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Sexy win. 2-3 on the trip. Let’s pull it to even tomorrow.

This team def has a lot of fight in them. Talent too. Great job by Eisert, Newcombe and Taylor picking up Burke. Early offense held up.

Good day for Gonzo's first 💣

Wow! Great start. Hopefully we can stay in the mix for awhile and build for the future.

So far he is.

We will know more in about 9-10 days but damn you gotta love these guys, they keep bouncing back after tough losses and avoid long losing streaks.

Congrats to Gonzo on his 1st major league homerun.

Why does replay hate us. That call gets overturned against us every single time

It is a lineup of vets who have hit throughout their career, I wouldn't expect their offense to be bad all year. They have the best record the last 35 games as well

I'm cautiously optimistic about our pitching staff. We've got a lot of pieces that can potentially improve it. Shane Smith potentially regaining his form from last year. Noah Schultz and Hagen Smith living up to their potential. Thorpe becoming a good #4 or #5 starter. Most probably won't happen, but the potential is there.

No wonder the teams doing so well

Sox and Braves are the only teams to not yet have a 4+ loss streak this season

Pope Power on 6/6/26 !

BMont 2-2 with a pair of 100mph singles EP with a 103mph HR in his second AB

Very nice win. They won't get swept and have a chance to take the series. Just keep hanging in there.

Let me be overconfident here. The way this offense is playing, if we get good or somewhat good Sandlin tomorrow, there’s a great chance Sox take this series.

Encouraging results from Gonzo so far. I think it's gonna play at least as a super sub with pop.

Game was never in question as much as people were panicking. Good win, fellas.

Taylor's stuff is unreal

Wow, you have two challenges Stott Great job by Newcomb to really save the bullpen. I assume Taylor gets the 9th

Peters has been such a fun find

True story: the bar I'm at in nyc is playing the infamous David wells cubs game.

Somebody give SS2K5 a wellness check.

Too much talent in the pipeline. Am I in the right team’s forum?

Side note: Throwing HR balls back in is always dumb, but it's especially dumb for a milestone ball that you could haggle some free merch out of

Gonzalez looking so much better than he did a year ago. He may be the real deal.

Looks Gonzalez doesn’t need Truist Field to hit bombs

And it was a tank, wowza

What an AB from Peters

I get that this is a brutal stretch, and it seems especially brutal with our starting pitching seeming to be falling apart. But I think the Sox are for real. They can score runs, lots of runs, lots of different ways. I think the offense will remain good, even very good. For all the complains, I am confident that the Sox bullpen is solid, especially when we use our good guys. On that topic: I really, really would like the Sox to have a lead in the 9th inning tonight, and then, “Hey Phillies fans, did you have fun watching your closer Duran last night? Now meet our guy, Grant Taylor. Good luck. You’re gonna need it.” With the starting pitching, I think it’s going to be up and down. Not as bad as it has looked this past week of the road trip, but not as good as it looked 2/ 3 weeks ago. And I think (hope) that help is coming from returning injured pitchers (again hope and relatively soon). I think the rest of the season that Sox pitching will be “good enough”, because . . . When Mune and Teel return, hopefully healthy the rest of the year, I strongly believe the Sox will have as good of an offense as anyone in baseball, Dodgers, Yankees whoever. Mune is Mune, we know that. But what people forget is that during September, Teel was clearly the best bat in the lineup. His September OPS was .921. When Teel returns and finds his swing, the Sox are exchanging the worst bat in the lineup with possibly its best bat in the lineup. Think about that: Antonacci getting on base followed by Mune, Vargas, Colson, and Teel. No more having two guys on and Romo comes up to bat. So, yes, this is very optimistic; but I think White Sox fans should be optimistic. Of course, as we see, injuries are always a concern, but I don’t see how, with everyone relatively healthy, the Sox can’t continue to play .500. And don’t overreact to whatever happens during this brutal stretch while we’re without Mune and Teel!

The question always is how do you fan ? Do you want to live in the present and enjoy what is happening or do you have to think you know everything and let everyone know things are not that great. The Sox have players, like every team does, whose stats do not support their meaningfulness to the team or their contribution. In terms of wins and losses and even surface stats like ERA Kay has been very good. The Sox win more than they lose when he pitches . He walks a tightrope out there and other stats reflect that like his WHIP and FIP. This is usually perceived as a way to say his luck won't last, much like Peters BABIP . Kay is like the Seranthony Dominquez of the starting pitchers. He just had a string of very good starts in May that lowered his ERA to 3.77 which is very respectable for a 3rd or 4th starter. Most of the time, 10 of 12 starts before this one, the results have not only kept the Sox in most games but allowed them to win a good portion of them . Sox were 8-4 in his starts and with May being a great month for the Sox, it was also a great month for Kay and Peters. As a manager you like pitchers who give you a good chance to win ALMOST every game. He's also a veteran arm that even when he pitches poorly the manager will leave him out to die to try and save the pen as much as possible. These days that's 5 or 6 innings .On a team that is trying to infuse young arms into the rotation it's imperative to have veteran pitchers eat innings even when they struggle. Kay's WHIP and pitch count get elevated but if he can hang in there for 5 or 6 innings it's helpful. So to say he stinks without looking at the broader aspect of how the team plays when he pitches and his function in the broader team concept ignores pretty much everything and just focuses on the poster letting you know he knows everything about the future and your good feelings won't last. The starting pitching has been disappointing on the road and the upcoming teams are very good teams. The Sox will just have to win their homes games and try to hang without losing too many on the road while they navigate their way through injuries. Looking at the big picture helps rather than concentrating on who stinks every game and who doesn't. Sox probably end up around .500 on the season but maybe guys come back from injuries and propel them higher. If there's one thing I know there's not a lot of people very good at predicting the future. A season is full of surprises good and bad. With a young exciting team on the rise there's a lot to like and look forward to.

I think they will have to choose between Acuna and Nishida when Pereira is ready. And since Nishida has options, I think he’s the odd man out.

That’s why I think they may ultimately form a 2b platoon.

Meidroth's OPS split is .661/.943 (v. RHP/v. LHP). Ant-man is .875/.319.

The team is better with Sam The Man leading off.

NFL2K was the s%*#…way better than Madden

Can everyone just roll their eyes and move on and stop responding to him? All he does is try to derail this thread, ignore it. Plenty of good egress ingress talk in here

Was Rikuu the best PH option? He can’t bunt and he is a ground ball hitter. A bunt would have been better from someone else more skilled at that. Venable has been Grifol like lately. IMO

Dreamcast was awesome.

As a parent of a 12 year old, I understand what you’re driving at… I just don’t think it will be this extreme. There may be a separate segment of it in a new market, sure… but the game of baseball will be played by people for the rest of human time.

If Jerry doesn’t have sway in this area, then Tony doesn’t matter all that much.

He’s trying to find his protractor still.

Oops. (Looks like the PCA thread is closed.)

Tray approved