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I love the results of Sheets swings . Reminds me of Matt Olson. Pretty good defense these 2 games against the Pirates. Onward and upwards.

Sorry I was actually talking about trying Romy at 2nd base. I have always thought of Burger as a 3rd baseman even though there's been talk about him trying 2nd.

Since Hamilton is back I thought I'd post his vlog from the Field of Dreams which I hadn't seen before.

Looks like TLR said maybe against a left starter in KC for Romy.

With Tim out I think Romy may get a look at SS and there's so very little room that only Tim being out afforded Romy the opportunity. With Moncada healthy and Leury back, infield time for Burger just wasn't in the cards for September.

Maybe Crick was a dick .

Wow that's a real shocker since Burger wasn't brought up but they may want to take a look at him at 2nd base.

Grandal, Abreu, bullpen, good defense. It takes a team.

That quote or some version of it has been used many times by Deion Sanders and in reference to some other athletes but it applies to Robert.

Tool Time !

LFG ! Big inning !

A rare 1, 2 , 3 for Bummer. Great job.

And if they do they will finally be above 21 games over .500, which, I believe, they have hit 3 times only to fall back each time. The Rays at 35 above .500 have just about run away with Home field advantage for the AL but Houston, Oakland , NY, Boston and Sox are all vying for HFA in the early stages of the playoffs unless, of course, they play TB.

Collins HR in Charlotte. .

Like I said a week ago, even when many still want to see Moncada batting 2nd, but Tim and Robert , 1 and 2, is about as dynamic 1st 2 guys in a lineup as there is. Teams that score 1st have a much better record. No Tim today but Robert 2nd just keeps on showing how good he can truly be if he stays healthy.

But I saw a post that said it was a "shit" lineup.

Fans come to see the team win. The griping about the team keeping guys as fresh and uninjured as possible is just nuts. There is no challenge to the Sox in the division . Get Kimbrel right and this team is going far, fresh , healthy and firing on all cylinders.

Goodwin with the help of a good wind !

Meaningless games in the grand scheme. 1 good thing 1 bad thing. Reylo continued to pitch well and Kimbrel who many thought shouldn't be in the game failed his test. Yes he was in there for one reason and that was to see if the things he had mentioned he was working on were fixed in a situation where if he got hit hard it wouldn't matter. No fix that day. Maybe soon.

I'm predicting a 7-2 White Sox victory. Throw your final score or any other predictions out there.

And bad pitching does not equal bad bullpen management. There is no poster here who has kept a daily chart of sideline sessions, minor aches and pains, bullpen sessions, how often pitched, how many pitches thrown, studied film or has any idea on how to maintain and run an MLB pitching staff. In the preseason we went from everyone thinking we had a lockdown BP to wtf is happening. Gone are those preseason heros like Heuer, Foster, Marshall. A lot of the faces have changed and Kopech and Crochet are enduring their 1st full seasons and we are seeing the ups and downs of that and keeping them as fresh and healthy as possible. No one can say for sure whats going on with Kimbrel. It's hard to explain the vast difference in 1st half results with the Cubs to results with us. Liam has had struggles too. On paper this BP looks like it should dominate now. All you can do is play the guys who are supposed to be the best and hope they pitch like the best. There is still time to right the ship and for them all to get settled in their roles .

You want your lineup rested until about 2 or 3 weeks before the playoffs start.Then you let your regulars play a lot in that 2-3 weeks and heading into the playoffs. Just because guys are young does not mean baseball doesn't wear them out. It is a grind. Eloy and Robert are coming off serious injuries and anyone watching Robert can tell he's not running like he used to. Legs being fresh is so important. You just can't go from not playing at all and rehabbing to playing all out every day. As long as they are hitting when they play and not playing recklessly we all should be good keeping them focused on 2 things, health and being ready for the post season. You saw after clinching last year they rested a lot and you see how that turned out. That's the difference between an inexperienced playoff manager and a guy who has had his team in the post season many times before. It doesn't guarantee success in the post season but it's the right way to approach it.

For everyone who thinks the 8th or 9th inning means anything to Kimbrel, it doesn't. He said how he pitched in his save had nothing to do with the inning and everything to do with fixes he's been working on. I realize the timing of him being bad in anything other than the 9th would make fans and media speculate it makes a difference or it was a bad move to force him to pitch in any other role but closer. But if he says his badness was due to making mistakes in his delivery I'll go with that. Baseball On Fanatics on youtube video of the post game interview . It's the last question in the sequence.

Haha you all left out Leury. Come on now !

Yes that is true or false !