vilehoopster

Everyone saying Acuna and Benintendi should be DFAed, which I disagree with (but please I don’t want to start that debate now). But why is Hicks on this team?

A ton of truth here.

Will has to understand that Dominguez cannot pitch the 9th inning. He is a total choke artist. 1st two batters, he’s up 0 - 2. Then a guy beats out a weak grounder and he loses it. All of a sudden he can’t find the strike zone unless he groves it in. Even the 3rd out to Gonzalez was hit hard. Venable can’t do that cute stuff where Taylor faces the tough outs in the 8th and leaves Seranthony to come in for the bottom of the order in the 9th. Dominguez chokes too often, like today.

Potentially their worse series of the year. This is a terrible series to get swept. Terrible just terrible to choke two wins away, and the Sox did choke them away. Detroit was on the verge of giving up the season and breaking down their team, trading off assets. Now they’re gonna be fired up and make a charge for the division. If the Sox could have won 2 out of 3 (yesterday and today), Detroit would have been done. Now they’re gonna be in the hunt in September.

Would really, really, really like to get a couple insurance runs here.

Is it that their bullpen is throwing well, or more evidence that the Sox bats are really struggling now. I think it’s the struggling thing.

Come on Hudson, take care of business.

So, do we bring Martin back in the 7th for an out or two?

Oops!

I agree. That’s not a bad walk.

You know what? Their bats suck too. Martin shut them down for 6 more outs, then Hudson/ Taylor can do the rest for a 2 -1 win.

Good.

Where have you heard this?

Stone keeps telling us that Quero has hit his entire career, and therefore, he’s gonna hit again this year. But when?

So true. Teel can’t get here soon enough.

I got news for you. Their pitcher isn’t getting a lot of time to rest either. Martin is plowing thru ‘em.

I mentioned it in the thread for yesterday’s game. But there it clearly was again: Did you hear the F-word from Benintendi again.

Moving right along.

Well, this game is moving right along.

I feel like Martin, for today at least, is just like Sale or Quintana back when they pitched for those bad White Sox teams: he has to realize if he gives up 3 runs or more, it’s gonna be a loss due to lack of offense from the Sox. With Meidroth in a mini-slump, I feel that after Colson that the only other two bats in the order are Peters and Acuna. And I mean that. I feel, again right now, that Acuna is more of a threat with his bat than who the Sox have batting 4 thru 7. That is how bad we are slumping.

Here’s my complaint for the day: I’m fine with the Sox announcing team, whoever it is: Schriffen, Stone, Plesac, Gordon, whoever. I think complaining about who’s calling the game is silly. They’re all the same to me. But . . . I hate it when the offense is terrible and in a prolonged slump, like now; and the announcers try to gaslight us and try to make us viewers believe that each and every pitcher throwing for the opposing team is pitching like Cy Young today. It’s total and obvious gaslighting. It’s not that the Sox bats have been and continue to be terrible. They want us to believe that every pitcher for the other team really has their best stuff today and there’s nothing the White Sox hitters can do. It’s such an obvious lie, total gaslighting. It happened during the game today and they kept it up in the post game show.

Yes!!! 100% true. It’s a free 12 or 13 non-competitive outs of the 27 outs an opponent needs.

We NEED Teel and good Vargas so badly!

Oh, and Gonzalez is 0 for his last 20. This is barely a minor league lineup unless Vargas heats up.

Our offense is terrible right now. It was terrible last night. That was not good Skubal last night, and the Sox could do nothing against Tigers garbage bullpen. Vargas and Meidroth ( I know he’s not playing now) are in slumps. Whoever we have catching and B. Montgomery are not major league hitters. Our offense is bad now. I hope I’m wrong but I don’t see how we’re going to get 2 or 3 more runs. Maybe Antonacci get on and a Colson homer.