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Don't talk back to a nice Hispanic family who just wants to bully their way out of the parking lot, or the 3 of them, including their kid, may open your car door and go through your window to assault you, then chase down the car as you try to drive away, beating at the windows and yelling. That was the biggest takeaway I saw.

And especially for big Saturday promo games it seems like they open them way earlier than 2 hours before, that's why I was wondering if anyone had a firm answer.

In the Sox Talk Live w/ Rick Hahn last week, he identified Call as someone he wanted to give a shoutout to for handling an aggressive promotion due to a log-jam very well and making the most out of what they figured to be a tough challenge for him.

I have a feeling if we miss out on Machado (assuming he's willing to go back to 3B), that the Sox will and should move Moncada back over to 3B again. Yolmer can take over 2B again until Madrigal is ready.

Gunnar Troutwine has picked it back up after having a pretty lackluster start to pro ball. Since July 23rd, including tonight so far.... .478 AVG, .536 OBP, 4 BB, 2 K. Unfortunately only 1 XBH over that span, and no HR, but he's making drastically better contact. He now has 12 BB to 13 K in 86 PA so far. That's a 14% BB rate, and a K% just a tick above that.

That's what I was thinking. I can't imagine them trading him and then end up losing Arenado also. I was looking in to Ryan McMahon, but I don't know if he can be trusted at 3B anymore. He seems to be 1B now with some 2B thrown in.

Or Fulmer to the Brewers for 3B Lucas Erceg. Or if the Rays for some reason wanted Fulmer, and we get 3B Christian Arroyo back. Basically as someone else said, look for a "change of scenery" type move where we can get a 3B prospect back who stalled in their development, similar to Fulmer.

Carson Fulmer for Kevin Maitan. Two well regarded prospects who fell from off the prospect cliffs for vastly different reasons. Plus the Angels just drafted Jeremiah Jackson this June, and at 18 (same age as Maitan) has been killing it in rookie ball, so Jackson could easily pass him on their org depth chart anyway, and given their similar ages, would block Maitan out. But obviously that wouldn't help our need for a 3B by 2020, as Maitan is probably 3-4 years away.

Is it just me, or am I erect right now?

And when the tailgate lots open.

Alex Call just MURDERED his 2nd HR of the game. That was a no-doubter. He's got 6 HR now for BIR in 44 games. He hit 5 HR in 56 games for W-S to star the year. 11 combined.

I don't know where you are seeing a pitch count, but the way they do pitchcounts it seems based on your 34 numbers is..... Non-strikeout out = 1 pitch Strikeout = 2 more pitches Hit = 1 pitch Walk = 1 pitch So Perez pitched 7 innings (21 outs). So that's 21 pitches. 4 of those were strikeouts, so add 8 more. That gives you 29. He gave up 4 hits, so add 4 more. That gives you 33. Then a walk must equal 1 pitch for some reason, so that would give you 34 pitches. I feel like 37 pitches makes a lot more sense, but that's the best guess I can make based on his line.

I've got tickets for the 8th and the 11th. So....hopefully yeah.

I need a "Madrigal Elektromotoren" White Sox shirt made. ASAP.

I will literally know the person who will be greeting him when he comes to town. If I get a scoop, I'll be sending it along to WSD. So far no new info tonight.

I was thinking of this recently when we all got excited about Luis Gonzalez.

I 100% believed this.

But it doesn't make sense that he would be walking less now. You'd think without Eloy behind him, he would be getting less pitches to hit, because the risk of walking him coming back to hurt the pitcher are less.

I think you're in the wrong subforum.

Good call, Bryce Bush promoted to Great Falls today. ?

I went to a Cubs/Giants ST game that was cancelled in the 5th inning due to wind. It whips sand in to your eyes and was ripping signs off the OF wall. Wind out there is no joke.

Yoelvin Silven had a helluva start. 6 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 9 K He now has an ERA of 2.98 with 57 K to only 10 BB in 45 IP. He just turned 19, and was just signed in May.

DSL - Won 7-1 GF - Bilious @ 8PM Kanny - Moran @ 6PM Winston-Salem - Battenfield @ 4PM, Henzman @ 10:30PM Birmingham - Banks @ 7PM Knights - TBD @ 6 PM https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates

I think we can catch KC, but catching Baltimore and that horrid roster would require one of those weird things where a team unloads talent and all the randoms who get playing time have chips on their shoulders and steal some games away.

He's only 18, but then again, he's sleepwalking through AZL so far. So yeah, do it. Obviously 13 games is a very small sample size, but so far he has 6 BB (12.7 BB%) and 4 K (8.5 K%). To me, that's more impressive than his .400+ batting average.