Dick Allen

No one has looked especially good on defense yet. Moncada has made a couple of nice plays, but shaky a couple of times as well.

Estimates they lost $40 million last season. Also interesting, their numbers, who industry insiders say are all wrong, spit out these evaluations, and the Mets were sold within !% of their evaluation.

One thing I don't understand is he seems to think Leury is better LH than RH.

He couldn't PH for Leury. Who else would play SS? Moncada I guess.

He started off like the 2020 version, but he did settle down a bit. I don't think he will be a Cy Young guy, but should be improved.

If Robin Ventura or Ricky Renteria were managing a White Sox team that lost 3 games in 4 days, 2 when they were leading in the 8th inning, and 1 when it was tied in the 9th, this place would be hopping with posts calling for their heads. And they managed shitty teams.

The fact of the matter is, if the previous guy was still here, he would be taking a lot of heat on this board after this series. The defense was bad. The bullpen certainly didn't look as good as advertised. Marshall and Ruiz getting Ls. Not good. I was laughing at Steve Stone the other night when he was jerking Tony off saying individual numbers didn't matter, it was all about the team, specifically pointing out Lance Lynn didn't get his 38th consecutive start with at least 100 pitches. He must have missed how he left Hendricks in a blowout just so he could get a save, and might have cost the Sox a game the next night.

Listening to these ESPN dopes, you would think Ohtani has 15 ks and a perfect game going. Yet itis3-3 and he didnt make it ouf of the 5th

This isn't going as hoped.

So Madrigal makes one bad throw and it’s questionable whether or not he will be able to make throws? Using the same logic, when do you question when Billy Hamilton takes over CF ?

Iowa is pork tenderloin and Maid-Rite sandwiches.

That’s awesome.

The bright side is after Tuesday, the Sox have 2 games remaining this season that start after 7:10. September 7th and 8th, 8:40 starts in Oakland.

Collins is catching tonight. I would imagine they would want Yoan back out on the field to try to get the taste from last night out of his mouth.

Eloy is a beloved teammate with a serious injury who may miss the entire season. Why are so many so butt hurt his teammates are showing him some love?

The thing that concerned me was when they showed the replay in slow motion, that pitch started out way outside, and was breaking even farther. I have no idea what or why he was swinging at it. Maybe he just couldn't pick him up. Especially with tight sliders, it's hard many times to pick of the spin, but even if that was a fastball, he wasn't going to hit it.

He wears an oven mitt, and dove into 3rd. Getting hurt is the main worry for me. He got hurt a couple years ago in spring training stealing 2nd with a feet first slide.

During the year Yolmer won the GG, wasn't he god awful defensively the first couple weeks of the season?

Yeah, if it's a gimme, might as well take it.. It worked out pretty well. But if he got thrown out, and/or was hurt, he'd be getting the business for the attempt last night and today.

It's the Tigers, so not really.

I don't understand why people are already starting with the bitching. Let's give a history of Yasmani Grandal on Soxtalk. 2019, Sox sign James McCann. Soxtalk: WTF? We have Narvaez and Kevan Smith, why sign this bum. If you're going to sign a catcher, sign Grandal. 2020 Sox sign Grandal. Soxtalk: WTF? We have James McCann. Now Grandal can't do anything right. Of course Gio didn't pitch too badly with Grandal catching, something Soxtalk was silent about. If you recall, Gio can't pitch to Grandal. Madrigal made a bad throw. It cost the Sox the game. We didn't learn anything. Soxtalk has always wondered how the career .340 hitter is on the team. Leury is great, until he goes 0-4, then he should no longer be on a major league field. At least Adam Eaton, who has no power, and bat is so slow, he looks like he's 50 years old, hit a homer. And as I predicted when he got hired, the HOFer baseball person got criticized game one. He doesn't know as much as a message board poster.

Obviously Madrigal's bad throw cost them the game. Pujols "grounder" was proof the baseball gods didn't want the Sox to win. The only thing that really concerns me was that last pitch Robert swung at. It was a slider 3 feet outside, and never looked like it would be anything but a ball. Hopefully he either couldn't pick it up for some reason, or was just having a bad night. If he is flailing away at pitches like that from now on, the Sox have a problem.

Yes, add Gonzalez to my list.

My wife doesn’t think I can stay up for the entire game. I am accepting her challenge.

Lamb, Hamilton, Adolfo, Rutherford, Sheets, Zavala are all guys that won’t be contributing to White Sox playoff runs. Burger I am holding out on, I think Rutherford and Adolfo could get you a low prospect with an exceptional skill that needs to be but probably won’t be refined.