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Caulfield is like super well informed, knows a lot on a lot of subjects but thoughts seem scattered and it shows in his posts when he references stuff half the board has no idea what he's talking about and it comes across as scatterbrained or at the least just showing off his knowledge. He cant help but throw out tons of names in most posts and yet all this knowledge and he still posts mixing in grand conjecture with facts fabricating and mixing truth with fiction. Seems like a good guy . If he could just post on Sox stuff and not mix in politics and focus his thoughts he'd be an awesome poster. BUt as some like to say " Caulfield gonna Caulfield" . Who knows if he is actually right about AJ broadcasting for the Twins even part time.

Foster has been a stud

Do you think Padres fans b**** about Rizzo and Turner all the time?

DK is doing our manager's job. Renteria was great for the rebuild but he is not a championship caliber manager. I don't like to nitpick everything a manager does, but there are too many mistakes he makes that the average fan wouldn't. He seems to be here because he is a friend for the players and someone who makes them feel comfortable with US baseball. That's fine, but someone needs to tell this man how to correctly do his job if the plan is to keep him.

I'm still a big Jose Abreu fan ... 3-4, 2 RBI; Eloy baby!

Kopech hasnt done a thing at the major league level.

Are we happy again now? Does being a White Sox fan include the prerequisite diagnosis of bipolar disorder? Can I have garlic dipping sauce with my pizza? These are the questions I’m left wondering.

Only team in the division to win today.

Is Dallas already the best MLB free agent signing in Hahn's tenure? ?

I mean those are the guys we're counting on this season and going forward in Eloy's case so they better get going or this club is going nowhere.

The team was undefeated with Madrigal. Tim comes back and they win... let's pray the trend continues.

yea and good on renteria using him like it, critical win tonight and go get one tmr and build some momentum.

Moncada had COVID, showed up 4 days before the season started, and he's played 15 games in the past 15 days. He looks tired and it certainly makes sense. People that were ripping the two off days early just overlooking the grind that this is for a guy who was fatigued.

part of the reason i think he needs to lead off. Leadoff hitters see 60% fastballs.

It's Carson Fulmer...if that was intentional he'd have thrown a strike

I lived in Wrigleyville shortly after graduating from college. It can be a fun place to drink, but i advise staying off the beaten path. Avoid the Cubby Bear, Sluggers, Deuces, etc. I was always a fan of Murphy's Bleachers and The Sports Corner. Murphy's is a divey-er bar that isn't AS infested with jabronis, but it still gets packed. Regardless, most places right by the field are packed on game day. Keep in mind, i have no idea how it is during quarantine. i imagine it is even harder to get into a bar. I highly doubt you'll get a seat at a place within viewing distance of the field. Try The Sports Corner i guess. if that is packed, go pound some malort at the Nisei Lounge.

Maybe sometimes just don't

As I have said before, the worst thing about this trade is that Hahn had to sweeten the deal at all by including any extra players. It is just that much worse that the "throw in" happened to be Tatis. Shields was called out by the owner of the Padres as a bad signing. Erik Johnson should have been more than enough compensation for the Sox to take him off their hands. That the Sox had to kick in more to get the Padres to pay some of his salary is a joke imho.

And never forget; Preller is a crook and baseball somehow allowed him to keep his job and continue on. The guy traded injured players without disclosing proper medicals, and baseball let him keep the players he acquired for his damaged goods and keep his job.

I'm not convinced that Padres fans aren't making burner accounts to occasionally make this thread when they are feeling down. Why do we need a new one of these threads every 3-6 months?

Would you stop saying this. My goodness, you act like you were on the back fields scouting Tatis. He was the same player; he hadn't played in organized professional baseball games and anyone could have signed him. You've exaggerated his growth and his status at the time of the trade. Tatis wasn't ranked on a single prospect publication until 2017 (Where he appeared in one on the bottom of a team list), and he didn't appear on Keith Law's list until 2018 - after he had a 910 OPS as an 18 year old in A ball. The White Sox traded him in 2016. You literally just make up stuff to try and make everything look worse and so obvious.

It could have happened to anyone. Thankfully, we have proven winners like Rickey Renteria, Rick Hahn and Jeremy Haber running the operation.

No point in this except suffering.

Babe Ruth

Detroit will make the playoffs the Sox won't and Hahn will blame injuries, short season and youth. There are numerous at-bats that are just terrible every game where a pitcher does not throw a strike and gets an out or worse a strike out. Yesterday on a 2-0 count Moncada swung at a ball 3 inches off the inside corner and grounded out weakly to third. I do not know if that is player development or what but we have 7 guys in the lineup daily that do that.

As of yesterday, here are Fernando Tatis, Jr's stats. 17 games, 76 PA, 67 AB, 15 R, 22 H, 4 2b, 1 3b, 8 HR (leading baseball), 18 RBI, 4 SB, 0 CS, .328 BA, .408 OBP, .776 SLG (leading baseball), 1.184 OPS, 229 OPS+ (leading baseball), 52 TB (leading baseball), 1.4 WAR. He also has no errors so far at SS. He's 21 years old. One could argue that Tatis Jr. is the BEST PLAYER IN BASEBALL right now. As my son said, if instead the question was - who would you pick first if you were starting a new franchise? - then Tatis Jr. would almost certainly be the guy. So, I apologize in posting this little rant, but every time I see this guy perform it just totally bums me out. And it keeps getting worse as he gets better. Because while the White Sox have some exciting young players and are on the upswing, the fact they don't ALSO have this guy may well leave us short. I would be better if any of our young guys were BETTER than Tatis Jr. But they aren't, and because Tatis Jr is still YOUNGER than all of them, they aren't ever likely to be. FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU*******************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The whole staff needs to go. The Sox need a new mentality a new focus. Not this complacency shit

I doubt Ricky has it in him, but Anderson-Moncada-Robert is a way better configuration than Anderson-Moncada-Abreu

The offense was great when Madrigal was in the lineup! and when they were playing KC

Give me a break. He’s a veteran pitcher on a young team. He has the right to say whatever he wants.

It does make me wonder how the teams talent evaluators could be this wrong...seems impossible.

I don't think the first one was that bad, Deshields was pretty good, and I'm a little more forgiving on pitchers who just seem to find it all at once. He was the ultimate outlier as a short RH pitcher who ended up being so durable. I mean the Scherzer trade to DET was awful in retrospect but at the time I didn't bat an eye. People thought Washington overpaid to acquire Scherzer, then overpaid him on his contract. Pitchers are too weird.

Oof. I was talking about the first Pedro trade. See, two Pedro trades are worse.

Man the late 90s/early 00s when all the small market teams were just giving away their players to the big market teams was such a crappy era. That Kansas City had an outfielder at one point of Beltran, Damon, Dye and slowly wittled them all away. At least now they are smart enough not to wait until they are an expiring and getting true hauls for them.

Record: Padres fan Caulfield12, ex-Royals fan and Puigmania Captain, did not make this thread.

Wait until he makes the HOF before you compare it to the Lou Brock trade or even the Randy Johnson trade.

Also, Pedro Martinez.

Too fat.

This thread is going to make it suck to be a White Sox fan.

Lou Brock...

interesting topic

I didn't see the August 10th game so I don't know what prompted Keuchel to come out like this. Maybe he was pissed that he had another good start without a win. I do know when teams don't hit, they look flat. I recall a Tribune story back in 2013 when the team had really gone south. Several board members were interviewed and they basically said they left everything to JR. Now they were older, financially secure, and if they weren't losing money from their investment in the White Sox, they didn't care too much about the win-loss record. But their statements left the impression few in the organization cared that the team was its way to its worst season in 43 years. Not the best PR in the world. Things start at the top, but I truly don't know what JR's mindset is. The team just got done with a terrible decade, but Williams and Hahn are still here. So is Renteria, Cooper, Boston and others. Right now, I don't know if anyone knows what a winning baseball culture is. We fans haven't had expectations lately because of the rebuild. That excuse can't be used anymore. Seven straight losing seasons is enough. It is not too much to ask to play slightly over .500 for 60 games.

Why can't Dallas be a leader on this team? When he was signed, literally every single article, and I'm pretty sure Hahn himself, touted his veteran leadership as one of the most important benefits of signing him.

Good for Keuchel. He knows what winning teams look like.

The Leafs were that close in winning the #1 pick.

Thought title was a joke, somehow it is kinda not a joke.

Steve Stone has dry wit. He is funny without trying too hard. I wouldn’t trade him for any color guy in the league besides the Mets duo of Herandez and Darling.

The Sox are coming up against a 40 man crunch at the end of this season; players like Basebe weren't going to get a chance to show themselves this year, so it was going to be difficult to hold him next year.

How about AJ? My favorite Sox player ever, great analyst currently...Maybe at least let him be the bench coach for the next guy, Ricky ain't it, glad I was never behind him