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Man the bats were out tonight. I feel sorry for you guys that don't enjoy every aspect of Abreu. The man is a fricking stud, one of my favorite Sox ever. I'll be so pissed if we trade him at any point. Eloy baby is coming. Even Alonso seems to at least help us be competitive against Cleveland which is nice since we play them so many fricking times. Our pitching blows but nice to see the team hit well at the Cell again. Renteria may stink on decision making in games and lineups, but in the big picture, the team must really like playing for him. This team has overachieved so much this year under Rick. GO SOX!

An interesting question as the team ponders hitting .500 is the question, "Can a team improve its roster much during the season without getting ripped off in trades?" It's obvious as this team stands, the White Sox have overachieved big time and if things stay the way they are, the team ultimately will finish 20 or so under .500 and as one of the worst teams in the league. However ... the team also has a handful of the best players in the game. They are Moncada, Tim, Abreu, Eloy, Gio and Colome. You might want to throw a hot McCann in there. So ... after releasing Alonso you bring up Palka and make him full time DH and hope for the best there. However you need two starting pitchers, a setup reliever and you need an Avi Garcia type of bat for the outfield. You need a lot of help on the mound. So you gamble and bring up Cease, acquire a veteran stud starter and those two relievers and you might make the playoffs. Of course Manny or Harper would have really helped the cause. So what do you say? Can you improve during the course of a season without getting ripped off in trades or not? Do you stand pat, feel good about the highlights and go ahead and let it play out and ultimately finish 20-30 below or make some deals? (The only argument I'll accept other than my questions is ... are so many teams tanking that the Sox as they stand actually are better than the other tank teams and as a process of elimination can keep this type of record all year?). I'm sure you all agree with me as it stands our roster is not what would be deemed a winning roster.

True, that I haven't been a fan of many many of our acquisitions. They just seem to sign guys that don't excite me AT ALL. Yes almost every signing has angered me. John Jay, Beef, even McCann (who I think I may be wrong about), Soria, other relievers. That would change if they signed somebody I liked. For instance remember all the rumors of Markakis being a Sox? I always wanted him. I did want Harper, not so much Manny.

If u stop calling him Rey-Lo he might get good again I prefer some other nickname. Lucas is an all star, folks.

Glad to beat those bastards. Any win over KC pleases greg. We have a lot of making up to do from past seasons. I hope we beat them like a drum all season. Good job, Sox.

Avi hustling his ass around the bases tonight. .284, 10 HR, 23 RBI. Guess Greg is not a bad judge of talent after all. It is simply a disgrace that Avi Garcia is not patrolling RF for the Sox this season. And yes his bat would have helped this lineup. Ridiculous that fans despised him so. On a team with so many busts, Avi was the least of our problems. Hail Avi Baby!!

It depends on the player. If he's Avi Garcia we judge him early, when we want to, and we deem him disposable. If he's one of the beloved guys who are supposed to be the cornerstone or even roster pieces of the rebuild, we give them all the time in the world. Mr. Rutherford, Madrigal, Collins, Soto (is he still with the Sox), please take all the time u need.

12th round draft pick; is Seby any good?

Cleveland has yet to win it all and they did the tank thing. Minnie might yet get hot in the postseason.

Some Sox fans are always going to be happy because they love the modern era of tank/rebuild and they love the draft. Case closed IMO. In the past I've maintained we "might" have been just as good keeping Q and Sale and Eaton and spending some big bucks to pull a repeat of 05. Caveat: I have the belief we won all 3 trades and they are fine. I just don't see this tank/rebuild thing working better than my way. Remember, our division SUCKS. It doesn't take much to start winning it.

Madrigal's twin brother is a pitcher at St. Marys. I would draft him. One of the two is bound to work out. Odds, baby; odds.

When I was a kid, my grandpa took me to a ton of Cubs games because the family consisted mostly of Sox fans and nobody else would go with him. At the exact same time, we had Sox season tix so my dad took me to a ton of Sox games. I'm not sure how this happened, but even though I thoroughly enjoyed going to both, I only cared about the Sox. Attending Cub games was fun enough, watching MLB and being in an MLB ballpark and enjoying my grandfather buying me stuff. I only cared about the Sox results however. I pretended for him to want the Cubs to win but didn't really care. My poor grandfather. Once we moved to the suburbs (he moved there also as his wife died) he was surrounded by Sox fans and I got older and went to Sox games with my own friends. Poor gramps. I shoulda kept going to some Cub games with him, but kids can be kinda selfish. Young and dumb.

What I mean by meaningless is we're playing for nothing in terms of possible postseason. To have that be the case in late May is very very sad. I realize Eloy, Yoan, Timmy and Gio have to continue to develop but frankly nobody else need bother. Even Abreu ... I'm getting a sneaky feeling Sox aren't gonna pay him nuff and he'll be dealt, too. I'm thankful I was busy this weekend and didn't get to see any of that series. I despise Minnie and that would have been bad for my demeanor.

Good point Jack. I agree with your three.

Shows you how much we'd overachieved the first six weeks. The losses are gonna be coming fast and furious in June and July and August. Season already is over except for meaningless at bats for our younger hitters and meaningless innings for our pitchers.

To those who live in Chicago ... are people embracing the tank? Are the Sox generating any buzz in the local sports scene? Are they relegated to 10 seconds on the sportscasts or popular? Has the team finally become an afterthought, almost like a minor league team compared to the Cubs?

I want to sit next to you when I come in for a couple games this summer. You are my kind of fan. I endorse this post 1000 percent! Thank u sir.

The "wait til next year" mantra grows old. Never thought I'd be of a fan of the team that every May can have customers utter, "Wait til next year." Of course I'm not talking about you, you are going the 2022 route. I wish it was like the old days when attendance mattered to the bottom line. Sox could not afford to do this b.s. tank crap in the past. Attendance would have been under 10,000 per game and the team would have had to move.

Rebuilding on the fly is the job of a GOOD front office.

Hmmm how did this happen? I can't find the post to copy and paste, but somebody on here said the Sox roster in 2019 compared favorably to Minnesota's. I guess Minnie knows how to do the tank/rebuild dance better than the White Sox. BTW, greg predicts a fight in the Royals series. There were some hit batsmen vs. KC earlier and all they care about is beating/fighting the Sox. We.Shall.See.

That's exactly what they should have done! Those were 3 damn fine trades. That's ALL Hahn and Kenny have done well. They can trade. But we have to embrace the tank until it's deemed that wave of players we got are "ready."

I forgot some teams acquire temporary free agents with the idea of winning. We add Alonso, Jay, that pitcher we've already cut in order to feed the tank.

Won/loss record is meaningless in the advanced stat era, sir.

Smartest move ever! Unless u just wanted to enjoy the nightlife.

Wowsie. That was a statement series if there ever was one. Let the tank season commence. Typical Sox, out of it just as the kids get out of school. Not that that's my concern. Hopefully crowd numbers will be so miniscule all season. We overachieved for a good while. Hope Ricky and Hahn can motivate the young stars of the future to work on their games despite being out of the race very early again.