Greg Hibbard

Sox need to score in the 9th or it’s an auto loss

No Leury? He played RF in certain crucial situations…with massively catastrophic results 😂

For what end? Defense means nothing when the team is already out. Who cares about fielding at this point? This season is over. I don’t even care if Eloy gets hurt. Let them play and sink or swim. We need to find out what these men can do that we have invested so much in. If the gong show happens, let them lose by 11. A better draft pick is what we want anyway.

Since the end of the 2018 season, over the last 4 seasons, Billy Hamilton has a combined 549 PAs. He has 91 hits, 10 doubles, 3 triples, 2 home runs over those 4 seasons combined. I get the late speed threat, but keeping a guy on the team to just steal bases when you can’t and shouldn’t win games anyway makes no sense. Billy Hamilton literally adds no future value to this organization whatsoever. He’s just another schlub who plays one aspect of baseball well enough to have had a middling career like so many other schlubs we have had before.

Only the White Sox organization can say with a straight face to their fanbase that they are promoting washed up AAAA asset Billy Hamilton to the major league roster in the same breath that they also say with a straight face that they are still trying to breathe life into a team to compete for the playoffs and remain in the conversation as being one of the premier AL teams. Either they are too dumb to know how bad at this they are, or they are just that sociopathic towards their fanbase. I honestly can’t decide which these days.

I don’t mind using this year to find out what we can get from all these part time question marks. Clearly Romy and Sosa aren’t ready. If I had it my way, DFA Elvis when Anderson returns, have Moncada split 3b/2B, play Burger at 3b/DH, play Colas every day in RF, just DH Sheets almost every day until he plays himself in or out of the major leagues. If Sheets can’t hack it eventually and turns into another Palka, bring up the next corpse. Game outcomes don’t matter, so defense doesn’t matter. Evaluate the bats. Can these guys hit or not?

How about we just get rid of everyone?

Colas needs to play every day all year regardless of outcomes if the White Sox are going to have the most information possible on his future in the offseason. This is a losing season. It doesn’t matter whether we win 60% of our remaining games - we don’t have the talent to win the playoffs. We need to assess the major league readiness of our best prospects and let them try to play through the rough patches.

Eh, the jury really is out on Vaughn, but I’m sick of settling for the 8th or the 12th or 14th best player at a given position as some sort of benchmark of success. Good organizations, when they have a top 5 pick, draft players who end up in the top 5 of their position. Hopefully Vaughn can become the .900 OPS commodity we all hope for, because that’s what he needs to be.

Jose has had very poor 30 game stretches before, particularly early in the season. It’s concerning, but I don’t think there’s any way Houston doesn’t let him try to play through it for the whole year with maybe a couple days off to clear his head if it gets really bad.

Do you think a .792 OPS from Andrew Vaughn is below, at, or above what you expected from him at this point in his MLB career?

If we’ve learned one thing over the last 7 years, it’s that making negative threads about Abreu definitely paints a TOTALLY ACCURATE picture of how he will perform from that point forward!

Weird, because I saw that exact video like a week ago in a completely different context. What the hell?

What’s the best case scenario if they start playing to their talent level of 2020-21 when they were on a 96ish (.592) win clip? 7-21 start + a .592 clip the rest of the way is an 87 win season. Do we think that wins the Central? Is that really going to get us anywhere?

I hope Hawk and Ozzie air out how bad this is on every outlet that will have them. We need them to slam this org and air dirty laundry. We need Reinsdorf, Hahn, Williams, Grifol all to hear every day how awful they are. We need to run them all out of town on a rail.

Don’t stop now boys!!! 11 is within sight

Winning this game will be a punch in the gut. Utterly counterproductive at this point.

Nobody “deserves” it on this lackluster team, but the manager and FO still claim they are trying to turn this around, and I have never seen anything from Adam Haseley that convinces me he’s ready to jump from AAAA filler to friggin lead off man. I would rather give more PAs to anyone I thought might hit a home run once in those PAs.

Do we think that Vaughn’s career OBP is as relevant as his 2023 numbers? Do we think Haseley’s career OBP is as relevant as what role he is in on this team at this stage of his career? Sure, folks can be results oriented with what just happened, but I still think Haseley leading off in an MLB game in 2023 is ludicrous compared to literally any other option.

I would rather have a major league caliber player assuredly getting 5 PAs over the most AAA asset on the team, so whether or not it’s “a traditional lead off hitter” isn’t important at all. I would rather have Vaughn leading off. I was under the impression that traditional assumptions about lineup construction have more recently been proven to be bogus anyway…

Haseley leading off and Sheets batting third makes Leury batting third last year look like sheer fucking genius. What a joke. 11 losses in a row, here we come!

With all do respect, I don’t. At this point, the best outcome there is for the team is for Hahn’s entire operation to go completely down in flames in historic fashion. Reinsdorf will only respond to losing real value, and this is the only way to exact that. It’s clear Hahn and co. cant win. If Reinsdorf won’t sell the best outcome is for whatever next yes man to get lucky. Hahn is neither lucky or good.

I want them to play and I want them to lose don’t stop now boys!

2020 to 8/12/21: 103-73 8/13/21 to present: 113-123 The best it would ever get was the field of dreams game. A game that didn’t even really matter much. That was our World Series with this bunch. That was enough for them. That one regular season game. What a shame it was so fleeting.

Losing is a disease as contagious as syphillus