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Dodgers’ broadcasters really talking up the Giants as a realistic possibility for Harper...noted that Zaidi’s got to win over ownership on that one. Also asserting that the Padres are at least two years away because of their pitching at the major league level.

Was strike 3 called/looking?

And a walk to boot. He’s a shorter version of Brian Anderson without the pop...but more speed. But he’s our Engel.

Zavala off to a really nice start...a double, driven in by an Engel groundout.

Jimenez looking rusty there...got blown away on 3 pitches. Abandon the rebuild!

Hershiser’s an insightful broadcaster on the Dodgers’ telecast as well. Fulmer has only required 33 pitches to record 4 outs. That’s pretty much hell on a defense.

Fulmer just doesn’t have the stuff to put away hitters unless he gets way ahead in the count. Best case scenario is a poor man’s Addison Reed.

Have to wait another half inning for Eloy. That curveball Hill has is almost as slow as Takatsu’s frisbee, lol.

In all honesty, Fulmer looks exactly the same...apparently he was doing arm exercises with those elastic bands and got snapped in the eye as a freshman at Vandy, has been wearing the goggles ever since. Out of the first, finally. Guerrero settling in, two consecutive K’s.

Zavala single, Engel walk...Moncada on fire with an RBI single.

Faustino de Los Santos and Frankie Montas up next... Carson Fulmer In.

Well, Guyer played that one about as poorly as Avi could ever manage...so that looks familiar at least. Madrigal lined out to LF in his first at-bat. At least he pulled it? Former Sox farmhand Paulo Orlando the last of Dave Wilder’s infamous Brazilian signings...trying to make the final spot on the Dodgers’ roster. Roach goes to the Roach Motel...pulled by Renteria without escaping the first.

Had forgotten that Skole still existed... And more pristine insights, Turner/Muncy/Chris Taylor are examples of good scouting, you think? Saying that Guyer will make the team as the 4th outfielder. Guess they forgot Leury, Palka and Delmonico. Russell Martin with a two run double, Roach unsurprisingly on the ropes already.

And Moncada leads off the 2019 season with a 2B against Bassitt...apparently the salary for Roach was $800k in Japan and $400k in South Korea. Not bad! And Palk Smash, doubles, driving in Moncada for the first run.

I think I preferred Bill Melton and Connor McKnight. They're really sitting there saying “the money’s in the bank?” Apparently Colome is the closer...they weren’t clear...if they were saying he was a closer or will be again. “Roach should be familiar to Sox fans who actually watched the one game he got rocked in the majors.” LoL.

Is that you, L. Wayne Huizenga? At least he had Waste Management, because there’s always poop.

Chicago White Sox was the main one...but he was just being overly optimistic, admittedly, not based on anything “insidery.” Everyone else (twitterverse) was pretty much just like typical Hahn, saying a lot but not really anything upon further reflection.

Omar Narvaez is hitting cleanup for the M’s today. Allen Craig is starting for SD, thought he was out of baseball. No Machado/Tatis, at least in the starting lineup.

SD does draw quite a bit better, but they also have much much nicer April/May/September weather. It gets a bit cold near the ocean at night with that marine layer, but it’s always perfectly comfortable with a light jacket. And those fans lost their FB team, so it’s natural to feel some sympathy as the fanbase has been in the same hell as ours. Heck, we even took Jake Peavy away from them.

Confirmed, got it to come up on my iPad just now...even if you just subscribe to At-Bat or GameDay Audio. Still trying to decide if I want to cancel MLB.tv subscription, but will undoubtedly get pulled back for Jimenez. PS: At least the Hawkeyes are having an unexpected season, that takes some of the current Sox pain away. Every game comes down to the wire. Bohannon’s been unreal, and Wieskamp really reminds me of Haluska with even more promise. We lose Tyler Cook (surely doesn’t have an NBA mid-range game to go pro) but get back Nunge, Pemsl and add Patrick McCaffrey and PG Joe Touissant out of Brooklyn. Takes the sting of losing DJ Carton from my high school to tOSU.

We’re going to have this debate a TON this year, what it really means to be a White Sox fan...and how one should comport themselves “in a dignified manner” so as not to offend those in the hallowed halls of the front office who are just as likely to be out golfing on their seven figure salaries.

It’s hilarious that the players in camp other than our young prospects all represent other, much better players on other teams. Preston instead of Kyle. All of our veterans but no Machado. Castillo/McCann instead of Narvaez/Smith. Trayce instead of Klay (oops, wrong sport.) At least they weren’t quite dumb enough to bring back Shields, but they still managed to replace him at roughly the same high cost, somehow. Ervin Santana a decade too late.

I think you will see the answer to paragraph 3...in people tuning out altogether, casually following and waiting for actual results. Some will be like PTAC about this, but most are going to naturally fall into the Doubting Thomas category because the front office has 100% earned that level of distrust.

Unless we prefer to go back to the “it was KW all the time pulling the strings behind the scenes” take on things?

Looked at this and was optimistically reading Joc Pederson down at the bottom, lol...then remembered we were the White Sox and looked at Turner on the pitching chart and expected Jacob’s return.