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Hell no.

Guess I'm on a serious delay in China haha.

37 pitches and counting. Might as well being up Yosimar My Cousin Vinny for the pen. Sox 2-12 without Tim Anderson entering the game... Yandy Diaz hitting .470 versus Sox lol.

Cease has lost the slider and feels he can only give up 1-2 runs... everything just snowballs.

Not until after the last out of the game...temps in low fifties then into lower forties at night for these games. 56 officially.

Didn't seem to hurt Ohtani as much... why didn't they have first class seats where Moncada could recline the whole time?

When did Grifol acknowledge his team gets down psychologically and often lacks the will or ability to fight back when scored on early or giving up a crooked number after scoring...hang their heads, etc.? (Rays' announcers paraphrase) Seems to be manager's job to address? Obviously a talent issue as well. Bullpen has already helped to lose seven separate leads... that doesn't help much, either. Not the best combination lol.

Hopefully he avoids surgery... at this point, pretty much a sunk cost/insurance issue.

Trading Gio Grandal and Lopez will help them reach that goal faster... Yasmani Grandal, C, White Sox .257/.342/.443, 2 HR, 7 RBIs "Grandal missed about a month and a half last year due to knee and back injuries. He looked lost when he was healthy, batting .202 with five home runs and 27 RBIs in 99 games. But so far, the 34-year-old has put that behind him and looks more like the version of Grandal who raked for the White Sox in 2021 (155 OPS+, 23 homers). The biggest surprise has been Grandal’s penchant for hitting doubles, already matching his 2022 total of seven. He’s also been better defensively, going from -12 blocks above average (second lowest in MLB, per Statcast) to +3 (sixth best)." https://www.mlb.com/news/healthy-bounce-back-players-2023 If Katz survives the year, John Flaherty becomes the #1 FA target almost by default.

Tatis Machado Anderson and Soto/Vladimir Jr. if one believes Sox insiders that both those latter names are distinct possibilities to sign with Paddy...

The WBC Curse with Manny and Soto... well, basically everyone except Ohtani 2. The new additions haven't done much "Andrew Benintendi is hitting .294/.348/.353 thus far and that is the most Andrew Benintendi line that ever Andrew Benintendied. Not great, not terrible, just fine. It's fine. Benintendi is a singles and some walks hitter and that's exactly what he's given the White Sox since signing his five-year, $75 million contract. Singles and some walks for a relatively low impact 96 OPS+."

Is Hahn's job safe? "This is a results-based business and the fact of the matter is that in the 10 full seasons since Rick Hahn was promoted to GM, the White Sox have made the postseason just twice, and one of the two was the 60-game pandemic season in 2020. Hahn guided the ChiSox through their firesale a few years ago (Chris Sale, José Quintana, etc.) and the result is this. It's not great. Another postseason-less season could lead to a front office change on the South Side, particularly if the White Sox finish well below .500. If they fall a game or two short of the postseason, then maybe Hahn is safe. But things are approaching the point where someone will be scapegoated, and it's unlikely to be first year manager Pedro Grifol. It seems then that Hahn could be jeopardy if the ChiSox continue this slow start and again finish well short of expectations." https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/three-reasons-why-white-sox-have-been-one-of-mlbs-worst-teams-and-two-big-questions-about-chicagos-future/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2023/04/25/mlb-attendance-2023-shows-winning-still-foolproof-plan/11734233002/ Winning continues to be a foolproof plan for attendance woes Teams for which lowest-attended game is up from 2022 (16): Rays (57%), Mariners (52%), Yankees (41%), Phillies (43%), Marlins (33%), Blue Jays (28%), Astros (23%), Mets (23%), A’s (22%), Pirates (20%), Padres (17%), Dodgers (13%), Guardians (11%), Cardinals (12%), Cubs (7%), Giants (5%). – Teams for which lowest-attended game is flat (2% or less) year over year (3): Diamondbacks, Twins, Rangers (up a whole five humans, to 15,867). – Team for which lowest-attended game is down year over year (11): Orioles (21%), Reds (20%), Red Sox (15%), White Sox (10%), Rockies (10%), Royals (12%), Brewers (12%), Angels (10%), Nationals (8%), Braves (7%), Tigers (4%). Orioles a bit of a shocker there with Rutschman Henderson and Grayson Rodriguez up... at any rate, tonight's Sox crowd against TB is going to put those numbers to the test.

https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds 6% chance at postseason now…0.1% to win the World Series, 1/10th of 1% isn’t exactly favorable

TORONTO -- White Sox manager Pedro Grifol has seen some slow starts. He was a quality control coach for the 2018 Royals when they started 7-21. The next year Kansas City began the season 9-20. Both teams were eliminated from contention by August. For some teams, that sluggish start feels like a death sentence -- the season is over just as it started. But for Grifol’s 2023 White Sox, the feeling is different. Despite dropping a seventh-straight contest with an 8-0 loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday, Grifol doesn’t sense any quit. “I've been on teams that you go through a streak like this and you know the season’s over,” Grifol said. “This doesn’t feel like that. Doesn’t feel like that.” Wednesday’s contest was the latest loss for a White Sox squad that sits at 7-18. Chicago hasn’t won a series yet this year, or even won back-to-back games; the club is 2-12 over its last 14 contests. It’s an undeniably sideways start for a team hoping to contend, but it’s not game over. Eight teams this century have started the season with 10 or fewer wins in their first 25 games and gone on to make the playoffs. The 2019 Washington Nationals famously started out 19-31 and turned the ship around to win 93 contests, make the playoffs and win the World Series. The key to that season turnaround, for Grifol, is learning from the slump. The first-year skipper didn't anticipate his opening campaign starting this way and he's had to adapt. Grifol has been hard on himself, he said, working to make adjustments amid the slide. He’s asking players to do the same, preaching more patience at the plate, aggressiveness on the mound and cleaner play all around. “Adversity is an education,” Grifol said. “How you deal with adversity is also extremely important.” Mitch Bannon, mlb.com

Let's find every Ohtani relative in the world, employ them and offer $650 million for a long term deal as well as for him to recruit the best Korean Japanese and Taiwanese players to join him in Chicago...trade the full 25 man Sox active roster for Trout Rendon Adell and the entire Angels' farm system AND a deal in place to move Disney World Florida and a new Stars Wars-themed amusement park right next to the new Sox stadium. Jerry... he gone! Hahn gonged and gone.

https://southsideshowdown.com/posts/3-current-players-the-chicago-white-sox-have-mistreated-01gywdmfsmwf Can't say that any of these conclusions are on point... especially about Burger and Sheets. Colas pretty much all realistic Sox fans expected to struggle... maybe not quite THIS much though. Ofc further magnified by absolute black holes at the very bottom of the lineup.

Is Lynn going to have the 5-7 course steak and potatoes meal before his next start? Will fans start posting what Stone eats on air and afterwards if they run into him and Benetti on the Michelin 2* restaurant circuit...? Will Lynn go after Stone on the team flight....like the last days with him and Skip on the Northside?

The Rays are going to be out for blood after losing two in a row at home to HOU and also losing that amazing win streak. Hunter Brown really shut them down.

Yikes!

That sounds like a viral campaign with lots of in stadium handheld signage potential...much better than wasting money on billboards. Berto from Cicero or Berwyn?

wonder if he wrote parts of that out...? seemed to have a pretty natural flow always seemed like he was tearing up there near the end

that goes unsaid/unspoken...since I wanted Yoshida for $15 million more

The collared jerseys were... at least interesting. Which is more than one can say for the team itself. Also, love the way season ticket sales people are hyping Pedro Grifol when they don't know the first thing about him or his background. That trip in the car to the OD game with his very good friend Eduardo Perez in Houston will end up as his lone career highlight...unfortunately.