Green Line

Maybe now we will pick up an underachieving player with an albatross contract on waivers! That's the missing piece this team needs right now. Go for it!

I'm so mad right now!... This team is "mired in mediocrity" according to the front office and that is A-OK with them! Maybe if the team is mediocre for long enough the fans will just give up and stop expecting anything more. That must be their thinking, right? Fire Robin, Fire Rick, Fire Jerry (even though we can't do that)! Can the fans take Jerry to court and demand he relinquish control of the team? Is there any legal recourse??

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 07:55 PM) Go to the bullpen and try to sell Shields to someone using his name and the ERA of his last 7 starts. Dude is gonna start giving up some serious runs again soon. Give Shields one more inning. I do. not. trust this bullpen to go 3 innings without imploding. It's literally impossible at this point.

Phew

Dadgummit. Shields is due for a homerun, very due. Let's hope it's not this inning.

Seems like Shields has thrown a lot of pitches considering how easy it's been out there on the mound for him.

Our pen has the potential to be good enough, but potential is the key word. Bullpens are so up and down, unpredictable. Just look at our bullpen this year. If it would have performed half as well as it did for the first month of the season since then, we might still be in first place.

YES!

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 07:33 PM) Rick Hahn seems like such a nice guy. I don't want to hate him. I don't blame him because I still think Kenny is having a say behind the scenes. I want to see an unchained Hahn.

The starting pitching has been very good since the all-star break. They've been keeping us in almost every game.

Awesome

Wow, made our guys look silly. Btw the atmosphere at these games has been so awesome. Our fans are SO ready for some meaningful/playoff games, just look at them! It's a far cry from 2 years ago when this rivalry hit rock bottom. I wish the Sox would give us what we want.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jul 26, 2016 -> 02:55 PM) Maybe my memory is off but I thought they had been playing better on the road this year compared to home Edit: incorrect 4 over at home 5 under on the road They were playing fine on the road until the recent West Coast swing. Hopefully that was just an aberration. Without having the stats to back it up, I think they have been a decent road team over the past couple of years despite playing bad at home.

I just can't get behind the double standard being made for professional athletes by some here. If any of us acted the way Chris Sale did, we would be out of a job in a heartbeat and possibly arrested. Its a sad indictment on society that so many people are OK or understanding of what Sale did just because he is a star player. He is paid millions of dollars to go out there and pitch every 5 days, and wearing a special promotional jersey is a small request in the big scheme of things, especially when there is 0 evidence to suggest that the jersey was somehow going to risk injuring him.

We're ahead of the Royals now, somehow...

F*** THE CUBS

Wow just as I was typing NO BUNT!!! That'll do.

What is the bullpen ERA since the infamous Texas meltdown? It has to be the highest in baseball.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 10:17 PM) Too late to get fair market value. Let's try a new manager and staff. See above post. Is that going to make Matt Albers a good pitcher? Bring back Abreau's power? Etc.? Robin is awful and needs to go but this bullpen as constructed blows.

Blow. It. Up.

This guy has no clue. SHUT YOUR MOUTH. I mean come on, he hasn't even been pitching all that well the past two months. Suck it up and wear the damn uniform dude. I really hope he is traded now. He has absolutely no self awareness... getting paid millions of dollars to pitch ~30~ times a year and he's whining about it.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 09:46 PM) What did he say? "Robin is the one who has to fight for us in that department," Sale said. "If the players don't feel comfortable 100 percent about what we are doing to win the game, and we have an easy fix -- it was as easy as hanging up another jersey and everyone was fine. For them to put business first over winning, that's when I lost it." Yeah. Please trade this guy, he's out of line... again. He voiced his complaints, and the management decided they were going ahead with wearing the uniforms. GMAFB that these uniforms were going to prevent him from pitching well. What was his excuse in the Atlanta game?

Nothing I love more than beating the Cubs. If we're not going to the playoffs, sweeping this series will be the next best thing,

Wow that looked dangerous. Wtf Todd.

Paulie for the booth!