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He wasn’t promoted too quickly

If Schriffen was here during Konerko's tenure we'd all die of liver poisoning

My god this broadcast is non stop glazing a turd.

A San Jose Sharks employee is 100% the guy you should trust and not the fact that the Ishbias bought a significant chunk of the team after having the Twins in the palm of their hands.

I agree but I laughed because it's hard to even consider anybody a rival of us anymore, other than maybe the Rockies.

Him not getting the call over Elko here is very telling

Good rebound start by Shane Smith. I guess we'll see his biker chick sister in Atlanta for the All-Star game. I thought Vargs was having a bad game, then he turns in a 2-4 with a walk. We won the Fedde/Kopech trade. Tauchman/Slater were great signings. Age is the new market inefficiency. Keep stocking up on able 30+ year olds while the market undervalues them. I'm really curious to see how the White Sox approach this next off-season. If they're still in the bottom 5, they'll probably make another Rule 5 strike to add to a potent core.

He really is the Madrigal we were promised

I wonder how many extra tickets were sold for this moment

lol "there he is...TIM ELKO"

I would have much rather given Workman more than one game than Capra or Rojas.

Is this about Vargas' swing change? I just turned on the game and he was talking about it again. I feel like Vargas is shunning him because it's the ONLY thing he can talk about when it comes to him. No anecdotes.

Top 50 dude in the near future.

It's Pride Month. Now let's see if the Sox have any...

The Sox need to make them pay for moving Skubal back to face the Cubs. Mocking us. We beat their bullpen team, but that’s not enough. 2 more Ws.

This whole obsession with Palacios in the middle of the lineup is almost getting weird now.

I think Cusick may have forgotten that thing he learned or something

It's information. Calm down.

What in the hell were these guys thinking bringing him back at $5.8M only to exile him in May. For an organization that is so stingy with money they sure do like to waste it constantly.

Tauchman with that hefty 192 OPS+ and 0.8 bWAR in only 14 games. Slater not far behind with 0.4 WAR and a 155 OPS+ in 17 games. I'm sure if they weren't injured and had more at-bats those numbers would normalize a bit, but so far 1.2 bWAR in 31 games for an outfield platoon is LIGHT YEARS better than what we had before, injuries or not.

Congratulations on getting axiomatic into your reply.

Sox score 8 runs without Robert in the lineup, and his replacement in CF hits a 3-run home run. Coincidence? I agree that Tauchman and Slater were good signings. Hopefully both can stay healthy now. I saw someone on X speculate that the Sox could hold on to Tauchman vs. trading him. Depending on the potential return, that may not be a bad idea. That could give the Sox another year bridge to Montgomery. Nice to see Smith have a good game. I imagine he'll have some more downs and ups, and I would expect him to be limited on innings down the road. But he's a guy you protect, especially in a lost year.

I agree, I think Tauchman and Slater were good signings and even though it’s a rebuild you still need some veteran presence to help the youngsters along, having Benintendi around helps also.

Tray, you don’t get to throw around your riverbed bullshit with zero citation and act like it’s not debatable. When will you ever stop acting like this, every fucking time this topic comes up you wanna tell everyone that only you know all of the facts and everything you provide is opinion

keep the winner threads mostly contained to that game please. Sorry for back door modding but they are a long tradition here and we have plenty of other threads to talk everything else. That said good to have a winner thread and Smith looked excellent tonight. I don't count on many 4 rbi nights from Taylor tho.

Again, I haven't seen this actually stated anywhere. And I don't recall them ever spending money on development of the minor leagues. They've never had a consistent development plan for the system. This is why they've never consistently developed players.

"SWING CHANGE" Drink!!!!

Someone could sit in the booth with a Hawk Harrelson soundboard and there would be more variety than Schriffen

It’s like he talked with Rojas in the clubhouse before the game yesterday and can’t stop praising him. It was really awkward last night.

how is that not fucking interference? we litearlly had the same play go against us earlier this season. that's fucking bullshit.

I'm sorry that s%*# is terrible.

Am I fucking good or what? Look at ME, I AM THE WEATHERMAN NOW.

If they can built on 1776 foot tower on the reclaimed Hudson River, they can built a baseball stadium on the reclaimed Chicago River.

This is the entire problem with the older utility guys signings. They literally just take up space and do nothing to advance the franchise

Florida can hardly support one team, let alone three. With Texas only having two...where all the population growth is trending?

Ultimately, if they get nothing in trade return they're just taking time away from younger players. The bigger problem is no better outfield options to replace them in the minors. But Rojas was already starting to eat into Sosa's playing time (as well as Baldwin), and you can practically guarantee the Josh Rojas deadline return will be zero.

Brooks has homered again.

These are literal facts. From about Michigan Ave over is reclaimed land that is loaded with skyscrapers. The WTC is also on historically reclaimed lands. These are facts you can look up.

If JR was more of a forward thinker he'd see this as a golden opportunity to salvage his rep and at the same time cement new revenue sources around the park far into the future for his family. But he's never been one to spend money to make money, at least not in the last 15 or so years.

Here's a Trib article talking about the possibility of the Sox moving to The 78 along with the Fire: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/04/white-sox-stadium-fire-78/ From the article: "As part of the proposed development, the Fire are buying 9 acres of land at The 78, the team and developer confirmed. That leaves plenty of room for the White Sox to build an adjacent ballpark, Ganis said" And this might not sit well with some Sox fans, but also from the article: “Even when the Cubs stink on the field, they still draw” about 3 million people in the stands most seasons, Ganis said. “That is something the White Sox are sorely missing, and it’s because of the location of their stadium and how walled off it is from where people live, work and play.” As we've all agreed countless times, it'll depend on whether the Sox are willing to commit a significant amount of private money toward a new stadium. We all know the state isn't going to give them $1B for the ballpark itself and JR's offer to pay $200M toward a new ballpark isn't even close to enough. But the Fire building on this site does not kill the opportunity for the Sox to also move there.

I'm on the "Blame Hahn/KW/JR (blame pending for Getz)" bandwagon.

Tauchman was great for the clubhouse- he has taught you that you gotta limp across that finish line even if you are down to one leg ha-chaaa

Joining us on the "blame JR" bandwagon can streamline a lot of that anger for you.

Are you an engineer?

Worse batting average in the league. Bum.

#SoxcannotbuildonariverbedbutheytheFirecan talk

This is absurdly false. The tallest building in the United States of America is built on land reclaimed from the Hudson River. Most of the towers on the edges of downtown Manhattan are. So are most of the lakefront towers in Chicago.

And almost all of Jerry’s wealth is illiquid. It's all paper wealth base on franchise values.

If a player says he's fine, what would you do? Send him to the hospital for all of the possible tests? The medical experts on this board amazes me.

I don't think this is accurate. They have spent a great deal if money in areas where they never have in the past. Upgrading the equipment throughout thr minors, building and staffing a big biomechanics lab in Arizona, renovating the entire DR complex. All things needed to actually develop players. If the minors start to develop good players, thats when the payroll should go up to fill in the pieces. They could have signed 2-3 big free agents and this team would still be bad.