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This is not 2019-20 All-Star Giolito, at least not yet. He’s somewhere in between that elite form and the abysmal 2016-18 Washington/early Sox version.

Just go back to that exact moment in the game thread....my 2014 desktop work computer froze in China because so many were saying the same thing simultaneously.

Redo on the FA managerial side...bring in Bochy to right the ship.

He was already taxed coming into that inning, I think it was 95 pitches. You give him the leadoff walk after the long battle with Castro...after that went against him, you pull him for a reliever and the worst thing that happens is he loses the victory and it's a tie game from a bullpen standpoint. That walk that started the inning, I'm pretty sure it was 8-10 pitches, that was an obvious warning sign to everyone when he was finishing all of his pitches up high in the zone near the end of the at-bat. It's not like Ramos didn't already have 6 homers, albeit a relatively low BA.

Yes, I have a bunch of his baseball cards from the 1980's...another Latin guy was Ernesto Escarrega from that time period. Joe DeSa, who passed away, along with Carlos Martinez and Ivan "Bubbling" Calderon. Bruce Tanner (Chuck's son) was on one of those 1983 cards, Fleer. He later would go on to the pitching coach of the Augusta GreenJackets (Pirates affiliate) when I was working there out of grad school in 1993/94. I was fortunate enough to go to a game with comp tickets at PNC and sit with Chuck right behind home plate.

For=scrappy, grindy, mostly NL-experienced veterans (see Eaton, Lamb and Hamilton), veterans like Leury who are clearly struggling but have some type of veteran status or tenure argument going for them Against=any young players other than Luis Robert and Yermin, if 28 can actually still be young See Collins/Vaughn. Even Kopech.

Yeah, although I'm not 100% sure he was brought in 100% to be the closer. He was more of a "the guys put together with duct rape and baling wire, let's hope we can get a half season out of him" type of signing. We were definitely in a transition period after Takatsu proved to be ineffective, and Marte was fading as well.

Aka, invisible as well.

I think he's confusing Hamilton being a veteran, NL player with somehow being good. Collins, that's another issue altogether. Like the "bias" against Vaughn or younger players that haven't earned their stripes thing that we also saw with Ozzie over guys like Anderson, Beckham and Viciedo.

To go along with TA, Hermin and Hendriks, that would be a whole lot of fun...versus whatever this is right now. Feels like after-school detention supervised by a teacher who's only holding to maximize their pension benefit or retire and double-dip, lol.

Way too insular media market...compared to NY, Philly, Boston, even LA/SoCal. Even the Indians' and Twins' beat guys know how to ask probing questions without being insulting. Guess we aren't allowed to second-guess a HoFer if we're in the media corps.

(CAA Sports) This was the managerial equivalent of Kevin Love last night...except the worst part is it wasn't intentional at all, in terms of sabotaging his own team. In Love's defense, they were in the process of losing 8 out of 10, at least.

Except the Twins can turn around and do the same exact thing. 15-7 and 14-8 feels pretty realistic for where they were EXPECTED to be at this point, though. That Pythagorean or expected wins/losses has them just at a one game swing's worth of difference...so +4 versus +2.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIL/MIL199907200.shtml Of course it would require Sean Lowe and the 20th save for former White Sox Bob Wickman. 5-4 Brewers victory. The crazy thing is we didn't even really make it all that close in the end.

It was 18-2 or 16-4 combined against the Tigers and Royals last year? Something like that. Definitely not going to compile that record this year...especially against the Royals.

Nate Jones is pinch-hitting for ATL?

At least he'll be "more successful with the ladies" if nothing else. Or maybe Frank can rope TLR into also advertising the Nugenix and contributing to his "rebirth as a manager."

When's the last time in White Sox history they lost a game where the other team committed so many errors?

Must have confused him with Wainright in 2011 post-season...

LOL. One of our fantasy league owners just changed their name to "Hahn's Hell."

Why did we draft Vaughn and put him on the roster to sit for Leury Garcia in yet another key at~bat?

What is Hamilton's lifetime OPS? 615ish?

Perfect. Of course Lamb wasn't available to hit.... since he was pulled for Hamilton. Inept.

Foster's is Australian for inept pitching.

Reinsdorf will just double down and get more defensive about TLR if the constant focus of the Chicago media is all on Tony. He's not going to give in unless LaRussa walks away first. Can we please take down that stupid DYNASTY thread, seriously???? I knew as soon as something like that went up it was a jinx...like any time in the last twenty years when national baseball writers praised some aspect of our team like the bullpen or whatever.