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Dispirited resistance. Benintendi closing in on being the new Pollock. Doesn't look happy.

Expected to go 4 innings... roughly 60 pitches. But not as a classic opener.

I would watch it five more times (or Air) before dealing with Renfield or The Pope's Exorcist. The new Evil Dead movie has been drawing raves...at least there's that.

Beckham is so terrible to listen to. Would rather hear fingernails on a chalkboard. Switched to Rays' feed.

Even trading Robert Cease and TA7 might get you the equivalent (together) of one of the Big 3 trades of 2016-17.

The Rays are a lot like the Giants (two years ago) Brewers and Guardians... line up does not jump out at you at all, but they mesh together so well. That said, if Harold Ramirez was on the Sox/Royals/Tigers... his OPS would undoubtedly be sub 600 territory.

Jay Cuda could do better than Hahn assembling this bullpen... (Watched Jose Ruiz pitching last night for AZ... looked better again.)

Did you just watch Tetris The Movie?

Wonder Bread or Wander Franco? ChatGPT4 really has taken over your account lol? Without 20-25 homers... he's probably closer to 6.5ish fWAR territory.

Hosmer clearly the key, lol…

I was comparing to the equivalent of MSU/MI...not Cubs/Sox.

They all missed less games per season than TA7, Jimenez, Robert and Moncada in their Sox careers except Moncada is slightly ahead of Rowand and then Crede had one major injury (and not repetitive injuries over and over and over again) after his four most productive Sox seasons. If we keep adjusting for every day that Moncada and TA7 are missing in 2023, it gets even closer and closer. Fact, Herm Schneider had the least player days missed in the AL due to injury compared to every trainer in the AL in the 90s and 2000s. Meanwhile the three trainers since then have all been pretty abysmal and two have been dismissed or pushed out.

Maybe…if you look at that 2005 team Jenks, Crede and Rowand broke down fairly quickly. Dye was that same exact size when I saw him playing with Macon in 1994 and then the Royals. Pablo Ozuna had been popped in the minors. Hard to draw any conclusions. Guys like Everett, AJ, Konerko and Uribe pretty much maintained similar physiques and had relatively long/er careers. We know all about the positions of Thomas and Thome (2006 onwards) on the use of PED’s. Carlos Quentin would seem like a pretty obvious possibility because he was a really big dude…like Canseco…and he just completely fell apart due to the toll injuries and taking everything so hard psychologically (dealing with failure). Too cerebral and in his own head way too much.

Burger doesn't have enough lateral quickness/quick twitch reflexes for third... he certainly doesn't have the range and burst for second. Doesn't matter about his arm. He's also going to be in a world of hurt turning double plays and throwing across/against his body because he's lacking in overall athleticism. Jumping over base runners and/or deftly side-stepping them? No no no... can't do it.

2013 Hahn starts 2023 KW and Hahn both depart... ten years is more than enough evidence accumulating to make significant changes. A decade of all Sox fan lives is a pretty precious commodity that's being taken for granted.

Having an incredible breakout. Of course Cubs needed a better guy there than Michael Fulmer. That's not the guy who lives in the van down by the river with Chris Farley is it? Just remembered it was Daniel Norris lol. Heyward of all Dodgers with the key at bat of the game.

Mookie Betts at SS so Outman and Trayce Thompson can play RF and CF...never thought I'd be typing that about five years ago.

https://nypost.com/2023/04/20/michael-kays-excuse-for-stantons-lack-of-hustle-off-base/

See old Memorial Stadium in CLE, the "mistake by the lake."

James Outman announces he will never play for the Chicago White Sox (in the future) until/unless Rick Hahn is replaced as GM...

Going to have to be like the Cubs throwing "undervalued/buy low" veterans like Wisdom Bellinger (potentially undervalued long term but not cheap), Mancini Hosmer Barnhart etc., at the problem. That's unfortunately much harder to do with veteran pitching due to cost the scarcity of high quality arms that go unsigned late.

White Sox lose Ethan Katz to ___?___ PAC Ten or SEC baseball program...

Now you can do one for Greg about his views on souvenirs/concession/parking prices, having a beer with Ozzie and the 2005 team at Applebee's in Lawrence, Chicagoland high school memories vis a vis the current diminished state of Catholic school education, the Royals and "lift and pull" corpseball....add the TA7 and now Burger to catcher schtick in there as well. Oh, haircuts during Covid, encountering "interesting" strangers in the Subway sandwich line...Covid policies in general. That's a wide breadth of material to cover, but ChatGPT4 can surely handle it.

Now you've gone and done it... Ron and KyYle and about 4-5 others will descend like locusts. The saddest thing about this season isn't being proven right about Hahn...it's just that ONCE AGAIN we have to watch other teams in baseball to actually experience high-quality baseball. I honestly don't know if we would be in much better shape had we retained TLR, but it's hard to imagine things being much worse, especially the future outlook and exactly where the heck do they go from here. And my prediction has been fulfilled at 3-2-1....just like clockwork.