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Capra had an 0/30 run going and Robert robs him lol. Father is Nick, pretty sure. Daz Cameron with obvious Sox connections as well.

We don't even need Rojas lol. The funny thing is that Vargas is a carbon copy last year for SEA of what Miguel is providing now at third base on both sides of the ball. Rojas has to play SS now. Heck just put Sosa or Baldwin or Quero (off days from catching) or whoever at first. Doesn't really matter.

White Sox -24 rs ra Guardians Blue Jays Orioles Athletics Angels Nats Marlins Pirates Rockies all behind them.

Vargas 644. WestEddy creaming his pants now. Health check please lol.

Please please please replace Vaughn and Amaya with ANYONE else.

107.8 ev 13 stolen bases. Amaya 4/51=.078

Robert 183/622 Vargas 222/639

8 runs added/saved.

92 mph center cut fastball smashed.

Yoho had been pretty great before today... just completely lost it.

Would have been three consecutive sweeps by the Brewers over 2023-25 if MIL had won today's game. 8-0 stretch...including 5-0 at GRate. White Sox suddenly looking to be trending in a positive direction if they can finally get rid of Vaughn.

New SS 2B combo works... 18 ER against Burke in 21 innings in between two 6 inning shutouts. Works out for a decent 4.91 era overall.

New SS 2B combo works...

Robert and Vargas the heroes...along with Sean Burke. 4 DRS for Luis. Crazy game. Amaya to SS Sosa to first Vaughn mercifully lifted.

Alexis Diaz to the minors... wow.

Maybe the White Sox simply need to take things to the next level then and mimic the Savannah Bananas…that’s the only other way to draw crowds in that stadium other than sustainably-winning teams. GRate subjectively becomes even worse when you put THE VERY WORST possible teams on the field.

Name an uglier basketball stadium that can consistently draw sellouts of 15000+ per game…? Carrier Dome in Syracuse, maybe? https://roadtocfb.com/2020/10/13/bottom-10-halfway-there/ Tray could seize on GRate being better than some of these awful college fb stadiums at least…author is pretty darned funny in his vivid descriptions.

Counting Kopech and Brebbia as ph/pr…White Sox used 31 different position players last year. Duke Ellis Rafael Ortega and Nick Senzel the three most inconsequential.

Welp got so upset with Vaughn there hitting middle of the order again it made zero sense why Andrew wouldn’t be well behind him…

Workman was so bad yesterday they had to immediately disable him. Otoh we still get this stubborn insistence on playing Andrew Vaughn... this time against a pitcher they favored over Shane Smith in terms of protecting him from Rule 5 draft selection. Also, why is Miguel Vargas sitting when he's suddenly on a bit of a roll offensively?

Batters CWS B HR RBI SB AVG OPS MeidrothSS R 0 1 1 .269 .656 BenintendiDH L 5 10 0 .227 .728 Robert Jr.CF R 4 9 12 .170 .598 QueroC S 0 5 0 .306 .793 Vaughn1B R 3 12 0 .162 .473 Vargas, M3B R 1 9 1 .219 .610 BaldwinLF S 3 13 2 .241 .671 Sosa, L2B R 2 8 0 .269 .655 Taylor, MRF R 1 5 3 .207 .608

Another power pitching LHP lol? Cornering the market on Mason Miller/Ben Joyce types?

Iowa does hold some inherent advantages that the White Sox don't. Little real financial competition from NBA MLB NHL and no NFL football. Captive audience. Sure Iowa State has been able to create better BB environments for thirty years now, but the Kinnick (an older stadium that has historicity, Ferentz and the Children's Hospital salute all going for it) experience is overall Top 10-15 in all of college FB when Iowa is a competitive team.

Here's an analogy. Guaranteed Rate is like Carver Hawkeye Arena... and CHA still is more interesting looking/weird from the outside. The last 2-3 years the worst men's BB environment in G10 other than maybe PSU or Rutgers. Zero students near the action in favor of boosters. Ice cream the big selling point lol. Antiseptic and totally boring with 5-6000 average out of 15,500 cap. Totally dead. Put Caitlin Clark on the floor and even this year without her playing 15,500 SRO sellouts in nearly every single game. Biggest home court advantage in NCAA women's BB from consecutive national title game appearances. Huge ratings success, etc. The White Sox simply need a superstar or legit (sustainable) winning team. Which JR refuses to provide because it's just too expensive and the opportunity cost isn't worth the financial pain from his short term perspective. (Ofc all those sellouts were only possible due to the falloff from the men's team, maybe a Ben McCollum miracle Sweet 16 season, first in nearly 30 years and putting students near the court will actually reverse that. Conversely, the Cubs sucking next year or losing Tucker to FA might dent their latest run of dominance via a vis the Sox as well. If only the Sox had a compelling competitive product to put on the field.)

They basically had to screw with Machado so much on the last year of the deal (incentives/guarantees essentially another diminished skills clause) that it became a poison pill and that encouraged SD to jump in because things were dragging so much to sign it. The KW was going on and on how it was still the better offer even when Manny had embraced the Seidler/Preller overtures about competing head to head with the LAD...after having played disappointingly for LA and getting to know Tatis in Miami and witnessing firsthand his potential impact. The weather and idea of playing in front of a packed park was icing on the cake.