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Apparently there's a ball game being played.

I get they are playing much better than before, but the broadcasters seem to not realize they still have the worst record in the AL and second worst in baseball.

Death, taxes, and shitty umps!

I was born 4 blocks east at 14th and Michigan.

"they call him Christmas because he smiles a lot" or could it be because his name is Noel...wtf Schriff

Very little plan at the plate this series. First pitch change up swinging is not wise.

I think Sosa might need contacts? This dude has one of the worse batting eyes ive ever seen. Tonight the game plan for the team seems to be take pitches down the middle but then swing at balls.

Maybe he was only counting the Guardians and not the Indians? /sarcasm

Not to mention Thome and Manny Ramirez. The producer fed him wrong information but he has no knowledge to question it. Lindor did it too pretty recently. Might've meant to say 3 30/30 seasons.

Messick pitch fully up and away: strike Martin pitch fully inside the top corner of the zone: ball

unbelievable

I'm pretty sure I read once that city/county/state governments cannot own MLB teams based on league rules. If all billionaires got that way by being unethical, where does that leave us Sox fans? Are we hoping the next owners have modest resources and need to operate the team on a shoestring budget for the next 3 decades? It's fair to suggest that billionaires for the most part suck and got that way by inheritance or by exploiting others, but I'd rather have some filthy rich dude owning the team than someone who can't play with the big boys in terms of MLB payroll. And it's not like such a new owner is going to be raking in the dough solely from a team playing at a half empty, unpopular stadium that is surrounded by parking lots such that he can spend like a big market team.

S2K : JR's last decision , to sell to a billionaire private equity investor who is holding his cards close to his vest, might be his last laugh at sports fans.

Because Jerry, there's a guy who really cares about sports fans, and didn't literally make billions on the back of tax subsidies and free stadiums. Good lord.

I don't think I've ever enjoyed watching a minor leaguer pitch as much as I enjoy Shane Murphy. When you get a hit it's on his terms, I honestly can't talk myself out of a scenario where he's really damn good pitching to major league hitters. Him and Thorpe both have a similar trait in that hitters never seems to be comfortable in the box. When Thorpe was on he kept hitters so off balance that the contact just didn't amount to a lot of damage and I feel like Shane has that but with better command and a wider arsenal of pitches. At this point I'll be shocked if he doesn't have a long MLB career and you don't need to out up 5 WAR seasons to make a lot of money as a starter. You can just pile up innings and still makes tens of millions.

I think it's a reasonably good site but the Related Idiots are blowing it. Not sure whatever happened to the U of I project, but UChicago has built a similar kind of thing in Hyde Park, the Medical District is trying to attract something like that (and has a failing one as it stands) and UIC is trying to do some kind of 'innovation center' around Harrison/Racine. There are much better, cheaper locations for such a thing. Also seems like there aren't enough of these jobs to go around and I dunno why two state universities would compete with each other particularly with federal funding at a pause for the foreseeable future. I think they could just build apartments and a park and call it a day. Ideally, just a park and maybe a little bit of retail to go along with that newish Target, movie theater, shopping mall across Roosevelt. It's developing into a neighborhood, I would be thinking more locally rather than a major arena. I'm not even sure the Fire really fit the bill. Do think it's a bit of a deadzone unless they build all that extra transportation infrastructure...which is unpopular and, imo, redundant when the City/State could spend limited funds elsewhere. But it's still well-connected to mass transit, just not a 2 minute walk. Chicagoans wouldn't mind walking 10 minutes to get to the Red/Orange/Green line. Could expand Roosevelt bus service if it was really necessary. The dream for me would be to make a new kind of Grant Park along the riverfront there. Keep the open space and offer some programming/a new site for festivals. Maybe a sports complex. They have a skate park taking up a large swath of land for some reason a mile east, how about something sports-related that kids actually like?

Needed a bit more offense tonight.

Montgomery still has a lot of holes and is real streaky with the K's. I have no idea if he'll be up early next year. I think there's one scenario in which he closes a few holes and rockets into right field. There's another another where the further he goes up, the more the holes get exploited. That may delay things. He's a good enough defender that .240 with decent power is a major leaguer, though. OTOH, I think Bonemer is going to move incredibly fast. Scouts don't like how little movement there is in his swing, but it works and there are very few moving parts. He could be up by May 2027. And I would not be surprised if they stuck him in the outfield if there's still the huge glut of infielders. Guy's a good athlete.

I know. Just the concept of A) A 12-year-old prospect inking that B) It getting announced 5 years before it can legally be signed, with details about a prior contract falling through Are just bonkers to me

Getz turned down offers for Civale at the deadline, only to cut him a month later. Use the trading periods, Getz.

629 OPS last 30 days. 410 OPS last 15 days. 678 OPS on the year. Same old below replacement Andrew Vaughn. Brewers caught a little lightning in a bottle but if they keep trotting him out there it will cost them at some point I'd imagine.