Dick Allen

I agree. The guy hasn’t pitched in a real game in a couple of months and only a couple of real games in well over a year. Giving him no room for error the first appearance after his return is asking for trouble.

Go away Mazara.Eloy hurt himself sliding into home.

Fucking Renteria. Why is Yolmer playing?

It will be interesting to see what Rodon has coming out of the bullpen. Since his shoulder surgery, his first inning usually featured his lowest velocity. If he can throw 95 and command his slider, he would be pretty tough but he wasnt able to do that consistently before the shoulder and elbow problems. We will see. I have always liked him, but he is probably in his final days with the White Sox. I can’t see them paying him his arb figure. I really didn’t get why they did it this year.

Detwiler should try to learn a knuckleball. I don’t know why guys with pretty much no career left don’t give it a shot, Obviously not everyone can do it, but some busted out pitcher out there could be the next RJDickey or Wilbur Wood. They fit into today’s game quite well. Everyone is geared up for 95-100. A floater is going to be a tough adjustment. They can eat up innings. Catchers hate them because their passed balls go up, but with sabermetrics they probably won’t be hurt too much. And yes, they usually are pretty easy to run on but nobody runs anymore. Todd Frazier was throwing one the other night, and struck someone and a couple cans of corn.

I get that, I just hope Ricky doesn't get tossed and Super Joe thinks Ruiz is a good idea vs. Jose Ramirez with the game on the line tonight.

Yes, he will have to turn in his playbook.

Wasn't Stiever already sent to Woodfield Mall?

Detwiler is going the wrong way and has a history showing that wrong way is really him. He's probably better than Ruiz. Cishek is probably better than Ruiz, but it's close enough for a who cares?

Didn’t you once tell us it was very possible if not probable Luis Robert would have no valleys? I do agree with most of what you wrote. Playing the Yankees in round one isn’t optimal but they can at least lose one, and is it that much different than playing Cleveland? You have to beat them all anyway. I am hoping this is like 2005, bad baseball followed by another hot streak. Besides, I didn’t think they would win 34 games.

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Gio is a gas can at this point. They said Colome was warming up so either it didn’t go well or they were saving him for a save situation. Detwiler has been bad lately, I take it Foster wasn’t available. Gio made a horrible pitch. The Sox lost 2 huge games with the last guys in their bullpen on the mound. If it’s the 14th or 15th inning, you could understand, but not the 9th and 10th.

Top notch White Sox insider not Steve Cishek, says he will be activated yesterday.

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4 innings, 1 run, 8 strikeouts. Clearly there is something wrong.

Robert 0 for his last 26. Moncada 1 for his last 33. That is pretty incredible.

Clevinger just departed after 1 inning pitched. He had the start pushed back because of something with his bicep.

He was with the team in Cincinnati. Now not Steve can’t even hit a cookie. Maybe he is Luis Robert.

Not Steve was wrong again.

The thing is the players love Renteria. That is a big positive. His bullpen management, one of a major league manager’s biggest responsibilities leaves a lot to be desired. Colome gets hurt, but in the 10th inning with the game on the line and Jose Ramirez at the plate, you have Ruiz out there and are pitching to him....As Hawk would say, you have got to be bleepin me. Still in 1st.

In a way, I don’t mind them getting the bad baseball out of their system before the playoffs start.

He cannot admit he made the Ruiz call. It would cost him money and games.

Foster must have had something going on whether they thought his workload was too much recently or his falling off the mound again is some sort of injury, but if it was that, they would probably have had a trainer out there. I did find it out that as the inning began and Foster had to face at least 3 batters, they had Ruiz and Gonzalez warming up. I figured if it got to the point they had to come in the game would be over.

RR made the call. His saying why he “thought” Super Joe made the move is akin to Rick Hahn telling you Madrigal looks like he needs 2 more days in Schaumburg to be ready. He was tossed. If he admits he made the move he will get fined and/or suspended.

That last AB when Stone was talking about Lindor not being at 3rd could let Ruiz bury a slider, I was almost hoping he would because that would have opened up 1st, and then certainly the bat would have been taken out of Ramirez’s hands. Ronert should have caught that ball. Tough loss. Get the bad stretch out of your system for the playoffs.