Greg Hibbard

This is going to be a 20-14 game.

A lot of pitchers are getting rocked right now. I think MLB overcorrected on the ball.

I do like Moncada hitting fourth.

So Andrus is the only guy immune to the “day off” thing right?

Btw guys, to be clear I don’t want Guillen back. I was just reminiscing on those hot stretches where the team seemed like magic even in the bad years.

What if I want column B instead (had to get it in, not sorry)

I don’t really care what money Hahn has set on fire at this point. I care that Grifol can tell him “DFA this guy, cut this guy” and it happens. Quickly. And that seems to be the case.

Even in those bad years, those teams always put it all together for like 20-30 games to become the hottest team in baseball for a couple or three or four weeks. They had that fire for about that long in every season. I always knew it probably wouldn’t last, but man…it felt good while it was going on, and because Ozzie had won, I always thought “well, it might happen again”. And they were always almost karmically unbeatable for that stretch. It was something about Ozzie, and whatever atmosphere he had. There was like a 14-4 stretch in June of ‘09, that ridiculous 26-5 from June to July in 2010 and even in August of ‘11 they put together something like a 15-7 stretch to make a final push before petering out.

1983 was a bad start then an insanely hot last 100 games. Edit: I checked and it was something like 79-38 over their last 117. Wow.

During the off-season I really struggled. Last year was the worst year as a Sox fan in my lifetime. Most diehards I know my age say the same thing. Once spring training rolled around and Grifol was seemingly saying all the right things, and many of the guys looked good, the old feelings came back. It’s hard not to get excited about the positives. Especially the defense. I’m not happy about the pitching at all. But the whole league is kind of getting rocked this week.

Plenty of people are slinging mud all over this game thread and saying Grifol can’t manage, or certain players aren’t good enough, or Eloy will never be healthy ever. Come on. Plenty of bridge jumping already. It’s fine to be upset but why piss all over the board for a 3-4 start? I’m exhausted by reading this s%*# already. Let’s act like we’ve watched baseball before. It’s a loooooong season.

So let’s get into this now, since so many people seem to want to be OUT on this team in the first week. What is the number of wins the Sox have to have by the all star break to make you believe and be IN on this team?

But why are we all racing to the conclusion that it’s bad? Seriously. It’s like Grifol and the team had a week to be gangbusters awesome or everyone will jump off of a bridge. We are 3-4 and a new manager is settling in.

Yes but all of these things are happening early. Eloy is out for 2 weeks. Max he misses 19 games with this injury. If he has another injury, then I will worry. A lot of good starters league wide are getting rocked or injured early. Gonna write off Scherzer, Fried, Gonsolin, Robbie Ray while you’re at it? Might as well. Hendriks looks as though he may return and the bullpen is fixable by acquisition. The offense has plenty of pop and the defense is great. It’s going to be a rocky first 45 games but even if we are 5 under, it’s fine. It’s fixable. TLR was NOT fixable. Neither were the rampant injuries up and down the lineup.

I wouldn’t write off a competitive team in a competitive division until game 100. Nobody in their right minds thinks the 2023 white Sox are in a comparable spot to the 2022 bears. Come on.

To all those jumping on the 3-4 Sox after 7 games “knowing” that they’re awful or done for the year or whatever…congrats, you’ve done the exact equivalent of writing off an NFL team in the third quarter their first game while they are slightly losing!

I thought Grifol said he would face lefties but sit sometimes early in the season with certain matchups. I really wish people would jump to conclusions based on one week. I think Colas will face left handed starters this year, don't you?

The green circle is a reference to NEON MONCADA

if Oscar Colas is playing 5 out of 7 games, and pinch hitting in a sixth, is he "platooning"?

Heartbreaking to see how many of our "fans" literally come with hatred and venom for someone for getting injured. Jeez, guys. He got fucking injured. You think he wanted to?

It could just be that an otherwise pretty good player had a really bad game.

Was at the game. Yes it’s sucked, yes Kopech got teed up today. Ruiz yes DFA. I don’t know what to make of it with Kopech, and obviously he has the stuff and has been effective in some roles. It could be like Lopez, where he takes a long path to better role.

I really love that we have a manager who believes in filling out the card with a fairly regular, consistent lineup.

I’ll be there.

Man, White Sox Twitter is pretty brutal on Robert already. “Move him down” “he’s done” etc. It’s 3 freaking games. He will be fine.