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He must be deceptive because everyone is late. Even the hits have been opposite field.

“Grand swing” is such a bad call. Back on topic, hopefully this is nothing serious and passes quickly - like at the end of this 10 day DL stint.

I have a similar issue with people I work with who don’t know when to end a conversation, or get triggered to start on a new topic when it should be pretty clear that I’m either very busy, not interested, or what they’re talking about has nothing to do with me/my work. One girl will walk up to my desk, see I’m on a teleconference, and still start talking to me. Even if I say, “I’m in a meeting”, she’ll acknowledge but plow ahead with whatever she was going to say.

Every so often, someone posts a Sox memory that includes Terry Bevington, and I seriously think I’d rather have him than TLR.

Riordan is no longer my go to guy for Sox news. You’ve been promoted. Congrats.

Me too. Seriously, why would someone even care about this.

Did TLR make it through the week?

If you give up 5 runs in an inning, does the ump even bother checking if you were using the sticky stuff?

Quick, name the last time he sounded or looked good.

I’m seeing a slimmed down Prop Joe from The Wire when Ramirez is up.

Finally got gas for less than $5 today. $4.99 at my local Shell minus $0.25 per gallon with my TMobile Tuesday reward. $4.74 - they’re practically giving it away now.

Someone want to explain why when I try to pour coffee from the pot to my cup, and I do it over my counter, some always dribbles down the pot and spills? If I remember I have this infuriating problem and pour into the cup and do it over my sink, not a drop spills. I don’t get it. Think Hank Green would look into it?

Lopez has the ability to go multiple innings. If he has an easy inning, he should get another. It saves the bullpen for the next game/series. I’m continually stunned with TLR’s pen mismanagement. Expecting four guys to pitch perfectly every game is dumb. He and Duncan basically invented modern bullpen usage, but he seems to have forgotten it all.

The division is bad. There are plenty of games left. The Sox have lots of talent. If they stay healthy, no reason to think they can’t make the playoffs. If they make the playoffs, no reason to think they can’t win a series or two or three. Also, no reason to think any of that happens.

Also, news stories weren’t aggregated to individuals based on the last thing they read, and the thing before that, and…

It’ll be hard to win 8 of 10 if they only win 7 of 11. Not impossible with a HOF baseball person at the helm, but it will take some lucky breaks.

I’m sure someone is giving an inspired, Jason Hayward-esque speech for when the game resumes. My guess - TLR. Comeback’s all but guaranteed.

Our laws aren’t consistent either. Hence the complaints. If I want to fish, I have to have a license or risk being fined. If I want to buy an firearm…it’s all been said.

Tony and woke aren’t often in the same sentence.

For Greg to see and ignore. 309 mass shootings in the US. Seems not all are in Chicago, and not all are in “blue” states. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

1983 White Sox 39-37

I feel like most of JP’s posts could be summed up like this.

Shoot, some of these guys probably weren’t even alive in 1988 when TLR led the best team in baseball to a second place finish.

Yep. He pitched 14 innings in 2018. Didn’t pitch in 2019 or 2020. Pitched less than 70 innings in relief last year. You’re making it sound like he’s been in MLB for the last 5 years. He hasn’t.

Yep. He’s definitely been a major leaguer since 2018 or 2019. Has hardly missed any time since he came up.