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He gets ground balls. Once he stops walking people he has a better defense behind him. He's our 6th pen piece. You can do much worse, and Carroll would qualify.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ May 10, 2016 -> 09:18 AM) Basically what the Twins did (had a 20-7 stretch and held on for most of the season until the end) and the Astros ended up doing last year... Hopefully we're better than both those teams record-wise (won't touch the comparison with HOU until we have a better idea at the 54-60 game mark Hawk always goes by in terms of assessing teams and their playoff futures). The ray of light there is that the twins were doing that despite a really poor run differential compared to their record. Whereas the white sox are 5th at +38.

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 10, 2016 -> 09:05 AM) The White Sox are playing at something like a 110-win pace (I haven't actually bothered to do the math, I just eyeballed it from the record). Are they going to actually win 110 games, or even 100 games... probably not, but at this time last year and the year before, we were pretty much finished already. This was literally unthinkable. Right, my thoughts on this are get as many wins as possible. I align with the the posters that say things like "if we go .500 the rest of the way we will be 86 wins" or whatever we are. I also kind of look at baseball records as a series of floors, each 10 games apart. For the last 7 years, seems like the struggle was to establish the .500 floor. We would hit it, but not by more than a game and didn't allow a cushion to regress. Now we are establishing our new floor of 10 games over. If we continue climbing. If we hit the ASB with a new floor of 20 games over .500, I'll buy tickets to MD and we can high five.

So will Carroll be up until Petricka is back?

QUOTE (lostfan @ May 10, 2016 -> 08:11 AM) That's not really ironic, lol. That's just a similar occurrence from a game that happened a long time ago and Ventura happens to be the manager. The irony is it happened in Texas, where the Alamo is, and we thought Texas was lost, but then the "grand slam" of the us army then won a war.

That was the best. I also went from being relieved thinking sac fly to disbelief. Soooo happy!!

Tough loss

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 9, 2016 -> 11:05 PM) What's wrong with Hawk tonight? Really subdued right?

Lol as they talk about errorless streak

Getting closer to fair

Let's not make this interesting

How tall is Mazara?

All of that was worth it. Also Lawrie hell yeah

I f***ing love baseballlll

I LOVE YOU TOdDDDdD

Trying to imagine the outrage if Eaton was Bryce Harper or one of the other east coast dandies

OF COURSE THAT DOESNT GO SOX WAY

2nd and 3rd nobody out!

Wait what

Oh right nvm

Lead off walk. I would prefer Salad here.

Lol at that 3-0 pitch

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ May 9, 2016 -> 10:42 PM) If only we still had LaRoche. Ha I'd be lying if I hadn't thought that. Leury too.

Okay so we basically have Putnam and then a whole lot of Carroll

Avila that was real bad