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I’ve muted Hawk and Jason when over the air broadcasts were a thing, either played radio audio or music. I liked Hawk’s support of the White Sox players, and both seem to be nice people, but I couldn’t adapt to their broadcasts (Hawk’s incessant whining over umpiring and Jason’s buffoonery and shouting on calls like it’s a Human Cockfighting or Wrestling Death / Cage Match). Stone is a good analyst, and it’s good he dropped the Twitter trolling of fans, who have enough pain and suffering supporting this team. I’ve always enjoyed the Sox radio teams over the years, and also Vin Scully, Ernie Harwell and Harry Kallas over terrestrial or MLB.com radio feeds. Harry and Jimmy were my favorite pairing, the best mix of honesty and entertainment.

Disabled means someone with restricted abilities, either long term or permanent. Injured denotes an injury an athlete is expected to recover from over time and possibly physical therapy. Incapable describes one’s limitations or talent, such as Grandal’s inability to catch breaking balls, or Madrigal’s inability to make smart baseball decisions at any facet of the game. The word Eloy is an amalgamation of all three words.

I agree, and not even because of Hahn and Co.'s incompetence of sifting through and obtaining the best players, but rather to maximize money off the books. I expect Lucas coupled with a Grandal or another cost they want off the books that no team would accept without the Lucas sweetener. I expect them to keep Robert and Cease not because they actually intend on competing over the rest of their contracts but rather to have something to sell fans for 2024 ticket sales which will drop even further than this year with even the casual fan realizing Rick Con has not and cannot put together a quality team. They will say they are confident in their prospect return, like the Cubs did when they traded Darvish for nominal prospects, but in reality I wouldn't expect much back unless they surprise me and trade guys and eat their 2023 / beyond contract money for max prospect value. Hell, I expect Jerry to throw in International Slot money now that they can again.

Allegedly Eloy was available off the bench tonight, but hard to believe after they used everyone else and he would have been a good PH option if available. Hopefully he is healthy enough to DH in NY. https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/white-soxs-eloy-jimenez-available-off-bench/

If 4 + pitchers are shipped, then I really hope they trade / release Grandal and Andrus, let rookies / young players play regularly. Pitchers are a different story, they just need to patch together 8-9 innings a night. Sox can save bullpen arms by losing regularly on the road.

Nice Game Thread run @flavum! Hope they can continue to play hard and make games interesting, at least until the trade deadline, perhaps beyond if they don't ship many out.

Lucas' first cost the Sox tonight, but it was nice to see them battle back. They were playing corpse ball between July 2021 - ASB 2023.

Oh Baby!

Living the Vida Lopez! 35 pitches, 5 batters LMAO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p47fEXGabaY/

Don't want to risk injury, but Cease is a better hitter than a few on the team, wouldn't mind see him pinch hit in the 9th. Fear injury from Cease less than Eloy, just have him be cautious running.

Remillard has played 19 games in RF his entire life (13 starts college/minors/majors) until last week. Looks worse than Sheets out there (about Jake Lamb equivalent). Andrus would have batted for Colas and Perez for Zavala, then Perez stays in and Sheets goes to RF, leaving no bench since Eloy is crippled. At least you have Zavala catching still, Perez is still a work in process. If Haseley were up, he could have hit. I would have been fine having Colas hit as well.

This is where not having a bench hurts the team. And Sheets is going in anyway for Perez, but couldn't bat for Zavala because he doesn't hit against LHP. They need to send Eloy to the IL and bring up an adequate OFer.

Nice night and hustle by Tim, broke up the out / double play. Reached all four times. Looks motivated.

Not tonight. Giolito 3 2/3 IP 8 ER Banks 1/3 IP 2 ER Shaw 2 IP 1 ER (scored off of Banks).

Brian Shaw gets at least one more week plus per diem in The Show after that performance. I can see him sticking the rest of the season after the trade deadline deals.

We had whiffle ball seasons in my backyard as a kid longer than the faux 102 game owner lockout scam.

Tim reached all three times tonight, 6 for 14 to start the second half. Nice to see.

Brian Shaw LMAO.

Making a bloated by greed 12 team playoffs (4 of every 10 teams) is a garbage metric, especially when they have advanced three times in six generations, only one of which anyone on Earth can remember (1906, 1917 and 2005). Americans 6 1/2 years old or older (all women) to possibly remember the 1917 World Series. Edie Ceccarelli (Born February 5, 1908) Elizabeth Francis (Born July 25, 1909) Pearl Berg (Born October 1, 1909) Naomi Whitehead (Born September 26, 1910) Louise Levy (Born November 1, 1910) Clarabell Demers (Born November 3, 1910) Herida Senhouse (Born February 28, 1911) Lillian Moran (Born May 1, 1911)

Sox need to comeback to avoid losing ground to both Cleveland (up 8-0) and Detroit (2-0 at KC), with the Twins in Seattle.

They are the oldest team across The MLB (Age 31.2 entering 2023), and it shows. Can't build a winning team that way, need a mix of veterans and solid young players.