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https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/us/iowa-teachers-coronavirus-obits-trnd/index.html Iowa teachers writing and sharing their “pre-obituaries” before returning to school...

https://theathletic.com/1977283/2020/08/05/do-the-white-sox-already-have-enough-to-win-with/?source=dailyemail Do the White Sox Already Have Enough to Compete With? “With the expectations being, right now, that both Lopey and Carlos will be able to rejoin us here in the coming weeks, I don’t think we will end up going outside,” Hahn said of trading for starting pitching. “If in fact that plan changes in terms of their availability, I do think we’ll have a few other options among our young arms down in Schaumburg that could potentially fill those voids as well. We’re, what, 11 games in? And the trade deadline’s three and a half weeks or four weeks away. So it’s a weird dynamic.” If the White Sox, endlessly speaking of multiple championships and long-term goals before the world went to hell and left them with a 60-game season, will not trade for starting pitching, what would they trade for? They’re loath to rule out anything, but with Nomar Mazara back, Tim Anderson beginning his rehab from a groin strain on Thursday, and already a surplus of 1B/DH bats, the offense doesn’t present obvious needs even before a discussion of how Luis Robert, Eloy Jiménez and Yoán Moncada have led them to a 130 wRC+ as a team through Tuesday.

https://www.fangraphs.com/players/dallas-keuchel/9434/stats?position=P 2.9 - 3.75 last three seasons. 2016 was a big disappointment, but the two prior years were really excellent as well. He's a reasonable facsimile of Mark Buehrle in 2011 around the time he left Chicago for the Marlins with Ozzie.

Well, they are without Cain and Braun... that offense just isn't the same as the last two seasons. That said, can field and pen it up with the best of 'em. Houser looks legit.

Hey, now. There's a growing market for the blow up doll in Toronto dust-up. Could it be any worse than Our Chuck updates? Plus, I already have Yasiel Puig lined up as first guest via Zoom to talk glowingly about his fellow countrymen.

1 Luis Robert White Sox 12 53 2 8 6 4 9.4% 28.3% .188 .484 .354 .415 .542 .415 177 0.6 5.4 2.1 1.0 2 Fernando Tatis Jr. Padres 13 60 4 11 13 4 15.0% 35.0% .353 .423 .294 .400 .647 .440 189 1.0 7.3 0.6 1.0 3 Carlos Correa Astros 11 47 2 5 6 0 12.8% 21.3% .250 .500 .400 .489 .650 .482 225 -0.4 6.4 1.2 0.9 4 Trent Grisham Padres 13 58 4 11 7 3 15.5% 24.1% .333 .300 .271 .386 .604 .419 175 0.8 5.9 1.0 0.9 5 Yoan Moncada White Sox 11 52 2 6 5 0 11.5% 25.0% .196 .419 .326 .404 .522 .402 168 0.5 4.6 0.4 0.7 6 Kyle Lewis Mariners 13 57 3 9 10 1 8.8% 33.3% .192 .567 .385 .439 .577 .440 196 0.5 6.9 -1.6 0.7 7 Ramon Laureano Athletics 12 51 3 9 10 1 11.8% 25.5% .268 .333 .293 .392 .561 .402 169 0.7 4.7 0.5 0.7 8 J.P. Crawford Mariners 13 57 0 12 4 3 17.5% 12.3% .109 .333 .283 .421 .391 .368 146 -0.1 3.0 1.8 0.7 9 Brandon Lowe Rays 12 48 2 7 9 0 8.3% 27.1% .302 .393 .302 .375 .605 .415 178 0.8 5.1 -0.2 0.6 10 Ian Happ Cubs 12 40 3 6 6 1 15.0% 25.0% .353 .333 .294 .400 .647 .441 187 0.5 4.6 -0.5 0.6 11 Eloy Jimenez White Sox 10 41 3 5 8 0 7.3% 24.4% .297 .320 .297 .341 .595 .392 161 0.3 3.2 -0.4 0.5 We can all rejoice that ELOY is not tracking any longer as LAST in MLB defensively...I guess?

Agreeable, and reasonable, even. https://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/view/batting/table/batting/sort/runs/dir/desc White Sox one game "slumped" them all the way down to 10th MLB in Runs Scored, 5th in the AL.

At least 4 have died in AZ/NM from ingesting hand sanitizer, one with permanent vision loss One patient, a 44-year-old man, said that he drank hand sanitizer in the few days before seeking medical care, according to the CDC paper. The man was hospitalized for six days for acute methanol poisoning and when he was discharged, he went home with almost complete vision loss. Four of the adults in the CDC report died. "This investigation highlights the serious adverse health events, including death, that can occur after ingesting alcohol-based hand sanitizer products containing methanol," the researchers wrote in the new CDC report. "Safety messaging to avoid ingestion of any alcohol-based hand sanitizer product should continue," they wrote. "Young children might unintentionally swallow these products, whereas adolescents or adults with history of alcohol use disorder might intentionally swallow these products as an alcohol (ethanol) substitute." https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/health/hand-sanitizer-cdc-warning-study-wellness/index.html Reopened schools in Georgia’s Paulding and Cherokee counties drew negative attention this week after viral photographs appeared to show students packing hallways with little regard for social distancing or mask-wearing. The most prominent images were taken on Tuesday by a 10th grader in North Paulding High School who posted them on social media and described the hallway situation as severely jammed. Other viral images showed students from Cherokee County’s Etowah High School and Sequoyah High School standing in close proximity for senior photos with nary a mask in sight. Prior to schools reopening on Monday, North Paulding High School’s principal, Gabe Carmona, sent a letter to parents alerting them that members of the football team had contracted COVID-19, not specifying the numbers or the severity of their cases. According to BuzzFeed, Carmona also addressed the viral images on Wednesday, reportedly stating over the intercom that students who publicly criticized the school on social media could face disciplinary action. Paulding County Superintendent Brian Otott also addressed the images in a statement, arguing that they were being criticized “without context” and saying the crowds only lasted for a “brief period” when students were transitioning between classes. “Wearing a mask is a personal choice and there is no practical way to enforce a mandate to wear them,” Otott said. “What we will do is strongly encourage all students and staff to wear masks.” https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/covid-19-georgia-paulding-cherokee-county-back-to-school-212625333.html Apparently, 70% elected to go to in-person classes in this particular district

Meanwhile, the Brewers started with 6 on the road, missed 4 against StL (so only 2/6 home games played, against SOX), 2 games at Chicago, 6 back at home, then a monster 10 game road swing again. 18 road games 8 home Out of their first 26. Plus they were on the shelf for 4 consecutive days, backing their schedule up to where they have almost no off-days and a number of DH's the rest of the season. KBO 2. Kiwoom Heroes: 44-31 (4) -- The Heroes went 5-0, including a 22-7 rout of Samsung on Saturday, a run that coincided with the arrival of Addison Russell. The former Cubs All-Star went 10-for-25 with a homer, five runs and six RBIs in his first five KBO games.

And he's currently on the best team in MLB, percentage-wise, haha.

Yeah, have never seen him graded as plus/elite, I guess players have reputations from early in their careers and its difficult to get scouts to arrive at re-evaluations or admit they were wrong. IMO, he's never going to touch Corey Seager as a player, not even close. By the way, Alek Thomas (DBacks, son of Sox strength & condition coach Allen Thomas) has shot all the way up to 53.

Almost overran that one. Guess he just started playing the outfield in 2020. Not sure Counsell is very wise to put him out there.

Is that like a Dementor? Berserker?

You can see that Heuer's really starting to grow in confidence by the game out there. What an awesome weapon to add to the arsenal.

One of them was against CLE, I think on the road, because he was really impressive at the beginning of that start.

Who throws the top of the 9th? Interesting decision here.

NOT THE NIGHT FOR THE WHITE SOX... Abreu/Grandal/Jimenez/Mazara/McCann in the bottom of the 9th.

Covey's main pitch was a 93-96 mph power sinker. With that stuff, he might have the worst results of any pitcher in modern AL history.

DAMMIT. Just missed that one.

Definition of a seeing eye single. 3 hits tonight. Who'd a thunk it?

Mendick had a 2-0 FB cookie down the middle...couldn't catch up.

Heuer not missing too many at-bats these days... HOY-ER, like the QB or MD representative. WSU Wheatshocker. Darren Dreifort comp for Heuer.

Well, if we are to come back in this game, it's going to be against the best bullpen in the business. Good test for the young Sox. Heuer over Lail, thank god.

Houser is how Dylan Covey was SUPPOSED to be. Lots of Roy Halladay similarities, not quite the same stuff, but power guy.