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Even I don't need this. We have a thread for it.

That's what I would expect. The pen has been already running a dude short with Taylor doing the Opener thing, but on top of it, the starters have been awful as a unit. They have definitely been less than half of the teams innings up to this point, which is rough on a pen.

My guess is that he serves as an extra pen pitcher in the short term, and then either gets sent back down, or someone else does, when Smith's turn comes up to start, someone else gets called up to start.

Anybody else enter the Olympic ticket lottery? I got picked, so I am curious if anyone knows anything about it.

FWIW, Michael denied this yesterday.

If you can explain to me how the White Sox would have taken on a newer ownership investment to pay off operations debt without accruing any operations debt, I will listen. Until then, yes I believe it, considering Ishbia was brought in early to pay off the money the Sox have spent the last 6 years losing.

THat's what I was thinking too.

After he gets fired in a decade and people blame him for everything.

Rick Hahn, of course

The kid in stranger things.

You realize your entertainment isn't more important than player development, right?

Taylor unavailable (assuming so) after three games in four days. Hicks tries to extend an inning and obviously doesn't have it, gives up hard contact in his second inning. Instead of having Taylor either for the entire 8th, or after Hicks couldn't extend, now we are down to Murphy, and against the Orioles best hitter in high leverage, he hits a bomb.

Even better.

And Benny rescues Rogers anyway.

Terrible play at 1B.

He has one challenge left.

And he still gets out of it. Wow.

yeah, I caught a lot of 93s along the way. Trying to figure out if he was holding back for movement, because everything was moving like CRAZY, or if something is up.

Bold of you to show up at all, much like his career since he signed with the White Sox.

WTAF was Benny doing?

I would say that he is much closer to ready than Braden. Not sure I see the need to rush him either, but I would rather see Ant than Braden now. Let these guys force the issue. This is a lost year, let them earn their way in, instead of jacking around with them.

I feel like this would be messing with his development because they are cheap. Why is everyone convinced he is ready TODAY? He's got like 140 AA ABs.

#1: I am not convinced that today is one of the best 25. #2: Even if he was, why would you start his clock in this dumpster fire and waste a year of control for no good reason?