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I don't think the city could survive a Crosstown World Series

His start in game 3 of the ALCS is going to be fucking electric.

Urquidy for the HOF!

Little remembered fact is @oldsox streaked the field during game 2.

Baseball is great. We know nothing. Fvck the Cubs straight to the moon. Amen, please and thank you.

We also win the first game with accurate strike/ball calls in the 9th. We outplayed them.

This team has more limitations than our record shows and we are still playing well and competing with the tops team in the league every time we face them. We have overachieved by a lot, nobody on this board or who is a fan of this team thought in a million years we would be 5 games above .500 and in 1st place on August 19th. Venable has questionable decisions just like every manager even ones with All star rosters.

Sox won while I worked? YeeeeaaAHHHJJJJJ Buddy!

So you’re the one that fired me?

164 all time meetings 82 wins for the Sox 82 wins for the Cubs

Why didn't the Cubs just pick up Urquidy instead of coughing up prospects for two guys he outpitched? Are they stupid?

JOSE UR-KIDDIN-ME

Only one way to find out!

Keep him in until it's obvious he can't go anymore. Save this bullpen.

Who are you yelling this at?

The only threat to the White Sox is the White Sox....just win baby and make the promised land of October.

Thorpe’s fastball has been sitting in the 92-93 range tonight and even hit 94. Pretty encouraging.

Urquidy is a master of command. Terrific today...and for several years with Astros. Hopefully he keeps it up and can stay on the field. And I won't complain if Schriffen knocks off that "yea buddy" stuff. What is he, 12?

Although, streaking in 1906 was like running on the field without your hat and overcoat.

Just saw video of that throw by Braden....damn!!!!

Urquidy's peripherals are actually really good: 2.96 FIP and 3.13 xFIP. xERA before today was 3.63. It's probably around 3 now, if not lower. His BABIP was insanely high with the Pirates and he was a bit unlucky. We don't need him to pitch like he did today, but if he can eat innings and keep us in games, that's more than enough.

If Urquidy can pitch anywhere close to what he did today the rest of the season it would be be huge.

If he's pitching like this, he's definitely top 5 right now.

Bleacher style fist-fights breaking out everywhere. The Orange Line, taking the written test at the DMV, under the Bean

One of my accomplishments was when I had a employee fired. The White Sox hired some White Sox hater to do some media work for them. He wrote some articles in the White Sox program. He's a lifelong Cubs fan and a so called Cubs historian. He also happens to hate the White Sox. I wrote JR and questioned as to why he would hire a White Sox hater. That writer never wrote anything again for the White Sox. My White Sox contacts including a White Sox historian all told me I was responsible for the White Sox hater to hit the road. I'm proud of myself that actually happened.

I doubt fat Sandburg would survive it.

YEEEAAAAHHHHH BBBUUUDDDYYY!!!!!!

Urquidy the unsung hero tonight after our starters never went more than 5 innings in the past week. He gave us 6 scoreless when we needed it most.

Is there enough season left for him to enter the Cy Young race?

What a lift it be would if Urquidy can keep this going the rest of the year as a starter.

Urquidy just saved our ass so much. This bullpen needed a performance like that from him

What a performance by Urquidy to help this team today and into next week. Fucking huge.

Just let Urquidy finish it. This has the vibes where the Cubs will be happy that anybody but Urquidy is pitching.

Mune underrated at 1st. He's gotten much better as the year has gone on.

Agreed. I'm fine with him in LF and not in any rush to move him back to an already crowded IF mix.

That’s my boy Notice how good his throw was when he gets behind it

Jose Urquidy apology thread

What do we have to lose letting Sandlin and Thorpe have a chance in the rotation? If they get lit up, who gives a s%*#.

I'm not even going to remember this series during the playoffs. Just a wild take that I would absolutely say he's joking if he didn't qualify it by saying he's not.

It should have been really obvious that a few of these guys were on borrowed time.

If they weren’t competitive, Schultz would still be here trying to figure it out, they probably would have given Smith a shot too, possibly MacDougal too. And none of us would care Schultz was struggling like that because it was developmental. Being competitive changed everything.

This isn’t negligence at all. This was a developmental year that surprised every one of us by being competitive. Not one person on this site was thinking playoff rotation in March, we all were thinking about gaining innings and flip candidates This is rough but honestly gutting the minors for a mild chance at running through the playoffs was not a choice I would have made either, and I was excited for the deadline.

I don't think he needs to be replaced but there is still a learning curve that will frustrate us all.

You know you’re pitching is in trouble when “undecided” is a regular spot in the rotation!

Vielma had his 17th birthday last week. This is a Tatis - like trade all over again. And, the Rockies just wanted to get rid of Doyle. They needed the roster spot for a couple young players. Someone take him, please. Please. Enter Getz and his crack scouting staff. Just 8 months earlier, give or take, Sox gave Vielma $400,000 to sign. All he did was hit. "We gotta trade this guy. We need an outfielder who can't hit, as long as he's a right-handed hitter. What? What?? You say you need a pitcher, too. No problem, we'll include Mason Adams. But that's it. You can't have any more."

Score some runs. Call up somebody to start the game. Whatever the outcome, the abuse of the bullpen and reluctance to bring up ANYBODY to help them out is just negligent at this point. Thorp, Smith l, even Schultz. This 3 starters and 2 bp games is unsustainable

The pen always takes the heat, but not every game you lose late is fully on them. Cubs have been held to 2 or fewer runs at home only 4 times all season, Wrigley just has not been the place for even the best and freshest arms to try ekeing out a 3-2 win. They needed to get more than 3 runs out of 10 hits + a few walks. But the Sox have certainly been burned by an especially taxing run of incidents with the Martin rainout, Schultz 1 inning start, Martin ejection/blister, some extra innings games, and the loss of Thurday's off day (which I imagine impacted strategy for this series) all happening in quick succession on top of the expected workload concerns.

Screw this - yeah this is a bump, but this team battles. Keep grinding, create momentum and shock us in October. Let’s go!!!