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I feel like the thread title needs a question mark on it, lol. the epitome of the phrase “a win is a win”.

Just turned on the game, as I work in a secure area and can’t watch afternoon games on weekdays. Thanks Cubs. Frustrating game, but at least our uniforms aren’t criminally ugly like the Cubs’ are.

It was a good post and is what it SHOULD mean. But does it? About 42 more hours to find out. I’m just not seeing where an improvement on Escobar is coming from, realistically. Prove me wrong!

Heh, fair. Shows what I know about how to leverage social media and the Internet.

I'm wondering why/how WhiteSoxFan1993 even noticed the tweet.

Ouch...this one hurts. With Escobar out there I still felt it could be a positive trade deadline. Now that seems unlikely. One thing no one seems to be talking about: Trevor Story has play all of zero of his nearly 6,000 MLB innings at 2B. Zero. We've seen a guy who's a positive defensively on the left side of the infield but a liability on the right. I get that the middle infield shares more similarities than 3B and 2B, but yikes...zero?! Are we even sure he can turn his head to the right on a double play?

I don't think it's that outlandish. Here's the positive spin from the Cubs POV: Not giving up anything other than a 33yo reliever having the best (or flukiest or luckiest) season of his career, who will walk at the end of the season because we're not going to pay him what someone else will after the flukiest or luckiest season of his career. We're buying low on a guy who at least has some control if we wanted to pay for it (we probably won't), but even if we don't, the low chance of a fun reclamation story and re-signing him at $2-3 million if we feel it's a good gamble (there's this guy Rodon on the other side of town), is worth giving up the 33yo reliever we won't retain who is having the flukiest or luckiest season of his career. Edit: Not commenting on the reliability...just that it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility for either side.

Straight up? Awesome.

I don’t think we’re getting more than a starting 2B and a solid 7th/8th inning reliever. And I’m getting nervous that the Sox won’t go out and get that done.

Eh, I also would have preferred Spiders. Would have kept the name a little more low-key, as baseball names have tended to be. I agree with a previous poster that Guardians evokes a space theme, based on the new Space Force and Guardians of the Galaxy. But it comes with some tie to the city. I don’t hate it. (As a child of the 90s, still hate the team. So many crushed dreams by those 95-99 Cleveland Indians-turned-Guardians teams.)

Fair take. But yeah, Collins and Zavala in the same lineup is something of an eyesore. No way around it.

I think heaven is watching Gavin Sheets walk off Jose Berrios on an endless loop for eternity. That was awesome. I am fully aware that both Sheets and Burger are a bit expendable and could be traded within the next 10 days. If it’s for the right return, I’ll get on board. But man, both have been such great pieces of this team so far!

Obviously he’s not going to leave tons of money on the table, but I can absolutely see Carlos giving the Sox a bit of a hometown discount given the faith they’ve put into him and how they’ve helped him reach his potential rather than giving up on him (as most/all of us did, admittedly). I’d put it at less than a 50% chance he returns to the Sox, but I don’t think the likelihood is negligible either.

I’ve been plugging Goodwin, but it still feels very strange to see him at cleanup. Would prefer Anderson, Goodwin, Moncada, Abreu in the top four spots. Other than that, it’s probably the best lineup TLR can run out there right now.

Ummm…the first sentence of my post that you quoted literally says that Hahn and his crew deserve a TON of credit. Reading comprehension, man.

Hahn and his crew get a TON of credit for putting together a team that could weather the injuries this team has experienced. But pull me a lineup from the last four weeks that any baseball fan, let alone analyst, would call “immensely talented” as of 1 April 2021 and you’ll either be lying or delusional. The win/loss record that TLR has been able to achieve with the talent he’s been given is remarkable. (The players themselves have of course been remarkable too, but you can’t discount TLR’s role of putting them in positions to succeed.)

I would nearly guarantee that nobody in the Sox FO has given any honest consideration to trading AV. That’s the stuff of Soxtalk, not reality.

From out of town? LOL. I’m FROM Chicago...been serving in the US military for more than a decade, so tough to get to games. Sorry about the game thread...not surprisingly, it has nothing to do with wins and losses. Sox win, go Sox.

Can’t believe Sheets is hitting ahead of Burger! When, not if, the Sox lose, this will be the sole source of failure. Burger 7, Sheets 8, or else!

I got so excited that I committed a faux pas by creating the game thread at 5:30am, then to learn that was not my prerogative. This will be my first game since summer 2016 after spending four of the last five seasons overseas. Go Sox!

Oops, sorry! Don’t pay enough attention to these conventions. Hope I didn’t just jinx my first game in five years!

Giolito vs. Eshelman and my first game since summer 2016 after being overseas 4 of the last 5 seasons. Can’t wait!

TA’s BA must be up nearly 20 points in 3-4 games...in July. That’s impressive.

He did it!

Anyone else just start having problems with Mlb.tv? All of a sudden blacked out for me in northern Virginia. Did the game just go on a national broadcast or something?