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You're barking up the wrong tree, Stone Pony. Btw, time to eat a salad (with no dressing)! No Ruth's Chris/Morton's steak and potatoes for you.

Not sure that relying on those depth pieces says much of anything positive about Rick Hahn. Hamilton was great in 2021, in a very limited role...as the last man on the roster. NOBODY clamored for Mark Payton. Madrigal at least would be MUCH cheaper than any veteran negligible replacement value middle infielder. Heuer would be useful down the line, as well. Not sure WHO wants Leury over anyone but Sosa/Romy/Andrus/Alberto....the lesser/least of FOUR evils there? Rick Hahn finally got one right with Abreu...or two times, because the 3 year extension was fine until it blocked Vaughn and retarded his development as a 1B. McGuire at least hustled and did a much better job at controlling opponents' running games...and Diekman was only traded for due to the complete lack of depth in the system behind Bummer and the injured Crochet. Yermin at least was FUN and ENTERTAINING...something the White Sox and pretty much any professional baseball club are supposed to be in the business of providing to fans.

Yoshida was a solid move...but the problem is that it's a win-now move, like Jansen as closer. They clearly decided to prioritize Devers over Bogaerts, with Xander already at age 30 (and likely being unable to sign BOTH). Jaren Duran's been on a tear. Btw, Yoshida now well into the 900's for OPS. Story has been a disastrous signing. Sale's struggles and contract extension are well-documented. Red Sox fans got spoiled and came to expect a competitive team year in and year out...not so easy in the AL East, with Baltimore finally rising from the ashes like a Phoenix. All that said, hard to expect much more than 17-14.

Pretty sure the record without Anderson was something like 2-15 or 3-14 this most recent stretch. Obviously the recent ten game losing streak didn't help matters much. Engel makes sense as he usually came in defensively to preserve leads or in close and tight games...or used as a pinch runner late.

Everything went extremely well with the performance, with the caveat that Mr. Lincoln was killed at the end...which pretty much overshadowed all of the positives of the evening combined.

Boomer Humor...I can say that at 53 1/2, lol. You almost knew that Colome was going to get touched up. The shocker was the unheralded guys like Santos and Middleton holding up in high leverage situations.

Probably reminiscing with Konerko about 2005 and that last out WS game ball...

Well, 5 and 8 games back is a heckuva lot better than how things were looking trailing by 5 runs late on SUN.

Hamilton and Colome....not recreating 2021 and 2020 magic, exactly.

Tightrope act coming here in 3, 2, 1....

BONUS SAVINGS!!!

OOops, forgot no Kelly availability. Lopez, too.

Assuming no Lopez...who the heck will Grifol go to next? Graveman and Kelly seem pretty obvious. Bummer, just because his "stuff" always seems like it will pay off at SOME point in a positive way. Lambert has to be running on fumes even with the off day.

Robert desperately needed that hit...was headed straight towards the Mendoza Line.

Somehow, we're going to get a segue way to Home Alone. Benintendi led directly to three runs tonight....Correa robbery and then keeping Jimenez out of LF and off the field except the basepaths and batter's box.

And Middleton arguably #2.

Not quite as bad as the Lynn post no-hitter implosion. Progress of sorts?

Well, I've written only about 100 or so times about Bellinger in different ways...obviously he's one of the two White Sox players of the game so far, by virtue of saving a Correa homer (and implicitly saving Eloy, who somehow would have ended up injured on that type of jump.)

Wasn't it all the way out in Cali? Business interests there...?

Worst case with Bellinger, you're only out that $18.5 million or whatever. Best case is that you can trade him for a good return at the deadline or extend him on a team-friendly deal...although that's not going to be an easy one for the Sox to pull off.

Moves for the sake of moves...we're doing SOMETHING at least. We care about our fans' feedback, etc.

JR is happy at least that you're gambling on baseball... Andrew now in the 660s range for OPS but at least the one DRS tonight.

Would like to see just one legit prospect at the AAA/AA level, like the Guardians and Twins have.

Eloy would have killed himself there... somehow. Correa has been pretty woeful so far, nothing going his way this year.

Except as a platoon DH and part time 1B. We already recognized long ago Sheets should never ever be in the outfield. And Haseley at the very least earned another start...he must feel discouraged. I guess it's because Sox PR is hyping Larry errr Gavin up yet again as the next Palka-esque hope of the franchise. Ridiculous. Not even 1987 Orioles fans would buy that one.