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Big decision coming up if he loses Belt.

No way Burger makes that play to the backhand...or makes that off balance sidearm flip throw.

Doesn't seem like they can get lucky with Banks two consecutive days...but TLR seems likely to try his luck. Belt/Yaz next.

Cease continues to maintain that highest whiff rate in baseball on the slider... Who will be the first out of the pen today? Foster or Ruiz? Banks? Aiyo.

Ball definitely hasn't been carrying well so far this series. Except for the Sheets ball with all the underspin...but that was under the wind.

Didn't Liam claim he would be back around July 1st at one point? That always seemed awfully optimistic.

In this day and age, at least six. Anything less and you're exposing your bullpen...especially without Hendriks and Bummer.

Zavala with the Tony Gwynn serve into LCF. Cease looks like he's going 5 again unless he works extremely fast as the order flips a third time through.

Yeah. Good fortune to avoid him if they can end up sweeping the Giants going into a crucial series with the Twins Monday. Just noticed Damion Lee left the Warriors 90 minutes after his first pitch yesterday, haha.

That play/call looks very familiar in SF with Flowers and the Posey rule.

Wonder why they won't start Rodon on regular rest for Desclafini on Sunday...going with bullpen/AAA starter instead.

Jessie Plemmons with some really poor luck that inning partially erased by his own play on the swinging bunt.

The Giants probably felt it was there year as well in 2021. Rarely works out that way, especially if a shorter division series starts going the wrong way starting off at home for a favorite.

Why would a team like the A’s interested in cutting payroll down to the bone want Eloy? Why would one extra year of control matter (unless they picked up even more expensive options) when they aren’t going to be a contender for the foreseeable future?

Just like Hahn just once in his career admitted to a mistake. Hahn has owned the Tatis Jr. trade, calling himself a “jackass” in front of fans and telling MLB.com’s Scott Merkin, “That was probably the last deal we made with having a short-term mindset in mind. Ultimately when this thing gets right, we are going to once again have a shorter time arising goal with our trades. It doesn’t mean you want to make a deal that haunts you for the long term, obviously.” Every GM has a trade he’d like to take back. Around that same time, the Marlins traded Luis Castillo, got him back due to a medical dispute, and then traded him again in the offseason. It was also the summer where the Dodgers traded Yordan Alvarez, as outlined here. Though Hahn admitted to Greenberg in 2017, “I probably physically cringe whenever I see a Tatis highlight,” the club embarked on what seems to have been a successful rebuilding effort after the ’16 season. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/04/how-did-the-white-sox-trade-fernando-tatis-jr.html

I wonder whether the Sox or Bulls will be the first to land a true superstar from outside the organization…especially in free agency. Dates back to the mid to late 90’s for both. Belle for the Sox, the Rodman trade for the Bulls.

Leury Legend/Moonfall Averted

We have been same some version of this for two plus months now. Waiting for Godot.

QVC here it comes...hot off the presses. Doubles as a TLR/Hahn protest shirt.

Four teams within one game in WC race. Rangers Sox Angels Mariners. Tampa Bay really hitting a lull as well.

Sox with the must-win.

Not sure Anderson has the easiest play there. It worked. Nobody hurt.

Webb. Cease can only go 5-6.

Maybe in mortuary science?

Those are the autographed ones. Simply priceless. Outselling Benetti and Stone Sox Charities t-shirts 5 to 1.