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I agree. Every time I hear his call if the magical FOD walk-off I cringe. He sounds like one of my kids whining for ice cream

This is quite literally what I’ve been waiting for. We’ve got close to our full team now. No excuses—let’s go on a run.

Exacerbated. “Exasperated” is what I am when you keep writing “exasperated” when you mean “exacerbated.” Thank you, carry on.

To me his effort suggested he may be following organizational guidance that he should not sprint for the wall or otherwise go all-out on tough plays deep in the outfield.

I think this is it. And it affected Engel, too, effectively forcing him to run when he normally wouldn’t. I think seeing Moncada barreling toward him probably injected just a bit of additional doubt into Engel that led to the strange outcome.

Trying to make myself forget the embarrassment of the 7th inning and remember that we had a very impressive sweep in SF, followed by a game that really should have been their fourth win in a row. Hopefully we look back in two days saying “well, two out of three and we really should’ve swept them.” Start fresh tonight.

Yeah “hopefully” that happens. ?

Single digit gamethread page count? Something may be happening here…

To the contrary, watching the Sox shut the Yankees offense down by sweeping a DH in Yankee Stadium made me realize the Yanks simply can’t play with the White Sox….no wait, I meant to say neither one matters bc basing playoff predictions on any one day of the first half of the regular season is fucking idiotic, sorry got mixed up

On behalf of the 20% of the board that wants you to be right…LFG.

Just realizing that I'm so conditioned to expect and accept injury that I find myself almost grateful when the inevitable injury is not to a star. Like: "that's nothing, Robert could've broken his neck..." That said, feel horrible for Mendick and hope it looked worse than it is.

Fine with this, and I say that as a frequent critic of TLR's lineups. TA clearly needed a day, half our lineup is injured/unavailable. The only one who could be there to upgrade is Pollock but I imagine he needs a day too.

Suck it

Hahahahahaha suck it, Soxtalk

Definitely a marked improvement over last year's series in Houston, where we got absolutely blown out. Could easily have won this series. We've played a lot better against good teams than we did last year despite the worse overall record. It was the failure to hang in with good teams that folks around here elevated in importance over all other factors last year. I guess by that measure we've improved.

Feeling pretty good about my trajectory! Paragraph 2 arriving in T-minus 20 days.

Damn—10 page game thread. Don’t need to check the score—congrats everybody!

Wait what

No Eloy tonight, again. Tim leading off and playing SS.

Yes, I was fully expecting The Cooler to rest all regulars and get us a nice momentum-killing loss today. Holding my breath for him to bench Moncada for failing to stand during one of the "Salute our Heroes" segments or something, but who knows -- maybe we'll be allowed a real, unfuckedwith winning streak this time!

Yes, this is definitely a job for...The Cooler

Absolutely. I have a son in high school and he's legitimately busy--8 hours of in-class time followed by sports and then homework. College is a breeze compared to that. Hell, I had more time in law school than that (and certainly more than I do now).

I'll go: to add to the recs from Southsidehitmen, Vito & Nick's, Michael's, and the most underrated in the city in my opinion: Bartoli's. Edit: Eater has a solid overview here: https://chicago.eater.com/maps/best-chicago-thin-crust-pizza-restaurants-tavern-style

The TLR-thrown games have masked what may be a real awakening by the offense. We really should have won series against the Dodgers and Rangers, which coming out of the Rays series win would have had us all feeling pretty good. Hoping the bats stay hot and the pitching comes back around. It's high time we get on a little bit of a roll.

Finally -- somebody willing to stand up for your early 20s as a fun time of life ?