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Shades of the Neal Cotts/Buehrle debacle at Yankee Stadium. Who'd a thunk Cotts would come back from a failed starting career to lead the bullpen to a World Series title just five years later? Baseball is so strange. Look at Daniel Bard this year, or Daniel Hudson last year.

Or until Chris Sale comes back to the White Sox and has a good sense of humor about it all. That might NEVER happen, though.

Yep. And Eight Men Out, of course. Heck, Mr. Baseball and Rookie of the Year weren't THAT bad....and then there's Little Big League, too, speaking of the Twins.

If there was ever a need for a "teacher's voice" around here, today's the day...

Major League, Field of Dreams, The Natural, Bull Durham and A League of Their Own all came out of that generation....has been ages since the last great baseball film. I'd argue it was probably Dennis Quaid in THE ROOKIE, the Jim Morris story.

Leury pitches again and needs TJ surgery as a result?

I think you just wrote a nice epitaph for your Sox posting career under this particular avatar/screen name. ADIOS!

We've gone from Rick Hahn, American League Executive of the Year 2020 to Rick Hahn: Disgraced/Fired in the span of less than 24 hours, lol. It was quite obvious there wasn't enough depth in the starting pitching, especially when they realized Kopech wasn't going to pitch this year. That we're using Delmonico/Engel and Ross Detwiler and still haven't figured out how to protect Eloy Jimenez from himself doesn't bode well for this season. Still not even 100% sure that they had to invest all that money into Grandal, but that's a debate for yet another day.

Well, since we're the only industrialized country in the world pretty much forcing 10-18 year old kids back into school (S.Korea evidence of high transmission rates is pretty stout there from January-March)...and also the only one with a Congress/Parliament looking into ways to PROTECT corporations from their own citizens via liability protections/indemnification?

I think Tiger Woods already apologized for this one about twenty years ago...or was it schitzo? This whole "hard/tough guy" mentality thing is ridiculous. We're becoming a society of thugs and lacking in basic common decency as well as a sense of empathy for our fellow human beings.

America is in far bigger trouble than I previously thought...the only thing that would assuage the pain is an "In-N-Out" double-double about right now. How many Nelson Cruz homers? 3 XB hits already in this game, 8 total bases through inning 4. Whoever has him on their fantasy league team, he's already single-handedly won an 11 day opening week for them, lol.

NOT quite sure I'd be picking that particular hill to die on this day...he's NOT quite as bad as Terry Bevington. At least most players and people around the game seem to genuinely like him. He has a better personality than Robin Ventura for working with younger players, too. He wasn't forced practically against his will to "take one for the organization" to shield the front office from additional scrutiny after the 2011 debacle with Ozzie and the deterioration of the on-field product (Adam Dunn).

As long as their initials are DTJ? Or traced back to Ukrainian troll farms? At least Danny Mendick has potential in Boogie Nights 2 if the baseball career doesn't work with that moustache. Shades of Tyler Saladino. Meanwhile the Twins are slaughtering us without Buxton and Sano in the line-up.

Uh-oh.

EXCEPT the Twins, or maybe the Yankees? Dodgers, probably. Astros.

This is one of the primary benefits of no fans allowed. We don't have the obligatory, "glad I didn't go to THAT game" or "the White Sox should refund all the ticket buyers' money" (Greg775 refrain). And Byron Buxton could be back Tuesday, Astudillo and Odorizzi coming back soon too, as well. We're missing two of their top ten players this series.

What's the latest on Mazara? Maeda somehow throwing 94 MPH heat. Twins' with yet another smart FA pitching move there. That front office really picked it up after about a five year lull. Odorizzi was a solid move, and Nelson Cruz one of the best signings in recent memory. Rich Hill will undoubtedly replicate Kenny Rogers' 2003 season. (Dodgers in a bit of trouble now with Kershaw out, two starters lost to FA, Price opting out, etc.)

Nelson Cruz is a FA after this year, so there's THAT...

Can Vaughn be converted to LF? Elijah Tatis, lol? Who's the next outfielder up? I guess Gonzalez, right? Rutherford/Basabe/Adolfo? Put Leury out there, with Madrigal or Mendick at 2B? EDIT: Forgot about Adam Engel. SIGH. Of course, he'll be exposed playing everyday in important games.

But he's popular with the female portion of the White Sox fanbase, supposedly...

I was at a Twins/Sox game when that actually happened. Can't remember who started, I think it was Freddy Garcia or Colon.

Well, as Hawk always says, you win 20, you lose 20...this is definitely one of those games. Almost like the Twins are telling the White Sox, "not yet you don't!!!"

Why have the White Sox NEVER added more cushioning out there on those stupid posts on the outfield fence? Might end up with Jimenez on the DL now. SIGH.

Looked up Brandon McCarthy. He's now working in the front office for the Texas Rangers.... Jimenez with the Dayan Viciedo defense out there in LF. Thought Robert was going to cover all that ground? Now Eloy Jimenez is going out...still having problems after running into the wall. Concussion protocol. Disaster.

Well, this game is on the verge of being over already. Might as well walk Cruz here intentionally to prevent the GS. Barry Bonds treatment.