WestEddy

Phillies up 8-1 in the 7th.

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

I think Venable has implied a few times that he doesn't have as much to do with the lineups as one may think. I think they mostly come down from stats.

1) Venable most probably doesn't make the lineups. 2) If a bench player can't do 6 innings and 2-3 PAs against an opposite handed pitcher and not look lost, they don't belong on a major league team.

And everybody who declared that the White Sox would lose 100 four years in a row can start explaining how they were so colossally wrong. It's an all-you-can-eat crow buffet. I expect at least 2 full plates each.

But it gets into this black and white internet think, where I said a sentence, so I can never be wrong. "No, it makes absolutely no sense!!" "I just gave you a pretty good reason and explained why that's a valid reason." "Nope, zero sense."

That, plus the fact that multiple articles have mentioned that the Sox don't consider him a catching option on the big league club because pitchers don't like throwing to him.

I'm not aiming this at anybody in particular, but "that makes absolutely no sense", is really getting overused on social media, and elsewhere. Keeping Romo and optioning Quero makes "some" sense. The sense lies in Romo not tipping off the other team as to what pitch is going to be thrown. The sense also lies in pitchers being more comfortable throwing to him. I would think those two factors would contribute some "sense" to the discussion would exist on some people's bingo card. Oops, 2024 called and wants its saying back. LOL.

The goal is to supplement this team to make the playoffs. As much as I like this team, it just doesn't look like a championship team just yet. Peters, Braden, Colson, Mune all go on long cold spells. Catching is a hole. Starting pitching works fine for a .500 team waiting on some butch arms from the minors. The bullpen alternates between solid and rickety. So, seriously, a "go for it" trade deadline would have picked up 2-3 stud starters (Castillo, Detmers, Gausman), an arm or two for the bullpen, a catcher, 2 stud OFs, with Braden being the return for somebody. Bonemer and Carlson would probably be the price for somebody. The upgrades aren't 'league ace' level that Skubal represents. You've cleaned out the farm system to get a team that might win a playoff series, then start rebuilding all over again next season. That, to me, doesn't make a shred of common sense. That would be completely irresponsible, and I'd expect that to be the kind of deadline that Getz follows up by leaving the organization to take a better job elsewhere, because he would be mired in 80-win-ville for the next 2-3 seasons.

And some of the more ambitious trade rumors had Braden Montgomery in the return. That's a non-starter.

Romo's better defensively and doesn't tip off pitches with his setup?

Back to Back World Series victories will make that trade look sensational.

Well, now they don't have to dump Benintendi for nothing next season. I agree with you it was a shrewd move to position themselves well for the playoffs while selling high on Boston Smith.

nice way to jinx that immaculate, Stoney.

Why does anybody think another team would take our yips patients, rehabbers and dude who ain't cutting it for real players?

I'm not sure the Sox could have done that. Bergolla's injured. They don't seem to have much between the "fuckin' dudes" tier, and projects, right now.

Well, if you look at the erratic nature of both the offense and rotation, I don't think there's enough polishing one can do to this team right now. I would have liked for them to pick up another starter, and maybe they did with Urquidy. But I wouldn't have unloaded for 2 months of somebody who could lose his release point, get injured, or just not click.

Swing for the fences, boys...

It's funny how people wanted Getz to trade Bonemer, Carlson and others, but wail at the loss of Boston Smith and Mason Adams. Is there a mystery cache of top prospects that we've never heard of, but would have gotten every top player on the market in trade?

I haven't seen him "contribute" in years. He's more on Twitter. He does the - hot take, prove me wrong - bit. I can never tell if he's trolling or being serious.

I think it's more an erudite need to craft the perfect, sarcastic sentence. I find both Jim and James a bit forced, but they've provided the most thorough coverage of White Sox baseball, along-side James and Ian of FutureSox. There was a time 40 years ago I'd look up the Boston Globe online to read Peter Gammons' column for any mention of the White Sox. If James is going back to the Athletic, the more power to him, and us.