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I would’ve just kept Wilson in. Two good pitches that were ‘beaten’ and then that Yandy thing was a foul ball. He looked fine.

This is kind of funny. I didn’t look at the box score, I just turned the game on and assumed we’d save him for the close. If he was used earlier, I imagine it’s Wilson. So who’s coming in next? It’s Gilbert. Was he gonna be the closer tonight? Or just left on left. Hmm

Did he already pitch? Who are they saving for the 9th?

The sweeper looks hot. Two good hits I think. Put the flamethrower in though who can definitely do 2 innings.

This is grant Taylor time. This is the two inning close.

Lol it really seems like that, he’s way better when stone isn’t around. The guy needs to retire.

See ya there…webcam via Las Vegas?

Oh, thanks. Turned it on in the 7th

What’s the deal with Tampa’s bullpen? The guy clearly didn’t have it, everything out of the zone or hangers, yet he threw like 30 pitches and blew the lead for a team that might make the playoffs. do they want altavilla?

We’re being outSoxed. I’m sad that I didn’t watch all those games where we scored a million runs, but this is a great game.

Soxtalk: why didn’t Colson make that an inside the park home run?

This guy is in trouble. Try throwing it overhand, pal.

Personally I think his arm is “good enough” for short. His range and positioning has been top notch all year. But he looks way more natural at 2b. Maybe that kid we just drafted is the shortstop of the future. ‘70 grade’ glove has me excited.

Great play. great duck, Jordan.

If caminero doesn’t score here, leasure is a very lucky man. That single should’ve sent him home.

Love the little league field. Longest single in existence.

They’re paying for two semi-pricy vets who have combined produced less war this season than Vargas has. To be fair, Kopech doesn’t play, but we kind of knew that. But I can’t believe they gave 30-year-old, oft-injured Edman, the benentindi special, a $75mil contract. He’s in his “prime” and is a sub-.700 ops hitter. He’s a very expensive utilityman. I’d rather have Vargas and Houser or Shane Smith or, like, 1000 other pitchers, before Kopech and Edman I think. The Dodgers make a ton of dumb decisions but bandaid it with an unlimited budget. How are they not far and away the best baseball team this season? If I were a fan of them, I’d be embarrassed. Especially about their pitching staff. Aren’t they about to try out Nastrini? Couldn’t they have just gotten Houser for nothing? I think it sucks that Fedde was DFA’d but our fan base definitely overrated the guy. We could still be watching the Vargas of last year and the logical perspective would probably be “garbage in, garbage out”; luckily Vargas is pretty good and is under contract for many more years. Makes a ton of sense for him to come back here, but we’re not paying his salary.

slow-witted. somebody explain the logic to me: you hate watching this team but post about them on the forum every day. stockholm syndrome? I prefer forum-posting to TV-watching personally. Like, bud, watch something else. there's 1000 channels.

I dunno, bro, who cares? I probably could've made that point in fewer words. edit: also thought only Bernie was 'once again' asking me to do stuff. Ocasio-Cortez should try that same bit.

Called it!

Billy Carlson is probably the pick I would've wanted (sans Kruz Schoolschaft with his 8000 grade name), are we pleased with this? Love that they took a glove-first high schooler. Probably regret not taking Konnor Griffin.

Ok so prove it then, Tony. Write a thoughtful post, "global moderator", not one line of s%*# talk. Set the tone for your website. David Stearns v Chris Getz is a genuine line of discussion and this is your response. Thinking people might find it interesting. Illiterate perspective and surprising.

Whiny post. Frankly, I might just wait longer than a week or a month before making an assessment. Or, well, if I'm going to make an assessment about something I have no way of predicting, I might just say, "don't worry, it'll be OK, things generally work out in the end". Because they typically do. And if it doesn't work out in this ball game we watch on TV, aw shucks, who cares? Are our friends over at Orioles Talk on suicide watch this season? Is the Dodgers fan a happier and more fulfilled person than the White Sox fan is? I think she might be, but I bet that has a lot to do with the climate and sunshine and good food rather than baseball. I think the Chicago sports fan has a better sense of self-respect than the Californian does. Hardened by the cold. All our teams are bad and have been for a decade, despite a storied history of success and being in large part a 'sports town'. There isn't a whole lot to root for outside of sports either, on the news it's just another school closing or a shooting or an ICE raid or the Obama library and what else is going on in the City? Do you notice how the flag is permanently at half-mast now? The Chicago sports fan looks internally for his happiness perhaps because the world is not always such a happy place. Maybe the Sox fan takes some delight in Lenyn Sosa checking up his swing on a pitch 10 feet off the plate because it might indicate, "I want to do better and impress the fans" even if the end result is a weak groundout to first base. I've said before, I like watching a 'rebuilding' team in any sport because maybe these guys will turn into something and maybe they won't and it's fun to guess at who will succeed; and you hope it's all the players but maybe you hope a little more it's the ones you form some para-social attachment to watching them play for years at various stages in their career (like everyone did with Burger, like I want for Sosa). It's even more fun when some nobody like Brooks Baldwin or Tim Elko makes a little noise, guys we never had expectations for. Now we fans evidently have expectations for them and I'm sure they are relishing the opportunity and are hoping not to disappoint. Lucky us as spectators if they don't disappoint. "Montgomery got promoted somehow" is the annoying remark in this post that prompted the response and generally punctuates the 'whiner' ethos of the post. It's disrespectful, so what if he can't hear you and reply back to you. Post it on twitter and he might. He's had 2 or 3 bad games in a row and is still nearly double the OPS of Jac Caglianone, he's somehow produced 1.5 more WAR than this guy we 'needed' to draft, and nobody is questioning how the Royals called him up too early after proving nothing (try to find one article or forum post about it anywhere on the web). What about Nolan Schanuel, a guy who I think sort of comped to Montgomery prior to Monty's ascendance through the prospect rankings? The Angels "rush" guys, but they also draft "ready" players, and what more could they accomplish in the minors? I wonder what you thought Montgomery had left to 'work on' at AAA. You know he can still go back, right? I don't know why some (many) fans so are perturbed to see a guy finally make it to the Majors. It's a positive moment and he didn't let us, the fans, down. Pitching is adjusting to him and now he needs to make an adjustment back. He's getting out on offspeed stuff when the criticism against him was that he couldn't hit velocity...which is still questionable, but it's been like 30 plate appearances. His first hit was a triple and some were mad he didn't turn it into a home run. Colson getting out on changeups seems like a 'good' problem for him. I would chill out. I can't be the only person who thought things were 100 times more "bleak" in 2022 than they are today. Yeah that team was .500, but it was the beginning of the end. That's a team that is about to descend into darkness rather than one that might come out of it; which one is genuinely more fun to watch and write about on the internet? The average known commodity or the potential diamond in the rough? Maybe fans are annoyed we hired Getz instead of something else, but I'd simply ask: what would wunderkind David Stearns have done differently with the Sox? Why are the Mets in second place in their division despite having an unlimited payroll, the lure of New York and supposedly the most 'brilliant' GM in sports? Is David Stearns better at running a baseball team than Chris Getz is? Prove it.

nasty pitch, disgusting swing

I think he's good at his current job but his voice is a little grating to me. He sounds like if the Marlboro Man decided he was a Valley Girl. Which is an awesome plot for either a John Waters movie or a cigarette advertisement, but that's beside the point, somebody give the guy a cough drop and maybe make him cognizant of the vocal fry. I was wondering where Schriffen was. I think it's funny that Benetti would take the day off to go work his second job as Sunday night NFL broadcaster whereas Schriffen is playing hooky to go moonlight at the NBA summer league, must-see TV. I assumed he was "sick" (hungover) and getting an early start on his vacation. That would've been awesome. I guess Schriff gets to be in Vegas and he seems like a gambling addict, so maybe he picked this assignment specifically.