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This quote stuck out to me too. I've been racking my brain, who's actually playing better? Is it Jake Burger or Tim Anderson? Giolito or Hendricks? Abreu? Fat Lynn has a sub-6 ERA so I guess that's a step in the right direction. Cease has rebounded from last season but his ERA is still over a point higher than it was in 2022. Reynaldo Lopez is the only guy I can think of who's actually doing better, but one wonders how long that'll last. If you go back far enough, maybe Marcus Semien, but that's probably more to do with the team giving up on a 23-year-old for immediate "success". Basically I don't think there's anything to read into here. Players picked bad teams that are often in the news for being bad or having a lot of rules, what a concept.

uh oh, don't the White Sox know he needs to throw a perfect game at BHam before he's ready? Then pitch another 300 innings against 35-year-old washouts in Charlotte? Poor Drew Thorpe, his career is over before it got a chance to begin.

Henry is fucking things up on two continents! Reinsdorf wishes!

I dunno why people upload these videos of themselves and post it on youtube or twitter or whatever. Have they never heard of a message board (ie soxtalk)? Or are they illiterate? I think it's both, sometimes I think I'm reading dumb comments on message boards, then I remember that the majority of Chicago sports fans never actually learned how to read or write.

I like how the Red Sox announcer was talking about what a terrible organization this is (on that Crochet move to first), then the terrible organization he works for loses two in a row to that garbage team. Hilarious. He knows who his boss is, right? He knows about his other sports-related endeavors, right? That his boss is just about the only guy worse than Reinsdorf? What an asshole. I hope the Red Sox never make the playoffs again, somehow that team is even more unlikeable than the Yankees are.

DeLoach is kind of a troll. I love it. First that flyout he refused to get out of the way of, now that calling of a timeout with 1 second on the pitch clock, causing Bello to kick the ball and maybe eventually give up 5 runs, that's going to happen soon, right? That Oscar/Deloach flyball reminds me of last season. Luis would call off the other outfielders every single time he had a slight chance of catching the ball; and his teammates were never happy about it, especially Oscar. Big Boy Colas gets the start in CF, so he's going to emulate the bad habits of LuBoba last year and DeLoach apparently wasn't happy about it. I guess if the CF calls for it, you should back off, but Colas is such a moron and not a CF that I'm not sure I'd let him call me off either. I wish Colas had an IQ above 70, he might be a good player. Sheets grand slam, DeJong will hit a home run later apparently, Kopech will maintain his 10 BB/9 rate, good game, time to go dig some holes.

Much better booth interview today than either Buehrle or the Bolingbrook gymnast. Some kind soul has donated millions of dollars to Sox charities and it's going toward pancreatic cancer research and caring for patients with terminal diagnoses. A really awful disease, chances are we all know somebody who has fought this. At least this organization can do a little bit of good.

Now the guy whose legs got blown up is telling the Sox about what it's like to face adversity. Incredible. Not a great analogy, John. OK I'll stop.

I'm hours behind as per usual, but this is the funniest fucking graphic I've ever seen. Have to give credit to the intern that dug through a bunch of pointless team stats to find one that makes our hitters look like they're not historically garbage. I think tomorrow it will be "WRC+ on 3-0 counts when a position player is pitching". This one seems specifically for Vaughn, that's the only pitch he can actually hit.

ez win. why don't they just hit home runs more often? are they stupid?

don't worry, I fast forwarded to watch Danny Mendick to pitch.

I thought it was sad when Danny Mendick produced a ground ball and the Sox turned two and the camera panned to some kids in the crowd who were genuinely happy about what they just saw.

he's going to learn that eventually you have to face the big boys and they're better at baseball than the guys in AA. why do the conditions have to be ideal, I thought he was supposed to be a touted prospect. seriously, what is Thorpe learning at AA? how is he getting better at baseball by pitching 6 shutout innings every 5 days against guys he's way better than? what's he going to learn at AAA that he won't learn in the Majors? Is it a service time manipulation thing? I'm willing to bet he doesn't stop at AAA and that he's "ready" for major league baseball. as ready as Jackson Holliday or Jonathan Cannon or anyone else. once again, you don't have to keep him up and he doesn't immediately become a terrible baseball player because you call him up before some arbitrary time where people on the internet determine he's "ready". Call him up and if he's bad, put him back in AAA. what a concept.

I agree and speculate that Sergio Santos gets the interim tag

Every player must be "rushed", huh. More like he's 23 and has a 1 ERA at Birmingham. There's nothing left for him to do there. There's a flip side to being "rushed" and that's getting into bad habits against hitters you overmatch. I swear people act like getting called up to the Majors and seeing what you're capable of is a death sentence for a player.

Just get rid of the old bums and see what Berroa and co can do the rest of the way. Call up Thorpe already, what's he still doing down there. If any of our relief pitchers are considered useful, trade them. Would've been nice to win these easily winnable games but they seem like the sort of losses that spark movement on a new coaching staff.

Yes. I bet you Sammy Sosa wouldn't get recognized. Ernie Banks' ghost might be mistaken for an usher.

he's a pitiable person more than anything else I think. I don't think he's an asshole, he's just slow. I want him to be fired but I also want to tell him "cheer up, champ".

this is so funny. I want to feel sorry for him but I just can't.

I don't think it's that odd that Wrigley people wouldn't recognize a Hall of Famer.

we still lost the game though. why? they just had the day off and those are the guys in the bullpen you go to? an actual chance to win and you don't use your high leverage relievers in high leverage situations?

so I've started the game back up and Lenyn Sosa just hit a home run to make it 5-0. I hearken back to my previous point about touching up Imanaga. It didn't have anything to do with the White Sox, it has to do with him. I bet we still lose this game though.

I haven't even started yet, that's what innings 3 through 9 are for.

all according to plan, the bottom of the order is gonna get to him. what's a 1 ERA to heart, hustle and muscle?

That's wild. I think his gross baseball earnings are like $70k and now he's banned for $700 worth of bets. I thought he had more value than to simply be DFA'd, but this might explain something. Tinfoil hat on: Oscar Colas is next.