Lip Man 1

I have always felt under this ownership the Sox are usually in a "react" mode and just aren't "proactive" very often.

I don't think they are counting on Dunning until 2021 if what I read is accurate. I certainly agree with your bolded statement although the Sox may have to trade something to get a pitcher with some upside left to him since I can't see them signing a Cole for example.

Now THIS is baseball the way it's supposed to be played. Great pitching, timely hitting and clean fielding by the Sox. Terrific home stand. Nice, VERY nice crowd today as well and for once the team did not disappoint. Well done guys. Now the next road trip has winnable games to be had. Sox miss Scherzer I think so just get it done. And my God, Alonso has five hits (I think) in his last three games! (Trade him while his value is high! LOL)

Honestly today, you better have six guys ready to go in case of injury or a slump. The Sox need to sign two starters in my opinion since there are no guarantees Rodon when he comes back, is effective or doesn't hurt some other part of his body given his history.

Don't forget about a possible deal for Garcia to someone as well.

The Plesac family all grew up Sox fans in Indiana. Supposedly they'll be about 75 of them at the game today including Dan who always wanted to play for the Sox but it just never happened. Hoping for a good outing, no "baseball-stupidity" and a Sox win which would close out a very good home stand with a chance to keep things going on a winnable road trip.

You want to have fun? Try winning the friggin' game first. THAT'S having fun. You can have all the fun you want if you're hitting .320 and your team is winning. The fact that Sanchez is hitting around .260, the Sox are still under .500 and he's making stupid mistakes in the field and on the bases doesn't give him the right to have "fun" and act like an idiot in my opinion.

Which is absolutely no excuse for the stupidity of Sanchez in starting that comedy of base running errors. Maybe he should practice more of his base running skills than his Gatorade dumping ones.

Anything can happen but the odds of catching Minnesota (or finishing over .500 with this pitching staff) are very lllllooooonnnnnggggg...in my opinion.

The only thing that bothered me was they let a bad pitcher off the hook. The guy was 1-5 with an ERA of just short of five. He gives up three walks and a couple hits in four innings and yet the Sox can't blast him into the showers. That and the absolutely stupid boneheaded base running which began with Sanchez's stupidity. Fundamentals yet again show themselves to be very important.

And they are facing a guy who is 1-5 with an ERA of almost five. Let's see what happens.

As the great philosopher Ozzie Guillen once said, "Winning is fun...fun is winning." This is certainly fun and something I can get used to again.

If what you say is true then you can't put it past the Sox FO to be ordering Renteria to keep playing Alonso regardless of how bad he is hoping he'll catch fire and they can save face. That would be very regrettable and I'd lose a lot of respect for Renteria in the process. I think he's a bad manager but a straight-shooter.

Throw in Herrera while they are at it! ?

"Luck is the residue of design" - Branch Rickey.

Still to early to call one way or the other. He was terrible last season, he's unhittable this season. Who knows for sure.

I think he'll take a one year, 18 million dollar deal from the Yankees and go back to being a free agent at the end of the season.

As much crap as I give Renteria (well deserved in my opinion) if he can get this rag-tag bunch to .500 or so for the year he deserves some Manager of the Year votes. I mean the pitching staff is in shambles, the clean up hitter is batting .180, the "superstar" prospect is at .220 and they are almost last in defense. Yet somehow they are two games under .500. I don't know if that says something about the Sox or about the league in general.

No manager worth a damn would allow himself to take orders from the FO on how he runs his team / game. There's a reason Charlie Finley went through managers like water, they finally would get tired of him calling the dugout and demanding the manager do certain things. I just can't see Rick (who I don't think is a good manager) putting himself in that spot.

I find it hard to imagine the FO is ordering RR to play him every day in order to make them not look as bad (as they would be if he was benched or waived) because I guess the sense Renteria may just say "screw you" and quit. I don't think he'd allow himself to be put in that position because if it happened once it can happen again and again. I'm guessing to a certain extent RR is bullheaded and feels that Alonso will snap out of it. That's my best guess anyway.

Merkin's story on the Sox upcoming draft: https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/white-sox-draft-preview-2019

Probably a little of both and a lot depends on the skill of those doing the developing at the minor league level (i.e. managers / coaches / trainers etc.)

Anyone anywhere in the organization playing "fundamentally sound" baseball is very good to see!

Ugly, ugly game. Glad the Sox got the win after blowing that big lead. Eloy at least had a hit tonight but Alonso and Herrera continue to look brutal, just awful.

I would be nice...but that delivery has been tinkered with so much and at times is so awkward looking that I don't see how he can maintain a consistent release point and I think that's where so much of his issues come from.