caulfield12

Well, can't pick an AL team because the White Sox might actually be competing, finally. Actually, Cardinals were my NL team (anti-Cubs for entire 80's and 90's.) The Padres were about 1) what if the White Sox had a certain two players we won't name, alternative reality and 2) an organizational mindset of desperation to win, and 3) two organizations that were similarly stacked in minor league talent top to bottom but two entirely different modus operandi to get back to the playoffs. Also, similar length of years missing the playoffs. And I definitely wasn't going with the Marlins or the Mariners...

We love to watch Ray Ray run out of game threads if this is going to be the canned response of defending the manager when everyone called the big inning before it even happened. I know I did. Have you ever watched Anderson pitch in the spring, at least? You're telling me they had NO OTHER CHOICE BUT to throw Anderson out there for a second inning of work? Against their 4 best hitters? C'mon. You're better than that, man.

Well, it's not like we don't have expanded rosters. It's not like Anderson has ever been a credible big league reliever. It's not like you couldn't sense the entire inning getting away after those first two runs scored.

This is honestly why I had no choice the last year but to start watching the Padres... RENTERIA doesn't have a clue how to get this team to the next level. Epstein saw it. Didn't take a Harvard or Cornell education to figure out that much.

We'll go through stretches of dominance against KCR, Detroit and the Pirates, probably even the decimated Cardinals, but we're still a long ways from being a top AL ballclub. Have a feeling that's going to get exposed on national televion tmrw night. Luplow was like 0 for the season, lol. WHY THE F--K did they leave Anderson out there to dry when the game was still a game?

Now Mendick struggling out in the field. The tenor of this series just completely changed....thanks to Lindor's hustle/moxie and bad White Sox decision-making and defense/nonchalance.

Without that Lindor slide, this game is probably 0-0. Well, maybe. GAME, SET, MATCH. PREDICTABLE. EMINENTLY.

The Indians' announcers questioning why the White Sox even signed Grandal with McCann in the fold already.

Well, this was the nightmare scenario with Grandal's defense rearing it's ugly head. Haven't even put a ball into play this inning, other than Lindor's "double."

Reyes has been hot recently with RISP, and Santana hasn't been hitting that well this year...

There's just NO WAY Anderson should have been out there for another inning...not against the top of the line-up.

Play of the Game by Lindor if they go on to score here and win this game...

HOW THE HELL DID THEY MISS THAT TAG?

The odds of Drew Anderson getting out of this inning unscored upon....slim and none. Didn't count on the Indians' hitters getting so frustrated they're getting themselves out.

Because Mazara's been en fuego, lol. Habit? This inning feels like a dangerous one for Sox pitchers, 1-2-3 in the order coming up. Luck can't hold forever against any MLB offense.

Almost 3 full games since the Indians scored a run against White Sox pitching. Who said baseball was all offense these days?

WE NEED A CLUTCH HIT. JUST ONCE.

Well, we broke the average post count for a Saturday day game from the last decade of White Sox baseball already, so there's that.

Engel tagging up from 2nd going backwards to first, lol...

Dammit. Every time the ball is up in the air this week...seems like it should be going out but just dying on the warning track.

Moncada, JImenez, and Robert. ICE COLD. Abreu hasn't helped much, either. And no EE, with Collins struggling.

Never get Engel from that position....once the ball got past Ramirez, then he kind of screened him a bit with his body and couldn't get the throw off in time with anything on it.

Didn't realize Plesac/Civale/Biebs came out of ONE draft...that Indians' organization is amazing. Bieber 4th round, Plesac 12th.

Wasn't his dad offered a basketball scholarship at Villanova?

Talk about star-crossed brothers in terms of injuries...feel for them.