vilehoopster

Look at your last sentence, by that logic he never should be playing. Just like he’s not playing now for the Mets . . . . another injury keeping him from being effective. He learned from Moncada that a back injury is an excuse that lasts all year.

So you mean a batter’s follow-through where he releases the bat with his trailing hand and is holding it one handed was interpreted as swinging one handed and an underachieving athlete blamed his poor performance on an “undiagnosed” injury. And then Getz haters jumped on it and the lemmings now repeat it as fact. I got it.

Another falsehood repeated on here so often by the lemmings that it has become accepted fact.

Holy s%*#! Has the White Sox Buzzkill Army come out in this thread, or what? How can this not be seen as a necessary and good move. Baldwin got hurt; Hays is hurt; Kelenic ain’t doin’ it; Acuna is an automatic out. They need someone, a BODY. Bitching about dumpster diving is pointless. Getz is doing what he has to do to help the pay .500 ball in May . . . like they did in April. . . remember April. Another thing: can we stop with the calls to DFA Benintendi. The people on here wanting him DFAed are lemmings repeated what others say on here, just echoing off each other regardless of how silly it is. I understand you think he’s way overpaid; I get that, but don’t you guys get that the Sox would still have to pay him even after he is released? And it’s stupid to say/ imply that this Sox team would be better without Benintendi. After Mune and Colson, Beni and Vargas are their best bats. The team has really been playing well the last month and Benintendi is a major part of that success. Why would the Sox DFA a player (whom they’d have to pay anyway) who is helping them have their best results in four years, especially when most the bats in the outfield right now (see my 1st statement) are so weak. It makes no sense. That’s what’s so weird and off putting about the tone of this thread: looking at the 70% of the posts on this thread you’d think the White Sox were on their way to another 100 loss season, not about to move in contention for the Division lead. And Caulfield with his Tigers at 61.5% playoff odds . . . . by the two or three months, at least, that it takes for Skubal to return, they’re gonna be looking up at these White Sox.

Which song are you defending? Okay, I have to admit. That makes sense. The metaphor escaped me.

White Sox had Canning on the ropes twice and let him off with boneheaded moves on the bases. I have to go after you on this song choice. With the exception of Beatles “Yellow Submarine”, this might be the worst song ever by a great group.

Most would know that SD starting pitcher was more lucky.

Can Acuna be sent to the minors to work on his swing/ bat? He hit .234 last year. Looking at his at bats/ swings, .234 doesn’t seem possible.

Been so good and smart this series, but between Kelenic and Peters swinging at those last two pitches, really acting like the ‘24 White Sox. And of course, we immediately pay for wasting that chance.

Our new power bat.

Nice to see SD return the overly aggressive favor.

Not in love with the “we’re gonna be aggressive on the bases Sox”. Mune and Colson throw out stealing. Antonicci there. We’re being stupid here, not aggressive.

Someone said this before the 1st game of this series: they said the Sox lineup looks better than the SD lineup. I thought that also, as I looked up and down the two lineups, and really, I think the Sox lineup being superior has somewhat been proven true. So, though I’m not in love with Kay, I’m gonna say the same thing I said when it was Davis Martin vs. Soriano of the Angels when everyone was worried about Soriano’s unhittable stats. I think the better White Sox lineup will be more successful against Canning than SD’s lineup will be against Kay. The big concern is can that lead be big enough by bullpen time, so that SD’s great bullpen won’t be a factor. SD’s bullpen hasn’t mattered in the last two games. Let’s keep it that way and get out our brooms.

I’m not kidding. If I was Getz I’d be on a plane to NYC. I would them to show me what they are seeing, because this is bullshit.

Getz better be talking to the league about these NYC reviews. That’s 3 reviews in a row, everyone very, very questionable (Mune at home, Mune steal, and Vargas there was safe) that all went against the Sox.

Was anyone else afraid he would get thrown out. We want Sam in this lineup.

White Sox are hot; let’s play a game. Had a day game Wednesday; off yesterday; now they don’t play until 9:40 (my time) Eastern. It seems like we’ve sat through the all-star break since last they played.

Now that’s funny. Wow, is that a reach back.

This does make me like him a little more. Of course if he was a much better bat but had a shitty walk-up song, I’d like him a lot more.

Who? Are we back talking about Robert?

Well, if that is the correct interpretation of that rule, then the next time a runner completely blasts into the catcher and destroys him, that has to be perfectly okay because the runner has NO other option to get to the plate.

Let me get some optimism going here: I understand Soriano has been really outstanding, really outstanding; but he has to come back down to earth sooner or later. It might as well be sooner and be tonight. Plus, we’re throwing Martin. I feel the Sox lineup is every bit as likely to score on Soriano, as the Angels are likely to score on Martin. It’s a toss up game to me.

I understand your questioning Acuna, but really, you can’t see any reason why the Sox would want to get at bats for the Beni we’ve been seeing the last week or so? You don’t think we should be getting him at bats?

Someone already said this but I have to agree. Vargas’s hustle in backing up Antonacci’s missed dive probably saved the game from going into extra innings. Very few 3rd basemen would have had the awareness and athletic ability to get there so quickly. An outstanding play. Stoney talks all the time about his high baseball IQ. People who want to dismiss his importance to this team don’t understand baseball.

This didn’t age well.