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Do the Astros really need to prepare for keuchel? If anything we should say we're pitching Dallas in hopes of the Astros throwing a party and getting too hammered.

I'm not sure what you're asking. They're going to prepare for the pitchers they're going to face. The order they face them is pretty meaningless. There are no games being played right now. The analysis of the data and information is being done for the series, not for the order the Sox chose to throw their guys. That's all I'm saying.

Regular season is over. Advance scouts scout based on all pitchers in a rotation. The scouting report on the guys the Sox are pitching is out. The order of which they pitch is entirely meaningless. The Sox aren't going to be throwing some unknown arm out there. The Astros aren't going to prepare differently for the series based on the order the White Sox decide to throw their pitchers. I've got no issue with LaRussa waiting - because who cares, honestly? - but playing this off as optimal strategy is comical. Nothing changes. The same guys are going to play. There are no secret weapons waiting in the wings that the Astros don't know about.

yeah, Houston has no idea what pitchers are going to throw. It's top secret. Heard Black Jack might be coming out of retirement. Serious question, do you think you go into the series differently as the Astros if Lynn goes game 1 instead of Giolito?

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Sox are the better team. Playing better baseball, with the better overall pitching staff. It's a short series so who knows what will happen, but I like our chances.

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Just gotta take a half day. In illinois you have to give full time employees a week of sick days now. You cannot demand a reason. Mental health days count. Take a mental health half day. Not required to give notice for that. I've got fake unlimited pto. I call it fake because unlimited pto makes employees take less time off than giving them a set amount of days. That said, I'll be using a day Friday on short notice and a leave/sign off early day on Thursday.

Working from home permanently has its perks. Thanks covid.

The dodgers won 106 games with the best run differential in baseball by far. Cards have worse run differential in baseball and had a flukey hot streak. Its not even close.

That's not how the calculation worked. It wasn't against what they replaced. It was projected war lost from injured players. Safe to say robert projection was too low but the rest were reasonable

I mean, there were multiple pieces written about lost WAR due to injuries this year. I think those pieces undersold the Sox a bit but the Sox weren't even in the top half of baseball in lost production. Yankees and Toronto lost more and won similar amount of games with a tougher schedule. Every team had bad injuries this year. This wasn't a white Sox problem. Sox rotation was, for the most part, really healthy.

Amazing people wanted Kimbrel to close over Hendriks. Hendriks is something special. Amazing. I don't love investing big in closers but man that was a great signing. He's just on another level.. he had some bad homer luck for a couple weeks but the guy doesn't give up base runners. Never walks anyone. He's everything you'd dream of with a reliever

Every. Team. Had. Big. Injuries.

YeH, I think the Sox are better than the Astros and I am like you, I really trust Lucas, but it id a shame we didn't get home field.

Yeah, Tony out there hitting bombs and making big plays. Irony of your tweet is Sox don't have home field because Tony decided to waste a month and countless games. Incredible skills for a 76 year old man.

What a game! Best game I've been to this year. Great to see Yo. Not even Dallas could blow this one.

But semien is a ss. He merely got moved to second because bichette was a young future piece for the jays. Semien is a good defensive SS.

No, my point was exactly as was stated today in the article. He would be relegated to a bench role after the acquisition. If not for injuries he would have been. Hosmer is terrible. I have no idea why you insist otherwise.

I would be absolutely floored if Bochy went to work under Preller.

Well, I didn't know that guys on the team would die. Article today in the Athletic basically said the plan was either to trade him or bench him but injuries pushed him back into the lineup. Congrats on predicting that!

lol, fair enough point and on that point i concur.

Did I miss where you said the most HR's in a season by a SS in the HOF?

This may be the first thread I've responded to anything you've said since around July or earlier. I know you like your hot takes to go free of any commentary, but sometimes they're just too hot to ignore.

The funniest aspect of this thread was you implying Manny Machado would go under Jose Abreu's wing if he were acquired by the White Sox.