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Don’t blame him one bit. There are things that are more important than baseball. I hope he’s okay and let’s see him next year.

No they are playing in a country that is setting new records for cases every day. Phoenix has run out of room at their morgues.

He doesn’t owe us an explanation, but we certainly have a right to wonder why he isn’t playing. This is a White Sox message board filled with diehard fans, of course we are going to wonder what’s going on with a key member of our organization and how it might impact our future. I really don’t get why you are thread policing over this.

This thread is getting into some seriously weird territory. None of these guys opting out owe anyone shit

I hope your new bride is happy about not being #1 on your honeymoon plans .

Fans of Vanessa Morgan apparently think that they are getting a divorce. None of her social media posts recently have involved him. Hope whatever it is he finds peace with it and this gives him enough time to clear his mind and come back next February.

I think it would be the opposite. I think if you lined up his Presidency and put OBAMA everywhere TRUMP is, the right wing would lose their minds.

They're not playing in a Nursing Home.

No one is castigating Kopech. People are looking at it through the lens of a White Sox fan. That's probably what White Sox fans should do. As a White Sox fan, this is objectively a bad thing. This hurts the team this year and it increases the odds of Kopech of being able to contribute meaningfully next year.

I hope not. If he isn't feeling 100% after having twice the time for rehab as normal and throwing some innings last October, he is in serious trouble.

I don't see how people can call this a good thing. Yes, you receive an extra year of control. But you were most likely going to get that extra year anyway. This is now two full years in which one of your most prized assets has gained zero experience. Next year, you're supposed to be competing to win the division. Everyone on here expected Kopech to be in the rotation from Opening Day onward. No one on here can count on that now. This is a bad thing. No way to spin it.

JMO, but it also seems like going after someone like Mookie is out of the question now. Not that it was very realistic before, but I always thought there was an outside chance IF Giolito, Cease, and Kopech all were good in 2020. Without that certainty in the rotation, there's even less of a chance of making a splurge on Mookie.

Illinois needs to go back to phase 3 immediately. 1300 cases today. The problem consistently with reopening is it signals that things are back to normal and people start taking bigger risks and taking off their masks.

Fantastic news.

By the way , congrats and good luck.

My district announced yesterday the exact plan you mentioned; 2 days in person supplemented by online learning or you can do full online. I believe the plan is for them to have half of the people who elect to do the in-person hybrid program (2 in person & some form of online supplement) are going to go Mon/Tues; Wed the school will be closed and than Thurs/Fri the other half of children in the hybrid program will go to the school. It should keep numbers down and allow for better sanitation and at this point, presuming they can do it safely, 2 days in person is better than none. I hope they shift the cadence for how they do the in person to ensure they maximize in-person time and than allow the at home to really be a facilitation of what was learned in person. I can not handle more zoom - it was the most worthless experience I've ever seen at my kids ages (5 & 6).

Hard to overemphasize how important stuff like this was to teenage me.

Jose Valentin will forever be the most under-appreciated player in Sox history.

By the way Sox on 35th was the only place I could find a complete as possible recap of the game based off of tweets. It has all the video highlights from those tweets. https://www.soxon35th.com/2020/07/09/results-from-thursdays-white-sox-intrasquad-scrimmage/

Why so defensive? If you can't make a logical argument, that's ok, I get it, but hopefully I can help educate you vs. your last reply and you can walk away with more knowledge vs. your talking points which are a nice try at distraction, but not accurate. Both of my comments on testing/masks were both in reply to your comments and both are not accurate. You took Trump's on testing to imply that he's directing his government to do less testing. Is that accurate? If so, can you explain why literally everyone in the involved has publicly stated that they have never been directed to do so? Can you explain why we just tested 750K people on 7/9? Not a good argument. Even Fauci doesn't want a federal government mandate on masks. He prefers state/local mandates. How would you actually enforce a national mandate on masks? Again, as mentioned, there are federal guidelines. More states are adding additional regulations on masks.

I want an actual education for my kids. Not a fucking once a week zoom with homework that lasts 30 minutes. If this is more of the same in the fall. Then there is zero point. The same elderly teachers that are at risk to get covid and have secondary issues also have a non-existent grasp of how to use technology. So this will be another round of "we are not ready for this". Then more once a week zooms.

If I was a ditch digger: no If I was a professional baseball player: yes You're on record for not buying it.

He's making the league minimum. That's about $550k. For 60 games that pencils out to around $200k which is almost exactly what he owes the ownersfor the loan the players received back in March. What incentive does he have to play for no money? To be a good teammate? That was never really his thing. Sit out don't risk injury come back next year.

Maybe it’s not the end of the world, but there is value in getting 60 innings of major league development and then having an offseason to work on stuff.

People again are losing there minds for nothing. There's a good chance this season doesn't even finish - strong chance they don't even start it at all. People are worried about experience when no one is going to be getting a ton of experience this year as is.

What?

I think its fair to question why Michael Kopech has. Everyone else has come out with clear statements and have played regularly the past few years.

@raBBit on the money once again.

I’m calling this a convenient excuse. Look, he doesn’t want to be there, for whatever reason. Hope he’s fine or will be fine by February, but the rehab angle, I’m calling bullshit.

If this is true, I would really worry about him for the future. He's already had twice as much time as normal for rehab.

Her posts in general don't include him at all, so I wouldn't put much into it

If Rodon is 100% we will be OK. 1 Giolito R 2 Rodon L 3 Cease/Lopez R 4 Keuchel L 5 Cease/Lopez R Swingman- Gonzalez

Should be five years unless they try to manipulate service time to start the 2021 season.

Good luck to him. Let him get everything in order. We got that extra year of service time back. So 6 years of team control still, right?

Bullpen pitcher

Fauci says he hasn't briefed Trump in 2 months. Another WH fail. POTUS thinks the pandemic is over because he wants to do his rallies.

I should point out - my son is actually in school right now. His school (Montesorri) reopened about 2 weeks ago. He is in a class with 5 other students and each class (they only have 5 classes) is not allowed to co-mingle. So it is basically 5 students + his teacher and the only person who rotates is the aid who can help when a teacher needs a break (so someone is watching the kids at all times). They all are required to wear masks when indoors and there is no sharing of the toys, so once a toy is used it is put in a bin where it has to be sanitized. Desks, etc were all spaced out (so the relatively large Montessori set-up room that used to accommodate 20+ was cut in half. But this is a pretty unique situation and even than, I know something could happen, but I know these teachers very well (my daughter went here from 2-6 and my son is going to be in his last year) and it kind of feels like a second family to me. But it isn't like you could roll out those type of class sizes and conditions nationally. It also goes to show you, I am in the minority sending my child back since I believe they actually are limiting their class size to 7 but haven't been able to generate enough interest (and this was a school that was fully booked with a wait list prior to COVID).

No one's mentioned it but Wells pissed us all off by suggesting Big Frank was a big baby by not playing through injury. Then a few days after all that Thomas's father died after a long illness so he was dealing with that too. http://www.espn.com/mlb/news/2001/0504/1191141.html It was shortly after that when Frank got shut down for the rest of the season. https://tht.fangraphs.com/tht-live/10th-anniversary-of-david-wells-most-asinine-moment-5-3-11/

I posted before about my daughter working at a restaurant where two co-workers tested positive for the virus. The restaurant manager went into complete denial. This restaurant is part of a corporation and is not locally owned. My daughter called Human Resources to tell them she didn't feel comfortable about returning to work and to talk about the situation as a whole. She said HR talked down to her and didn't want to address the situation. She was tempted to go to the media because she didn't think that people should go to what could be a hot spot. Then it was reported in the media that the place was closing down for a time in order to sanitize the place. They claimed all of their employees have been tested which is a lie. My daughter will be tested on Monday. I think think this symbolizes the whole situation. The business wanted to stay open, but it was becoming an increasing danger to its employees and the general public. There is no other solution until a treatment and or vaccine is developed. The only way to stop this thing is stop the spread. And opening up and pretending everything is all right will not solve anything. No, it is not going away. No, the summer heat is not killing it. No, Trump's suggestions for treatments will not work. So the country needs to face it. We need to social distance and wear masks. We will also need to do some painful things. Things are just not normal now.

Exactly what is Trump doing to make the US citizens safer re Covid 19? Once the calendar turned to May 1, he gave up and went with whatever Fox News personalizes working from home told him. Now he insists schools be open. Not because Kids need an education but because if they aren’t open their parents won’t be back at work, therefore the economy won’t be back to the level he needs for re-election. The countries he whines that opened their schools didn’t listen to Drs. Hannity and Carlson and Ingraham. That is why it is safer for them to open. Ignoring science is pretty ignorant, and that is exactly what the WH has done. What happened to the virus is going to go away when it gets warm? You would think a self described germaphobe would wear a mask. Even that claim is fake. Listening to the WH will literally get you sick and maybe killed.

I feel your pain. Thing is I think we're all doomed to stop life again until probably next summer. We're hearing about spikes in Covid anywhere people gather. What's going to happen is schools would open and kids are going to have the virus, give it to a teacher and all hell is going to break loose. Part of me says just ignore Covid and let it do what it must do. The other part of me says I don't want to get it, be on a ventilator and also have to pay exorbitant fees for medical care. I feel for kids. They belong in school. It's very serious keeping them out of class this long. I heard one district is saying the child can go to school two days a week or stay home for an all online option. What a choice. I'd probably choose the all online option. BTW if it's true that 70 percent of American families are living paycheck to paycheck like I heard un fact checked on TV tonight, God help us all. This really could be the end.

Congrats!!!

For a time, it looked like this team was going to the Series. In mid-June, they had a seven game road trip when they first went to Cleveland and then New York. The Sox won all seven. They returned home to a crowd of over 40,000. But came the deflating playoffs. Big blowhard David Wells came the next year and things went south. 2001 was nothing but a bad memory. It was great when Iguchi homered off of fat ass Wells in the '05 playoffs.

If Jose Abreu can play 1B, Yermin can play 3B.

I thought "For those who said Yermin can't play third:" was serious but I guess it could've been tongue in cheek

Not sure if the memory is accurate but I remember the Sox had a bunch of day games in the playoffs and their splits stats for hitting were much better at night. Im not going to look it up because its a sad memory.

That was the team that made me fall in love with baseball.

A Tesla will definitely make you feel something. I have a Cybertruck on order and think if Tesla can truly hit those specs it will be the best vehicle on the market at that price point by far.

They told you to “go away”. Seems like there is a lot more to this story you’re not sharing. And if that’s truly all they said, you should have certainly demanded a reason.