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And... second time through we get the Banuelos we all know and love.

Yolmer hit that pretty well. Carrasco doesn't have his usual stuff today. That is for certain.

I don't know... Ramirez will get going and that could be big for them. A deal in July for another bat. Next thing you know, the lineup is fine.

I would say the jury is still out. They are very capable of having a torrid June or July

Hell yeah Eloy. Get going kid! Let's knock Carrasco out of this one early

Smells like a loss to me. Would be pleasantly stunned if we found a way to steal this. Lindor and Santana locked and loaded on FanDuel. Hope they don't see a single hit... but I doubt it.

Agreed, he's 33 and he's clinging to what may or may not be left of his prime. Every year that goes by means a lot to a pitcher like Gio. I would be pretty surprised if he wanted to come here and waste one of those valuable few seasons for the sake of a rebuild. We could have offered him a million dollars more than Milwaukee and he still may have gone there.

This team might finish THIRTY games below? Simply because we don't have every single, solitary hole filled with an ideal piece to contend with? Come on... We're not a winning roster, but we ARE absolutely a competitive one. No one looks at the White Sox on the schedule at this point and goes "there's three games that we can just show up for". Look around at the other teams with our record. They have the same kind of problems that we do. 26-29 is just about right. This is not a 66-96 team.

Yeah, I'm surprised he even made his way back into the rotation after the recent injury. Nova/Covey are just "regular" bad. He's been bad at an inexcusable pace. You can't keep trotting him out there every 5 days.

So, we're 26-29 as we round out May and only 2.5 GB of the 2nd AL wild card spot. Mostly thanks to Boston's World Series hangover to this point. After sweeping Kansas City, we continue along a somewhat cozy stretch on our schedule. We'll host Cleveland (28-27) for 4 games in Chicago. We will then head to Washington (24-32) for 2 games. Before going to Kansas City (18-37) for a three game series before we come back home to host Washington and see the Nationals for 2 more. That's an 11 game stretch that we could seemingly take advantage of. 7-4 would get us back to .500 at 33-33. What say you? I think if we can just manage a split with Cleveland, we'll get it done. The problem being that Banuelos, Covey and Nova will start the first three games of the series. Giolito throws the fourth... so... that's the one you expect to win (still feels weird saying stuff like that). So, we'll need to find a way to beat Carrasco, Bauer or Rodriguez with at least one of our three guys. Which, to say the least, is not an inspiring prospect. I have no faith that any of those guys do anything besides blow up the game before it even gets going. It really makes you wonder where this team would be, not only if they had a healthy Rodon/Kopech, but just if they didn't have a giant black hole enveloping the #3 to #5 spots in the rotation. It's tough to watch those games a lot of the time.

Alonso has been utterly horrific and every bit as bad as 2011 Dunn. However, the situation isn't NEARLY the disaster that the Dunn deal appeared to be. Alonso can be nothing but a memory in a little over a month if we want.

He still walks 5.4 batters per 9 innings. Same old Carson. Only difference in AAA is that he can throw it past guys to work out of his own jams. He K's 13 batters per 9 in Charlotte. He can't do that in the big leagues. Nothing has changed with who he is... and I see no reason to suspect that it will at this point. If he does become a valuable reliever, it will almost assuredly be elsewhere.

I turned off the game. When I first saw the score flash on my phone as "Final: 8-7"... I shit a brick before I saw that we were the team who put up 8. Thank god we didn't lose.

Except he was doing poorly and getting incredibly lucky before the 6th even started. Plus, he only had 88 pitches. I don't see where the protocol is to automatically pull a healthy pitcher at that point. Lopez should be able to navigate through an inning vs 5-6-7 in the lineup of a terrible baseball team.

12 hits, 2 walks and 5 ER (plus loads of hard contact) over 5.2 IP vs one of the worst teams in baseball? Zero stress free innings and a couple more runs saved by great defensive plays? "Wasn't terribly impressive" is sure a generous way to sum up Lopez tonight. I would be more inclined to throw some four letter words in there, but that's just me. lol

118 pitches when he was done at 90... good god. Why? Just... why?

I mean, he had 88 pitches after the 5th and was going to see 5-6-7. I understand that. It's more so just having the bullpen sitting around as spectators until the damn thing had already begun unraveling.

Yeah, no doubt on both of those points. The change was baffling lefties on a few occasions. Namely Gordon to end the 5th. Not sure if anyone else caught him shaking his head after whiffing at the 2nd pitching as if to say "yeah, that was nasty". lol His slider just kinda... spun... and didn't do anything. Command with his fastball was inconsistent.

Remember when Jace Fry was the new hot thing? I do. It was this time last year. Good times, good times.

Lopez was really bad tonight. He got hammered with hard hit balls in every single inning. Up until that home run I was sitting in awe of how he had managed to luck into a good outing. He probably should have surrendered 4-5 runs prior to this point. A good team would have certainly put his night to rest early on. He struck out 4 tonight, but my gosh... it felt like 80% of the batters he saw went to a two strike count and Lopez couldn't get a swing and miss. Many resulting in him losing the out entirely or hard contact. Maybe that's all in my head. I've been such a big fan of his going back to his time in Charlotte, but it's getting hard to keep the faith. I'm sorry...

It's wild to think about, but it's a valid thought at this point. If James McCann has actually figured this whole hitting thing out... that's one helluva unexpected development. Especially seeing as he's always been a stud behind the plate.

People need to stop with the reactionary nonsense. Yes, the Minnesota series was bad... but guess what? They're obliterating everyone. A couple days prior we were all jazzed up about how good we looked vs another elite team in Houston.

Curious if anyone has seen or heard anything official. My 4 FanDuel lineups hinge on Giolito and if the game begins before the 8:10 ET start that's on the schedule. They said you'll receive a fat zero for all players from that game and be locked in with them. Having a SP get an auto-zero is like throwing cash into a shredder. I see nothing on twitter from the usual suspects or the White Sox account.

Yeah, I can't even deal with this as a fan. I'm just going to pretend the White Sox don't exist for a while. Peace

Lol Please...