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my comment aged poorly. 2 for 2, 2 homers, 2 walks, 2 runs. Marlins sink to 0-8.

Hey the offense was good and the pitchers that blew it probably weren't joining the team anyway. Baltimore's AAA lineup is nutso though. 90% of that roster should be in the MLB, some of them should be playing for the White Sox

Reinsdorf's 'Stadium' network is already on a few streaming platforms. One thinks it becomes that much more desirable if it is the exclusive carrier of Chicago's non-ursine sports teams. I think the "network" had rights to some college sports and distributed it through Facebook. Something tells me we could be watching the White Sox on Twitch in a couple years.

Burger's transformation from slugger into BABIP merchant is interesting. He's batting .310 to start the season but only .667 OPS. No homers. In 291 plate appearances with the Marlins (including spring training), he's hit 11 home runs. Compare that to 323 plate appearances with the Sox last year and 25 home runs. I hope he can figure out how to hit for power and average at the same time.

Bold of you to think this listicle wasn't written by an AI. Actually, I'm sure it was. ESPN publishes a bunch of these 'lists' that involve the author doing a little bit of math and creating an index in order to arrive at the rankings. They're stupid rankings and another pointless iteration of a story we've read 1000 times (the Sox suck), yet something tells me the average ESPN writer isn't doing any amount of math and is instead asking his chatbot "create an index ranking how fun to watch the MLB teams are'.

I knew it could be done...win a major league baseball game.

ReyLo getting into trouble or triple play incoming?

Crochet is making some very good hitters look very silly.

that's White Sox baseball! oh wait, he's on the other team now?

The Sox retained the salaries of everyone else they traded, why would it be any different for Clev? $4mil in cash was not the difference between trading Clevinger or not.

Is he world class? Our new guy did games in Korea. That's a place in the world. I'm not convinced Jason has ever left the midwest. Jokes aside, who gives a s%*# if the guy who says "ball 1, strike 2" is world class. His job is, as I understand it, to be as un-annoying as possible and root on the home team. He didn't do either of those things particularly well. I don't care if he's good at talking about football on Fox, he was a dud with the Sox. He's a diva to boot, very egotistical. Ya know, the Bulls PBP guy is on a similar national/local deal as Benetti, he just doesn't go out of his way to publicly denigrate the organization he works for. Good riddance, I don't care if JR agrees with me, broken clock is right every so often, etc.

I'm still of the opinion that Hackenberg is going to be the starting catcher on this team. That guy is very good on both sides and still improving but nobody thinks of him as a proper prospect. Which I guess is to say I think this organization has enough catchers. Bart is an OK player but why is SFG DFAing him? Why can't he back up their young guy, Bailey? They couldn't trade him?

I think the players did that. Or maybe you credit Grifol for putting Shewmake in the lineup and keeping him there. The Leone decision was a head-scratcher to me, that situation had Kopech’s name written all over it. I think all I can assess Grifol on so far, from a fan’s perspective, is his bullpen decisions. I think that’s the difference between 1-2 and 0-3 and I wonder how that adds up across 162 games. I missed the end of today’s game so I didn’t watch Kopech pitch but I hope if they’re using him out of the bullpen, it’s in high leverage situations where he can maybe go multiple innings. This guy has incredible stuff and is used to a starter’s workload, give him a 2 or 3 inning close.

if he pitched yesterday we might've won a ball game. this series pisses me off. -3 run differential resulting in 3 losses, this is where the manager is supposed to help by making appropriate personnel decisions.

boy I think I could've hit that one for a home run.

100 million Dominican pesos = $1.6mil USD. That seems fair.

Maldonado's Curse. He only exists in baseball to stand in the way of young, talented catchers getting playing time.

Wow what a slide.

I wonder if we could've traded Vaughn for Eder instead. Burger had a big first series, .545 average, 1.175 OPS, 5 RBIs. (Tim looked OK too). Marlins infield defense is tragic though.

walked a guy, hit a guy, 5 runs later he's out of the game. you love to see it.

you beat me to the edit. "And the rest of us". At least 15,000 of those people got a sweatshirt.

The real loser of this game is Steve Stone.

Vaughn has made two great plays. Gold Glove campaign begins today. if he can't hit he might as well do something.

A lot of really good, out of character bats from Luis. How many pitches has he seen today? Is this his best game as a pro?

I love the idea of subbing out Maldonado right after he bats.