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You really can't give up on Sheets because his home splits are so good. You can give up on him on the road and next year too by trading him. Next year it's imperative to get some real OF's with speed because ofthe new rules regarding shifts and pick off attempts. I hope the front office isn't blind to this.

Seby with a bunch of cupping marks on his neck

Eloy is Fire !

oh you are slick even slyly dropping JLL's nick name in there !

Did you just do a 60's pop reference with a 90's one ? Who do you think you are Jason Bennetti ?

Yes this is when you start to believe you are as important as all the attention you get. You lose focus, don't work as hard on your craft, you treat people worse and neglect the things and people who got you to that point.

I got no complaints about Jose. Yea he's not hitting HR's as much nor hitting as well with RISP but I'll take all the hits, all the walks and the solid defense.

Wild Thing drives home 2 more.

I swear ABreu deliberately took 2 strikes so it would remind him to hit behind the runner.

Nice play Yo !

I don't think it's got much play here on the board. It's not a headline on a thread or anything.

LOL true but he's only made 2 outs . he didnt hit into any DP's did he ? Give him some credit he knocked the pitcher on his ass.

Have you seen that David Kaplan is saying TLR is coming back next week ? Says it's a fact .

8 hits in2 innings ? Why don't we have 6 runs !?!

Wow Elvis !! You are amazing !

I am not a total optimist by any stretch. With every inning that went by the odds of winning become less . I had more hope in the 3rd and 4th and 5th inning than I did after the 6th, 7th and 8th. And a lose to a crap team like Oakland would sting after the Guards beat Twins . I don't know if the Sox have more talent than the Guardians if you break it down. In order to get the best bats in the lineup you have to play our worst defensive outfield. Even if Robert were healthy putting Vaughn and Sheets (especially Sheets on the road) kills the OF defense. Guardians have an edge in starting pitcher but maybe not for the stretch run with Plesac and Civale being out. Their BP is way better and that's where a lot of games are won and lost, they are way better defensively, they are faster, they have better balance in the lineup. Francona is considered one of the best Managers. The Sox have a nice edge in hitting but those other factors outweigh the only advantage the Sox have. They've had guys like Kwan, Gimenez and Oscar Gonzales step up while we had guys like Anderson, Grandal, Pollock and Moncada taking steps back. This is a point often missed but is relevant seeing how well the Sox have played since Andrus Eloy and Romy have stepped up just recently. I'm not going to set my expectations of the head to head matchups against the Guardians too high. I do think they have to take 3 of 4 to give themselves a much better chance to win the division. That makeup game on the 15th almost has to be a win but they still have 2 left to play with the A's and Rockies before that . Like I said expecting them to play .700 ball is also unrealistic but I'm hoping for 3 of 4 or .750 in those 4 games and maybe get the lead down to a game before the game on the 15th. Can't look too far ahead. Have to take care of the immediately business 1st.

Makes total sense.

I wasn't. Can't win every game even against shitty teams. Expecting it now after what we've seen the whole season just because they are hot now doesn't make sense to me. Ok you're right .I did mention the hitting but only in the context that the lead wasn't insurmountable and acting as if it was is silly. Even with how poor the Sox have been once they fall behind by a few runs but they have playing better lately so I don't panic. I purposely left the game thread because it was too negative and there's no use trying to fight the negative wave against the hordes. Now we have to rely on KC, the shitty team we couldn't beat up on to help us out because expecting a .700 winning percentage to win the division is expecting a miracle. I want them to play .700 ball the rest of the way but I'm not going to rant and rave if they don't because they aren't that good and expecting them to be that good is senseless. Like now I see posts saying the Sox have to beat Cleveland the remaining 4 games with them. That's not going to happen.Sorry . When your expectations are unrealistic that's when fans act the most foolish. The Sox are going to have to win the division outright, that's also a bit unrealistic but doable. But even a 2 game losing streak coupled with Cleveland winning 2 games in the same time span will make things extremely difficult. The Sox also can do no worse than 2-2 against Cleveland or that will also make the road nearly impossible.

Baseball is a game of patience it always has been. If I see posts saying we're going to be 3 games back after the 1st inning people deserve there noses rubbed in it. Baseball isn't a game for reactionaries. you win or lose after the game is over not in the 1st, 4th, 5th or 8th especially when you are only a few runs behind. If you criticize you team's players then you are open to criticism when you make make mistakes in your fandom. Don't like it ? Great, now you understand how athletes feel getting booed.

I didn't mention the hitting at all because people can be as pissed as they want but 3 runs in 6 innings isn't a bad thing but it is when your team has 0 runs. If you want athletes to be perfect then what can I tell you ? Be pissed then. You made 4 points and 3 of them were about the hitting which, again, I didn't mention.

In 20 games with the White Sox Andrus is batting .298 with a .500 slugging and .830 OPS with 4 HR and 17 RBI in 88 PA. He's basically has as much WAR in those 20 games as Tim Anderson had in 79 games and 351 PA and has only 8 less RBI than Anderson did in all that time.

Before his start today he was 4-0 in his last 4 road starts with a a 2.08 ERA . Even after his start today and no decision that's still easily acceptable. So at least he's not total suckage. I doubt many fans wanted to see Kelly and Bummer either but they pitched well.

Not on the road in the last 5 games . Sucking needs qualifiers. He pitched well for 5 innings. Gave up a couple in the 6th while tiring but 3 runs total kept the Sox in a position to win it along with the relief work of Kelly and Bummer. That's pretty much all you can ask of a starting pitcher to keep you within striking distance.

Don't forget Anderson.

Gio gave a run in the 1st and people were already melting down. Gio sucks, the offense sucks, typical after scoring runs the day before can't score any the next game. Did I miss anything ?