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  1. 8 minutes ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said:

    When the same person talks up a good game, preaches playing smart and hard, and completely gets the opposite results? No, not being to hard. Pedro doesn't have what it takes to be a major league manager. I'd be shocked if we ever see him manage a team again after his Sox tenure eventually ends.

    Has to be like working for Dwight Schrute.

  2. 3 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

    Why don't you "talk to me" once you start being right about anything? All I've heard all spring was that this pitching staff will "blow". They blew, alright. They blew pitches by Detroit hitters all day. I tried to warn y'all to not get your hopes up regular bullpen melt-downs. Now you have to keep your therapist on retainer because you can't crow about that. 

    I guess you'll have to cheer yourself up tonight by watching some Twitter car crash video account. 

    I'm optimistic several pitchers will do well, especially under Bannister's tutelage. And not to take away anything from Crochet's outstanding performance, or the other pitchers beyond Kopech's shaky command.

    But let's also be measured in that it was cold today, you had shadows with the late start and the Tigers were 28th last year in runs scored with 661, or 20 runs ahead of 29th place White Sox (the Oakland AAA's in last).

    Hoping Crochet can stay healthy and sustain effective 80 + pitch outings for as long as feasible / possible without risking injury. Today will certainly help his confidence in terms of completing 6 and pitching really well with great command.

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  3. 48 minutes ago, ron883 said:

    What's a manager supposed to do when he inherits a garbage team with a broken culture? He can't make the players good. He says unrealistic things, but that's part of the job. He can't just say "we suck and won't win anything."

     

    It's too hard to judge a manager when the talent is piss poor. Let's give Grif a chance with at least SOME talent before we judge him to harshly. When that will be, I don't know. 

     

  4. 8 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

    Will they feel better when Grifol is fired and replaced with LaRussa?

    Pritzker will sign a bill demanding the Sox move to Nashville by December 31st if that happens.

    Still feel he is both running the show and fixin' to get back to crack the 3,000 win mark. Will take two to three more years (he'll need 116 more wins), and be 82 when he does it if they slot him in for Saturday's game.

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  5. 21 minutes ago, greg775 said:

    I would praise incessantly and be willing to send 10 bucks cash tip at the end of the season for anybody in soxtalk willing to count the actual fans at our games this year. It would be neat to get an actual attendance count. Not to be a jerk but I could envision under 1,000 fans being at a lot of our games. They'll never list a crowd under 15,000 on the official box. Think about it. Southsiders aren't dumb. They are not gonna show just to get a delicious corned beef sandwich. The amount of fans there will be count-able. Surely somebody in the age of analytics would tackle this challenge for us fans.

    I like going to day games in nice weather, avoid crowds.

    Here are a few photos from last season in said situations in 2023 and 2019, the last two seasons I went to the park (not including 2020 Spring Training).

    Game One DH 9/12/23 - There were less than 100 for most of this game.

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    Game Two DH 9/12/23 - Several Hundred to start game 2 at the regularly scheduled time.

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    Friday September 27, 2019 - 4 PM - About 100 fans.

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  6. 3 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

    Holy f*** this is almost verbatim what the Hahn Defense Force would say in his defense. Guess what, if he doesn't think his bosses are any good or are hamstringing him -- he's free to go work somewhere else.

    Jerry's not going to let him quit, not even on his deathbed. He made Kenny sit here with no chance at a President job for years, Hahn was rumored to want to quit as well.

    Jerry loves keeping under his thumb on the planation, be it FO, players, jabbing Minor League players and keeping them in slum conditions eating 7/11, etc.

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  7. 19 minutes ago, whitesoxfan99 said:

    I’ve been calling for moving Crochet to the starting rotation for years but crowing about one good start against a trash offense is also pretty funny.  Hopefully he stays healthy because he’s the only good arm the Sox have in the rotation. 

    I think Soroka and or Fedde can possibly pitch well, my question with them is can either break 100 IP, and will they keep having to burn through prospects early like Nastrini (4 AAA starts) to just make it through the season.

    They really should sign 1 or preferably 2 guys like Cueto, Hill, a few others, just to get 100 + innings in.

    Seems like they went very light on the pitching depth, and very heavy fretting about a dozen horseshit guys (pretty much every position player) that they continue to add (Grossman).

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