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Wow, was not aware of the start time on this one. Passed out the final exam to my students, which they will work on for the remainder of the day, decided to read about baseball, and, voila! It's the top of the first. Time to silence my computer and put on MLBTV. Please, Sox, do something other than suck. I'm in an inappropriate place to be losing my s***.

QUOTE (fathom @ May 29, 2016 -> 02:16 PM) The at bats these AAA hitters for KC have had are ridiculous. Way tougher outs than our superstar 1B Abreu isn't a superstar. His game revolves around offense, and last year he had an .850 OPS and 3.7 oWAR. Before turning into a total sack of s*** this year, he was good but he wasn't a superstar.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ May 29, 2016 -> 02:13 PM) Can you imagine how good we'd feel if they had a pen? Horrible homestand but then you go on the road and sweep KC. Now, it'll be the opposite. This will be a 4-15 stretch, IIRC. 31-20 after a crummy stretch, still in first. And that's not even with a great pen, just any pen at all. A two run lead in the eighth should be near automatic, and that's the smallest of our four bullpen catastrophes.

DFA the pen.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ May 29, 2016 -> 02:05 PM) This team has to want to f*** up our relievers. One of the most embarrassing bullpen stretches in recent history. Seriously, I get team spirit and all that, but how can the rest of these guys sit around not hoping for the relievers' arms to fall off? We are going to be 27-24 shortly. We should be 31-20. f*** the pen. I genuinely hope we DFA all of them and call up our most deserving AAAers. I know that's suicide, but I just don't care.

I'll keep watching just to see Matt Albers embarrass himself.

Walk Hosmer to face Buyers?

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ May 28, 2016 -> 12:42 PM) How long before they blow this lead? "Don't worry, Royals, I got your back!" -Matt Albers, probably

Abreu is garbage. This isn't a slump- this is a huge hitting weakness that has been discovered and will be exploited until he adapts, which he has shown no ability to do.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ May 27, 2016 -> 07:51 PM) Please quit! Go circa walk or something What are you so hopeful about? Are you one of those people who can isolate this and say, "it's just a game" or do you genuinely see something here that gives you hope?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 27, 2016 -> 07:49 PM) So everyone could cry for Robin to be fired when he burned up the pen? I can see it is irrational theater tonight in the game thread. You guys have fun wasting another night. What's irrational about it? Ventura's been blowing games for years. He's a terrible manager. I'd kill to have Ozzie back. Jose Abreu is trash. He's been completely figured out. He won't hit above .260 again, with no special power abilities. Maybe the Castro brothers will soften up enough to let him come home.

Abreu's not gonna do s***.

Herrera is a huge f***ing p****. I hate these little b****es.

When we busted the perfect game and scored five, I sorta thought this could be the reverse of that Rangers disaster. Ya know, demotivated us after that huge de motivation. Little did I know it would end up being the Royals' version of that game.

I'm about to shift into the mode where I root against them so Robin can get fired. Awesome 3B for us? Nope. Incredibly s***ty manager. That's your legacy now, you asshole.

What is Duke's purpose, exactly? This pen has turned to absolute trash.

My Rollins boner is dying. Still don't want Saladino. Call up Anderson.

OK, so I see the slowness and poor jumps that Rollins seems so well known for...

Avi is so pathetic. Don't know what it'd cost, but I wonder if we could get a package deal with the Jays for Saunders and Estrada/Happ/Sanchez, and send Garcia away permanently. And Melky's homer combined with Allen's overall s***tiness convinced me to turn on MLBTV for the ninth. I officially regret it. This team sucks, hot start be damned.

QUOTE (miracleon35th @ May 25, 2016 -> 12:39 PM) Yahoo is my home page. Again, I was not amused by this hack or the portrayal of Sox fans as trailer trash. If this is the worst thing that happens to you today, you can probably consider it a good day. Relax, and stop worrying about nasty things written on the internet.

Thank God our full lineup is in today. I like Abreu hitting fifth for now.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:10 PM) I know it's stupid to worry about it, but I just want to see Sale win at least one of them. The Sox have been so bad as a team the past few years that I've had to settle for rooting for individual players to win awards. I feel like Sale has been worthy of the award quite a few times already but has never gotten the recognition he deserves. Just hope this game is a minor blip on the radar for him and the team as a whole. Trust me, I've done the same. If he has these kinds of starts for a month, we can worry. But just one, not at all. He's still the clear frontrunner at this point.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 24, 2016 -> 08:10 PM) Small sample size. Take his whole career, and it's still not .270.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ May 24, 2016 -> 06:50 PM) Saladino is one of the Sox' better players. Is his OBP even .260?

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ May 24, 2016 -> 06:27 PM) Significantly hampered his Cy Young chances today too. f*** f*** f*** f*** If anything, Chris Sale's CY status just went from "nobody else gets any righteous votes at all" to "no one else gets a single first place vote". No biggie.