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Man it's like clockwork when Harold hypes up a guy and he just shits the bed.

God imagine this post before he got called up.

"How much you want to bet I can hit this ball over that mountain"

I wish they could decline Cesar's option now

I gotta think Yoan would have at least 5 more homers if he didn't get robbed by giant ballparks. I can think of at least 2-3 fly balls he hit that would have been gone at normal sized parks.

The biggest missing piece of this lineup is a left handed power bat that plays outfield.

At THIS POINT, it is hard to not give this deadline an D/F. Hernandez has been worthless. Kimbrell has been horrid. Tepera has been good. No RF added.

90 wins. Damn that feels good.

445 ft, 112 off the bat

I understand Perez has a ton of homers, but his framing is almost Zack Collins bad and he doesn't have a ton of offensive value outside of the homers. He has about 5 bWAR cause they don't care about framing, but with framing accounted for, Yaz almost has 1 more WAR in half the games.

Because your entire career would be tainted

Friedl is making Goodwin look like Willie Mays.

At this point, the soxtalk postseason roster has 8 position players and 7 pitchers.

I don’t see much of a reason to put Cesar on the postseason roster

Yoan is so good at the hot corner.

Bummer - Kimbrel - Hendricks lets go

Unfortunately that's not reviewable because it's before the ball gets to the bag. You'd also think the umpire would scream foul ball and there wouldn't have even been a play at 1B.

Man, I had totally forgotten about Burger. That is a Hollywood level story.

Why did they show zero replays of that Leury hit? Very odd.

should be 4-0, so dumb

The Reds have a really good lineup. If they added an innings eating starter like Dallas Keuchel and proven closer like Craig Kimbrel, that could put them over the top.

Robert is so good holy hell

Astros down 2-0

Figured I'd add this here instead of starting it's own thread, adding to the "Liam and his wife are good people". Always classy giving back to those that help make things happen. Love that he's here with us.

Amazing how different people are. I challenge you to listen to a pod of either of the two and tell me you didn't appreciate their comments/views. Have you ever listened to either? I don't think either are trying to inflame anybody and I listen to both. Yes they express differing views from the norm. That doesn't mean they are evil. Not sure why people think differing opinions are so bad. Whitlock's sidekick, uncle Jimmy, recently was out 2 weeks with SEVERE covid. They had good discussions on it upon Jimmy's return. Jimmy was in BAD SHAPE for a while in the hospital w/covid. I don't think he revealed if he was vaxxed or not. I think both are keeping it private.

Yeah, I admittedly didn't take a deep dive into Codi's Cubs numbers, but he's still been just a serviceable as Kimbrel. I'll certainly take Kimbrel over Heuer for the 2021 playoffs. But still just a huge overpay, and I remain confident that Codi is going to be a very nice backend reliever for a long time, and we controlled him for peanuts.

The only good thing about the timing of this is the playoff games aren't on the regional nbc sports networks

The last two weeks of the season are essentially a long playoff with a lot of incredibly exciting games. Expansion never made sense - aside from the obvious reason of more dollars. I really hope they keep it the way it is, but I'm not hopeful.

100%, if they expand to more playoff teams they might as well shorten the season to 100 games or so because it would be the most drawn out, boring thing in this game.

…and why they shouldn’t expand the playoffs. These games matter, and if they went to 8 in each league permanently, they’d be ignored.

Actually Cesar was brought in so Leury wouldn’t be an every day starter at 2nd, yet Leury has vastly outplayed Cesar since the trade. Kimbrel was brought in to stabilize the bullpen due to lack of a RH set up man and our failures in the 8th inning. He has done neither of those.

This is just fodder to create drama by the media and fans buy into it. Some of the theories are ridiculous. Tony on the other hand is always an asshole when his players get hit. I still haven't forgotten he started an incident when Thigpen accidentally hit one of the A's players in the head.

Yeah, SlingTV was 25 and included NBC Sports Chicago a couple of years back. I was more than happy. Now you're telling me a $65 package is needed?? Wasn't youtube tv 50 before? Slingtv got rid of nbc sports, and now it's 10 dollars more too. I have the Disney bundle, but you just know that price will go up soon too. Now, I borrow a family member's cable subscription to use the nbc sports app and HBO Max while sharing Netflix, Disney, etc., but you just know that they'll eventually lock the location you can use them in someday also. This is literally reverting back to just being just like cable. Bullshit.

Vaughn looks like an easy out for the past several weeks against better RH pitchers, and he will see a few in Houston. The excuses for him have gotten old. (i.e., Stone reminding how he was forced to play outfield and how hard Vaughn hits balls that are caught for routine outs). There are a lot of outfielders that hit .237 with 15 HR in their rookie year. So what? Vaughn can make everyone forget his struggles over the last month or so with a couple of clutch hits in the playoffs. Pump a three run homer for a White Sox play-off win and Vaughn will be the toast of the town. Not many recall what Scotty Pods hit for average in 2005, but that WS game 2 winning home run won't be forgotten anytime soon. The playoffs are time for champions to rise above the rest. Who are the players that can meet that challenge?

It sucks that I can't watch the postgame show on MLB.tv

Sports are literally the only reason I have kept COmcast around.

89 wins. I, personally, would not include mike wright on the postseason roster.

Ask me again in November. Then ask me again in June. Then ask me again in 2023.

So you think they hit him intentionally in a 1 run game with 1 out in the ninth, with Jose down 2 strikes?

The arguments for vaccine hesitancy are absolutely insane. I don’t trust doctors, scientists, or the government, but I do trust Facebook, Fox News, or random alt-right website. Some people who were vaccinated still got sick and died, so clearly the juice isn’t worth the squeeze. I’m scared about the long-term affects of getting a vaccine, but I don’t care about the longer hauler risk from COVID let alone the immediate risk of death. What a bunch of fucking bullshit and these people deserve zero sympathy from us at this point. Also, for the love of god stop calling the vaccine “the jab”. That’s the same term my wack-job right-wing cousins use to spread vaccine distrust as they cite articles from notoriously fake news sites. There is nothing fucking cute about it and it proves you aren’t pro vaccine.

I call BS on the notion that Lange didn't hit Abreu on purpose. His postgame comments indicated that Abreu was crowding the plate because the first two pitches were away, and that's why the inside pitch hit him. I looked at the replay, and Abreu was not crowding the plate, and that pitch went way inside past that anyway. He's trying to cover because he doesn't want to get blamed for his infielder getting clobbered. Pedro Martinez said it was 100% intentional and he would know.

I have no doubt that he’d miss and the fastball would go right down the middle for a hit.

Would he be able to get it direct from the factory or would it have to ship to the US and then back to China?

Order one for Caulfield.

I don't like the Tigers hitting Abreu fuck the Tigers.

Poor guy. That slapped a little harder than expected tho

I don't understand these threads where the only thing it was made for is to complain about the front office. Let's live in the moment and enjoy October. After that you can judge, criticize or who knows maybe even leave a few positive comments.

Man, after all these years, you still just suck at this. You’d think you'd wise up just a little bit over time. The White Sox ran away and hid from the division during the 2021 season. It was unlike most other seasons we are used to. The Sox bullpen, at times, was a strength for this team but also inconsistent. The Sox went out and got Ryan Tepera but over the following few days, teams across the league really bolstered their stretch rosters and the Sox decided to make a strength even stronger. Craig Kimbrel was far and away the best relief pitcher on the market. You can disagree, but you'd also be wrong. It was a guy many of us were asking for, and Hahn confirmed him and Williams had their eye on him since May as one of their ideal acquisitions. Now, see if you can stay with me here, this is where it gets a little nuanced, and I fear I may confuse you. The playoffs are more important than the regular season. I know it's hard to fathom, but the impact a dominant reliever can have in the playoffs is much greater than in the regular season, especially when recently we've seen starters get pulled incredibly early in postseason games. If Kimbrel is lights out this postseason and contributes meaningful, impactful innings on the way to the World Series.....I don't give a FUCK about a game he blew in the middle of August. I also won't give a fuck what Nicky Slapdick does for the Cubs in 2024 either. I hope he does great. But he is never going to be a true impact player and became expendable while sitting on the IL when the Sox were chasing a World Series. So yes, in conclusion.....you and Ron can have a circlejerk over Madrigal and Kimbrel struggling with the Sox. You hated the trade from the moment it was announced and won't hesitate to tell everyone the moment his name gets brought up. But I'm not willing to grade a trade when history is still being written. Kimbrel still has the opportunity to make a major impact for this team when it matters most. If he does that, the trade will be a win for hopefully both teams involved. If he shits the bed when it matters most, then it was a bad acquisition. But I'm also not going to hang Hann and Co. out to dry for acquiring the best available RP on the market and using an injured player as the main trade piece during their World Series window. That's what I want my GM to do.