Thad Bosley
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Benetti needs to learn and turn off “The Jason & Steve Variety Show” when the Sox have two runners on base. He was more interested in talking about the Nationwide singing thing he does with Stone than the fact the Sox had a potential rally mounting.
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We have nice things now.
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1 minute ago, Heads22 said:
Hopefully that takes a little pressure off too....I was second guessing the steal as well....but that shit was fun
Your second guessing was correct. I think Stone was just in the process of saying you don’t want to make the third out at third, and you don’t. It worked out ok this time, but in general, you don’t try the steal in that situation.
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The sound of a rocket off the bat of Luis is exhilarating!
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Wowza to the change-up!
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Nice, Gio.
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1st hit of the season goes to the MVP!
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A really fun and positive development in the next year is if these young pitchers all take the step to the next level, similar to Giolito from a couple of years ago, and force some really tough decisions for LaRussa and the FO.
What an embarrassment of riches it would be if all of these prized or once-prized top prospects, from Cease to Rodon to Lopez to Kopech to Crochet, started pitching at or near their ceilings.
In a glass half full point of view, the potential for this staff with the kind of talent it possesses is an Atlanta Braves circa the 1990s type of run from a pitching perspective. It’s certainly exciting to think of the possibilities!
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Nice to see both of the team’s top two international signings crack the top ten list.
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1 minute ago, Tnetennba said:
Tayron Guerrero on for the 7th.
He of the six foot, eight inch Tayron Guerrero’s!
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Rich King doing a good job describing LaRussa back in the early days, how he rubbed some of the old time managers back then the wrong way. He definitely came off as someone who thought he was smarter than everyone else.
It would piss off Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall, too, who saw it everyday. They would criticize him mercilessly from the booth, which LaRussa complained to Reinsdorf about. Reinsdorf sided with LaRussa, which was then the beginning of the end for Harry & Jimmy in the Sox booth.
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2 minutes ago, hogan873 said:
Who is that announcing with Kasper?
Rich King
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2 hours ago, Chicago White Sox said:
I’m really excited about Yoelqui and think he might surprise people in RF. Hopefully he hits the ground running as it would be great to have another OF option heading into the offseason.
I am equally excited about Yoelqui. I believe Paddy said back in January he’s close to MLB-ready.
The only thing that caught my eye recently was where he landed on Fangraphs Top 34 prospects list for the Sox. He came in at #25, so I’m trying to understand just what kind of talent he actually is. I thought as #1 on the international prospects list we were getting another blue chip, elite talent and that he’d easily be somewhere in the top ten, but apparently Fangraphs doesn’t think so.
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1-5 is quite a buzzsaw. This is what we get to watch every day for a very long time. Could not be more excited!
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42 minutes ago, GreenSox said:
Well if they can do that, then they can extend Lynn/Giolito. It's not like those 3 had below-market contracts.
Seems like JR is reverting to his 80s/90s philosophy of no extensions for young pitchers.
What we don’t need during the team’s “window” in these upcoming years is John Danks redux. He signed his extension as a young pitcher, but then got injured almost immediately, and they ended up running the poor guy out there way more often than they should have, but only due to how much $$$ they were into on him.
It’s obviously tougher in the pitching space to give these extensions. It’s so much more of a crapshoot than with position players. You get stuck having to run these guys out to the mound in the pre-free agent years far more often than you would otherwise. We saw that with Danks.
I don’t know. I love Lucas and am extremely excited about what his potential is in leading us through this upcoming exciting chapter with the team. He’s the leader on the staff as TA is the leader with the position players. I’m not against an extension based on the money. Happy to have the current owner to pay for premium talent (a rarity). But I don’t want to see the team possibly crippled by a pitcher coming back from injury who’s not effective any longer but who they run out there because he’s tethered to a huge contract.
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The Cubs are televising 28 games while the Sox only six. Seems like a missed opportunity to create a buzz for our new and exciting team while the Cubs get so much more exposure.
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I wonder if Abreu experiences the lack of energy that Moncada went through if that won’t force a 1B/DH flip flop with him and Vaughn.
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5 hours ago, GradMc said:
He's a paper billionaire.
He'd have to sell off the Sox and the Bulls to come anyway near realizing that kind of money.
I want the next owners to be Cohen / Balmer wealthy.
The Sox could take over this town with the right ownership and a new venue smartly located in the downtown area to grab that tourist dollar that seems to find its way to Clark and Addison.
Reinsdorf is many things - a visionary he is not.
It's mind-boggling he didn't take Mayor Washington up on his offer to anchor the up and coming South Loop
The lease at 35th & Shields is up at the end of the decade, but unlike the late ‘80s when the South Loop was an option, is there even any location in the “downtown area” these days where a new ballpark could even be built? I have no idea. But it’s certainly exciting to think of the possibilities.
I can’t think a new and improved ballpark, one with more seating than just the 40,000 capacity of the current one, won’t be something the new owner, whoever that turns out to be, won’t be thinking about seriously.
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We’ve been led on by an incomplete sentence all along, this “The money will be spent” business.
Spent on what? Premium available talent on the open market? Bryce Harper, Manny Machado, George Springer, and Trevor Bauer say “HELL NO! Not the White Sox! Not Jerry Reinsdorf!”.
Only the Indians, Pirates, Athletics, and Royals have the highest contracts those teams have ever given out less than the Sox’ “franchise record” $73 million given to Grandal last year.
It would be one thing if Reinsdorf’s frugal methods over his four decades as owner resulted in, you know, all kinds of winning. Championship after championship after championship. Yet we all know it’s been anything but that. Not one playoff series win in 39 of his 40 years at the helm.
So it’s clear that at this time of a championship window of opportunity that winning isn’t the top priority the occasional Reinsdorf fluff piece would have us believe. We just have to hope now that the young, cheap talent can overcome the lesser talent that has been brought into augment them. In other words, hope the team can prevail in spite of the owner’s cheap ways.
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13 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:
Also Madrigal and a better Robert whose upside is better than anyone on the team. Hopefully Moncada can get back to where he was and we still haven't seen the best of Eloy either. Anderson could get better too even though some expect some regression. But judging by the last 2 years and the Oakland playoff series where he got 9 hits in 3 games he's still got some upside at 27/28 years old.
The key, and what is so exciting about this team, are the ceilings for all of these guys. We are talking about elite, blue chip players here. Sky’s the limit fir each of them. Should be a lot of fun watching how well they make it to those ceilings over the next several years.
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The infusion of not one, not two, but three elite, blue chip talents into the team this year with Vaughn, Kopech, and Crochet set to join the team is nothing short of truly exciting. The Sox really do have an extraordinary amount of terrific, young talent. The next several years is going to be some kind of ride!
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In the spirit of good-natured ribbing with Cubs fans both friends and family, it was a lot of fun to watch the success of Jon Garland and see how annoyed Cubs fans were with that trade.
Cease and Jimenez have the potential to take all of that to a completely different level.
They will likely recalibrate the crosstown rivalry for years to come!
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Jerry Reinsdorf bought this team when he was 44 years old.
He’s been the owner for over 40 years now. Now at age 85 this year, he may for the first time in over four decades see his team make it to the postseason in consecutive years.
A scant 6 postseason appearances in 40 years. Noodle over that for awhile, why don’t you.
(And last year was a gimme, because third place teams don’t typically make the playoffs!)
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8 hours ago, GradMc said:
Pres Obama will put a group together. No way in hell he would allow his beloved Sox to be relocated.
Chicago is a great sports town. And with the firestorm going on at Clark and Addison, the competition for the baseball dollar is back in focus.
The Sox need a new venue.
Get off 35th st and move to the South Loop and become a viable tourist attraction.
I think it’s going to be very interesting to see what this team will do or pursue at the end of the decade when the lease at 35th Street is up, and if the new owner (hopefully by then) is able or motivated to move the team to a more viable location.
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4-1 GT: CWS @ LAA (9:05 PM CT)
in 2021 Season in Review
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Nice, Adam.