Greg Hibbard

I actually had not seen that video. I’m not doubting Jason’s account, but for a team to nickel and dime saving, what, $100,000 on flights and hotels? on a payroll of this size seems extraordinarily bewildering.

I understand the concept of giving players the day off, but how do you not pinch hit for Jake Lamb and Leury Garcia in the 9th?! How much of an extra toll is one at bat and maybe 3 outs in the field going to put on these elite players?

JFC, no. It’s not “crybabyism” to point out a handful of ridiculously easy decisions a child could have made that our manager didn’t in either game. Those decisions put us in a much worse position to try to win and winning HFA is ridiculously important on a team that struggles with elite competition. It’s one thing when we just get beat by better playing, better managing, better pitching. it’s quite another when a nincompoop leaves his best weapons on the bench because of some bygone hunch from 1974 that is a statistically losing play.

Guys, give TLR a break. He was settling up at the bar during the 9th

So why are Jason and Steve / tv broadcast not traveling with the team? There seems to be a lot of rumors but has the team given an official reason?

What is it with Tony leaving starters in who are obviously struggling with one elite setup man and TWO ELITE CLOSERS

The harder Yoan hits it, the righter-at-someone it seems to be

The math implies every single person vaccinated person has been exposed to COVID, and that simply can’t be true.

Vaughn should be playing every day while he’s this hot. In baseball an off day can interrupt the rhythm of a hot hitter. When he’s slumping give him a game or two off then. Somebody should also tell TLR that old man Leury needs to be plenty rested for his October benchwarming duties…

This telecast is brutal

Seby just hit 3 home runs 5 days ago…

Decided to hit the game in person last minute. Go Sox!

I haven’t looked at the field much beyond Adolis Garcia, but it seems like Andrew might be hitting himself at least into the picture lately…

Has the delicacy been renamed the “Nothingburger” yet?

To sum up your 2021 thoughts: Yermin had completely arrived as a major leaguer after 100 at bats or so, but 3 or 4 bad at bats in between .900 OPS weeks in the midst of a stellar career is all it takes for you to consider Jose terrible again, right? Really it all speaks for itself.

I figured you would avoid the question and resort to an attack like this, but I just wanted to point out to the rest of the board what a obscene hypocrite you are. God forbid you actually take a step back and realize you’re supposed to *root* for Jose Abreu.

@ron883 don’t you owe Jose Abreu FOUR YEARS worth of apologies for the personal attacks, constant undermining of his abilities, weekly threads questioning his status, and other bullshit you’ve been 1000% wrong about and yet foisted on the board over and over and over and over again?

I’m ready to get pelted, but would Zavala on offense/defense really be better than Mercedes as a catcher?

Dylan Cease vs. Bailey Ober LET’S GO!

I guess so. All rotations go through a stretch like this. The bullpen might be fixable by acquisition. Yes, these are all valid concerns - but we did a 98 win clip for the first half of the season with many starters out and despite the power outage from some of those guys. The strangest thing to me right now is reading knee jerk reactions on a daily basis here. It’s seems like the goalposts of everyone’s expectations of this team have just moved in such an irrational direction over the course of this year. Did anyone really have this team competing for a World Series after Eloy went down? How about even before he went down? I seem to remember a lot of folks were in the “not this year camp”, or thinking we were an 80 something win team. Yet it seems like simultaneously everyone now thinks we are this established WS contender but also feels that once we have a bad stretch of a few games it’s time to jump straight off a bridge. Why? To take it one step further, I wonder - does only one team have a great year, the eventual World Series winner? Or is it possible that the White Sox are having a very good year but maybe don’t win the World Series, but still win 95 games and still go deep in the playoffs. Is that acceptable, or do 29 teams disappoint every season? I suppose what I’m saying is that all things considered this team has been very good and resilient this year and I wish I felt like the board had more faith in it.

I guess I’m not really too bothered by what I’m seeing since we are fielding such a AAA lineup right now. We will be a much better team when we get everyone back healthy.

That was a strange play.

Bad game for the Sox all around, which happens to every major league team against any given opponent. I expect them to shake it off and come out ready tomorrow but I also expect the usual hand wringing here and wonder if the same people who say winning all your games against the Tigers is meaningless will simultaneously say you can’t lose any games to the Tigers…

LEURY JUICEBALL GARCIA

I’m sure Ron will come up with some way that that play was actually Abreu’s fault.