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Amazing launch angle by Sheets. Wouldn't have been a homer in a phone booth.

Can't even get Rodon vs. the Sox to get the thread page count to 10 this series.

Not clutch this year. At least get can't hit into DPs with nobody on base.

Vaughn is broken all of a sudden. Maybe feeling the pressure with friends/family/classmates in attendance?

Yaz is not a great CFer, but that was as good a play as he can possibly make. Fundamentally sound.

Another homer lost that Yaz finally caught up to. Injured. Just a bit too much hang time.

That's why they are nicknamed The Flash Boys.

Integral part of the evaluation process when you bring someone on board. Even then, look at all the issues with Madrigal, who was billed as a manager playing the field.

It wouldn't be hard at all with 150-200 healthy at-bats. Alas.

At least it's fast-paced. Lynn shrugged off injury.

Homer at GRF with warm summer winds blowing out...

The Will to Win

Tailor-made double play ball right into the shift.

Just need to wait on Moncada and Grandal to turn things around...

Zaidi is one of the Top 3-5 execs in the sport. Full stop. The weakness this year has been injuries and the rotation aside from Webb and Rodon. Losing Gausman really hurt.

Observer? He works for the UN Human Rights Commission?

At 6'5" 285 and his advancing age What could go possibly wrong? Why the hell is Leury so far down the RF line?

Sosa should simply appreciate the twelve at-bat tryout and stop hunting for hits...pulling low and away to 2B every at bat is far more preferable.

He definitely would have had less outfield territory to cover in GRF...

Can't we say the same about Cueto? Or Narvaez/McCann before they came to the Sox?

Sure would be nice to have Joc Pederson in the Sox lineup... That the players are already having thoughts about it being a "sit and wait year" is quite a telling quote from Liam. At least he didn't speak of blowing things up as that would be even more depressing.

Don’t you mean the Warriors or Bucks in your first sentence? Or just E.C?

Why can’t they be cheap but at least spending their limited money effectively like the Rays, Twins and Guardians??? There’s certainly no Mariners/Angels/Phillies/Rangers award for allocating payroll resources inefficiently. No Sox fan goes to the ballpark feeling grateful for the 7th highest payroll in the majors because everyone in the world can see how poorly it’s distributed. We said it the entire offseason…it’s clear we were going backwards from playoffs 2000 and first half of last season. Nobody predicted Grandal, Moncada and Giolito being this bad…but about 75-80% of what has transpired was easily foreseeable. Nobody thought LaRussa could be this much worse than he already was…but he didn’t have a sinking ship to fix, and that has proved to be a task well out of reach for not only TLR, but all the coaches, trainers and strength & conditioning staff. Certainly our co-GM has been pretty much helpless. But we feel better knowing he is hurting his hand slamming his file drawers over LaRussa in-games decisions. Then stop bring such a pussy and fix the damn roster…do something besides casting blame somewhere else.

So Abreu is better than Arraez this season, Robert is better than Buxton, Moncada and Burger are better than Urshela this season. I’ll have some of what you’re drinking. If you asked every major league GM to choose between Anderson and Correa, this year they’d choose Anderson but it’s not like it would be a slam dunk because Anderson has also missed time, made plenty of errors and has been the opposite of clutch. If it was before the 2022 season started, you wouldn’t have ANY of the Twins starters ranked over Sox pitchers except for the 5th starter’s role. But the Giolito and Lynn of today are not the 2019-20 or even first half 2022 versions or the White Sox would be in first place right now, or at least close to it.

So we should throw out all the ratings because Mark Buehrle turned out to be the best pitcher of that group? Or Josh Fogg and Kip Wells had higher career fWARs instead of the likes of Rauch, Biddle, Barcelo, Stumm, Honel, Wright, Ginter? By your argument, Iowa FB would always be #1 for taking the 2-3 star or walk ons and making them into NFL players. Of course, you would also find a massive correlation between the Top 15 rated recruiting classes and the final results any given season…