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I will be honest, it might have gotten him in the door at the beginning, but it is no where near why he is one of the best in the business. I can't think of another person in sportscasting who has the versatility that he does. He sits down in three different sports and sounds like he does any particular one of them all of the time. He's sits down with different partners and sounds like he has been on the air with whoever it is, forever. He has a light touch, and is perfectly willing to get his partner engaged as much as possible. Dude is one of the best in the business.

Even though it doesn't count it's always nice to beat the Cubs.

Felt nice about the future Sox until I saw that putrid Nick Shitlicker Swisher tribute on the OF wall.

Meanwhile, Steve Stone takes entire series off and avoids west coast trips altogether.

I'm pretty lenient on this team but letting him go was worse than losing the most games in baseball history.

Robert hit 14 HRs each of the last 2 seasons and put up a wRC+ of 84. Austin Hays just hit 15 HRs last season and had a wRC+ of 105.

Ant-man dinger!! 107 EV

Here at the game. Don’t know anything about him but that Alberto dude has something. Tall as s%*#, great extension and velocity, solid off speed offering.

Yes especially since caufield is posting non stop

Let's just say that very, very good sources have told me the relationship between the two was strained and that was part of the reason for Nancy's request. And to answer the question, I know Nancy and have spoken with her many times on this matter. She has always been tactful when she addresses the issue but it is clear that there were differences.

A friend said, put "Ran off Haray Caray AND Jason Benetti." on Jerry's tombstone.

What? You don’t think the great Schriffdawg will ever be the voice of Sunday Night Baseball on NBC?

Any word on how they ingressed or regressed?

It’s not really that crazy when you consider his injury history and the fact that he had one year of SP experience

What side of the plate?

Vargas needs to have a big year if he wants to hold that spot long-term. I fully expect another leap, but not sure if it will be enough to hold off the eventual impact of Roch.

Shut it all down. We need trucks and street sweepers, can’t do this

Dead arm period

To further clarify, he had to stop pitching due to pain in the elbow. It was diagnosed as a "flexor strain." They later saw the spur when imaging the elbow to check his recovery. They decided to remove that. The next time he tried to throw full speed was in spring training when his UCL gave way all the way.

It was generally rated the best changeup in minor league baseball.

Good to hear Thorpe is back on the mound.

Also from what I was told, the driving force behind getting Nancy to return for a limited number of games the past few years both in the spring and in the regular season was actually Jeff Szynal the Sox longtime scoreboard coordinator and Hall of Fame curator and historian, not Brooks.

I need the Sox to draft this absolute freak in round 2 please. He's everything their system needs. He's an outfielder, he's an up the middle guy, he has power potential, he's a freak athlete. Need them to float him down to 41

The best combo was:

You know Schriffen has fantasy dreams just like this, and is all pissed off when he wakes up from them.

This is probably the deepest dive I've read on how Chris Getz has revamped the organization with an analysis of the various foci. What is Chris Getz's vision for the White Sox? - Sox Machine

More of a Justin Carmelo Anthony

I think a factor that should be considered is that high school kids would follow suit. The kids on my baseball team certainly were 20ish years ago and several of them developed drug additions as adults. It makes sense when considering that a trusted adult is encouraging you to inject drugs when you’re 14. It’s not worth it for a couple extra homers or whatever.

Building off my previous post, here is my 5/1 roster projection: Lineup: B. Baldwin, RF (S) K. Teel, CA (L) M. Vargas, 3B (R) C. Montgomery, SS (L) M. Murakami, 1B (L) Hayes, LF (R) E. Quero, DH (S) S. Antonacci, 2B (L) Acuna, CF (R) Bench: IF: C. Meidroth (R) IF: L. Sosa (R) OF: E. Pereira (R) OF: A. Benintendi (L) Rotation: S. Smith (R) S. Burke (R) T. McDougal (R) A. Kay (L) D. Martin (R) or E. Fedde (R) Bullpen: CL: S. Dominguez (R) SU: Taylor (R) SU: Leasure (R) MR: S. Newcomb (L) MR: M. Vasil (R) MR: C. Murphy (L) MR: J. Hicks (R) LR: J. Paez (R) IMO, that’s a team that could surprise this year, especially if one of Hagen Smith or Schultz can grab the #5 in the rotation by June or so.

Over at Sloan, a Kyle Teel homer to tie the game for Team Italy!

It's mostly just minor league numbers propelling Chase in the projections. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Both are limited players in their own way and we'll see how they perform this year. Chase needs to prove he can still work counts after the book is out on him. Sosa needs to show his 2nd half power surge wasn't a fluke and continue to improve his defense at 2B.

Those who live in the past suffer depression. Those who live in the future suffer anxiety Only those who live in the present love in their right mind. Paraphrase from Lao Tzu

Cubs pitching getting absolutely LIT UP by the Reds today. 15-6 so far. Boy I hope the Cubs end up the third best team in that division.

I'm almost certain you accused me of "gaslighting" last season for saying spring training win/loss wasn't a predictive measure... Anyway, webcast with ESPN radio is available for this game for those interested: https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/video/spring-training-cws-sf-194612

Sir this is a Jeep forum. Have you taken a test drive in the new 2027 Jeep Grand Cherokee? Should check one out at South Oak Jeep Dodge Ram & Chrysler!

They have Sosa. He led the team in home runs last year, but so many people here seem to ignore him or forget about him. I don’t think he’ll lead the Sox in HRs this year, but if he gets enough at bats, I feel confident he’s good for 25 to 30. That’s why I think he should be the main person at 2nd over Meidroth. That power goes a long way. With Quero and Benitendi, there are not enough DH at bats to take advantage of Sosa’s power. A example of my point about people forgetting about Sosa is that I was listening to a podcast saying that Sam A, with his EVs, should replace Meidroth because he is good for 12 to 15 homers a years, clearly more than Chase can hit. I listened to that realizing that Sosa could double that amount.

Being the largest market in a small market division and acting like the smallest market in a small market division has become a curse for fans. We do our best to overhype eveything.

With the Sox luck, they would get Bronny James, instead.

I wish they used wood bats in college

The White Sox started the last two spring seasons 3-8 and 3-9. It's also nice to see a way that this team could improve this season.

Kay being at 96-97mph is nice, he was a ~94.5mph guy last time he was in MLB.

The other Rule 5 guy Alberto in. 1st batter smoked a single. 2nd batter hits into a nicely turned 2nd to SS to 1st DP. Kieboom weak fly out to RF. Rule 5 guys did good !

Looks like someone was paid by the word.

I think most days (against righties) will be: Hays in LF, Acuña in CF, Baldwin in RF with AB DHing.

Some noticeable improvements on the basepaths so far this spring

Were on tv today btw

Takeaways. 1. People who Getz hired and gave expanded roles and opportunities too, like him and believe in him. Very surprising! 2. The Sox still haven't expanded their department head counts. 3. Autonomy and freedom are what Getz is selling new leaders. (I'm a fan of this) resources aren't comparable to other markets. 4. Getz would compare the Sox to the Rays or Guardians. Lots of roster churn. Pretty s%*# fan experience but again, still very limited department size. 5. The proofs of concept or wins cited were someone else's 1st round pick being good, a pitcher being claimed and converted into something viable (something Sox have done a few times over last decade+), and two guys who have never played in the MLB. Anecdotal was polite.

If Murakami performs, I hope the Sox plan to resign him. IMO, we should be in “win now” mode by next season unless a lot of things go wrong. And given that we have zero long term payroll commitments, resigning a 1B shouldn’t be a problem for us (hopefully). I think the more likely outcome is Vargas is eventually traded. But even talking about this hypothetical is a good problem to have.