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Has he been good enough to get someone to take on his deal next season?

Take one for the team Beni.

Be a hero Chase.

Ok fine start Sam every day even against lefties, and bat Chase #2 for the love of Pope Bob.

He hit Sal Stewart in the head after throwing one in almost the exact same spot earlier in the AB. Benches cleared, they tossed Martin even though it was clear it wasn't intentional and that he's just a horrible pitcher.

Yeah, I think he just overrated what he had as well. He should have known Martin is cooked and he needed another high leverage arm in the pen. Billy Carlson better be the next Cal Ripken Jr.

Getz really f*cked the chance to do anything meaningful in the playoffs, be lucky to even make them at this point.

Thanks for keeping this one off my permanent record Ron.

Thanks Ron, I actually had work to do at work this morning and didn't see it got pushed up otherwise I would have kept my hot streak of 1 win going.

I'm heading to the game in a few, I'll do my best to bring home a W.

I've only been here for 20+ years and never started a gamethread, hopefully I did it correctly.

It was iffy, over the shoulder running with his back to the infield and nearly made a basket catch, would have been a helluva play if he made it. Does Chase make it? Potentially, but not certain.

What is the point of any of this? Every thread on SoxTalk is merely symbolic of how another year's gone by and how little we've grown, no matter how desperate we are that someday a better team will emerge, with each flicker of the fireworks behind the scoreboard, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end, inevitably, irrecovacly, Go White Sox? No such thing.

Oh had Hudson not faced the min yet? I guess I didn't realize that, my bad.

I have a bottle of Lagavulin reserved for the day I read that obituary.

I'm not sure of the exact figures, but there's been a slew of articles about baseball ratings overtaking the NBA recently, or at least closing the gap. A stoppage would likely wash most of that away for years.

I found it very Grifol-esque of Will to leave Hudson in against Elly last night when Elly has been killing LHP this year and clearly Hudson is cooked. Rough game for Will last night.

Why does it feel like every time in my life the Sox are ready to be awesome there is a lockout of some kind, i.e. 1994, 2020, 2027? Baseball has overtaken the NBA in popularity during this supposed crisis, are the owners really willing to piss that away? I sure hope not.

Yeah I would definitely inlcude those as well, couldn't remember if they came out before of after.

I often cite this as the last funny movie ever made. You'd never be able to get away with half the sh*t they say in here today!

Part of me really wants to see Sam and Chase bat 1-2 every night. Chase is basically the prototypical #2 hitter of yesteryear that has gone out of style, Mune does have a better OBP than Chase, but I feel like Chase is so hard to strike out and goes deep into counts that he would really thrive in that role and benefit the team.

Not that anybody cares, but my Uncle Jim was roommates with the Pope at Seminary High in MI and at Villanova. Jim is a huge Sox fan still and keeps in touch with "Bob" a bit, but not as much lately for obvious reasons.

John Salley once said that the only teammate he ever had that he would confidently say did not cheat on their wife was Mark Price.

I recall writing on this site during his prime that I couldn't wait to never watch him play again. I remember being told I would have to wait a really long time for that, it was even faster than I had hoped. In my meaningless opinion, he never played the game the right way, flicked off fans multiple times, never put in the effort to get better, never even had the desire to learn proper footwork defensively, thought he was bigger than the game and that his raw talent was enough to net him a 9 figure payday. Tim was already cooked when Jose laid him out (to me it was the bad Hanser Alberto play where he jacked up his knee that truly was the beginning of the end), but the fact that Jose Ramirez, who to me exemplifies the way baseball is meant to be played putting the final nail in his coffin was the storybook ending that Tim deserved.

What are you doing with Chase then? He's pretty awesome with the glove there.