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The only hard stretch is in my pants right now. f*** the rays!

Looks like the Sox are trying to skip extras tonight to get a jump on those booty calls in The Villages.

This new later deadline sucks balls, doesn’t it?

Fully disagree on Wolkow. Teams have shifted towards prioritizing youth and ceiling in these types of deals. You say he’s been spinning in circles for a long time, yet he is a 20 year old in High A who has made some strides this year in terms of the K rate. He’s certainly a high variance player who likely amounts to nothing, but the ceiling if it were to click is insane. To think he has zero trade value is just simply wrong IMO.

If my scouts like Peralta, I’d do Wolkow+ but that second prospect would have to be less than Smith.

I wanted to give some appreciation to this dude. We signed him for a cheap contract, and he pitches his ASS off for us in 2024. Completely exceeds expectations and puts up 4.6 bWAR. Then he nets us fricken Miguel Vargas in a trade. This season we sign him for basically nothing - $1.5mil. he does exactly what he needs to do by reliably eating innings as a 5th starter. He's in line to be worth 1.5-2 bWAR. A complete bargain for what he cost us. We don't always appreciate guys like him. Somebody needs to eat innings though. He has gotten the job done for us at a bargain.

7 games over .500 and 3 games up in the division are both high water marks. Everything's coming up Milhouse.

Lip why you gotta poop in every punch bowl man. We get it, you are cynical

Emotionally, I don't really want to part with Wolkow cuz he's a local guy that seems to be progressing. Obviously, he's expendable. Intellectually, I'm more attached to Boston Smith. Tearing up the Southern League is usually a very good sign. Semien was SL MVP and the Sox never really believed he was a top level prospect. That led to one of the more disappointing trades of the KW/Hahn era.

Rick Hahn about to negotiate a Tarik Skubal deal on MLB network

Your first place Chicago White Sox flew in after a hard fought series against the #2 AL team to face the #1 AL team with a league best .714 win rate at home...they head back to the hotel tonight matching their season high of 7 games over! Fedde continued his run of quality production. Since June 1, he's pitching to a 2.76 ERA over 49 innings. The team in 9-2 in his 11 appearances over that time. Schweitzer also had another good night. He has a stellar 1.45 ERA since June, putting up zeroes in all but 1 of his 7 appearances (6 of those for multiple innings). Meanwhile Vargas, Mune, Colson, and Beni all went yard against a very good arm in Nick Martinez. 6 ER ties his season high, only the 2nd time this season he's allowed multiple homers or over 3 ER in 21 starts. Had a good feeling about this one when I saw this earlier: Hosting a Harry Potter night when the magic-fueled Sox come to visit? They were asking for it.

We scored just enough to win convincingly, but not too many that we won't score anything tomorrow.

THATS MY SHORT STOP

best play Colson has made in a long time

How can you come up with this, after coming up with the worst nickname in history — Chairman of the Board?

What about 25?

Romo wasted our challenges so fast that Tampa got scared to try. That's big brain play.

I never want to see him in a Sox uniform again.

Maybe it’s Tiger Math

Sometimes it feels like you forget you are on a messageboard of like minded individuals who have all been lifelong fans and have seen all the bullshit you have seen. I think this is a ride you need to start enjoying for the scenery and stop worrying about where and how it ends

Needs one with his hand on his chin and it would be perfect.

I just saw Peralta at the airport getting on a flight to Tampa!

Dislike re: Boston Smith

Leo and Obama sitting next to each other with their Sox hats on would be quite a sight.

Catcher hit, take a shot!!

COLSOM PRISON BLUES

He's Rob Deere or Adam Dunn except he's an above avg defensive SS. Get used to how it looks.

Tell Roch to cancel his flight.

I know Fedde has looked pretty good today, but you can't let him face this lineup a 3rd time.

I honestly dont like to see the Rays in a small tank like that

We need Colson and Peters to get back on track.

Leads the org in RBIs I'm pretty sure, strikeouts and all. Not someone I would trade for a rental personally.

I love John and his energy so much. This bothers you.

He's gonna do something great tonight, I can feel it!

I'd be fine trading Smith. He's probably not really a catcher and at 23 this is probably the most hyped he'll be as a prospect. Selling high on a 23 year old not ready to help us in Chicago is fine imo.

I mean I get the prospect hugging that happens during a deadline, but can we not act like he is the next coming of a sure thing? Even if his bat is for real, we have no idea if he can be a catcher or not.

There isn’t anyone that gloms onto news and breaking stories than heyman. He is so fucking worthless when he calls the score

I like that his source is a tweet we all read.

That’s the Wed/Thurs asking price, by Sunday it will be cheaper when no one else is meeting that asking price. Wolkow as the main piece doesn’t bother me, but Boston Smith as the 2nd is too much. Wolkow, Albertus, and lotto ticket arm

I've got a bunch of this (Pokeweed) in the front yard. Looking it up, it's very toxic. I never realized people eat this. You have to boil it many times over to get the toxins out.

It's not a middle tier system. It's a top third system.

Yup, if they're going to trade him (I hope not), hopefully it's not for a rental. I'd think that Wolkow, Mogollon, DePino, Lodise types would be enough for mediocre rentals even in this market.

Gross, as Peralta has been terrible this year. I do think Wolkow and Smith are two of the most likely trade chips they use.

Schultz clearly has shown sustained periods (in the minors) of elite stuff, with inconsistent mechanics and command. He also is very lengthy which can make repeatability a bit of a challenge early in their careers. These are the exact type of individuals you do not give up on. He's still 22 year's old and has 6 more years of control as well. I would not be surprised if he was one of the better LHP's in all of baseball for a good chunk of that time. Hagen Smith is a bit different, as his sustained periods of elite stuff has been a little more mixed as he really exploded in his final college season and then has flashed it at times in the minors, but with a bit less consistency as he's worked through mechanical issues. I have less conviction here than I do with Noah, but I am still pretty convinced worse case you are talking about a guy who is an elite set-up man and best case he has what it takes to be a front of the rotation pitcher (ie a 1, 2, or #3 pitcher in a rotation). McDougal is close to Schultz in my mind, with the major question here (as with all pitchers) being sustainable health. But I think his floor is the highest of this trio of prospects and I am a bit dissaopinted we couldn't continue to stretch him out so he could build on his 110+ innings last year in the minors, because right now it is pretty clear he's going to see a substantial set back in innings pitched as the club worked to get him stretched out for the rotation. With that said - his stuff is high end - he has the physical build you look for in front of the rotation starters, and as a floor, I think he will be an excellent reliver, but would hate to see him limited there. He has been consistently excellent after whatever adjustments he made from 24 into 25. Note: How they develop and what the right mix of minor league development vs. major league development will be key. I don't know what it is, but I think McDougal is the individual of the trio who will have more immediate sustained MLB success because I think his command and repeatability is best suited mixed with that stuff. Not saying he's going to come out and be an ace right away, but I think he'll be a serviceable big leaguer out of the gate and then grow from there.

I also saw Satchel Paige pitch for the St. Louis Browns in 1949, I believe. My Dad wanted to see him pitch, so I got to tag along. Never forgot it, obviously. He threw a few eephus pitches, and the crowd roared. They loved him.

He’s a master of karate and friendship for everyone.

I don’t want to see Detmers and Sox. I want to see Sox next to expiring starters who have been good but with big contracts that allow us to give minimal draft capital. If you give elite talent - be like Preller and go get elite talent back (not mediocre guys like Reid Detmer)