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Dr. Pepper for now. Took 6 weeks to get delivered to China. Although I might have to break out the Coronas if this continues much longer.

Well, at least Santana's on my fantasy team, lol. This season is really falling apart quickly...need to right the ship on the road somehow, or have the season delayed/postponed 7-10 days to retrench and have a White Sox version of the J-Hey World Series speech.

GREAT route there, Delmonico. Looks like a carbon copy of Jimenez. This Indians' line-up is pretty darned average after the top 4 hitters, but Jose Ramirez has decided to come out on fire this year and Reyes/Santana are going to be really tough on lefities IMO.

It's the old Chris Sale trick. He's holding 96-98 MPH back for the 5th and 6th innings. If they're not going to make the playoffs this year, have to hope for changes with Renteria, Cooper and possibly even Hahn just to shake things up. We have SO many holes up and down this roster, it's pretty hard to accept that we haven't developed even ONE quality outfielder (other than Robert) with all those prospects in the system.

It will be the classic Albert Belle "second half" empty numbers. We have so many left with DET and KC, we'll be alive in this forever...but KC is showing some surprising offense in the early going, not sure how well our pitching staff is going to stack up to go more than 6-4 against the Royals if these depressing trends continue.

Unsurprisingly, our DH's were the worst in MLB with a 641 OPS last year. Has a team ever started a clean-up hitter the following season after releasing the same player at the previous mid-season? That has to be a first in history.

Hope that Delmonico/Collins can do something productive hitting in the heart of the line-up. We knew that EE was going to be streaky, and historically he almost always starts off slow. A split here feels like a huge swing. Either a sigh of relief or panic starting to set in with the early pitching so shaky.

They need to bring back the “He Hate Me” jersey from out of retirement.

https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds Marlins currently projected at 25-35, 0.1% chance to win WS. White Sox in 7th AL position, projected at 31-29.

No player can afford to sit out essentially 3 1/2 seasons...well, I guess there was that former #1 pick (Bush?) who went to prison and Josh Hamilton.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/07/braves-designate-mike-foltynewicz-for-assignment.html Doubt he makes it to the White Sox, but this would be a logical move...not prohibitively expensive, and upside for 2021 if he can heal whatever's wrong with his elbow/shoulder or possibly undergo surgery and rehab in Chicago.

Guess they don’t want to pay for rehab/post-surgery or he really did something to injure himself that flew in the face of what training staff or team doctor was advising him to do? There has to be a LOT more to it than that.

Three impact infielders, if you count Eduardo Escobar as well...

Could only find this... “Players who are not designated as high risk and who opt out for the health reasons of others, such as family members, will not automatically receive their pay and service time, although clubs have mechanisms available to award them both if they choose. Coaches, trainers and other non-player personnel may also opt out of participating this season. Whether they receive their pay will be determined on a club-by-club basis.”

Sign Terrence Gore. Instant runner on 3rd. You can do that with expanded rosters. Or trade a Tier C prospect for Billy Hamilton.

Social media, TMZ, college recruiting sites that incessantly dig into personal lives, families, relationships...it’s really going to be the downfall of this generation if we can’t discover more positive outlets for our energy and attention.

Because Bernie Sanders and his wife own all the houses there!!! Didn’t you get the memo?

If Cease gets hurt, do we preemptively blame Hahn, McEwing, Renteria or KW (just because someone always will find a way)?

Thoughts and prayers!

This is bad, really bad, and it will get worse, because living here — today, with leaders whose first priority is themselves, among fellow citizens who can’t be bothered with fortitude or compassion — looks just like this. This is the world into which Major League Baseball rolled its operation. If you signed up for baseball in the summer of 2020, for an escape from reality, you signed up for a baseball team — fathers, husbands, sons, brothers and friends — holed up in hotel rooms, 1,200 miles from home, while people wearing masks, gloves and grim expressions knocked on their doors. The Miami Marlins were tested for the coronavirus again Monday morning in Philadelphia, a day after they were tested (again), because suddenly too many of those tests were coming back positive, in waves, and already one flight home had been canceled and another was at least postponed, and the outbreak that could shut down a season had found them first. A baseball game between the Marlins and Baltimore Orioles in Miami on Monday night was postponed. A game Monday night between the Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees at Philadelphia’s Citizens Bank Park, where the Marlins had just spent three days on the field, in the dugout and in the clubhouse while at least a dozen players and personnel were carrying the virus, also was postponed. This is bad, really bad, and so wholly predictable. The structural precautions are expanded rosters, taxi squads and a couple dozen other guys set aside to throw bullpens and take batting practice. When the virus blew in, however, the real safeguard was America’s appetite for the game, its willingness to offer up others for its amusement and then its refusal to even temporarily commit to something greater than itself. We do pandemics, it turns out, how we’ve come to do everything else: What’s best for me? The answer was baseball games on TV. So if we shoveled baseball with everything else into the furnace that is four million cases and 150,000 deaths and an unyielding determination to get our nails done, then clearly we had the stomach for 12 or 15 or more Miami Marlins calling their wives and children with the news they were new to the curve. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/the-marlins-covid-19-outbreak-is-really-bad-and-exactly-what-mlb-signed-up-for-160751017.html

Also have SF/Oak, Balt/Wash, Milwaukee along with Chicago, SD with LA...

That’s because they’re not “licensed to ill“ like the Beastie Boys.

Thanks, Ms. DeVos, so well put! And, of course, it’s equally applicable to K-12 education as well as higher ed.

Should be an extra $2 per hour bonus from last Thursday (optimistically) through the final World Series game in Oct/Nov. Did you apply for PPP bridge funds?