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If I may be an intermediary in the Peters discussion. I have not dove in his pedigree. All ballplayers have some degree of pedigree but so much growth has to happen to become a good major league hitter. Pedigree can work against you because you become less adaptable. Now a lot of that growth is being attributed to luck and when you read statistics it jumps out at you. What strikes me is that recent Fegan article where Venable defined the Sox hitting philosophy as selective hitting where you have to identify the right pitch to hit and put a healthy well timed swing on it. You refine your swing which then leads to defining how well you can attack those in zone meatballs. He's actually better at doing that than Colson Montgomery but he doesn't have the power to consistently jack it out of the yard. Peters hard hits all seem to be mostly pulled so he has identified the pitches that he can do damage on. He had a pretty destructive May for a guy perceived as having just a little pop. After May was over and he was sitting at 1.5 fWAR it was equal parts offense and defense. If you have great defense always with your game it makes it so much easier to find a hitting philosophy that you can work with. In the 1st 2 weeks of June to go along with his studly May he's jumped up another .5 WAR and is now at 2. Pitchers haven't yet figured out his hot zone and the fielders in the outfield are really going to have to start playing him to pull much more . He's going to have to be pitched away a lot more. Then we'll see if he can readjust to that. Edit: He's now at a whopping 7 Outs Above Average which is good for being in the 98th percentile.

Delauter has come down quite a bit from his hot start and Bazzana has come down too but not quite much.

I put on a very special White Sox jacket before Peters AB. After the HR I took it off and thanked the person who's jacket it used to be in heaven.

Good choice references L.A. and Chicago in it.

Sounds like it should've been in the Blues Brothers along with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, John Lee Hooker & Cab Calloway since both the song Take Me to the River and The Blues Brother had gospel and other religious undertones in it .

Can honestly say that I did not know this was an Al Green song. Unless it's even older than this recording. I'm partial to the Talking Heads version.

Just went on the Baseball Reference White Sox page and saw this: Playoff Odds: 62.7% to make postseason, 1.6% to win World Series This is also game #69 for the season. On this date the Sox are 58-49 vs RHP 2026: 27-21

That's really the best case scenario with maybe Mason Adams , Thorpe or Berroa contributing but those are even bigger longshots.

Good luck brother 🖖

I was talking to my TV "right size , wrong shape Stoney" . You only worked with the guy for how many years ?

These guys get it.

1st 8 game Home winning streak since August 2020.

Meidroth 12 game hit streak and 22 game on base streak.

They keep defying odds and predictions.

I got different uniform hats than you. I have the red , white and blue one from the 83 team. A red one from the Chuck Tanner years though I'm sure it's not that old since I think someone gave it to me but it was pretty beat up . I got one with the 2003 All-Star game symbol on it. Various World Champ Hats from 2005 . Various Frank Thomas Figurines from Starting Lineup and Sports Illustrated. A picture on my wall above my TV that's from the Cooperstown Collection with a small hologram symbol on it as certification of Old Comiskey with some history of the park on it. Designed to have the look of a blueprint . Various T shirts, windbreakers generic jersey or shirsey and a nice letterman-style jacket. Lot's of baseball cards. 3 or 4 1990 Leaf of the Big Hurt. Lots of other White Sox cards though none recently . Might have Wheaties Box from 2005 too. A game day ticket stub of the 1st game at the new ball park in a nice little holder.

8 in a row at home 19-3 in last 22 at home. 6 games above .500 is high water mark on the year !! Suck it Dodgers !!

Kay just finds a way to go out and keep the Sox in most games. Had good stuff tonight. In line for another win.

Oops Richards is in now lol.

If they maintain this lead maybe Richards.

The great thing about being at home is you can see how some little things added up to that big inning. Freeman whiffed on the ANtonacci GB and Tucker didn't look very good on the Vargas fly ball that went off the wall. He played the carom great but didn't play the high fly at the wall very good.

Probably at 2 fWAR now, equal parts offense and defense. He was seeing Treinen very well.

Right before that big beautiful 7 spot I went to the All-Star game website and voted for all the Sox I could, Antonacci, Peters, Vargas, Montgomery, Murakami Meidroth. Then bam !

Connor was in the booth with Costas and Stone ? Someone had to do it because Costas never shut up . There really wasn't any room for a PBP guy.

I saw a few people here who wished Schriff made that Braden Montgomery HR call instead of Costas. Judging by the amount of positive emojis it got considering unless something is really funny positive emojis rarely get above 5.