vilehoopster

Sheet can NOT be on the Sox next year. This from a former Sheets fan. He give the Sox nothing.

Did the baseball gods look down on this game and get the teams and uniforms mixed up. How is this possible?? The bullpen throws five shutout innings AND/ ALSO the Sox score four runs in the nine inning. IN THE SAME GAME??? That's what's been happening to the Sox all year!!!!

Anybody else expecting Crochet to get hit hard again tonight. I think he has pretty much entered the Luis Robert I-couldn't-care-less phase of his season. And like Robert, he doesn't care who knows. I could be wrong, but . . . doubt it.

Really?? You can't keep him in there to try and so he can try to get one more out to give him a chance to get a major league win over the Yankees. I would be more okay with it if you were removing him for a real pitcher, but you're taking him out with two outs in the 5th to bring in Touki? I don't get that.

All these complaints about trading Mena for Fletcher, and how terrible that trade was. There were just so many on here that these complaints were being accepted as fact. Well . . . Fletcher seems to be hitting with playing time. Also he plays good defense and has a very good arm. I can remember a couple of very nice assists from earlier in the year, seems he has a very good arm. Mena has an MLB ERA of 12.00. Maybe Fletcher has a better arm than Mena.

Wow, I hadn't heard/ read that he said this. In a way, this statement reinforces my opinion of him being a head case that can never be fixed. It makes me feel more confident of my prediction that he'll blow up on them when they need him (again, like Lynn).

On the topic of Kopech being good/ great for the Dodgers. Well, the Dodgers were extremely happy to have Lance Lynn right after they traded for him from the Sox. But they weren't too happy when he gave up four home runs(five if you count the one that was barely foul) in a row to the Diamondback in the playoffs. Make no mistake, Kopech has an outing or two like that in him, a total head case. Sure he's great while everything is going smoothly for the Dodgers, but put a little heat/ pressure on Kopech and he will again have a 4-run 9th. He is who he is; you can't fix a head case.

I think this is the truth of things with the Sox now. How many Sox players do you think were VERY disappointed not be be traded at the deadline. I would guess it's, at least, five or six.

I still don't get how St. Louis got Fedde and Pham and basically gave up nothing. For both the Sox and the Dodgers, this makes no sense. Even if you buy it as a salary dump by the Sox, the Dodgers got nothing also. I don't get it.

It's a non-issue. This board is really incredible these days. And I certainly get it: the team is so terrible to watch that you just want to be angry and complain, and rant and rant and rant some more. But this board just looks and works so hard for things to complain about, just the dumbest stuff, and bitching about a 1st year announcer's call, to the point of we're now up to three pages, just really shows the extent to which people want to complain; again, even on the dumbest of things.

All the Sox starters have to deal with it, but Flexen has been screwed over by our bullpen far and away more than any other starter. And it never seems to take very long, like last night for example. He leaves with a 5 to 2 lead, and before the bullpen can even get two outs, it's a tied game, and before the inning is over, Sox are down. When Flexen left, Stoney said it, something like, "Flexen got 18 outs and hands over a 3 run lead. All this bullpen has to do is get 9 more outs." The Sox bullpen couldn't even get TWO more outs and keep the lead. Just incredible how terrible this bullpen is. Seriously, it's hard to believe that the guys down in single A could be worse.

Also, I never understood all this "Pham is gone by the trade deadline" stuff. No one except the desperate Sox wanted to sign him as a free agent. Why would anyone trade for him now?

I know this is true for the entire season, but that's two series in a row, where if our bullpen was only bad, we would have won both series.

Could we pleeeeeeeease DFA Kopech and Maldanado. Please!!!! Give the team some kind of positive feel as the all-star game approaches. For the fans that are left, all 20 or so of us.

I would have been glad to be wrong, but Kopech proves that Ozzie is a complete idiot, and Pedro too. How could either one of those two possibly think that Kopech, with what he's done ALL year, would hold this lead? I just don't understand anyone thinking that he wouldn't blow that lead.

Any credibility that Ozzie ever had is gone, gone. His chanting for Kopech to come in is ridiculous. How can he even think that?

Wow, how quickly this happened, sooo quickly. Am I correct, wasn't it two years ago he was the starting short stop for the AL all-star game? Or three years ago? Can we please, please, please follow this lead and DFA Maldanado? I did say please. Why are we keeping him?

A umpire really loses credibility with a call like that. He's two feet away from it. How did he not know that was a foul ball.

If the Sox bullpen was only very bad, the Sox would have 5 or 6 wins so far this year.

Sorry I couldn't remember your name and called you Hibiscus. But it good to see you showed up and joined the other two. "I really love the White Sox and want them to be the best at something… even if that means being the best at losing this year. ?"

Or here's a crazy thought: you root for the Sox to win because you enjoy watching the Sox win games. And hope that management doesn't trade away all the good players so they can continue to have a solid chance to win.

That out at 3rd was an example of how this year's team is different from last year's team. No way last year's team would have gotten that out. Either Grandal would have been asleep and not seen it. Or whoever was the pitcher would have not have stepped off the mound correctly and quickly enough. Or the 3rd basemen, Yoan or whover, would not have been there or been able to make the catch and tag Somewhere along the way, something would have broken down last year, probably in a couple places.

Yes, he was being one, wasn't he? Now all he has to do is post about 15 negative comments on this thread alone, and he'll be up there with you.

Wow, what a surprise that Lipman and and 2023 would disagree with greg775's optimism or any sort of optimistic outlook. I really am shocked. Of course they both want all the good players, or even anyone close, traded away so they can continue to be a total dump fest on the Sox this year. Pretty soon hibiscus will join them and we'll have all three of three of them trashing the Sox. Maybe we'll be lucky and one of them will go with the poop emoji again. I know I can't wait. But back on greg's post: All of a sudden, with this starting staff, I think .500 or close is very possible. That's kind of the point of my post yesterday about how I feel more confident about beating Houston now than that playoff team in 2021. (But I realize Houston is down now, too.) Now two huge ifs with that. 1) Key people can't get hurt, especially pitchers, and . . . We can NOT, not, not trade away of our good players, especially our excellent young pitchers; but really, Sox can't afford to trade anyone of value and expect to chase .500 the rest of the way, the talent on this team is too, too thin. I agree with what someone (was it greg) said yesterday: if we keep this starting pitching, get some decent relievers, and a couple bats; Sox can go .500 next year and try to win the division. Sorry big three complainers, I have to try to counterbalance your pessimism.

Does anybody agree with this thought? With tonight's lineup (probably as good as we can do) and the way Houston is somewhat struggling/ underachieving at this time, if the Sox threw the right pitcher (Crochet or Fedde), I think the Sox have a better chance of winning down in Houston now, than they did in the playoffs three years ago. Three years ago, we didn't have a starter during the playoffs who was pitching close to as well as Fedde and Crochet are throwing right now. And just my memory of those playoffs, but I just felt the Sox were completely overmatched during that series, even at the Rate, that the odds of they winning any of those games just seemed very small. Yes, they did win one game, but had to score 12 runs to do it. It's kind of a statement about how important starting pitching really is. Even as terrible as this present Sox team is, with the right starters (as opposed to what the Sox had in the playoffs three years ago), it just seems they have a better chance to win down there now, then the playoff team of three years ago.