Jake

My unpopular take is I'll be okay with Elko going back down once everybody is ready to come off the IL

Didn't realize that LouBob entered the day leading the Sox in xwOBA (tied with Quero). Seems like he'll probably end the day on top too since he's barreled two balls today. Will probably be our lone player with an xwOBA (barely) above league average.

All we see on the tape is Jirschele jogged to his position during the warmup and suddenly the umpire came at him pointing fingers and shouting. Not sure what motivated the ump to do that, maybe something Jirschele said

Wonder what the hell is going on with Jirschele

One of those days

Two more soft hits and a run. Again, please bless my team with this kind of luck

I can certainly think of a word you're not allowed to call him (I personally would never be allowed to use that word 🫣)

Before I accept Stone's framing of the White Sox's star being hit by a pitch, we need to establish the Cubs being aware of the Sox having a star player and who that player is.

Not really sure why Vargas seemed to think the Cubs hit him on purpose. Maybe even the young people know the legends of Keller being a piece of s%*#

Colson 0-fer but just 1 K in 5 plate appearances, had a walk and a very loud out.

Couple badly hit balls get them a run. Give the Sox some of that luck sometime

Baldwin has made some of the highest difficulty plays among Sox outfielders this year in terms of catch probability — he's a good runner and gets some good jumps. But the finer points of outfielding have gotten him badly with balls near the fence and windy days. And his throwing arm is not good at all so he loses value there too. I think if he had time to learn the position he could end up being decent but he's not there now and his bat isn't picking him up. He hasn't fielded well in the infield either and there aren't many excuses for it.

FWIW, this might seal the deal on Brooks going down to AAA for Slater/Tauchman

So if you're Cannon, you had the guy struck out but the call isn't made, then the guy squeaks one inside the foul line, guy barely safe at home (if at all), pop up gets dropped, crazy slide gets the guy an extra base..

Probably going to fall back to the call on the field here

Some lucky SOBs on the north side

If you can't handle Sosa being a solidly okay MLB player you're gonna hate this rebuild

His 2022-2024 would have made him approximately the best White Sox player over that period

It will be a little while but I don't think Rojas will be given a full season to scuffle

Vargas doing the Isaac Paredes thing and hitting the ball not that impressively hard, but making sure to hit it to the short part of the ballpark

We are so back

I don't watch the Cubs enough anymore to know: is the insane wind all the time or more of a rare thing that's just going on this weekend? Feels like a meaningful home field advantage to get used to the crazy things happening to fly balls and pop ups.

LouBob's defensive regression makes me more bearish on him than the slow offense for some reason

Did the Sox already give up on Wikelman as a starter?

I'll admit the only thing that keeps me from constant ranting and raving about it is that I don't have a promising suggestion for who should be taking his job