Southwest Sider

Rick Renteria may suck. Cooper may be past his prime. Fernando Tatis Jr may be an MVP JR may be kinda lame. Rick Hahn may be just a lawyer. KW may be past his prime. Menechino may... wait I havent heard anything about him. But shit this team is fun. And everyone involved in building this deserves some credit for doing this before rebuilds like this go the way of the do do bird. Finally some fun times on the South Side. Enjoy this everyone. Hopefully they can win a World Series or 3 while they're at it.

Good thing the bullpen will be fresh.

Just heard it.

I have an Eaton jersey because I liked his grinder mentality and thought he'd be leading off for us for the next decade. Plot twist, he signed the contract extension the same day I got the jersey in Spring Training. I can't remember if I bought it before or after the extension, but I don't make jersey purchases lightly so it is likely that I had much thought about making this purchase prior to making it.

He should try some rigatoni.

What would a qualifying offer for Mazara look like if we want to try him out again next year?

Grand Slams aren't something that you can just do whenever you want. They are pretty rare, actually. Alexei had like 4 his first year with us, and then maybe 2 for the rest of his career. Why anyone would want to b**** at Tatis for trying to hit the ball hard in a situation where he will be lucky to get 10 Grand Slams in his career is just plain stupid. Plus, the dude is putting up insane stats right now and if he can keep adding to it, he very well should. Not letting off the gas and padding his eye-popping stats is what could win Tatis an MVP award. His manager should be ashamed of himself (and fired).

Nothing was going their way until Fowler kindly gifted an out.

All I want to do is watch some of this offense and these guys cannot get off the field. What the fuck.

Yeah! Even though I said I would have liked Byrum, I'm not mad about it because I think were all going to be very happy with Kirby.

Well, that game was the Hawks chance to steal one and make it a series. Unfortunately they just came short. I miss the days when the Hawks could stand up to a team like Vegas. Our top players are pretty good, but Hossa, prime Seabrook, Hjalmarsson, Sharp and others just pushed that team over the top. We don't have that anymore. Just another team now. Maybe these young guys can grow into newer versions of our old core... but it'd be really, really nice to have a new "Keith" and a new "Seabrook". Sort of why I was hoping the Hawks would have drafted Bowen Byrum as he was the top rated defenseman in the draft.

Could be worse... half our team could be wiped out due to COVID. It almost feels like it may as well have been, at this point.

Did Jose and Yoan start hunting high fastballs?

Wish TA wasn't hurt. Come back soon Timmy!

LOL who goes to a casino during a pandemic? Especially when you're trying to fit in a shortened MLB season? I wouldn't think about going to a casino right now... those guys are morons. I get that its probably boring between games but that's the price a lot of us are paying right now.... buy a few Xboxs or Playstations, grab some beers and enjoy the hotel with your teammates.

I think Soxtalk had a IRC server back in the day that had a web interface, as well. It's fun. I like Discord servers and would join if there was one. I have a lot of Discord administrative experience, as well so if you all would want help with that let me know. I was head admin for a large community of Pokemon Go players spanning a large portion of the far west suburbs.

Can I just say that this guy called it.

I don't mind Engel too much temporarily, this lineup can hit a bit as is. At least we can count on stellar defense, which is nice!!

There goes that pipe dream. Better now than late into FA with the Sox being one of the top 3 or 4 teams and ending with ultimate disappointment and anger. Still kinda wish we did what the Dodgers did here. Trade and sign to long term deal.

Love Kumas. I used to work right next to that one.

Heuer looks like a closer

Kopechs first game at the Rate was obscenely fun. I cant imagine he didnt enjoy the heck out of that and want more of it for a career. Seems like it would be super addictive... hoping for the best for Michael, though.

So we got 2 guys who have decent chances to become ace material SPs. Excellent draft. I'd normally be happy to only get 1 guy like that in a draft.

I've never liked Trevor Plouffe more than right now.

Thanks. I haven't been paying much attention and struggled to find real information out there.