JoeC

I really like @77 Hitmen's view, and I eco his sentiments - there's no one thing that makes the park bad, but it's the absence of a gazillion small things that makes the park "bleh" compared to so many others around the league.

Futuristic.

My biggest complaint with Comerica is how shallow the lower bowl is. As soon as one person stands up, the entire f'ing bowl needs to stand up. It's really annoying. The fact that it's one of the centerpieces of a revitalized downtown entertainment district is a big source of pride - not just for the pictures, but also for the city itself.

You missed the part of the Soxtalk manual where you have to double down and then cash in when he hits a small slump

Wonder if Fuller is working with him.

I don't follow betting odds that closely, but before the season started, I didn't think that Vegas considered the possibility of the Sox needing a closer.

I'm actually not entirely doom-and-gloom about the future of this team (2~3 years from now), based on this core. Not nearly the hopes that I had going into 2019~2020, but definitely a "get a couple of these guys to click, a reclamation project to work out, and we're in the thick of it" situation. Let's not mortgage what decent future we have by "going for" 63 wins.

Did we send over more cash considerations??

Supposedly officially happening: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/07/white-sox-trade-austin-slater-yankees.html

No. Maybe @ptatc has a different opinion, but if you’re forcing guys to pitch through fatigue, you’re asking for mechanical breakdowns and inefficiencies, and you start to ramp up your risk of injury due to poor mechanics and weakened support structures.

Back on topic now. Would burning a hot dog actually produce white smoke? Like, fully incinerating one.

And we have the one owner whose track record would even dispute that "except Michael Jordan" part, if it were happening in the 2020's.

Finally, a good return on a trade.

Facts.

Would be great to have team ownership stock options as a form of athlete compensation.

I don’t remember Harold Baines doing anything like Teel did for his first homer. What a selfish prick. </sarc>

Any tweets, credible or otherwise, from various stadium concession related item accounts?

Thank you for this post and giving me more insight into the art of pitching. This right here, as an engineer and former athlete, is why I'm falling more and more in love with baseball as I age, in spite of the Sox's best efforts.

Poor guy.

With Robert having two $20M options (i think), the Sox having ridiculously low payroll obligations, and Ishbia money coming in soon, is there a scenario where the Sox pick up his first option before a trade, then throw in the money to essentially turn it into a cheap 1-year deal with an option for the receiving team?

I will preface this post by saying that I am in no position to disagree with anything you’ve said above. For curveballs, would tunneling matter all that much? Meaning, if the pitch looks that vastly different out of the hand, does it force the hitter to essentially have to completely adjust their estimated trajectory and timing? Or is there an alternative pitch tunneling combination? I’m thinking of Gio’s short-lived-patented “high change.”

Probably flushing something.

I was commenting on the re-naming of Andrew Vaughn to Aaron Vaughn. ...but yes, I do sort of agree that Vaughn is helping Robert's trade value.

I have to ask about Aaron Vaughn... I can only imagine it's Andrew Vaughn's newly adopted persona, channeling his inner Hank Aaron while slugging it out in Milwaukee.

Diminished Skills?