WestEddy

He was posting over at SoxMachine. I think it was a bit rough and tumble here, and he also said something about quitting posting at some point. He pulls together those incredibly long lists, and that stuff can take an hour and a half right out of your morning.

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Calf injury. He's another one - his 146 IP is the highest in his career (by 2).

Noah Schultz threw 121, Taylor threw 90 and Hagen threw 93. All are career highs.

Nobody's really saying any different, are they? I think a rookie team got overwhelmed in the clinch games of the 2nd round and abandoned a pretty successful approach from games 1 and 2. Perhaps Cleveland adjusted, and these guys just couldn't readjust that fast, and panicked. I mean, one of the team-leading veterans was Miguel Vargas with parts of 3 seasons under his belt.

You forgot the part where we all die, then the Sun blows up and swallows its first 4 planets. I mean, if you're going to mope like a child, don't be a p**** about it.

I believe they actually converted opportunities in this last series at a moderate clip. Bases loaded with one out would result in a run, when they couldn't do that earlier in the year. They just pressed and choked in an elimination game. But again, talking about whether 2039 SoxTalk will still be ruminating over 21 strikeouts, or a fun team, I couldn't tell you what the shortcomings of the '77 team were without looking it up. But I can tell you about Zisk, Gamble, and Eric Soderholm.

The '77 South Side Hit Men was such a crazy great summer. I was 13, and it was the first time in my Sox-rooting life (2nd, really after 1972) that it felt like I was watching a real baseball team. I'm surprised every time I look it up to find they finished in 3rd place, 12 games out. The electricity of that summer always feels like they finished closer to the top, in retrospect. The final 3 games will be a blip. Hopefully, drowned out by greater successes.

I think that after crawling from the wreckage of the 2024 season, it's pretty amazing to consider that two years later, we're looking at a young core with playoff experience that is only going to improve. I believe there's 5 solid positional starters (Teel, Meidroth, Vargas, Ant-man, Peters), and 3 guys who need anywhere from tinkering to an overhaul of their approach (Monty, Braden, Mune). We have a bevy of #4-5 starters. Maybe they trade from Monty, Braden, Quero to get someone who can throw 5 innings in a playoff game. Tremendously fun season, and the front office gives me confidence they'll address the shortcomings that were exposed in the last 3 games.

I think they'll be remembered as a very fun team in a growth year who ran out of gas at the end and pressed.

I don't think Bonemer breaks camp with the team just yet. Baldwin is insurance in case they want Braden to spend a month at Charlotte honing his approach.

No, I'm not saying they're bench players. They're backup options to whatever they leave camp with, like Ant-man and BM were this season.

Boston Smith would sure make the OF/DH sitch a lot more interesting heading into 2027. Bonemer and Brooks Baldwin look like next year's big backups.

Brooks Baldwin will be back, and Caleb Bonemer is in the queue. Nick McLain was also drafted to move quickly. I'd think BM has to show some growth in the first month of the season, or he's going to get his trip to Arizona.

Coming out of the season with a pretty solid positional player core in Teel, Droth, Vargs, Ant-man and Peters. Colson, Braden and Mune need a new approach. Nice bullpen, and they have about 10 starters to work with behind Burke. Sucks they lost like this. It could be a great building block.

I like the song, but It Might Get Loud - when they're talking about Jimmy Page's creations, then have to talk about how Jack White conceived Seven Nation Army. Sad.

#2. Glorified .500 team. I want to call them inconsistent, but they never won more than 5 in a row or lost more than 4 in a row.

Alexander Canario wasn't available.

Most teams don't do well vs. good pitching. You can coach these guys all you want. When they're in the box, can't tell what's coming, and swing at a pitch at their eyes, that's not coaching.

I agree with all of this. I don't know if a lockout affects this, but January's International class will be David Keller's first fully recruited signing class. It would be nice to see the system get a jolt from that department.

2030. You piled on, also. I've challenged everyone here to tell me about how they asked to be fired when their boss was fired because they were also "heavily involved" in their boss's ineptitude. Nobody ever did. That's not a thing. Stop clowning yourself.

The fact that the White Sox are playing in game 5 of the ALDS says to me that Chris Getz should be given the Nobel Peace Prize, the Congressional Medal of Honor, 2 Emmies and his own franchise on the condition that he teach all the other teams how to be as great. Do I sound bitter? I haven't paid for a drink or sobered up since the regular season ended. Cub fans kidnap me and make me watch them burn all their Cub stuff because my happiness has converted them to being Sox fans. I try to walk 2 miles every day, but I can't go more than about 10 steps before I'm hoisted up on a mob's shoulders, and they carry me into another tavern. Crazy stuff.

Yes, that record keeps skipping back to me being right, incessantly. What opinion of mine is insane? That a GM who got a team to the playoffs 4 years ahead of schedule shouldn't be fired because one grump is sad? LOL. You should be sending Chris Getz flowers every day for giving you no reason to complain about anything. Randos in my neighborhood high five me on my evening walk every day because of my White Sox hat. It's glorious. North side. Edgewater. People just yelling out "Go Sox", happy as can be. But yeah, Chris Getz should be fired. Because he ruined something you set up and worked for. LOL.

Why don't you quote me? I said I wouldn't be surprised if this team won 82 games. They won 84. Last season, I picked a date about 5 weeks out, predicted their win-loss record, and nailed it. So it sounds like you hate when people are right. Which I am, often.

Of course it's "debatable" whether he's a bad GM or not. He completely rebuilt the organization in 2 years. They're in the playoffs a good 4 years before many here were assuring us they'd have losing records until. Your takes are like how I s%*# when I can't undo my belt fast enough. Seriously, find a trolling sensei. Your game sucks.