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30th win of the season !!

Im telling ya it's one of those blessings incognito cause it got JGon on the team and he ain't going back down.

3 games above for the 1st time !

Hell yes !!!!

Ok finally changed it.

Hey graphics guy I know it's called a ghost runner but Sox have a guy on 2nd.

That's what I thought.Hudson got all 3 hitters he faced out.

How does 1 run in this inning affect Hudson's ERA ?

I just watched a podcast where they were saying the same.

Hmm I must've missed them bringing up Wiki G.

It's means less but not nothing.Tou have to be doing something right be be leading the whole International League. Who knows maybe he does well and Mune comes back in a week and they end up keeping JGon around. It could end up being fortuitous.

No they can't but Gonzalez was really tearing up the last 2 games. Looks like 7 for 8 with 3 HRs and I think a 4th HR from that suspended game. Just not sure how many AB he got in that resumed game.

LFG u White Sox !

This ump needs to retire.

Really I read your response and it's just a response. I don't see any emotion in it. Maybe he's talking about his own hurt feelings. I sometimes think half the people have no idea what he's talking about..He's not very good at making any point. Not a very good writer or maybe impaired in some way.

Are you nuts ? Owners are the ones who decide what they do with their money not the GM. If he doesn't want his kids to inherit depth , that's it. Are you pretending JR can be convinced of so much more ? Let's live in reality. Getz understood the challenge he was facing as an opportunity to build something and he found a lot of guys who he hired who believed that too from the ground upon which the earth was scorched There might not be money for players but there is money to build a foundation and a culture .

Come on man , you 100% supported the Hahn/KW rebuild because they were mired in mediocrity in a stupid attempt by Hahn to compete with the Samardzija and Shield trades that jettisoned a lot of youth. Then oh that didn't work.., it's time to rebuild without the youth I traded away. Hahn and KW also started the process of this rebuild only JR finally understood maybe not to let the bozos who fucked it all up twice weren't the best choice to oversee a 2nd rebuild. JR is the big boss and he was just as much if not more to blame but he's not going to fire himself. Chris Getz was not the architect of the 3 straight 100 loss season.He was put in charge of the Titanic that had already hit the iceberg unlike his predecessor who drove the ship into the iceberg multiple times. You're projecting your hurt feelings about the 1st rebuild failing onto Getz. You were promised multiple parades by your savior and it hurt so so badly that you became bitter and now refuse to even think of those 3 season as the rebuilding process. Getz inherited a fucked up situation and because you feel his rank or track record in the destruction deserves just as much scorn as the true masters of that destruction you assign blame to him . But but JR told us there would be a quick turnaround. Sorry you feel like your idealism was ripped from your soul but it's just baseball.

Boom !

Exactly acquiring assets in the margins is something Getz has had to do . Acuna and Pauley are essentially like any other barrel bottom scraping Getz has been coerced into by JR. It's an essential part of any poor boy GM 's job while under a owner intent on his kids inheriting no debt when he departs this world.

Pretty funny I hadn't even read this post before I posted what I did right under it in response to it being such a great idea to just not pick up his option in the 1st place. In the midst of writing it I too realized hey didn't they actually not only get 2 players but didn't they save $2M ? How is not picking up the option in any way better than 2 players and profitting $2M ? We may not like Acuna but he is still a talented defensive player and extremely fast. If at some point he clears waivers and comes back to the Sox , those are talents that you can work with if you can find a way to get his bat going. Tall order but someone might see latent value in taking a chance on picking him up if he's DFA'd. But ,if not ,cool he's back in Charlotte.

I don't understand why it's such a great point. How exactly does doing that benefit the Sox in any way ? None that I can see except if you want to be a smartass and say we wouldn't have Acuna and Pauley. Any way you slice it getting 2 players (no matter how bad you think they are ) and also getting back the money is better than just saving the money in the 1st place. Don't you actually get $2M dollars more because instead of Getz buying him out the Mets covered the $2M buyout ? Great idea OK ? But you haven't bothered to explain how getting 2 players and the money is worse than just the money. Only 2 months separated the time between picking up the option and the trade.

It all depends on how persuasive Getz can be to convince JR that Beni is holding back the team and the Sox are a bat short and how much Getz and his hitting gurus believe JGon could actually be a missing link for DH and Inf. depth. He needs to paint a rollicking summer picture where the Sox are in contention for 1st in the central and the Sox and Murakami-sama are storming the gates of Valhalla along with all the benefits of that translating into the cha- ching of big crowds and rich sponsors and taking over the baseball headlines from the Cubs. So the question becomes is Getz fully committed to the Sox being a playoff team and think that Braden ,JGon, Teel, Peoples & whoever and a pitching staff held together by bailing wire can catapult the Sox into that unexpected rarified contender status without a guarantee JR is committed to spending a dime to add salary at the TDL. And that's assuming Getz may not want to trade any prospects now. After all JR is still the owner.He's not exactly known for overextending to finish off a rebuild especially if it means bidding on someone like Tarik Skubal yet alone heading into the unknown CBA situation of 2027. Also there's a Muni extension to be considered. That is extremely important to the future of the Sox. That's likely the most pressing thing on Getz agenda outside of his daily shenanigans. A 50 HR season makes it just that much harder for JR to keep him if that means a $200M+ payout at this stage of his ownership where his priorities are to his sons inherited wealth and not the White Sox.

It's almost like we're like the Dodgers without the playoffs or World Series or the huge payroll. That's my sarcastic way of saying we shouldn't be in any hurry to start trading what we deem as excess just yet. The stew needed to simmer . It's not like the Intl.signing period is providing any talent yet. Is there even 1 guy from that in our Top 30 ? Also JR is still owner and we have to account for the fact the Murakami may bolt for richer pastures. Ishbia isn't the owner yet.

No it didn't ,but it was, so that was the reality coming into 2026. Saying he didn't have to pick the option or saying he didn't trade him after 2023 is water under the bridge. I'm not dealing with "what ifs". I'm talking about the reality of what actually happened . That's like that inning recently that the Sox had men on 1st and 2nd no outs and Hill up and the question was bunt or not bunt.I didn't want them to bunt but once they did I liked the immediate single that drove in 2 runs and posted hey it turned out good .But Ray Ray asked me what was good about it. I said 2 runs right away. Ray says but it could been a big inning cause they got some hits after. That's a "what if". He don't know how that inning turns out if Hill doesn't bunt and neither do I but I'll take the 2 runs in reality rather than the "what if" of a K and a DP or Ray's dream of Hill and bottom of the order continuing to single the Twins into a big inning. Anyway... Most here actually wanted him to pick up the option hoping he could establish some value. I can't remember my stance on it. A lot of people also thought Robert was worth more than that return or the Sox just should have kept him .Yuck. I was happy to be rid of him finally. It dragged on way too long. I do know that when they traded Crochet a lot people thought Robert was as good as gone too TDL 2024 I think. I gave reasons why I didn't think Robert would be gone..Someone called me naive. Ive been around a long time and my specialty with the Sox is reading the tea leaves pretty accurately . No one is always right but my arguments are well thought out. I look at the big picture. Naive I am not so when Robert wasn't traded I let that guy know in no uncertain terms that I managed to be right while also not questioning his knowledge like he questioned mine. People don't like the s%*# they say being thrown back in their face. Too bad so sad. I'm not here to take anyone's s%*#. No disrespect to you of course . You're pretty fair minded . Peace🖖