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QUOTE (klaus kinski @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 08:45 PM) It would take every player on this roster having a career year just to make this team a wild card. That isn't happening Good chance the AL Central will be easier to win than the second WC.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 08:31 PM) Rook is getting super squeezed. Not a rookie

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 08:28 PM) You're down 2 with a fairly rested bullpen against a division rival. Who should pitch? Yeah, a guy just called up from AAA isn't high in the list. Down, I don't have a problem with this. Sale and Q going, by the time they get to Tuesday, it will almost be a bullpen reset with some needed rest.

Saladino is ok, but I want Anderson up. Let's go,

I'll never forget Shuck singlehandedly blow a game for the Angels in LF. He's a butcher.

Hahn and Kenny need to do some serious roster stuff. Quit f***ing around.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 08:16 PM) nope, put Eaton in CF, Avi in RF and Coats in LF until Jackson returns Ok. That makes sense.

Coats a CF?

Ugh

Rollins got 151 PAs before tonight, and his OPS+ was 74. Plus limited range at SS. Can't imagine he's going to improve, so it should be a matter of Anderson forcing the issue soon.

I got that ribeye. You're welcome.

Emergency hack. He's lost.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 07:38 PM) Why wouldn't they just do that in the first place? Because Rodon was pitching tonight, and Sale and Q you know what you're getting.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 07:36 PM) I bet they call up Coats after tonight's game When I saw he wasn't in the Charlotte lineup, I thought the same thing.

Bottom line, Sale and Q are going to have to put up s*** loads of zeros over the next couple days to win two out of three.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 07:29 PM) Isn't Sands also the emergency catcher, or is that Saladino? (Because that situation comes into play QUITE frequently, you know.) If it came to it, I'd like to see Albers back there.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 07:26 PM) Make-A-Wish

It may be cherry-picking six games into a 19-game season series, but if they get to the end of the season and the Royals win the division with an 89-73 record, while the Sox go 86-76...and in the process go 6-13 in the season series---there's no other way to look at it than the Sox blew the division.

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 12:27 PM) Is this your prediction? Not really a prediction, just what the Sox need to do if they're playing division-winning type baseball. Obviously, it won't go exactly like this series to series, but the aggregate of these 54 games should be 31-23 if the Royals also continue on a 90-win pace.

QUOTE (Special K @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 11:53 AM) I don't see us going 8-4 over the next 12... Time to make up for that 4-15 nonsense.

Right now, you have to assume 90 wins is what is needed to get the AL Central. So the Sox need to get to 60-48 after 108 games to be on that pace. I'll keep track of this for the next 54 games, and up date after each series. You'll see if the Sox are ahead or behind as we go along.... at Det 2-1 vs Was 2-1 vs KC 2-1 vs Det 2-1 at Cle 1-2 at Bos 2-2 vs Tor 2-1 vs Min 2-1 at Hou 2-1 vs NY 2-1 vs Atl 2-1 at LAA 2-1 at Sea 1-2 vs Det 2-2 vs Chi 1-1 at Chi 1-1 at Min 2-1 at Det 1-2

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 3, 2016 -> 11:03 AM) A loss is a loss no matter if it is game one, 47, or 162. No matter if it is a blown lead or a blow out. No matter if it comes after 6 other loses or 15 wins. As SS2k5 presented the stats it isn't a bad place to be. Based on who they played and where they played the games, I think 29-25 is right where the Sox should be. But when you start 19-8 the first 27, and then go 10-17 the next 27---and in the process go 1-5 against the Royals---it's absolutely a shame the Sox aren't at least 31-23 at the 1/3 mark. You can have any perspective on this you want to make yourself feel better. But make no mistake, the season series against the teams in the division are a big deal. Any deficit has to be made up against other teams--and that's tough to do.

vs Tigers this year.... 6-4 at home, 5-4 on the road. Anything less than 11-8 isn't good enough, especially if they're going to have a piss record against the Royals again.

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Royals sweep the Rays.