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This is who the Sox are facing tonight for the Cardinals: 5 and 14 with a 5.57 ERA If they can't actually score runs off this stiff then they are in more serious trouble than anyone can imagine.

Teel going with the pitch nicely. Next dude gonna try to hit a 5 run HR th9

Anybody notice how these opposing hitters are simply making contact and not trying to hit home runs.

Mason Adams + Hays or Pereira + Boston Smith in the minors makes this team better than Castillo + Doyle for this season and future seasons. This isn’t that difficult to understand.

if the Sox had a competent owner, Getz would be out of baseball where he belongs, not running a pro sports team

He's got one week to binge watch Parks and Rec to learn about public hearing crowds.

Colson, maybe try poking it to left field. You know what they're going to throw you. What the f*** with this approach. If the pitcher has any semblance of command, you're just fucking cooked cuz you cant go the other way. f*** off.

My point is that's what happens when your offense is home run or nothing and you've got guys up and down the lineup who can't get on base.

They’ve had 14 base runners through 6 innings and have only scored 2 runs on 2 solo home runs. Almost unbelievable if you weren’t watching it for yourself.

This Cardinals team wasn't going well before this. They just got swept by the Giants. We fucking suck right now.

No, the initiative is to never shorten up your swing with two strikes.

easily could be bases loaded with no outs but we have a bunch of dumbasses

It’s so nice hearing DJ.

No we expected them to go for decent players. Not ones who are DFA quality players. They would have been better off just not doing anything. The amount of water carrying for this front office is strange.

I expected moves that wouldn’t make them worse. Make no mistake, it’s killed them. Castillo being a bust has really hurt them.

Kind of just want this season to be over with already so I can just enjoy football. Watching this decline is so depressing

Imagine not only choosing to have this guy on your team but giving up ANYTHING of value to do so.

The only thing worse is people still dying on the hill. Defending the trade deadline on these boards . It was obvious at the time the trades were trash.

Doyle is so pathetic. Every strikeout seems to be 3 pitches with him. Getz is such an idiot.

Yep. Don’t mind the lineup at all. And we’ll have Antonacci, Benintendi, Mune, Peters, and Teel as options off the bench against their right handed relievers.

I think we just suck right now. Pittsburgh also threw a bullpen game against us and we didn't do s%*# for the first 6 innings against them.

Cubs up 9-1 after 4 on Pittsburgh. Either the Sox just caught the hottest pitchers on their staff, or they're just not good right now.

If they win today I'll go back to not being worried until the next loss.

Remember the Sox lead the division. And even if they didn't lead the ALC, they are also currently setting as the 3rd best record of any of the teams eligible for the Wild Card. They need to get severely out played by at least one team in the division AND one team outside of the division. Essentially you need Cleveland AND Texas or Toronto to go crazy to close this last couple of weeks out, while making sure that if Texas gets hot, the Sox still stay head of Houston too. You also have Toronto and Texas still having a three game series left to play, which makes it harder to get both of them to outplay the Sox, because one of them has to take a least two Ls in that series. A whole lot of things have to go wrong for the Sox to miss out. Like I said a while back, I don't think the rest of the teams out there are good enough to all outplay the White Sox by that much, in this short of a period of time. I know the magic number is still out there, but the fact we need two teams, not one team, and they have to be the right two teams, and still not lose the lead over the two AL West teams potentially, makes the algebra much harder to knock the Sox out. It is still POSSIBLE, but it is really complex.

Are telling me that Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball?

What’s even more impressive is that he’s jetting in all the way from Winnetka to attend this meeting. I hope he’s not too jet lagged after making that trip.

Well, good thing we have 10 games left with the AL Central and 3 against the NL worst Rockies. This team has no excuses with the remaining schedule.

Playoffs???

If they make the playoffs I'll feel good. If they choke (again), bad.

There are definitely more than a few guys we have to head into the off-season with some major questions about, including pretty much all pitching.

The hell? Teel and Braden are already busts?

The anti JR.

I will give Ishbia credit for facing a hostile crowd.

I'm officially in ultimatum mode with Venable and Getz. Win or you're fired. Simple as that. Win. Or. You're. Fired. Many might say that's extreme and this team being at 75 wins is already exceeding expectations. I don't fucking care. This team was given a PRIME opportunity in an insanely weak American League to nab up a 2 seed and they're fucking it all up, and it's because Venable can't handle his pen like even a quasi decent MLB manager and he can't fix the overwhelming clown-car that is this team's month long woes at the fucking plate. How are we in the middle of fucking September and Murakami and Colson STILL can't figure out what pitches he should and shouldn't swing at!? This is no longer a franchise that can just sit back and say, well we thought we'd win 73 games, but we won 80, so that's great! No, no season is guaranteed. You had a WIDE FUCKING OPEN AL Central and frankly, a wide fucking open AL, and you're imploding. You have 16 games, 16 fucking games. If I don't see the White Sox in that bracket, Venable and Getz better not be back next season. Ishbia better put his fucking foot down and say enough is e-fucking-nough. I'm tired of this Mickey Mouse club bullshit. This franchise is coming off one of the most embarrassing stretches of baseball in the history of the fucking sport. The patience is non-existent and RIGHTFULLY SO. This franchise deserves ZERO patience, because every time we've given them patience, they've went and threw it back in our fucking face! Enough is e-fucking-nough!

These guys are playing like their limp-dick manager

Don't normally like to post myself on the internet but sure, here ya go.

Im not even sure they are trying to compete. If the deadline was an example of Chris Getz trying to go for it, I am extremely concerned. I sleep a little better telling myself that they know they have a lot of holes and are just staying the course and following a plan and if they end up winning the division and getting into the playoffs, that's great. If not, they didn't expect to be there anyways. But man, the way this team has been managed since the deadline and the moves they made at the deadline. If that was them going for it, holy s%*#, that inspires no confidence in me that they know what they are doing. That's why I tend to believe they are just happy accepting what happens this year and are sticking to their plan.

I guess one could argue that it takes a batter out of their comfort zone of the way they are used to hitting, but I can’t say I agree with this strategy at all. We’ve seen too many teams (and within our own division) employ this approach with great success.

I will let you guys pick what Soxtalk character fits them. https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+parks+and+rec+community+meeting&oq=youtube+parks+and+rec+community+meeting&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigATIHCAUQIRigATIHCAYQIRifBTIHCAcQIRifBTIHCAgQIRiPAtIBCDgxNjlqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:dfa00423,vid:Ng_-HgRfGBY,st:0

Trying to compete using smoke and mirrors was a hallmark of the post-2005 Kenny Williams/Rich Hahn era, so it shouldn't be anything new to Sox fans.

Hopefully the sweep by the Pirates lights a fire under their asses, and they take care of business this weekend. They cannot rely on other teams to lose to make the playoffs.

I never want to hear about Kefalonia ever again

Where were all those interested constituents when it came to building anything resembling an entertainment village in the surrounding neighborhood? Oh, that got shot down by JR wanting to put all those dollars in his own pocket...even when it was just 2-3 neighborhood bars/pubs. And those damned parking lots...along with the railroad viaduct separating the ball park and surrounding neighborhoods into two distinct walled off fiefdoms...really it's three if you consider the Dan Ryan border.

I think Ishbia will present more of an open for discussion instead of a take it or leave it proposal. He has the ability to write a huge check directly to the ward which goes a long way.

feeling great

Did Ant slide by?

This might be it: AI Overview Billionaire Shore Capital founder and Chicago White Sox minority owner Justin Ishbia is scheduled to attend a rescheduled community meeting on Thursday, September 17, 2026, at 6:30 PM at the Pui Tak Center (2218 S. Wentworth Ave.). Facebook The meeting, organized to address intense neighborhood pushback, will include Ishbia, officials from Amtrak, and members of his development firm, Canal Edge LLC. Local residents and elected officials, led by 11th Ward Alderwoman Nicole Lee, are fiercely opposing a plan that involves moving Amtrak's 24/7 maintenance yard into Bridgeport to make room for Ishbia’s massive new South Loop riverfront megadevelopment, "The Railyards"—which could eventually house a new White Sox stadium. Facebook +2

I am hoping this season wasn't a bunch of smoke and mirrors, personally.

It's almost like the players think it is a mortal sin to shorten up and go the other way.