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And would rather hire half rate yes-men than bring in a superior product that might challenge him.

Brandon Eisert is not a closer, I dont care about match-ups. That's shitty managing

Good news, everyone!

Smith has thrown like 10 of the fastest pitches of his career tonight, and that has been worth witnessing for me.

But we let you post anyway.

Plus the risk/reward. Our fan base literally only shows up after long periods of winning. It's the very definition of a bandwagon fanbase, like it or not. What we did for the past 35 years absolutely, unequivocally did not work. The franchise did nothing to build a new and expanding fanbase at 35th and Shields, despite all of the plentiful parking. We see the 2025 model out there. This isn't like 1989 when we were literally the first franchise to build a new park in a long period of time, and couldn't have foreseen the shift. Today we can see the model for a getting fans to show up to the park even when the team is bad. It's right there in front of us. This isn't the Boomer era where 3 hours of baseball is enough. People want to make a day/evening experience out of this. They want dinner before hand, and drinks afterwards, with some entertainment in the middle. We see it all over baseball. At the absolute very least, even if they go back to the historic neighborhood, they have GOT to plow over some of these lots and do more than build a single game day bar. The answer is right in front of us. Something has to give, or what we have seen for the past few years will become more common place. Either you have a revenue base, or you serve as a minor league franchise for the Have's of MLB.

This entire organization is the epitome of dumbshit baseball from top to bottom.

Are those same people that think we’re gonna splurge on free agents this offseason?

People were prematurely declaring the rebuild a success like two weeks ago. so much for that...

Gotta dive for that

You just can't have a guy like Eisert trying to get the last 3 outs against the Yankees. We need an actual closer next year badly.

he was just hyped about throwing the runner out at second. hardly a foible. I'm more annoyed at him saying earlier "the the last time blue jays won 95 wins..." you don't win 95 wins, John, you win 95 games.

https://www.mlb.com/news/abs-challenge-system-mlb-2026

WHAT ARE YOU DOIN WEGNER!

Such an annoying team

too bad there aren't 37 games left...sounds like he's due

The slowest fastball Smith has thrown tonight (95.8mph) is still harder than his season average (95.6). Sitting 97 and topping at 100. He's a starter until proven otherwise, but it makes you wonder what he could pull off in relief.

It seems like when Teel gets up in the count he looks for the walk instead of being aggressive and swinging at pitches right down the middle.

Your 2025 Chicago White Sox....we are less awful than you thought we'd be

If I remember correctly, a year or two ago the minors updated to a system that uses a rolling average of the batters height/stance over the past 50 ABs to draw the zone rather than height alone. So if two guys have the same measured height but one has a consistently lower stance, the zone adjusts for that: "Hawk-Eye is now taking a snapshot of the hitter’s body position at the moment the baseball is midway across the plate (the same location used when evaluating umpire performance) and is then utilizing a rolling average of those snapshots across the hitter’s 50 most recent plate appearances to determine the hitter’s zone. The zone is not dictated or impacted by a batter’s stance prior to the pitch being delivered, so hitters can’t artificially shrink their zone with a wider stance that compresses the gap between their knees and belt, nor are players who use a more upright stance punished with a larger zone for doing so."

EQ after going 8/8 on challenges:

About time.

Schriffen is not a homer, he just plays one on TV.

He hasn’t really gotten past the Sox being the greatest team ever yet. 🤣

My man, I’m a fan of a sports team. The only question I’m really asking is when will they be good again?

You just gave a lecture stating you don’t lecture.

I think "post championship" is doing more heavy lifting here than "no dan ryan." If you have to rely almost solely on the team being championship caliber to draw well, then your ballpark is just not really that attractive.

Parts of the year I thought I saw some improvement on plate discipline and some other fundamental areas. Boy has that gone down hill - Meidroth and quero dont walk any more... tonight meidroth swings at ball 4 twice. Lenyn is the epitome of dumbfuck baseball. I thought maybe our new manager was okay - but after tonight let me throw him in with the clown show. I've been a white sox fan for 37ish years and I'm actually close to done. This was the first game I've watched in a few weeks.

It's gone fine for him tbh. He hasn't given up a run since August. .425 babip is obviously absurd. The ERA isn't important, he's been lights out, he's basically Mason Miller with fewer home runs against (zero).

I'm not...f' them.

Loss #99. Looks like Getz will definitely reach the prestigious award of being involved in three straight 100+ loss seasons.

Left the most important one out - any quality free agent would not sign here

I've never called anything a success in this organization other than losing

Lots of “The Sox record since this arbitrary date is XX-XX.”

Another fucking junkballer with no Control. Being a junkballer ain't the problem the problem is being a junkballer and not being able to throw strikes

I swear not having one has cost at least 10 wins. This team should be closer to 70 wins than 60.

I get the feeling this is a game they are not suppose to win,

Sosa is such a frustrating player

Beckham mentioned the first 2 throws in it were early and would have liked to see them run Chisholm back more

hit it on a changeup too

Even my wife is groaning at Schriffen's announcing.

I think the Barons feed crashed...White Sox it is. When was the last time Colson hit a home run?

Colson isn’t even hitting the ball hard over this stretch. It’s raising a lot of questions going forward about his impact.

I'm against this Umpires are blameless, god like creatures

He is responsible for hiring and firing all broadcasters since Bob Grim retired.

For what it's worth, the Chicago sports broadcaster traditionally was encouraged to be a "homer", because that's supposedly what the market wanted, going back to guys like Jack Brickhouse. If you listen to any of Hawk's games when he broadcast the Red Sox, he was nothing like the Hawk of later years here in Chicago. He was still a character as a Boston broadcaster (as he was as a player), but totally objective when it came to calling the game. Hawk himself said that he changed his style to accommodate the Chicago market. I think Schiffren has improved a lot since last year. And to me, he works pretty well with Stone. Honestly, he reminds me of Chip Caray. I caught a few Cubs games in the 90s on TV with Chip Caray and Steve Stone. And I'm struck by how similar the dynamic is with Schif/Stone as it was with Caray/Stone.

I heard a clip on MLB Radio this morning that the Pirates have had 4 above .500 seasons in the last 33 years (I didn't fact check it). Jerry see's all the year over year profits that they get and that's what he wants. I think it's going to be a long lockout. The spenders don't want to share with teams/owners that don't care about winning and the non-spenders don't want to cutoff the pipeline of profits.

I like it and think baseball needs more stuff like this. Nobody complains that the Harlem Globetrotters aren't real basketball. Just get people out to an event and let them have fun while exposing the game to new audiences.