Danny Dravot

I was driving while listening to that and it was the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Ricky should be fired for even saying it.

Also, I LOVED the Madrigal pick, but that was based on his contact tool plus his D plus his speed plus his baseball IQ. Looks like only one of those really applies. Give him more time, but if he’s a one tool player, the long term solution at 2B lies elsewhere. And Keuchel has been our best pitcher this year. Sucks that he didn’t have it today, but this is still a great signing that will pan out in the long run and in the playoffs for years to come. Stupid to say otherwise.

Man, I really wanted to avoid Dunning and Cease. Who are we going to face? Fiers? Or Manaea?

Honestly, with the righty going and García coming off injury and McCann looking pretty bad of late, I think it should go- Anderson 6 Moncada 5 Grandal 2 Abreu 3 Jimenez DH Robert 8 Engel 7 Mazara 9 Madrigal 4

I couldn’t comment during the game yesterday, but I didn’t understand all the ranting about the announcers. To be fair, I usually tune out all commentators, but I appreciated Jessica talking about Giolito’s mechanical adjustments. The home run calls were a bit boring, but at least I didn’t have to put up with Jason’s Cheeseball Comedy Tour. Oh, but in-game interviews are awful and should be made extinct.

On A’s message boards, their big argument before yesterday was that all the lefties we have faced weren’t very good. They ignored our abuse of some solid LHP relievers, as well as the fact that Jon Lester had a solid season if you leave out his 15 ER allowed in 7.1 IP against us. Also, I suppose that now means Jesus Luzardo isn’t very good. Anyways, since this is how those guys like to approach it, I suppose someone should point out that Chris Bassitt didn’t pitch against a team with a winning record this year. If Shane Bieber can get wrecked, so can this shit-talking scrub. Let’s. Fucking. Go.

I bumped into him on campus (at a school neither in MN or IL) the day after the sweep. He was wearing a Twins hat, and I said, “Oh I’m a White Sox fan. Uh...congrats, I guess.” He goes, “HAHA SUCK IT BUDDY!” and walks off. Never saw him again. Who’s sucking it now, buddy?

This is my favorite streak in sports. A Twins fan laughed in my face when they swept us in late 2008. I’ve gotten over a lot of things in my life, but I remember that. Fuck that guy. I hope this thing lasts another fifty years.

Lazy throw by Polanco sinks them. Amazing. I thought Dusty Baker must be nuts to put Valdez in for Greinke after four and let him see it through all the way to the end, but it worked. I don’t want to see them succeed, really. Just want them to keep the Twins’ streak alive so they can get trounced by us. Also, if that happens, who gets home field? They are the higher seed but didn’t even have a winning record.

Bassitt’s been good in his 60 IP this year, but he’s actually a scrub. Keuchel is a proven playoff stud. I feel good.

We’ve now won 13 playoff games since the Twins won their last (0-17).

Ricky would never have them watch tape. Honestly, I can’t believe he didn’t pinch hit for Mazara with McCann sitting right there in front of him. He’s an idiot.

Where do you see that we’re getting Manaea? It looks like Bassitt is lined up to start game 1 for them.

Ricky is such a fucking piece of shit. If God (or Allah or a damn genie or what have you) appeared to me and said Ricky would never manage a White Sox game again but we would lose 110 games next year and all of our current prospects/rookies would flop, I would take that deal without blinking. He sucks that much. Wanted to test Rodon, let our most obvious platoon player hit against his weakness in the final AB of the regular season, he doesn’t care about winning. Let him go collect a paycheck selling cheese doodles to fans of the Tijuana League. And take Nomar, and Edwin, and ReyLo, and Cordero with him. Oh he couldn’t live without his useless fucking Jimmy. No sirree.

We need to cut bait on him in the off season. He’s an absolute fucking loser. You can see it on his face every time he gets obliterated. No clue why it’s happening, just a passive observer of events.

Timmy will be fine, but I really thought he had a small shot to go 26 for 55 or whatever it was and hit .400. If anyone could have done it, it was him. Thought the batting title was a lock. He went 6 for 46 instead.

Nah. We don’t get Cleveland or New York. Although if we get the Twins, it’s going to be at Target Field. Yuck.

At least we’re not the Phillies. Everything they need is happening, but they’re getting shut down by a Rays team that is entirely focused on Tuesday. Looks like they’ll be sitting out.

Blue Jays just went down by 2, meaning if all current scores hold, we get the Yanks, so... C’mon Blue Jays! Don’t you want a date with us?!

Yeah it’s too awful to think about. I can’t. Prayers for the family and just do my little coggish part (very small cog in a very large wheel) to get water to everybody else.

Emergency management at a state level. A child recently died in my state from brain eating amoeba in the local water supply, so we’re handling the distribution of bottled water to entire town. That’s a recent development though- for the last six months we’ve been coordinating COVID response. It’s interesting, but it’s a 24/7 thing.

Honestly, after the Twins series and even after the Reds series, I would have expected us to compete as well as anyone else. And as much as anyone else, I would have expected them to have a chance at all of it (a better chance than the dregs of the playoffs, for sure). But now? We are the dregs. We are the easy opponent everyone else is salivating for. If we can punch someone in the mouth for their excitement, that’d be great but I don’t anticipate it. Also, with the expanded playoffs, it would have been nice to win the division and claim a “legit” playoff spot. I suppose we’re still the fourth or fifth wildcard team, but...meh.

Appreciate it, but it’s alright. It’s insanely slow so I was just hoping for some exciting relief. That is not at all what I got.

I sat at my desk at work all morning waiting for this moment and forty minutes into it, I was forced to turn it off and go back to staring at my inbox. Genuinely, fuck you, ReyLo.

Because this team can’t do anything even slightly unconventional. Ricky’s a moron? B-b-but he’s the manager. Nomar’s a starter, even if he sucks. Edwin’s got to get his ABs even if he is clearly on his last legs. Engel’s playing well? Nope- he’s still a bench player unless someone gets hurt. Team management by formula. Performance and results means nothing to this franchise.