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He's right there in the lineup that you posted

I mean can we get a few weeks of decency before we start taking victory laps?

Lip had to get his daily negative comment in somehow

Lineup is getting alot better in the next few weeks. Hopefully May's results get better too with those additions.

Do you really believe he's injured? Rule 5 guy can't be sent down.

Worst part is that there was plenty of room in the budget to sign both. Would have completely changed the direction of the franchise.

It's really a damn shame. Seriously. Feel Harper would have been an amazing fit here. A fan favorite and a real leader. And Harper, especially if you listen to him, is pretty thoughtful about these kind of things. He wasn't just out there chasing the biggest paycheck. He wanted a place where he felt a genuine connection to and he felt that with the Sox.

Cool you made your point why keep arguing it ? Let people have a little hope and be optimistic.They don't need you to keeping hounding every poster who thinks it's encouraging.

You are so mad he could possibly be putting it together.

Right. It's not like he was just a bad regular, he was arguably the worst regular in MLB since the trade, competing with our own Andrew Vaughn. So he's gotten hot for a couple weeks, well keep it up. Finishing with like a 250/300/450 line would be a really good season.

He was pretty much the worst hitter in baseball since the trade up until this hot streak.

Never change

Ozzie says we want to see games like this more often. The man is a genius!

They've been bothering me for several years now.

This team is coming around! Do we still trade Robert? Or hang with him and try to make a run?

That’s my first baseman! (I know he’s not at 1B today but feel like he’ll move eventually)

Feels like a phantom injury

Man. I want more Meidroths and Queros.

The Dodgers made out like bandits, and the Cardinals got a nice return. 2024 Fedde and Pham for Edman and Oliver Gonzalez seems like a slight overpay by St.L, but they got what they needed. The Sox should have gotten that future consideration in the form of another prospect. But a hitting/fielding Vargas, Perez doing what he's doing right now, and what Albertus is supposed to be is looking more like "just a guy short" than "OMFG, what did you do?!?!?"

It's not good when a player is struggling badly enough that you want to do something drastic like this. Definitely a negative indicator for the future. Sometimes when I see a guy struggling in the minors, you will think or hear that "there's time for him to improve" and other such hopeful things. But I'll wonder, who are the guys who had a legitimately hard time in the minors or had a particular problem and actually rallied back and solved it? Most players who have a horrible season in the minors are just not good and that's that. Saying that a guy is young and there's time to fix it can feel a lot like cope. [Side note: a large portion of the major turnarounds in quality of play seem to be pitchers] So I appreciated Getz mentioning Geraldo Perdomo and Barfield's experience with him in the AZ organization. Perdomo hit a hard wall in AA and was putting up numbers rather similar to Colson there (Perdomo struck out less, but still a lot for a hitter with a lot less power than Colson). Arizona sent him to extended spring for an entire month to work on his mechanics and let him clear his head. And then he went on a rampage, posting a .930 OPS for the rest of the season across AA and a brief promotion to AAA. He even had a strong week of hitting in MLB as a September callup. Given that Perdomo is a completely solid MLB starting SS, I accept that as a nice success story and a sign that this kind of move can work. There's also a warning in there, I think: Perdomo had a horrific first full MLB season the following year before an all-star sophomore effort, so this roller coaster may have multiple peaks and valleys.

In 2025 vanilla is the definition of left behind when it comes to the currentgame day experience. Modern ballparks have style, themes, and experiences. This ballpark is a 1970s style cookie cutter in an entertainment desert. This ballpark also completely lacks any history or personality of old era parks to make up for its sterility, that allows the enjoyment of places like Fenway and Wrigley. Vanilla and boring is exactly why it doesn't resonate with people.

The park is fine. It is not a draw but it does not suck or have anything really negative about it. It is vanilla, always has been and always will be. If you are White Sox fan and they are winning it is great. If they are not winning it is not worth going. I can get good/great food and beer there but I can get better food and cheaper beer elsewhere.

I always felt Harper was the best fit for the city, Machado for the team culture they were pushing but the alas the Slater fella is the answer.

While it wouldn’t shock me, this feels awful unsourced and unproven to be presented as fact at this stage. Some dude ran into Harper and he just threw this out there without provoking? Seems too easy.

Lotta good things happened in this game. We played a good, clean game and took our scoring chances. Huh.

Crosstown World Series 2026

Cubs still need a 3B?

None shall pass without the trumpet of doom.

Instead we get multiple Mike Clevingers

Sure. I'll never write a player of until we see a couple of seasons. You can trumpet the doom as early as you want.

I really hope the guy succeeds. As of right now that deal is a nuclear falllout of a disaster unless Vargas turns out to be a useable player. It would be nice to get at least a guy who you can roster without needing to keep adding old timey utility players to play instead. If this thing is ever going to happen, we need to start winning in the minutia of these kinds of deals, because we literally have one major asset left to cash in, and if that is only if Robert starts to act like Luis Robert.

Huh? He is currently on pace for 2 fWAR, which is what I said. Almost all do that has come in this small sample of him being really good, yes. No one is denying that. He could forget how to bat again tomorrow. But he's hitting and outside of a blunder today, he's been excellent in the field which wasn't really expected. It's a positive development - enjoy it for a millisecond man. It's ok.

No no, it is absolutely a good week that does.

I'll sign the Sosa-Vargas Compact if Vargas fans acknowledge Sosa's larger sample size of growth.

Which is the smaller MLB sample size for Vargas? His first 650 or so plate appearances with both the Dodgers and White Sox in which he was one of the worst hitters in baseball or his most recent 50 or so plate appearances in the past 10 games in which he is hitting out of his mind? It would be great if he keeps it up but I wouldn’t wager a dollar on it. The law of averages will catch up with him. Some posters were sweating Gavin Sheets’ hot start and @caulfield12 kept raving about it. I said give it time, and his massive swoon has already begun.

Need more of this version of Robert.

Yeah. I've told you that previously.

Vinny Capra is not related to Nick Capra. Clean out your pants, now.

Vargas 644. WestEddy creaming his pants now. Health check please lol.

Fedde trade won.

45-50 with no command? Getz will be scouting

Guy lasted one game with the Sox before injury. Hilarious at this point.

Vargas should be hitting behind Luis

At least move Vaughn down to eight if you're insisting on continuing to put him in the lineup. No reason he should be hitting in front of Baldwin, Vargas or Soa at this point

Or as far away as possible on a plane out of Ohare

But where is Vargas?!

Kenny/Hahn: "Hey Jerry, Harper liked the presentation we did." JR: "How much is he asking?" "$330 million over 13 years, but that's gonna be cheap in a few years at the rate salaries are increasing." "No. Offer him $80 million over 5 years." "Jerry, please." "Ghost him." "Ok, but what about Machado?" "Sign his friends and family to make him take a discount."

If true, it isn't inconsequential. We literally let one of the best players of this generation who is playing on a contract less than half of similar players today sign with someone else for some still unknown reason. If we ghosted him to do it, that has ramifications for future player negotiations, but again that is only if it is actually true.

Because I felt it was irrelevant. He was speaking about the stadium. I’m not arguing with you about this further because this place is already 3 people hijacking every thread arguing about stupid s%*#. If you disagree I respect that and let’s move on.

The last guy I talked to where I live and had gone to the Rate described it as “that place fucking sucks” I also think that’s the only guy I know that actually went to a Sox game because everyone else who visits Chicago just goes to Wrigley. Anecdotal, but that’s my personal experience.