Southwest Sider

Anyone at the game? How seriously were they enforcing the no tailgating rule?

Moncada testing Madrigal!

Everything that could have gone wrong this inning has.

I know everyone here wants to complain about the lack of depth, but teams probably don't and really shouldn't plan for replacing the production of players like Tim and Eloy. It's just not possible. Talent capable of adequately replacing their production are probably already being paid very well and starting on another team. Our depth in replacing Eloy, Tim, and to a lesser extent Adam Engel is what most other teams would have to replace their very best players. Players like Leury, Mercedes, Hamilton, Mendick, and the occasional uber prospect to give a shot at a new position like Andrew Vaughn. Believe me, I KNOW it sucks. I'm as pissed off as anyone, at no one BUT Eloy Jimenez for costing us what could likely have been 30 HR of production. His bat is crucial to this lineup potentially being devastating, and his reckless need to show that he can be an amazing defensive player cost the team dearly. It's just a shame it took a major injury to get to this point and hopefully learn that lesson and not the multiple minor injuries he already suffered. I can't really speak about Tim right now as there's a chance he will be just fine. Losing him for a long time would suck and everyone here would be right to be extremely worried about the competitiveness of the team. At that point, all it takes is a couple of our best bullpen / SP or another lineup regular to go down for an extended time for the season to truly be in jeopardy. But, you just can't plan for losing your best players for a long period of time. You build your roster with the idea that your best players will be there for 150 games. As an aside... how White Sox has this season been so far? If this injury bug and bad play continues I will continue to say that aside from 2005 this is one of the worst luck franchises around. Or we are the worst luck fans. However you want to look at it.

Didnt take long for Eloys missing bat to be felt. He may not have made a difference this series but for this entire year we may be stuck wondering what if Eloy hadn't been a complete idiot and injured himself for the year.

This lineup is so different without Eloys bat. It cannot be stressed enough. He really fucked the team over with his superhero shit.

Of course their closer is unhittable tonight.

Vaughn PH time?

I might have pulled Heuer for this inning but this part of the Angel's lineup is seriously different than the front half. Good thing I'm not manager.

Wtf eloy didnt die. FFS. Teammates should be giving him endless shit for fucking up his year.

I'm not surprised if the man is running out of gas. He gave a lot of energy early on.

I used to be friends with John Danks. That was pretty cool. Always was a fan of his.

Got the last part right.

Is it Leury in left, Collins at DH?

It sounds like they really wanted to bring both of Yermin and Collins bats to the big club with Eloy going down. They could be super useful as DH's when not catching. Lucroy may have been good, but seems he became the odd man out.

I'm fine just rolling with Vaughn in LF. Yeah the intricacies of LF may be lost on him, but he won't be asked to do too much. He needs to embrace that just like Eloy should have. Having Robert in CF makes up for that liability and just be ready for the Vaughn learning experience. Collins / Yermin at DH and I'm happy. Let's roll. This needs to be final lesson for Eloy. You actually want to win the MVP? Stay on the field and hit 50 fucking home runs dude.

Weeks or months?

Rodon came ready to GO this year. So glad we were able to work out a deal to bring him back. Usually FAs like him find new teams.

I've been using the bat flip as my computer wallpaper for a long time now.

Fuller to the Broncos. Gross.

Lambert 123 inning. 2 strikeouts using some nasty breaking pitches.

1 for 5 is a GREAT deal... how did he not get more????

Interesting. Mark Cuban did an AMA on WSB and said he had any GME, he'd be holding still.

Doesnt he hate Steve Cohen? I could see it. Lmao. But none of the winnings would be put into the Sox.

I didn't even realize this.... that would be insane.