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Smart enough not to give in on the FB. Escaped.

Can't pull him. Do get one more mound visit in the 9th apparently.

First time Leasure under real legitimate pressure. Last Sox mount visit.

Harrelson would be apoplectic with that walk. Grifol managing this one like his job depends upon it.

Rays and White Sox will be tied at 1-8 in series openers if the score holds up.

That buys him another month on the roster. Almost had two. What's the update on Stassi?

Getz and Grifol with a sigh of relief...but this game isn't yet out of hand, as the Rays' announcers seemingly conceded.

Was Kyle Hendricks a star with the Cubs? Solid big leaguer. Somewhere between him and Maddux. That's a huge range range of outcomes. #4-5 on these White Sox means he's out of the game before he qualifies for a pension.

How many of the members of that 2012 Sox team went on to great success elsewhere? Obviously you had Sale and Q...but who else actually turned out to be good?

So then there's basically zero point to any sports message board...since it's nearly impossible for anyone to "prove" or validate their credibility, ultimately. Unless they actually work inside the industry. Got it.

Let's see back in 2014-15 the evidence that you were forecasting him as a future star lol...why didn't they or anyone else listen to you? You scouted him at Berkeley? You could have sent a resume like WDWF supposedly did to JR every summer and secured yourself an internship. Maybe even a paid one.

But they will force him into RF due to his arm strength. In the end, he will barely be remembered 2-3 years from now. Mena at least has a chance to become a meaningful contributor.

This is the very definition of how Hahn put this organization behind the 8 ball. Incrementally. One bad move at a time creating an avalanche of diminished talent on the active roster...and a middling at best farm system whose major source of talent (Cuba) has pretty much completely dried up.

Give one example of a player evaluation that you have EVER been right about...? Yeah, thought so.

He chose between McCarthy and Fletcher. Two 26 year olds. At least Jake has held his own as a major leaguer this season.

So why not just let Merkin and Reifert and Boyer run SoxTalk? Sounds like the only way to get some real objectivity around here.

Sure. Sounds very mature.

Playing Pham in CF is the height of ludicrous...especially if Fletcher is still on the roster. Ortega is AAAA filler.

Wasn't Mena at 93-95 more recently? Sounds like you are talking about Thorpe.

But it was never clear exactly where he was going to play with Moncada struggling so much at second base in 2018. Anderson was clearly the SS. They weren’t going to give up on Moncada…IMO, without Yoan on the roster, though, they almost would have had to sign Manny OR Harper in order to convince fans the rebuild was actually real, or happening. Like the Cubs with Lester. But the brain trust still thought Moncada was going to be a superstar, and he was, for that ONE season in 2019.

Sure…but at some point, the White Sox need the media more than the other way around. It’s not like they have ever even been close in getting equal coverage to the Cubs, at least since the late 1980’s/early 1990’s. The White Sox are pretty much in danger of becoming completely irrelevant. Look at what happened to James Fegan. And just the punchline for national writers to document exactly how NOT to do a rebuild/new stadium proposal. At best…we’re not the A’s. At least not yet.

Machado has maintained all along he wanted to play together with his fellow countryman Tatis and was never all that serious about joining the White Sox…and that he was perfectly happy to play 3B instead of SS.

Those Orioles 3-24 4-25 5-29 6-31 7-34 8-34 9-34 10-38

"It’s going to take a nearly unprecedented turnaround for the Astros to reach the postseason. You have to go back more than 100 years to find the only team in AL/NL history -- the 1914 Boston Braves -- to make the playoffs after tallying at least 19 losses through its first 26 games." Needless to say....not the greatest of odds. Couldn't even make it anywhere near Memorial Day.

What does he really have in common with Mellody Hobson, though? Besides Chicago ties?