end top 100 low-ceiling pitcher, plus 2 A ball players and a middle reliever. H. Smith, 2 A Ball pitchers and a middle reliever for Detmers. That's about what we received for Cease. H. Smith has twice the ceiling of Thorpe and Cease is better than Detmers, but 2 extra months of Detmers and it is July. I'd rather do that for Urena, but I guess that's unrealistic.

Kimbrel got DFAed after the game with Freddy Peralta coming on.

Peak silly season rumor.

And Adams will be put into the acquiring teams' rotation and will outpitch the Robbie Ray/Singer (and his 5.17 FIP) that we acquire. Should have traded for Urena.