Chimpton

Haha, there are many people in the UK who dismiss baseball as rounders but I was hooked after seeing the White Sox live when I was 12 and we went on a family holiday to America, starting in Chicago.

I live just South of London, I know that is miles from Liverpool but I started supporting them when I was 5! The disappointments just made it all the better when we finally won the league after a 30 year wait in 2020.

As a Brit on here I know that in football (soccer) fans of unsuccessful teams always blame the manager and/or the owners as well, but there have been too many examples of 'careful what you wish for' when it comes to new owners. As a Liverpool fan we were bought by two Americans in Hicks and Gillette who far from moving Liverpool onwards and upwards nearly bankrupted the club. It was only when FSG (I know not popular with White Sox fans as rival owners) took over that things began to improve and a winning team returned. Has the same happened in baseball or other US sports? I suppose I am just saying that a change of owner isn't always a magic bullet that brings a change in fortune.

But actually those 6 players have barely been on the field together this season due to injuries. Is as much of the problem the batting order as opposed to the individual players? Abreu followed by Grandal in the order is not ideal. And does TLR move Robert around too much? He is the crown jewel in this team, surely you find the best spot for him and fit the others around him.

So he has rebuilt well but then you say the rest of his tenure has been bad, are you talking about before the rebuild?

Hahn has provided most of the parts necessary for a successful team during the rebuild, he has not managed them, so sacking him at this point would be harsh in my opinion. TLR was brought in (by Jerry) to win postseason games, so far he has shown no more ability to do that than Ricky R.

Oh I agree, it seemed strange and unnecessary at the time and looked worse as the season went on and last night well that just took the biscuit!

What do people think will it be: A) a glorious 3-2 comeback win for the Sox B) 3-2 Astros after the Sox win both their home games. C) 3-1 Astros Or D) a 3-0 sweep?

Hindsight is a beautiful country! But yes it does look dumber now than it did at the time!

Well at least it was nice spending the season talking about the post season, just a pity that it is unlikely to go beyond 3 games in 4 days. ?

Nah, just lulling them into a false sense of security!

And to think I got my hopes up in the top of the innings. I should have known better.

That's what I like, never satisfied! ?

They are just waiting for us to load the bases first to really get us excited then hit a DP.

I won't get too excited at a leadoff hit with the Sox ability to hit double plays or find bizarre ways to get out

Will we manage a base runner this innings or a quick 1,2,3 innings?

At this rate Kimbrel and Hendricks won't be needed all series.

What a f@cking joke

Relax? They need to f**king wake up and start to do the basics.

This is another hard watch. I have a worrying feeling we may have seen the only Sox run of the game!

If we played like game 1 at home we would have still lost

Hopefully the Sox will wake up before this series is over, the game 1 performance was like game 1 of Spring Training not the post season. Some of the at bats today were simply awful.

With the state of our bats yesterday he will still get a loss even if he limits them to 1 run ☹️

If we are mentioning bad trades the Jeff Samardzija trade that gave away Semien was the one I remember!

The analysis is looking at the players in the current squad of players, not every trade done by Hahn, every club makes bad trades but all I am saying is that in assembling this team that has made the post season back to back for the first time ever Hahn has done a good job on the free agents and trades. As for the trades being a 'net loss' that is what I meant when I said stats can be used to prove anything, as most of those trades were of MLB talent like Sale for prospects then the WAR would be a net loss initially but I am sure that even you would admit that Cease and Eloy for Quintana has been a good trade no matter what the current WAR net exchange looks like. Even the Sale trade, whilst looking one sided looking at the WAR that is because Kopech is not yet at his full potential and Moncada may yet develop the talent that is undoubtedly there even further if his bat can return to 2019 levels to go along with his improved defence.