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It's cool that Ryan Pace has joined us

Fun game to be at in person. Loud White Sox contingent there this evening.

New guy here and a little shy about starting a new thread - but here goes. Scanning through the MLB site post AS break team stats reveals a few negatives: While we're 5th in league OPS, we're not hitting many doubles or triples (86 2b/12th in league) (4 3b/14th in league), i.e the only reason we're in the top 3rd of the AL in OPS is due to the increase in HR hit in the last half of the season. Feast or famine re: XBH. Two points that have jumped out at just about everyone: (1) We have a grand total of 8 Sac Flys (tied for league worst.) This stat alone indicates that we're getting the runners on but are not getting runners in at anything like a reasonable rate. (2) A league worst 55 GIDP. The Sox are top 5-6 (American League), in just about all other areas. Not exactly meh but not sterling either. I don't know that we're shooting ourselves in the foot so much as tripping over our own feet. At least some of this has to do with TLR's style as well as late summer fatigue and the over-time abilities of players. Looking at individuals - I can understand Vaughn's rookie challenges, but what's up with Eloy? At this point, even considering the value of resting players, I'm not overly optimistic about the playoff chances against Houston. Thoughts?

Leury's got voodoo dolls somewhere in his house.

"Soxtalk said I'm not crazy" will get you far in this world.

This team is so well rested they've slipped into a coma.

Padres bring in old friend Detwiler and he gives up a grand slam

Toasting all Sox fans who love the White Sox and our great Polish core in Chicago. Greg Luzinski is our cousin, the Sox are still kicking ass nearly four decades later!

That ball is probably gone in just about every other park. Triples alley in this stadium is huge.

He really has. The sac bunting has become less and less prevalent. We're still third in the AL in sac bunts, but 18 of the 21 came in the first half. We've had 3 sac bunts in the 2nd half.

26 game on-base streak for Yoan. Imagine not appreciating him. couldn't be me. What a stud.

I feel like even when Dylan has his best stuff he somehow manages to have like 70 pitches through 3 innings...

Would it be bad to point out Eloy's career wRC+ is 120? He's a very good hitter but when he was returning from injury it felt like some people were acting as if he's already Juan Soto or something.

I want to see Cease come back super strong, throwing strikes, commanding the zone with all three pitches, and going at least 6. That’s the most important thing we can hope for.

We need a 3rd party, but Yang sure isn't the one to start it. We need people who are between the two parties, not farther left or right than them.

Again, how will that change anything going forward? Ok, China did it. Now you know. Now what. this is like stopping and yelling at Tommy for letting the lions out of their cage when they are running up to eat you both. Ok Tommy let them out. Do whatever you can to get safe and then yell at Tommy.

You put together some really good stats and info that tell a very interesting story. At the end of a long season, I'm sure guys like that are always looking for new angles or a potential story. You should DM him with some of the numbers you posted, and just ask him if he can look into it more with some of the responsible parties involved. My bet is you get a response.

no offense to any of you - but i've been going back and forth about this for a while. i'm going to be deleting my account. i used to have fun on this board, but lately its more anxiety than anything because of this stupid topic. i don't even go onto pale hose anymore ... just straight to this. and i waste entirely too much time trying to make points. im sure some of you are really good people. we all have our disagreements naturally about how we see the world which are driven by personal experiences that others on this board are not privvy to. take the response above ... I mean? This your moderator? i could say the sun is shining and he'd come back with "there's some clouds up there". what's the point of going back and forth with someone like that? it's not even a normal, reasoned response. how is that productive conversation? it's just attack. 33,551 posts. im gonna stop wasting my time... have fun on your next 33,551 posts tony.

Why cant I put LSD, MDMA, Cocaine etc in my body? Do I really have control of my life? The argument against vaccines is entirely hypocritical if the anti-vaxxers dont believe I have the right to do whatever damn drugs I feel like. Unlike covid, my cocaine binge isnt hurting anyone but myself. In most states you cant even buy marijuana. (Edit) Also my employer is allowed to restrict alcohol/drug use while I am working. Why should my employer not be able to also require vaccines?

I'm not cheering for the Indians until the Sun times has the asterisk next to the White Sox name.

No it does not. A doctor may give it to you, but the only evidence that is has any effect is clearly fraudulent. It is also really, really, really interesting how you have such a problem with Big Pharma making money on anything, but you have no problem with people pushing Ivermectin to make money on it.

Great, dominating win

It'll be annoying when Cesar's option gets declined and he goes back to being a 2 WAR 2B elsewhere next season.

Kyle Tucker strikes out. D-backs Astros going extra

Hahn is the only reason he might still have a job after this season.

Na Zdrowie!

That might drop him below a .1000 OPS on the season. Who needs him anyway

Tatis pops up with the tying run on 1st in the 8th and 2 outs. Don't worry, he had great swagger jogging to first base.

Romy continuing to crush minor league pitching is great to see ?

Have a night Romy. I vote he plays over Cesar tomorrow.

they keep picking up crappy starters off the wire and starting them in important games. Preller really should be fired if they miss the playoffs.

I wonder how Padres fans deal with Austin Adams when he basically hits a guy every other inning.

My 30th was better. Sox beat the Jays 6-1 in game 3. For about 25 years I thought it was 8-1 until someone here corrected me. I may have had several too many shots that night! ?

The defense will do a lot of heavy lifting for him next year and he's not going to be other wordly on defense until the hip is right. It's insane he can be one of the best hitters on the planet after such a long layoff and not being 100%. His tools are generationally good.

Imagine how fun a full season of Robert is going to be next year

He's so awesome!

That ball just kept carrying.

Nice take by Timmy. No one else I'd rather have up here with bases loaded.

Just look at our record vs teams above .500 and you will find out who we really are imo

Cease is averaging 6.004 IP per start which is full inning above the big league average.

Letting them swing away is bad strategy is this point. Bunt the runner over and get *something* productive out of their ABs.

If there's a team that can afford their starters to go 5, it's this one. We've allocated almost 30% of our payroll to the bullpen.

Can anyone tell me something about Lucas Giolito's 2018 season?

I hate you

This would be a 26 game hit streak if I were the official scorer in Oakland.

yep, I don't care how long he goes if it's 1 or 2 runs. Let him become Rich Harden and I'm thrilled.

Biiiilly Billy Billy Billy. ???

Yes. But if you are doing something that poses a danger to the people around you, then the rest of us have an equal right to block your access to places of work, schools, and places of business so that you cannot pose that danger to the population.