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Yes, Kelly made the pitch he needed to make there. I'm not worried about him yet despite the walks -- it's early. But there's no reason we should've come out of that inning any worse than down 1 run (and really should've been tied).

Yes, Kelly made the pitch he needed to make there. I'm not worried about him yet despite the walks -- it's early. But there's no reason we should've come out of that inning any worse than down 1 run (and really should've been tied).

I would, too, if I had a time machine set to 2019. But I'm afraid we would be selling very low on him if we traded him now. That said, if we could get a legit rotation piece or more athletic everyday player for him I'd be all for it.

We had something to do with that, shutting them down for three games in their home park. Hopefully we can cool the Yankees down. Look forward to seeing what happens (Option A: Sox prove they can't hang with the big boys; Option B: Sox get lucky and "catch" the Yankees at the beginning of a cold streak)

Just let me see the full lineup for a little while for god’s sake. It’s happened so rarely over the past two seasons.

Loved him in Poltergeist. “Go to the light!”

That ole 7-wins-in-8-games “bleeding.” Thank god!

Me too. Also the announcers. Also the reviewers, and also the ump

Come on, it's a SSS issue. There's no magical quality possessed by AL Central teams -- we just happened to have played our worst in the small number of series we've played against them prior to early May 2022. We'll see how it shakes out over a whole season.

Take a gander at the gamethreads -- just threads in general -- from the 99-win, wire-to-wire, 11-1 postseason World Series championship season of 2005. It was gutwrenching. It was conventional wisdom that the Sox were a moribund offensive team of chokers who "couldn't beat the good teams" to save their lives. It was not really that fun here then, and it won't ever be.

It was fun from the perspective of a casual fan. I know plenty of mental case Cub fanatics that were near-suicidal at various times, especially if you count the entire 5-year window you cite. Short of a 110-win season followed by total playoff domination, following the team through this board will never be fun.

Amen. With the benefit of a little cooling-off time, last night actually had several "long-term" positives. The offense woke up and kept pushing despite some shitty luck at the end. Pollock may have shaken off the dust. Kopech is looking like an ace, which could be huge. The ninth was a comedy of errors that can hopefully be chalked up to "one of those innings" and won't linger. If we win this series all will be forgotten - let's start tonight.

Are you really here gloating?

Serious question: are you an actual polar bear?

Well, you did. You typed these words: "Burger is better than Moncada or Harrison and that's a fact." If you want to walk that position back, though, I don't blame you.

Putting your little debate club skirmish aside, do you actually think Jake Burger is a better player than Yoan Moncada? Or is this a bit?

Let's go Sox: turn the Guardians into a team over which victories are no longer impressive!

Was about to search my history for you, but I guess see the posts immediately surrounding yours for one of them ?

A few of said posters praised the BoSox off-season specifically while blasting the White Sox by comparison. Don’t worry, though, I’m sure they now discount the sweep in Fenway as meaningless because the Red Sox are obviously a bad team. I mean, the White Sox beat them!

Dear god. This is like the fifth time. No offense, but your joke detector is seriously broken.

I’m talking about the supposedly easy schedule they’re about to face, beginning with the Astros

I don’t see the Twins keeping this up, despite the supposedly easy schedule

My biggest fear is that the Sox will go out and win the World Series and fool the world into thinking the front office built a World Series-winning team.

I think last year it was because of Patriots’ Day/Boston Marathon. That already happened this year…I believe this early start can be blamed on the peacock broadcasting nonsense.

Yes, if there’s one thing the Soxtalk anti-fans are good at, it’s admitting when they’re wrong