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Fedde has a 1.04 ERA in 5 starts vs. MIN as a Sox (2024 and 2026). 26 IP, 3 ER, 24 Ks to 7 BB, and a 4-0 record. He's held them to a .416 OPS this season. Solid 3.00 ERA overall since June, that's some quality innings for a value price.

It doesn’t matter if it’s true, you always want more access to possible fans, not less because of perceived fandom percentage

He would have been better than TLR. That’s for sure.

I know it is a blue sky rendering, but I love it. They seem to have learned from history

When will this dude stand up for his players? We've been getting boned left and right lately and it really cost us. The umpire forgetting it was 2-2 and giving us a 3-1 count. Multiple bogus ass HBPs that went against us. The questionable pitch clock violation. Will needs to get out there and give the umpires the business.

Right? Lol. Fucking weird ass takes.

The Sox have to take care of their own business, they have no control over what Cleveland is doing except when we play them. It would be nice to get on a roll and win every game on this homestand.

It was highway robbery.

Mariners fans have little to laugh about this year, but dumping Castillo AND acquiring Smith and Dominguez has been a decent consolation prize.

Don’t worry. Once all of Getz’s great deadline trades pan out, the Sox will hit whatever win total WestEddy changes his prediction to.

Just a reminder, the Sox aren't losing 90 this year, as many barked out in disgust this last off-season. This crow isn't going to eat itself. Line starts to the right.

Maybe I’m just a sucker for velo, but I am Sandlin > Thorpe. At this point, they may need to give both of them starts. Maybe even Cannon. Cannot keep running Castillo out there to get his brains beat in during a pennant race.

Here's some more rendering pics for those that aren't Crains subscribers.

From the Crains piece

You could also look at yesterday as they almost lost 2 to a dogshit tigers team. They just lost 2 of 3 to Toronto. The day to day ups and downs are hefty here right now. That said just win.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/09/05/new-sox-park-future-owner-announces-proposal-for-riverside-stadium-at-the-railyards

we need that this thread blows meme

Define “hot team.” Cleveland is 6-4 in its last 10. Same as the Sox. 14-14 since the trade deadline which includes winning 8 of 9 against the dregs of MLB (SF, Colorado and LAA. The Sox are 15-15 since the TDL. Since the ASB Cleveland is 23-21. The Sox are 24-22. Which team is “hot?”

I keep thinking these guys are adults with families and shouldn't need someone yelling at regulators to motivate them to work. How would you react if your boss started yelling at other people.

2-seed Hou- 20 Div Cle- 19 WC Tor- 17

If Castillo starts 5 more games, Sox will finish behind Cleveland.

I don’t think this is true. I lived in Downers Grove and Darien and there are a lot more Sox fans in the area than you are proposing with your Cubs fan percentage.

Who gives a f***? It still makes it easier for Sox fans to get to the game. Now look at every other city along the BNSF line... P.S. Naperville is 150k people. Even if we go with the worst case of your estimate, that's 22,000+ potential White Sox fans?

Well Gil Meche and Darvish did it...at least agreed to a restructuring of contract and when payments are due. But pretty much zero chance.

Why not?

Really need to bring back WSI with WestEddy and friends as mods for only positive/supportive comments. Not having two sides and a healthy/controlled environment for debate will kill any sports board off eventually.

WestEddy was arguing with me in the first few weeks of the 2024 season that I was being insufficiently positive. Enough said.

Lol you started out in low 70s for win predictions and then kept moving the bar upwards when Fegan went out on an optimistic limb with 78-84. The majority of the board was at 67-73 in the predictions thread. They probably end up at 84-85. Does that make up for underperforming predictions badly in 2023 2024 2025 or having the very worst deadline of all the contending teams? No matter what crow you're expecting, it's just as likely as you admitting Castillo or Doyle weren't good moves lol. You’ll still be trying to convince everyone Luis Castillo is just one minor tweak or two away from 2019-24 form. Also Houston is 1 1/2 games behind and Cleveland just 2 1/2 if you'll refer to the current standings. And Castillo/Mune are still broken. As things stand, they are unlikely to beat the 3/6 winner OR beat Houston as the 6 without either of those guys contributing.

We have to WIN this division. Cleveland plays a Hostess Cupcake schedule the rest of the way, and is fully capable to go 16-6 or better. Detroit quit and is handing them a 4 game sweep. We have to take care of our own business and not expect help. Help would be a bonus.

AAA has Statcast data, here's Sandlin's summary: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/player-scroll/game?gamePk=816612&player_id=689818 Were you looking for something specific?

I was trying to be courteous but that appears to be wasted on you. You continue to post about Castillo needing more time, defending these deadline deals et al. You painted yourself into a corner and now you can live with it. This isn't knee-jerk, people were saying literally most if not all of Getz's deadline deals were stupid and actually hurt the club. And they were saying it immediately after it happened. You defended them which is fine, no problem with that. But it seems others knew what they were talking about more than you in this case. Again no problem with that. You thought wrong, it happens to all of us. Now stop digging a deeper hole. Castillo is terrible. He was terrible with Seattle, he's terrible with the Sox and Getz f@#$E%^ up big time. Admit it.

Yeah, he should have judged it bad before doing it. What a mope.(not you, Getz)

Sandlin should be up over Castillo at this point

As I've said before and it depends on your definition of "consistently" I guess, they simply don't have the pitching to rip off six or eight game win streaks.

Under 20 now were talking !

It would be great because one win there adds an extra game to our lead

I'm pretty sure Vasil just does a magic wand wave on every pitch.

Has to be Fedde now…or Martin. Think Kay would fit in pretty seamlessly as a long reliever.

Well if the homers are back then this team is fine.

I nominate this for a reaction. This would be a good one.

If he just elevates the ball, he will hit for a lot of power.

Thanks for sharing. And yeah, Mendoza is definitely doing this because she's running for mayor just like she issued a "finding" during the last few days of the General Assembly spring session criticizing the proposed legislation that would have let the Bears move to Arlington Heights. Here's some interesting points from the article: Amtrak had plans for Bridgeport long before Ishbia got involved and even before he was considered as the next Sox owner. The original plan was for Amtrak to build their maintenance facility just west of Rate Field (between 33rd and 37th) even with the assumption the Sox would remain at Rate Field. Amtrak didn't believe the existing 14th St. Yard or Union Pacific's "Global 1" site at Western Ave were suitable for their needs. That "Global 1" site is rumored to be where BNSF would move their facility if it leaves the 14th St. site. (btw, this is at 1425 S. Western - just north of the BNSF Western Ave Metra stop) After they met with Ishbia was when they decided to add the train yard between 26th and 29th for the rest of their facility so that they could vacate 14th St. Locomotive and railcar maintenance would be performed indoors. Amtrak claims air emissions would be less than they were when this was operating as a freight yard. In the comments, Josh Nelson says the railyard has been dormant since 2019. I found the last item interesting. So, it was an active freight yard as recently as 2019? If so, it's not like it's been dormant for decades and decades. How would noise and air emissions from an Amtrak facility compare to what was going on just before Covid on those train parcels?

Here’s a fresh article by Josh Nelson regarding the recent developments in the process: Amtrak's planned maintenance facility next to Rate Field...What seemed like a creative solution that would be promoted as a unique and beneficial public-private partnership between Justin Ishbia and Amtrak is becoming more contentious.Not much different from the most recent Crain’s article, but still worth a read. The biggest new piece of information in this article seems to be that Amtrak will be releasing final designs soon: Outside of that, Illinois comptroller and Chicago mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza has chose to ally with the Bridgeporters, although (imo) this is a strategic move to garner support for her campaign. Like southsider2k5 has said, Amtrak can just federally supersede any resistance put up by Chicago anyways, which Mendoza most likely knows.

and not one of them is in a Sox uniform

Arguing and getting thrown out to motivate the behavior of players and umpires seems like last century thinking.

If you took out Boston Smith, maybe the trade would make some sense. I can’t fathom how taking on a worse contract than the one we gave up required us to give up a legitimate prospect. I don’t even have words honestly.

How is castillo worth anything at his full contract. Guys got negative value. Just weird. He's washed

Initial reaction is I legit hate this trade. Gross as f***.

This feels like an old school Kenny Williams trade

nah this is fucking terrible