Look at Ray Ray Run

Thank god leury garcia is coming up instead of luis robert here

HoW WiLl LuCaS pitch WiThOuT McCaNN

Who doubted roberts skills?

Yes, let's take the best defensive center fielder in baseball out of the game and make him DH. In game threads already in prime form,

Play ball. Here's to a fun season. Let's get that MVP TA7!

? what

Hader throwing 100 MPH now with that rise on his fastball. LIterally unfair. He was untouchable at 95-96. He's never thrown anywhere near this hard consistently. He's had peaks. See if it holds.

Saturday is a righty. And I will be real fired up if vaughn is only facing lefties. Would make zero sense to have him in the team opening day if that's the case.

This is absolutely the correct call, and I know lineups and managers mean next to nothing as I've argued for years butttt the one good thing about the sox hiring la russa for me is I will now irrationally blame him for all all white sox failures this year. I do think vaughn should be in the lineup but in 1 game it likely means pretty much zero.

I thought so too but then I read fathom point and now I'm not sure. His makes sense too. Leury is a bad defensive outfielder. If you were gonna try vaughn out there how was the time, not when engel is back, imo,

Idk. No idea what he meant by that. So does that mean zack starts vs the righty on Saturday and Vaughn back to the bench lol. My lord.

Why does Zack have to miss three days. I'm very very confused. No one asked a follow up to this?

Lol what 12 hours can do to an old man.

So many days off early in the season and with weather I dont get it. Not like some part time players are gonna get in a rhythm because of it. At the end of the day the lineup doesn't mean much obviously but its just such a disappointing opening day lineup for an all in year. Sheesh.

And la russa said he's gonna try to get everyone on the roster some games and abs in first for games. Cant wait to see Jake lamb! Lol this old crotchety dope.

Vaughn, the too good to not make the team, lefty specialist.

Why do you post here, read all my posts, and comment on them if it's all meaningless? Seems like quite the waste of time for you there champ.

Yes, it's brilliant to have a guy on the team because he's so good you can't play service time games with him and risk losing games because of his lost value.... only to sit that player on the bench opening day. Brilliant stuff.

And now Andrew vaughn is not starting opening day. The idiocy of Tony la russa has already begun.

No one is policing anything. I'm literally giving my opinion on the topic same as I do in other threads I respond too. He keeps making the same thread because he's tired of people responding with their thoughts? Weird stuff. Also I'm not killing anyone's optimism and I'm as excited as anyone here for baseball to start. I played the game for 19 years, 21 if we count touching a bat at 3 months lol, and play in about 20 fantasy leagues, maintain my own data and statistics, and overall love baseball. Tim anderson is my favorite player since Joe crede, if not ever, and I'm as big of an Andrew vaughn Stan as you'll find. That doesn't mean I'm going to only reap praise on the team even when there are concerns. Either way, once tomorrow comes all of this goes away. It's time to play ball.

No, and again I've posted plenty of excited/optimistic thoughts, this off season and before. I'm just not going to call the white sox the on-paper preseason cream of the crop in the AL. They COULD have been, but they didn't invest the necessary resources. And again, last year when the season actually happened I was constantly berated for being optimistic and enthusiastic and I don't recall once you coming into a thread to defend my optimism in the face of constant negativity. Weird. This implication that my thoughts are constantly negative couldn't be more nonsensical but it all revolves around the idea that posters should post what you want them too.

I do find it ironic that last year I was blasted for not being overly negative and accused of being rick hahn, his son, Don Cooper, and Ricky renteria. Then this year I'm now "too" negative for being upset that the Sox leadership didn't fulfill their promises to the fan base that was ever so patient. When the games start, results are driven by players (not coaches or GMs.) In the off season its the front office and coaches job to give those players the best resources and chances to maximize their outcomes and abilities. The White Sox did not do that this off season or last after promising to do exactly that. That's the problem. If this forum is supposed to only consist of eternal optimism, sans any rational critique then carry on.

But the same positive threads over and over again that call out anyone who thinks something not positive, enticing a response, are somehow fine. Good stuff as always, Kyle. Calling it Hypocritical would be putting your stance lightly.

Hmmm who is more likely to fill their holes by acquiring quality players via money at the deadline. The team that's done it every year for 4 decades or the team who has the 15th ranked payroll in baseball during an all-in year?

How was he burned? Top free agents are not the same as bottom. No one gets burned waiting out the bottom of the market. Again with this nonsense that people expect management and ownership to do what they said they would after 4 years of tanking are some how trolls. I guess you expected a payroll lower than 2006 while they're all-in after years of not spending a dime on the on the field product. The only trolls are the people like you who think viable criticism is somehow not allowed and all we can do is praise a team and management group that has accomplished nothing. The cubs weren't getting into a bidding war over Joc Pederson. Bottom freee agents don't cause bidding wars. Nothing you said makes any sense. The la russa hiring was shit - both process and outcome wise. Nothing will change that. How can you say no one can critique hahns negotiating lol. Amazing nonsense in this post all around.