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I love this graphic. Look at our stupid little paper airplane. I also find the Phillies one to be very satisfying.

In other words he’s ready.

Well they are definitely succeeding in not doing too much, so good job everyone. Can't imagine what could go wrong with an offense that consists of hitting singles the opposite way, followed by station to station baserunning because all of your players are either already slow or have been instructed to run slow so that their legs won't explode.

“It’s underway, I think it got stymied a little bit this offseason,” Hahn said of the long-term improvement and evolution he hopes to see in the team’s strength and conditioning efforts. “It doesn’t mean we aren’t each day trying to answer that question in terms of what perhaps are we doing, if not appropriate, what can we do to help stem this tide on the fly. It’s going to be difficult in-season to perhaps change the results over the next few weeks and months in terms of health. It’s more something that you need to build over an extended period of time in a normal offseason, I think, in terms of building the proper foundation, so a guy is able to get through a seven-month season, ideally unscathed, there’s still going to be fluky things that happen.” https://theathletic.com/3375167/2022/06/21/white-sox-injuries/?redirected=1 Can't think of a better time than two years into your contention window to start working on building the proper foundation.

You might be waiting into the offseason. I'll be surprised if they have 7 or 8 of their projected starters available for even a short amount of time this year. I do admire your patience, though.

He already is GM

How the fuck is this team only a few games under 500?

I was thinking more the blue jays series. The tigers series is a distant memory at this point.

It was so damn predictable that once the bats came alive for a bit, the pitching fell apart. And now that the pitching looks good again, the bats go back to sleep. Just a pitiful team.

Welcome to being a Sox fan

Leury would’ve scored twice on that play

No way should he have sent him

But the easy schedule!

Honestly I’m off the fire Menechino thing. If he ends up being the scapegoat, fine, whatever. I’ll take a pulse over nothing. But with the way they seemed to turn a corner offensively the past couple weeks, this recent dud is 100% on the players IMO.

It’s too subjective. There’s no way to prove it, so it’s a completely meaningless thing for him to say and I’m sure he knows that.

It’d be nice if it actually mattered, but we all know it doesn’t. This is what we’re stuck with.

Being a fan of this team is just exhausting.

Yeah, I have a much better feeling about the underperforming players getting back/closer to their norms than I do about the health stuff.

Genuinely curious what your reasoning is for believing they get/stay healthy. Luck evening out? Gut feeling? Exercising more caution with rehab stints? It’s not exactly a hot take to assume they won’t get healthy.

This team is in a weird spot. They’re approaching a crossroads, but I fully expect them to just park the car in the middle of the intersection. I see the potential outcomes (in order from most to least desirable and, sadly, from least to most likely) as: 1) They find the dusty old book in the attic that contains the magic spell to make them healthy and good at baseball and they go on a tear 2) They fall far enough back in the standings to sell pieces or stand pat at the deadline, then go through a significant retooling in the offseason under a different GM 3) They continue to tread water, repeating phrases like “if we can get healthy,” while making some ill-advised trades that don’t move the needle one bit. Rinse, repeat, etc

Great catch by Gavin there

Orioles just completely outclassing the team with championship aspirations (lol). Good for them.

My goodness this roster sucks.

Leury and Sheets are back in the lineup so we’re back to this pitiful version of the team. And yes, I know they each have a hit. Let me have my snarky comment.