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I am in favor of riding hot hands. It's hard because you know if Harrison is dfa'd he'll get picked up and have a better half but I really think at this point we have some vets that are way too comfortable. Not Abreu or even grandal, but I do kinda want the sox to tell moncada he's fighting for a starting spot. Nobody wants to buy a logo of a backup infielder.

Fortunately next year we'll be back near the top ten (jk maybe) but woof at a draft where we are just sorting through a bunch of college outfielders. I don't know, I kinda like brock jones. His swing looks nice and easy and just looks like a guy that would be on the dodgers and you'd look up and he'd have a .900 ops but you'd be saying isn't very good.

I've given up on tackles, if anything hoping the rumored cut of Seumalo to RG is what I'm hoping can happen.

Why were you okay taking a shot on an injured, no track record Crochet with an 11th overall pick but against people using a pick on Rocker in the late first?

I guess the one thing I'd say is he feels like a guy that wouldn't improve under the sox as much as slowly atrophy from all of his college numbers until we are saying when he's brought up as a 25 year old 26th man "wow another white sox first rounder made the big leagues" lol

Eh, Virginia guys have so much unfucking to do with their swings. Steele Walker was a no for me because it was a situation of only the sox thinking he'd stay in CF and with average power he kinda needed to. Hasn't seemed like people doubt his ability to be CF. And is he really finding power this year or just consistency with it? Power is coming from more xbh not just homers. Hard at this side of the board. I would rather go a bit more of a bet on higher end traits but I think this skepticism is already kinda baked into a late first pick.

I pretty much just care about innings. His arm has so much buildup to go

His line has surged, just an awesome turnaround. Kind of a ho hum day otherwise.

I don’t know didn’t he demand some off days when he had a big run of usage?

While allowing four plus runs!!!

Mendick = lead off hitter

Every time I see Yaz’s slash line it defies belief. This is Konerko 03 first half territory. There are probably hundreds of baseball players that could have outperformed his hitting in the minors. Anyway I don’t think we end June with any illusions of coming back. The pitching is regressing and the hitting has not. This team has all the 2015 vibes and I have never experienced a Sox team take off in the second half like the 83 team. June is always the deciding month.

This is actually a board of people who are thrilled watching someone turn themselves from a late round draft pick into getting mlb run like Danny Mendick.

I was hoping June 1st cuts would lead to something soon but I guess we really are just in a slog until late July.

Colson Montgomery with 2 BBS

Why was Martin scratched?

exactly see the wrangling between nationals/orioles way back when

yeah there is zero chance that's true.

I don't think people on this board realize how big chicago metro area is. People have been talking about how houston will overtake chicago since I was in elementary school, and it will still be 8-10 more years until that happens. Nashville is wonderful, I wish it the best. Nashville is slightly bigger than power metro Milwaukee, and it is already straining under the growth. It's actually quite difficult to scale up cities quickly before they hit growing pains that can constrain it's population growth. See tacoma, see Denver. By then a new hot, cheaper city (northwest arkansas, likely) will pop up and be the new place we think the sox will move that is obviously better. By sheer market size and growth, there should be no greater sports market than Tampa. Yet we are talking about moving the Rays out of there. It took atlanta a long time to build up a lot of its sports fandom. There are no guarantees in this. The white sox have a built in floor much higher than any of these new markets, and the league can just expand rather than move teams.

It's also not true

the thing about football teams in the suburbs is there are 8 home games a year and they are all-day events and mostly during off-traffic hours. The thing about baseball teams is they play 81 game at home largely in early evening where you are asking people to get in their cars during rush hour and get in the traffic flow that is moving away from the city. All people in the suburbs imagine a suburban stadium in the suburb next door. Well, what if' it's on the opposite side of you? I am in a western suburb. When I have friends move north or south they may as well be moving out of state. When we see each other it's ...in the centrally located city.

Definitely. As all sports orgs have seen the last 30 years, moving to growing, transient populations like Tampa or Charlotte are surefire ways to get tons of revenue.

Are you arguing 2015 was better than this? It wasn't.

yeah this has felt so much like 2015 to me. Just unwatchable. And as I pointed out a few weeks ago that team actually hovered close to competitiveness until june before a long losing streak. Everything is a single. Every homer is solo. Everything is difficult.