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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.

The problem , as I see it, is it's easy to be wrong when talking about production and using said production as your baseline for analyzing young players. It's the same thing the projection models do. Before Murakami was signed Meidroth was predicted by those models to have the best chance to have the most WAR on the Sox. It's a security blanket for every argument about future production and remaining cautious about making mistakes. The whole world has seen how even the pro's make mistakes, because you only look at the red flags and miss how players can evolve , that was the driving force with Murakami falling to the Sox. You feel the pressure to act like a machine and not a human being from your basement getting fat drinking beer and eating chips. You feel you are right because you have the backing of probabilities and pure math. But baseball defies these things more than any other sport. Players adjust, they evolve. Or to feel safe in you cozy blanket , they got lucky. Stats are a huge part of today' s game but those stats are part of the evolving process also improving bat speed and using angles and how best to impact the ball with swing path or even the equipment you should use. Torpedo bat in Colson's case. Anyone who looked at this as a rebuild and saw the promise of Teel or Montgomery or Vargas didn't see Meidroth as the most likely to produce the most WAR on the team. You were hoping players care enough about improving and the coaches hired to help them do that will succeed. That's what team building in a rebuild is all about. If the Sox had held onto their best player for one year I doubt they'd be where they are right now. I'm not sure even what you call the old Ray Ray was any better than he is now. He hated trading Crochet. We would have had him for 2025 a year in which they didn't have much of anything to win with. He'd have been a waste of a spot and a continued risk to be injured and not reap the benefits of cashing in on his monster year, the same way we missed out on cashing in on Robert in 2023. Luckily the Crochet trade has been the key to the rebuild building some quality hitting along with Murakami and draft picks and Getz stressing OBP and LH hitting. And we also have the 1-1 pick ! This is exactly how a rebuild should work.

Schriff has a style that has got him to where he is today. He has the voice and enthusiasm even if he lacks extensive knowledge. We should remember that to post on a board like this we are an opinionated bunch who take our fandom more serious than likely 75% of people who are now filling up the ballpark. I think most of the fans kind of enjoy his enthusiasm . He's basically an old fashioned hype guy like the ads we'd hear promoting old drag racing and funny cars. SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY where the great ones run ! While it seemed ludicrous while they were losing he's now a voice for the excitement and people want to be pumped up. The more fans you get pumped the more they come to see why everyone is so excited. Everywhere you turn , talk radio, MLB Network, the Sox are a HUGE story whether you think they should be or not. While there is still a lot of caution because JR is still in charge, most casual Sox fans want to get out and have fun and cheer for this group of players. John is a cheerleader and enthusiastic young blood.

The Dodgers are a very destructive force. They might not have the pitching Atlanta does but they must have close to a dozen games where they but up 10 or more runs. They have to be at or near the top in that category. It's hard to keep up the home magic against that kind of hitting even when the Sox pitching feels the home magic almost as much as the hitters. But 18-3 at home is a decided advantage lately.

If you wanted to be on TV for 3 minutes you had to lip sync your music and even with MTV almost every music video was lip-synced because people bought the records because of the studio versions. If it wasn't for lip-syncing we'd have never seen the pre MTV bands of the 60's and 70's on film at all. Very few of them took being on film very seriously.The Beatles were an exception but they were an actual phenomenon. Chicago was one band who filmed themselves performing live a lot.

We always knew that building up the international part of the organization would take the longest. Too much of that was built on Jerry loathing how that system worked and there is a lot of seediness involved when you're dealing with poor people wanting to get a piece of the very large MLB pie by representing or exploiting talented very young baseball players. It's almost totally based on who you know and building relationships with the handlers for the top guys .

Derek Hill was very likable. He was typical of the kind of player Getz was picking up . Good defense not much of a bat, nothing to get exciting about. However he came to represent a little bit of that magic that is happening with outstanding defense and unexpected clutch power moments. He was a pretty good weak side of the platoon Good bench player, speed & defense and a very respectable .789 OPS against LHP. Pereira represents an even better hitting. younger and less speedy, more power but still decent defender version of Hill. But with his injuries he feels like the kind of guy the Sox had from the 1st rebuild. I really hope he can stay healthy this time and do the things he's shown he is capable.

Why aren't you doing a White Sox podcast ? There's so many of them .I watch them all.

I saw this when Baseball tonight was doing as update on the weather then said it was postponed. I saw that kind of hat long before Harry Potter.

Maybe they traded $250K in international Bonus pool money for $100K and threw in Jones . Career year in 2023 playing for Colorado 20 HR 20 SB , .931 OPS 424 PA. He should be right at home in Charlotte after those 2023 numbers in Albuquerque and then Colorado. B-L, T-R Plays LF RF and a bit of 3rd base.

If it ends up a BP day could have Rock and Hagan both pitching

God bless us... every one . Tiny Tim

I apologize for my part in that but sometimes you have to fight back. I will bring my usual positive vibes to the game thread . While it may be hard to sweep the best team in baseball I am very grateful for the series win. God Bless the Pope and Mike Vasil and all of our Chicago White Sox players and fans.

Ron doesn't believe in decorum but that can be a good thing but yeah it's tradition for the winning game thread to be started by the same person. Losing game threads are up for grabs for those new here.

You can find what I said easily enough about challenging Ray Ray about Braden not being good "right away". That's very recent. You can also find the predicted HR in that game thread in the archives. Again not 100% accurate since i said Gonzo would hit one also. Very bold and got it half right. Everything else you know its true especially the Robert stuff since it involved you. I talked about Murakami in a thread about if you could add one Free Agent who would it be. Yes I picked Murakami. Did I think the Sox had a chance to get him ? Hell no ,by all reports he was going to cost a lot more. But once he got here I always posted my belief in him . Was just a feeling ,nothing more, being a genuine Superstar in Japan which has produced some special talents to enter MLB. Even the experts focused on what was and not what could be. Special players find a way to evolve. @caulfield12 probably remembers when I said there could be a big increase in HR's because I said not only did dig chicks dig the long ball so did everyone else. I said between Murakami and Colson they could 75-80 HRs and that was idk back in April maybe earlier. Now that might not happen because of injuries but they were on that pace and the Sox are still 2nd in HR's. I could go way back about trading Dane Dunning for Lynn. @hi8is will tell you. @WestEddy probably remembers some stuff but you might consider him biased since we regularly agreed on how we perceived the Getz rebuild. I could go back even farther and I practically nailed Abreu stats his rookie year in that prediction thread. I don't claim to be never wrong . Hell I thought Oscar Colas would be good. But I'm generally bullish on prospects. I'm not scientific about it . A lot of it is based on positive vibes I get along with just reading situations and events as they unfold. Just observation techniques along with long exposure to White Sox baseball. Like being able to predict short dialogue responses in movies. It's not that hard if you truly are paying attention without biases. But sure maybe my own biases play into it because I focus on the good not the bad. That's why I love the Pope and the Magic Wand stuff. Others want to focus on the negative aspects of those things as if they are looking for them. It took others a little longer to see things my way and that's OK but I don't see any true enoyment from you as if youre waiting for it to come crashing down. I actually feel the same way you do about Murakami . He will be difficult to extend. I just don't focus on it as a sign of impending disaster. I'll keep watching how that progresses as well as the rookies who have made such a wonderful immediate impact.

Nothing, just a happy fan.

Well a lot of fans have a right to be mad at JR so hopefully he can loosen up the purse strings a little bit. But that depends a lot on attendance & CHSN subscriptions and advertising. It always has with JR so if Sox fans want the team to spend more money, they have to spend more money. Just have to be patient for when Ishbia takes over.

What an odd way to defend yourself. This is a White Sox forum . We are White Sox fans so yes we care very much about the Sox . No one is comparing life goals to hopes for a good White Sox future except you, a very odd little man.

That's about the last thing the panicans can cling to since that'll take a while to see if they can draft and develop some16 years olds to stardom. That and how sustainable this is. But Getz has got the team from point A to point B by surrounding himself with good people and building a White Sox way of doing things that is paying pretty fast dividends.

I'm honored you feel that way since you cannot provide one of my predictions to actually quote . While I have been not only reading the room I have been reading the universe while you have continued to rip everything White Sox, every little thing mind you, every little transaction to RIP Getz. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees. I ripped you a new asshole on predicting when Robert would not be moved. Yet you'll post lies. I predicted Braden Montgomery would be up in June long before Ron's thread. I challenged Ray Ray about the success "right away" for Braden. I thought it was the right time to call up Montgomery while you called him a bust. Have you no shame printing your lies ? You should actually be ashamed of your stances on so many things. You are one of the most wrong people here, yet you denigrate me? And you have the nerve to call yourself a White Sox fan during a rebuild no less when the actual purpose is to lose. Sucks they had to rebuild again so soon so it didn't get the unbridled support of the 1st rebuild. I thought the purpose of tanking is actually losing to be in a better position to draft and other advantages. The 1st rebuild never got the 1-1 pick in a time when it was easier to get the 1-1. The 1st rebuild could never draft and develop it's own draft picks. You're about the poorest example of a White Sox "fan" I have ever encountered. You lacked vision except for tunnel vision, focusing on every thing that was going wrong instead of what was going right. I predicted Braden would hit a HR in the walkoff game. Technically I said Braden and Gonzalez so count that one as wrong if you want to. It's actually fun reading this thread just to see you and others desperately clinging to the losing seasons as a last grasp attempt to justify your idiocy.