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Looking at things objectively, there's a reason that very few teams in baseball have ever used two closers together earning that type of money for 1 1/2 seasons together. Because it's hard to retain their value...with Andrew Miller (who was always more of a multi-inning high leverage guy) perhaps the closest in his prime. The hard thing here is the ideal situation would be Hendriks pitching high leverage and Kimbrel closing, but that's the opposite of the way it's likely to play out. Just have a feeling that Kimbrel won't do as well as Hendriks in that role because Liam has done it for so much of his career, whereas Kimbrel is so acclimated with being THE guy down in the pen. It's a big adjustment, especially for a future HoF who statistically was the best closer in baseball this season...until he changed teams.

Here we go again…

Collins should have been a catcher in the dead ball era…when nobody could score and framing didn’t exist.

Now, just when you start feeling too relaxed…let’s make this as painless as possible, Garrett.

Blink and you missed it…

Only thing missing is the cursed Southside jerseys…might as well keep them mothballed.

Yeah, when we picked him up originally…hadn’t realized he was a solid career 775ish ops guy.

Just hope being so cavalier about this fourth run doesn’t come back to bite them…

Well, at least we won’t have our “Jose Abreu isn’t clutch thread” out again…knock on wood.

They were apparently tired of reading complaints the last month from SoxTalk…

Saving legs for October…or his next reggaeton video.

Sheets says not so fast sending me down…but that’s encouraging that he could take what the pitcher gave him instead of rolling over into a DP.

LaRussa with the brilliant lineup construction…has Zavala here so they couldn’t have walked Hernandez to get to Seby’s spot instead. Guess Collins would have pinch hit instead.

Well, still impossible to feel comfortable without at least a three or four run lead….

Really have to get Kimbrel back out there tomorrow in the 9th and rest Liam until at least Sunday…

The crazy thing is that imagine if Goodwin also had that grand slam that he missed by about two feet not so long ago…

Guess Goodwin isn’t going to be the odd one out anytime soon…no way LaRussa keeps Sheets over him.

Who in God’s name pitches the bottom of the 10th?

It’s really crazy how we can be so dead with so many sparks from unexpected sources like Yermin, Rodon, Sheets, Burger, Goodwin, Hamilton. Granted, there’s always the dog days of summer one or no division competition or playing in front of crowds on the road or not motivated with the Cubs a AAAA team now. This is like the postseason for Cubs’ fans, though.

Will Hendriks be available by Sunday at this rate…?

Once again, no sense of urgency holding runners…

Blame this loss on the dog park, or all dogs in general…guess it’s those idiotic Cubs’ uniforms.

Now suddenly LaRussa actually wants to have his best pitcher out there and not lose this one?

Just happy we don’t have the 2005 Indians barreling down behind these Sox…

Now we have the dreaded curse of the closer in a tie game. Glad I slept from 2 a.m to 6 a.m. or I would be even more irate.