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"Will Venable was dismissed as manager of the Chicago White Sox effective immediately. Despite the team playing wildly beyond expectations and increasing attendance and excitement around the team significantly, he reportedly asked a newly-promoted slap hitter to bunt in a regular season game. It is unclear whether he will face criminal charges, and his family has asked for privacy at this difficult time."

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If the Cards beat the Cubs tonight, the a Sox will have the best record in Chicago!

Don't stop get it get it

SUCK IT TIGERS

Cubs lose, so the Sox finish May as the best baseball team in the city

BOS 9 CLE 4 FINAL. Sox 1GB now!

Cleveland loses 9-1, Sox are 2GB

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Was at the ballgame tonight. Ive always felt in the seasons where playoffs are in our sights, come August the crowd has a different feel. I kind of felt that tonight. The 9th and 10th was electric and it sort of felt like we expected the win. Love when everyone organically comes to their feet at the right moments. Its been a while and tonight was a joy.

this is one of the most joejoe takes of all joejoe takes. enjoy the win one time buddy. this was a magical come back winner

Tell me Vargas isn’t the happiest he’s ever been in his career. Love watching a dude grow as a player and a leader. it’s been a really shitty, shitty day. Good to end it smiling.

I hate it when they throw the ball back on the field. Thats Cubs bs

Tigers fans are the least annoying of our division rivals. Cant stand cleveland or MN and KC has been obnoxious ever since they had 2 good seasons in their history

Aww... 🥰

Congrats to Tyler Davis. 1st career save!

Ken should go back to staring down a camera man that tripped. Fucking clown.

“Playing hard every day and that's the mentality right now. That's the new White Sox. The 2026 White Sox: The mentality is win every day and make the playoffs." -Edgar Quero

Who would you rather see play there? The best option is him at first, and not disrupting Vargas and Colson all that much. The point is for him to come up, play 1st, and fucking mash.

GLP1 use is getting out of hand.

For my money, today’s MVP was Taylor.

Go f*** right off boy. We had our fit to be cut starting pitcher going against arguably their guy with the best stuff. Take your bullshit Debbie Downer horseshit out of this thread and if you keep it up then you’re headed straight to The Hall of Fame List. Clear?

Don't move Colson from SS in my opinion

That's called baseball

This and other people freaking out/ giving up is silly. Colson is heating up. Gonzalez will hit up here. They’ll be fine against Detroit next two, and at Minnesota, and yes at Philly. After that they will really need Mune.

Before anyone says Benintendi is hitting well lately: He's got .148/.148/.333 over his last 7 and .204/.273/.600 over his last 15. For a guy that's played 3 innings of defense all years, that's horrible.

Sweet, a client just found out I was a Sox fan and gave me two Teel rookie cards, it's all coming up Sox!

Sox improve to 29-27 on the season, 17-11 at home, and 8-3 in division. 3 GB of Cleveland who host Boston next. 2 game lead for WC2. 4th best record in the AL, 5th best run diff at breakeven. White Sox SP this series: 25 IP, 5 ER, 22 K, 5 BB. Combined 1.80 ERA and .640 WHIP while all going 6+. Exactly what the team and bullpen needed in this stretch. Davis Martin is tied for the MLB lead with 8 wins as a starter. The bullpen was also solid in regulation. Outside of the extra inning game, Twins scored just 7 runs for the series. The offense did their part too, going 40-138 with a .796 series OPS. Could have been a sweep with better breaks down the stretch of game 2.

They have the 4th best OPS and 2nd most HR against LHP this season, people just don't like the names on the lineup card.

The problem is that it isn't that the ump is awful, it's that they have to be drug out as the "female" ump. Talk about her skill all you like, but dragging out her gender with it is crap. No one called Joe West that awful "male" ump, as his sex had nothing to do with his awfulness. True equity is wrapping on people for their relative abilities, not their sex organs.

Sandlin's statcast metrics and repertoire look meaningfully different this season compared to last. Against righties, he's throwing about 40% 4-seam, 31% sweepers, 20% sinkers, and a curveball or cutter here and there. Last season against righties, the 4-seam was only 14%, the sweeper was 27%, a cutter was being used for 19% of pitches, 10% were a slider, and 30% was the sinker. He got a lot of whiffs on those non-sinker offerings to righties in 2025 but when there was contact he was hit really hard. Not quite so many whiffs this year, but the contact has been much weaker. Against lefties, leaning even harder on the 4-seam using it 48% of the time. The featured offspeeds are an 81mph curveball for 21% of pitches and a 91mph cutter for 17%. There's also a 91mph "sinker" used about 10% of pitches that I suspect is a kick change. Last season, he only threw the 4 seam 27% of the time to the lefties and really just had a kitchen sink approach: 26% cutter, 17% sweeper, 13% sinker, 10% slider, 7% curveball. None of it really worked in 2025. Lefties haven't really hit him at all in this short stint in 2026. Besides the difference in mix, the pitches don't seem the same. The curveball is slower and bigger. He's no longer throwing a slider. This year's cutter has more depth. This year's sweeper has a lot more drop with the same big sideways break. The 4-seam has a much lower spin rate and slightly less rise but has been a lot more effective. I suspect he was slightly cutting the 4-seamer last year which tends to create wasted spin. It's interesting to see all that change and the mostly-good results in AAA, but it also makes you think he might not have enough reps to be consistent with all this new stuff. Hope it all goes well.

I don't understand. This isn's like an "either/or". Cholowsky has a really high ceiling and he'll get better in the player dev system too. I don't think he plateaued. There's still a huge ceiling to reach.

Hey, how about a season where we beat up on the rest of the Central. Let's do it!!!

It's actually okay to love the team, appreciate the job Getz and Venable have done, AND think JR is a bad owner. This team, that still has a very low payroll, is playing very well because of the players and coaches. JR had to be convinced to take a no-brainer gamble on Murakami, and look what happened. He has even more money to roll around in while scheming ways to not spend it. Team - Awesome Venable and coaches - Doing a great job Getz - Getting better, learning on the job...still under-qualified JR - Still a shitty owner

Schultz is throwing bullpens and should be close to a minimum IL stint. Shane Smith is throwing again too.

Gonzo I hope you crush it and never look back. Mune…get better fast!!!

And on the 6th day, Gonzo was called up to lead them to the promised land......

Your Chicago White Sox are the 4th team in the AL to 30 wins! It's May! At 30-27, they are 3 over .500 for the first time since September 2022. 30 wins before June for the first time since 2021. They are currently playing ahead of their 2022 pace (27-30 after game 57, 81-81 for the season). Still 3 GB of the Guardians who never seem to lose when we win, but 3.5 ahead of MIN and 1.5 up on WC2. They are a delightful 18-11 at home, and 9-3 in the division. They have a positive run differential at +1...and a positive FUN differential to boot. Thought this was likely the toughest pitching matchup coming in, so good to come away with the W. Let's win a series (and get positive news on Mune)!

He's actually not horrible when he lets the game come to him and he doesn't have to try to manufacture excitement.

WE ARE AWESOME AT MANFRED BALL

Yea, they added a new sign to the booth for the series:

I would say Venable is getting A LOT out of the team he has. There's talent, for sure, but it's young, raw talent for the most part. The few veterans sprinkled in are helping on and off the field. Grichuk fit right in, Benintendi (despite being bad at baseball) seems to be well liked, Hill is having the time of his life, and Kay is helping a young pitching staff. Don't overlook the fact that the culture of this team has been completely overhauled with the last of the *ahem* problems traded away during the off season. And I firmly believe that Murakami has been a huge part in bringing this team together. It's amazing that a guy with limited English and Spanish fits in so well and already seems to be a leader in the clubhouse. Venable will get a lot of credit, deservedly so, but this group of players is so tight and truly seem to like each other. That, along with the growing talent, is producing an exciting team to watch.

Same suggestion I had a month ago: call him up for DH, and to spell other infielders a few times per week. Dump Beni. Low-risk move. Another thing I like about him is that his K rate is reasonable. The big club Ks too much, as do the 2 top prospects.

Unrelated, but Charlotte's stadium has such a great outfield skyline.

After years of misery, us Sox fans are finally enjoying good baseball on the southside. We should sweep Detroit this weekend with how banged up they are and with how bad they are playing. But 2 out of 3 would be good too. I’m really excited for the gauntlet in June against Philadelphia, Atlanta, LAD, NYY and Cleveland. It’s going to give this team an opportunity to show the rest of the baseball world what they are capable of. Really show they’ve turned the corner and are no longer the laughing stock. I mean it could also show how far they still have to go. But I’m opting to believe in the former, it’s much more fun. And damn, we’re doing all this without Kyle Teel. What a time to be alive.

His xERA for yesterday was 1.37 per Statcast with a xBA of .141. So yes he got lucky, but not nearly to the degree you are suggesting.

Lately it's been April so we'll take it.