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Honestly I’m less upset with the result than the process (going to Ruiz). If Foster allows the homer, at least it was your best reliever against lefties. This is the second game this year we let a player who will be off the roster in 24 hours dictate the outcome.

Next year will be played entirely normally. Full fans from day 1. Mark it down.

This obsession with James McCann - which starts with Steve Stone's absurd love affair with McCann, where he constantly excuses all McCann mistakes - is just nauseating. Yesterday, McCann struck out looking on a STRIKE in the 9th. Stone goes off for 2 minutes how it wasn't a strike and McCann never argues and blah blah blah. It was very clearly a strike. Then Stoney was critical of Grandal leaving his right hand exposed when catching after the injury; yet Stone never mentions that McCann doesn't even move his hand to the side, instead he keeps it right in front of his chest when catching which is much more dangerous than holding it off to the side. Stone clearly likes McCann and they bonded last year, and he has done everything to justify his mistakes by being overly critical of Grandal.

You can't be this dense. Get his balls out if your mouth.

Nonsense. Every word of it.

not peavy moron

We would have been better off just letting Collins being DH. So much more flexibility with EE gone and Collins up. Our best lineup would be in there and have a power bat who draws walks a lot off the bench if needed

what a horrible baseball team

Grandal is on pace for a 4.2 fWAR season and a bunch of clowns on here are calling him a terrible free agent signing because an analyst who has never worked in a front office in his life has an infatuation with the back-up.

Gramal Roberts

I've never started a game thread before. Ever. I'm starting this one early to make sure it's mine. This is as close to a playoff game as we can get. Giolito vs Bieber...it could actually be a game 1 playoff matchup. After the struggles of late and the brutal loss in extras, this would be a huge game to win. Let's. F***ing. Go.

Let's go boys, time to get on a little roll into the playoffs

Beat Quantrill tomorrow with some key bats waking up. Giolito shows up on fire. Dallas has his first start back at full strength and is nails. Take these three games and storm into the Cubs series back on track looking like the leagues best team once again. No more sloppy mistakes on all sides of the ball. No more doom. No more gloom. Let’s remind the baseball world who we are becoming and unite the fan base as we jump into the post season for the first time in 12 years. May it happen. May this year kick off a decade of continual contention. Give me winning passionate leave it all on the field White Sox baseball. Turn the damned tide. Now is the time. LFG!!!

Sorry buddy, but come on. Any postseason game should be treasured.

I’ll watch whenever I want, don’t need your permission. I can tell you never learned jack in your life.

How did that cost us the game?

Renteria isn't in the game

Someone should remind Luis Robert he's Luis fucking Robert. Seriously. I'm not kidding. Like show him a highlight reel while smoking a fat blunt.

I'm not worried about Robert's career trajectory at all, what he's going through is fairly normal and he's got enough talent to figure it out, it's just that it's coming at a really inopportune time for a contending team. This would probably just be a blip on a 162-game season, but in this year it's tanking his production completely.

At this point, you have to wonder if Engel should be starting in CF next week

A 2-8 finish and easy out in the playoffs could cost RR his job

Don't you start now too goddammit

RR made the call. His saying why he “thought” Super Joe made the move is akin to Rick Hahn telling you Madrigal looks like he needs 2 more days in Schaumburg to be ready. He was tossed. If he admits he made the move he will get fined and/or suspended.

You’re telling me you honestly don’t think he made the call? You think managers get ejected and just go take a shower?

he's still an overall plus offensively and nearly a 2 WAR player. struggles happen. no one would be getting demoted.

You know Ricky is calling the shots. You’re smarter than that.

In a little over a week Luis Robert lost ROY Jose Abreu is losing MVP to Ramirez 1 seed in AL to facing the red hot Yankees if we don't pick this thing up.

lol honestly sometimes i think a lot of fans here don't even deserve the sox to be good because they make fools of themselves either way.

Don't care if you walk him. Just keep throwing sliders at his back foot. He was on the fastball at 97 up high and in. There was no way he was going to miss a fastball low and middle like the one he hit out.

.........wow. There are plenty of places to put the blame. But not really on Tim, who voiced his opinion on a terrible night by an even more terrible umpire. You want to call out Luis Robert's crap defense? Sure Want to call out terrible bullpen usage? Ok.

For all the crap he's gotten all year, Ricky's managed the pitching part of tonight wonderfully

Matt Foster time.

RALLY ENGEL!

Luckily, Engel will bat next inning assuming Colome gets through this

Bennetti really has no clue so many times... I knew that was gone off the bat But bennetti thought it was just a fly ball,,, until he realized it wasn;t...

lol you crack me up, jack.

I've thought about it but I didn't want to be the first guy to say it

Angel hernandez needs to retire

That inning is on the pathetic effort by Luis. Half assed swing on a pitch down the middle, then just lets one go by for strike 3.

Edwin's alive. And also very slow...

You are not taking in to account that Hahn negotiated the contracts that created the surplus value that made those trades possible.

Jack Parkman also told us there would be no baseball until at least 2023. So his claim of maybe 25% capacity next season is to be taken with a major grain of salt. There are a lot of unknowns about the future with this pandemic, but the idea that next April 25% capacity is a best case scenario is laughable, considering football stadiums are already allowing fans. Count me in as optimistic that next season will be much closer to 'normal' than not.

His batted ball data is awful. EV way down, popups up -- and that's just when he hits the ball. Rick Hahn is a good GM but his streak of bringing in washed up DH types continues. I liked the signing at the time but I don't have access to the scouting Hahn does. He has to get better at bringing in veteran FA now that the Sox are out of the rebuild. Furthermore, Hahn and the Sox have this baffling tendency to discount opportunity cost and ignore sunk cost. They basically just fucked Zach Collins and Yermin and for what? To REALLY make sure EE is washed up? I mean 9/10 this only ends one way and that's with him sucking the rest of the way and not getting his option picked up. Meanwhile you just wasted any development from Yermin or Collins. Sox could have made the hard decision (but correct) to cut EE two weeks ago and start giving those ABs to other players. But, they didn't and here we are, where they are still hoping for a miracle.

I know the impression Peavy44 left on this board is indelible but I wasn't aware his handle was an insult

Its a bad look to say this is a real season, but then pick and choose the spots at which you apply that concept. Should they weight who makes the playoffs over the last two years? Why is the draft different? I know this hurts our Sox at all, but it doesn't make sense to have different standards here.

I agree. The politicians should stop interfering with the CDC, starting with the Presidential administration, and let them manage information as they see fit, instead of what is politically fit.

What good is protection when you swing at everything anyway? Once Luis establishes he won't consistently swing at pitches that cannot be hit hard, he will be good again.

I do call STRIKE THREE on this one tho.

Can we spell his name correctly in the thread title? It burns my eyes every time I see it