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Guys, we are in first place the end of May and are about to sweep another first place team. Let that sink in....think about the last 10-12 years of shitty baseball, and just relish these days we have right now.

Jack Flaherty was bullied by Jose Abreu and his own defense and chased from the game early. Meanwhile, Lucas Giolito stuck his tongue out at his friend and former teammate and had another great outing. Liam Hendriks came out in the ninth with the based loaded and said, "Crikey, this sure is a dog's breakfast!" and promptly struck out the side. It was a good evening on the southside, complete with a record cup snake. Now it's time to break out the brooms and sweep the cardinals back to St. Louis. John Gant (3-3, 2.04 ERA) vs. Carlos Rodon (5-1, 1.27 ERA) Let's go Sox!

imagine how much better he would be if steve stone liked him.

I mean really, who cares about this sort of shit these days?

You usually b**** at people for posts just like this. Amazing.

People being concerned that the Cubs might be in first place in May due to the Sox winning a game is just wild.

Doesn't matter what the Cubs do. They are not good enough to win anything major. Focus on the Sox and regaining the best record in the AL.

Haha yeah. That guy is ban worthy honestly. Next post he makes that adds something to the board would be the first.

He's now so mad that people aren't talking about Tony, that for no reason he dug out an old article to try to restart the arguments. Trolling 101.

The on field stuff notwithstanding, hiring Tony has been a huge PR disaster

3 bunts and Ruiz in a close game. The LaRussa blunders continue. However, you can’t win if you don’t score.

No they aren't. He had a significant case of bursitis. He had a debridement. The rotator cuff and labrum were normal hence nothing was done to them. So you tell me what else besides the bursa was removed.

You're out over your skis here. The bursectomy WAS the debridement. The injured bursa was removed as part of the debridement.

People who don't like the Cubs. Are we going to do this again?

Would rather cubs be good to avoid KB being sent to an AL team in the hunt.

Vaughn is 25th out of 37 outfielders in left field for OAA (which I think is a win) at -2. Tied with him are Justin Upton, David Dahl and Tommy Pham. Worse than him: Joc Pederson, Andrew McCutcheon, Kyle Schwarber, Clint Frazier If prior to this experiment, you'd say after two months he'd be better defensively than the players mentioned above I think we'd all take that as a huge win.

Why does it matter if we know the lady? They did it as a showing of thanks to an incredibly loyal employee. No one would expect the average fan to know, but I'm sure as shit it meant a lot to that lady and there really was no reason to change it. Life isn't always, or even mostly, about the big stuff. It is the little things that show respect, appreciation and kindness that matter the most. This was a little thing that likely meant a lot to someone, while that sign means jack shit to TLR, so why change it? The fact that you can't understand that isn't surprising, but it doesn't make it meaningless because you think it is.

It's currently the top post in r/baseball on Reddit, to universally negative response. Does that matter? I don't know if it affects ticket sales right now, but that subreddit has 1,600,000 subscribers, all pretty hardcore baseball fans, so that's substantial negative press with a national reach. Whatever effect it may have is worsened on the heels of the embarrassing top story around TLR throwing his own player under the bus. These things DO add up and DO affect sponsorship interest. Exactly ^ What could they possibly benefit from taking this risk?

Imagine that, a manager defending his player publicly.

This was about as bad of a loss as 1/162 can be imo. You're seeing major cracks in the lineup and there's no easy answers. Short of a trade for a legit starting OF with a history of production -- so literally no chance of happening -- what can you even do? This felt like the 2nd game the Sox have lost in the past week because a big bopper like Eloy was out. Needed a big blast today at some point and it just wasn't coming. TLR was horse shit today. The bunting is ridiculous. How about a fucking hit and run if you want to try and stay out of a double play? We're just giving outs away over and over and for what, to get a runner on 2nd for Leury? Thank fucking god it's not Michael's achilles.

Why would people take Yermin's sample size from April and say his hot start was meaningless because of his sample size in May....which is the same "meaningless" size? His overall stats are still great, and twice as big as either sample. How about we wait for him to get to 1500 plate appearances like we did with Moncada and then decide if he's good enough? I don't think he's a hall of famer but he's a hell of a lot better than 2011-12 Adam Dunn, 2019 Yonder Alonso, and 2018 Daniel Palka.

In my uneducated opinion, I think TLR is bad AND Yermin is struggling. Is that allowed?

What an insanely incompetent business decision. What is the upside here? Where are fans asking for this? How is this going to affect anything related to sales or fan loyalty at all? Regardless of how you feel about TLR, taking the risk of exactly this type of blowback for no potential benefit whatsoever is inexplicably moronic.

Cleveland will be in 1st place a week from tomorrow, bookmark this post haters

robot umps, huge spot to miss a call

That was unbelievably glaring. They should toss Gallegos as well

He was a little gimpy. Wonder why they didn't have Hamilton run for him Probably made too much sense or was unsportsmanlike.

Hawk never talked out of his ass, luckily.

I feel like we're winning this game...but we're not.

This must be what it felt like to be a fan of a team that lost to Mat Latos in the first 8 weeks of 2016

Mendick is a good guy to have when he's deployed well. He's like McCann. You play him every day, and the cracks show. We saw this last year when he got an extended run.

A maybe even worse tag to that image, despicable from the White Sox:

I was told there would be no baseball until 2023 and that Covid ruined Moncada's career.

I'm not concerned, I was just pointing out a bit of irony. If people have nothing better to do on a Wednesday morning than overreact to an innocent comment, perhaps people need an additional hobby to occupy their time.

Me

So how bout them 2021 first place White Sox!

He's working counts and hitting it hard. When they won't give in he walks to first base. YM's defense is really good as usual. When his doubles turn back into homers, he'll be a top 10 player in this league. I'm confident the homers will start very soon.

Because that would be a terrible idea.

Bumping this because it was good work and deserves to stay on the main page, also this:

I would be more worried about the shoulder holding up from the removal of the bursa than the UCL reconstruction. Especially since he still uses that awful stand up follow through.

There's no point in tagging Tommy Longo's latest account now that he's been banned four times over.

I was told the sox wouldn't win another series until the Tigers series in June though! Amazing how the negative posters disappear when winning happens.

I would love it if Rodon accepted a qualifying offer. At least if he doesnt we should recoup a pick.

Did you order the Code Red.......You're God Damn Right I DID!

lmao, @ron883 you win, tray is just a wannabe troll who found his muse after everyone ignored his "Andrew Vaughn is a short, fat kid who can't play baseball" schtick. Thread begins to move on from the unwritten rules stupidity? Better rev up them engines boys, cause Tray will bring it back.

As to the home run that started this manufactured controversy, LaRussa was yelling "Take, Take , Take " from the dugout. Super Joe heard it as did the entire bench. Super Joe put the take sign on.The replay of the home run shows that Yermin glanced at Super Joe and quickly looked away, obviously choosing to ignore his coach. Yermin had to have heard Tony and casnnot deny seeing the take sign but decided to showboat for selfish reasons. He showed up his Manager and coach in front of the players. This is less than a week after Yermin showed up late for a game. Yermin is a fun-loving player who is understandably caught up a bit with his new found fame and fortune. He deserves a Mulligan or two. Having said that, all that is gold does not always glitter. Here is an article with positive and some negative information about Yermin's ascent to the White Sox roster: "despite hitting above .300 as a catcher over three seasons in the Dominican Summer League, he was released in the winter of 2013. He’d developed a bit of a reputation for showing up late, not always giving 100 percent and pumping himself up to anyone within earshot. Essentially, he was big-leaguing it. That type of confidence is entertaining and endearing when you’re in a fun-loving big-league clubhouse like the White Sox have. It’s decidedly less so when you haven’t even reached Low-A. As a result, the Nats decided the slow, old-for-the-level catcher with the big mouth wasn’t worth the trouble. As a bad defensive catcher with average power numbers, Mercedes wasn’t exactly an organizational cornerstone. As such, the White Sox scooped him up and left him in the minors until a 23-homer power surge in Double-A and Triple-A in 2019 put him on the big-league radar. He spent most of the pandemic season at the alternate site, with a very brief cup of coffee in August 2020. Then he made the big-league roster out of spring training this year after mashing his way through the Cactus League — and boom! That’s how Yermin Mercedes ended up going 8-for-8 to start the 2021 season. It should be noted that Mercedes’ climb hasn’t been without incident. His time with the Nationals ended earlier than it should have due to his lackadaisical attitude. More recently, Licey suspended him in each of the past two seasons: in 2019 for bailing on the team unannounced before first pitch and in 2020 for violating COVID-19 protocols. The line between confidence and overconfidence is a fine one. Over the years, Mercedes has built a character around himself that allowed him to truly believe, against all odds, that he could be a big leaguer. While the attitude that he was too good for some of the lower levels of pro baseball was surely exhausting to be around at times, it has largely been validated by Mercedes' ascension to the majors." https://www.foxsports.com/stories/mlb/chicago-white-sox-yermin-mercedes-long-road-to-the-big-leagues

I like his fat jowls that hang a good 4 inches below the padding on his mask.

The 2016 team didn’t fold, they were just not very good.