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You mention this like every fifth post.

He said nobody ever talks about it though.

I'm with you!

I was going to agree with your Rick Hahn hatred, but then you decided to not only be a grammar Nazi but an inaccurate one as well. I withdraw my support.

Dude, Sox are winning 4-1 on the road against the Twins’ best starting pitcher and you’re sitting here obsessed with last winter repeating the same shit in the game thread you repeat in every other thread. Please take it to the other threads dedicated to that shit. Thank you

Your nonstop whining is embarrassing.

I will say, raBBit didnt you delete a bunch of posts when you were wrong before? I find it ironic. I will always take my licks and own up to being wrong about something... if you aren't one of those people you probably shouldnt throw stones from inside your glass house.

Crow tastes good when the reason I'm eating it is a good thing for the white sox.

Eloy Jimenez will be the starting catcher on the allstar team

Eloy? Dude, c’mon.

Right now. Giolito and Moncada are locks. Eloy and Abreu may make it also. Forget McCann and Colome. Anderson also might make it.

He has clearly not been the same since that injury from the car accident. Lets not continue to be a narrative please.

Whatever. Tilson, Moncada, and Anderson are 6-6 today, and have been on 8 out of 9 times. Wish Eloy would do something, but fuck the rest of this team. Lopez had shit peripherals last year and is shitty at everything this year. No surprise. I can be happy with this.

Without his juice enhanced offense, Welington Castillo not only becomes worthless, but is actually a detriment, to the young White Sox pitching staff. Let’s face it, James McCann is the antithesis of Castillo in virtually every way possible. Tall, fit and athletic vs. short and stocky, with slow reflexes. One works tirelessly on flights (studying opposing hitters for the next series and prepping well thought out game plans)... while the other has a seemingly generic, mindless approach, intended to minimize his need to move behind the plate. McCann has decent but improving framing skills vs Castillo’s framing mindset that seems to revolve around a “less (movement) is more, framing is optional” approach. Please Allow me to be extreme in this vent: Beef is a toxic (rotting carcass of a) catcher... poisoning the team as he stunts the critical development of the young Sox pitching staff. Thanks for indulging me.?

lopez sucks.

This series is going to remind me why I despise the Twins more than any team in sports. Hopefully this core has more mental fortitude with them than the last one. Weird shit used to happen at that godforsaken dome and it got in their heads.

Let's compromise. You stop b****ing Alternatively, you go b**** somewhere else. Thanks in advance, Everyone

Tilson doing what leadoff hitters do. Get on base any way you can. Good job Charlie.

Renteria is a piece of shit manager, i cannot believe we have a literal clown in charge of this team. FIRST INNING BUNT

Smart to bunt to get that early 1 run against a struggling offense

Dallas Keuchel or Craig Kimbrel aren't bringing fans out to the park like Harper does. Not even close.

Loving this thread...some pretty hot takes.

The man has six home runs. If he can stay healthy the next five weeks he could have a lot of HRs and RBIs by the time they pick the reserves.

That's nothing new. There's always somebody who wants nothing to do with just about everybody. Some are proven right some wrong. I think over the last few years I have a pretty good record on guys I would have wanted as free agents panning out when many others said the same stuff as you. They need a lefty, he's still relatively young and knows a thing or 2 about pitching and especially pitching in the post season. It's not like there are going to be a whole hell of a lot of pitchers available. He's very similar to the Cubs Lester in a lot of different categories including the amount of postseason innings pitched before entering his free agent year. He's a long shot of course but I see nothing wrong with going after a proven guy who instantly becomes your 2nd best pitcher if you believe the Giolito we see now is here to stay. Why middle tier ? Who middle tier ? Wouldn't you prefer a guy with the most upside ?

I expect 1, would be pumped about two

Yeah it's a tough choice but I really like both options. I really don't like Detroit getting Vaughn.

LOL yea if I was truly a bastard and had nothing better to do I could make a few different folders based on many different areas like who to sign as a FA,who to trade for,which prospects will flop, who we should draft and make a lot of people look foolish. However we all look foolish over and over if you spend enough years on this board.It's just some do it in a very short period of time. You could also do it on how right many people are. Sometimes I do bump old threads just for curiosity . The Samardzija threads when the Sox traded for him were all pretty positive with many also thinking the Sox could resign him before free agency. I'm also curios to see what everyone thought about Frankie Montas but I won't be bumping any threads any time soon. You could fill a book on how many hated signing McCann or gave up on Giolito and Moncada.

We need to hire his high school hitting coach and fire Coop

Don't you know? Every front office employee and executive across the entire major leagues grew up as a fan of the team that they work for. The white Sox are the only team that has ever hired a person that was a fan of another team. We live in truly scary times

People talk about this, and it is absurd that people talk about this

#10 in fWAR for all MLB pitchers. Seems the latest tweaks worked... https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lucas-giolito-attacks-his-weaknesses/

A lot of 0-1 win predictions in here. One of the rare Soxtalk threads where overwhelming negativity can actually be proven wrong in a short span

Have that game in my library. Joel Horlen threw a complete game in a 4-1 September Saturday win if I remember right. It was NBC's Game of the Week.

So?

Nobody ever talks about this but Hahn grew up a Cubs fan. Hahn was never at a White Sox game in his life until he started working for JR.

Oh please. What a waste of time Get Lopez some help? Not sure I'd lump him in with Giolito yet. He can do a lot for the team by being much better and consistent

Wasn’t Tilson a Cubs fan growing up? He is from Winnetka...

Stop trying to pat yourself on the back Coop.

Colome has a really good chance too. Moncada won't make it because of Bregman and Devers. Boston guys are a shoe in.

Lol all these coop didnt do it posts are laughable - for how much blame most here places on coaches. As a player you will get opinions and advice from tons of people. Giolito got advice from a guy he trusted but the execution, observation and analysis had to come at the professional level. Guys will make tons of changes and tweaks in the off season - try new things. Cooper deserves as much credit as blame he was receiving for the lack of development. Ditching the sinker and dramatically changing his repertoire vs both lefties and righties was probably analytically driven from within the organization. So much goes into a players development from both inside and outside of organizations, it's why all the blame people pass onto coaches is funny and given all the praise is also funny. Coop deserves as much credit as you can give a pitching coach for a turn around like this. Even if his high school coach and him messed around with shortening his back arm swing and compacting his delivery.

Actually it was his high school coach LOL

Glad people have moved on from the "take gio out while he's doing good so his feelings dont get hurt" logic. Great game.

I hope those of you who said we would win 0 or 1 of seven are feeling ashamed of your lack of trust in our guys. The guys aren't very far from being good.

G-elite-o

Well, if we're dealing with impossibility, the rebuild would be great if a kid from Chicago prayed that the White Sox would win the pennant and angels literally come and help the White Sox play better.

Um, Michael Kopech called.

Update: Engel is still bad.

I'm going to remain optimistic on Madrigal. He's got the makeup to get to the most of his abilities. That and I will not become one of those overly negative shit on everything SoxTalk posters. That being said, his hitting has been very disappointing so far.

Trust your eyes. He's not that anymore.