1 minute ago, Blackout Friday said:

Decent piece of hitting by mazara. Nice knock by Robert. Let’s get some runs and claw back. 

Maybe one day Mazara will hit a ball hard

Just now, soxfan49 said:

I mean, they could've trotted out Burdi, Heuer, Detwiler, etc. If those guys stink, we eat it. If Anderson stinks, that's on the manager because he ALWAYS stinks and this is an important game. You put this stroke in when the game is out of reach, not when it's 0-0.

You aren’t helping or eating innings if you have absolutely nothing and aren’t getting anybody out. It helps nobody but the other team. But he needs to be contrarian because he things he knows more than he does. It’s fucking embarrassing. 

1 minute ago, soxfan49 said:

I mean, they could've trotted out Burdi, Heuer, Detwiler, etc. If those guys stink, we eat it. If Anderson stinks, that's on the manager because he ALWAYS stinks and this is an important game. You put this stroke in when the game is out of reach, not when it's 0-0.

Anderson is someone you save for extra innings, not someone you actually rely on. Ricky punted this game, plain and simple.

3 minutes ago, JoshPR said:

Anderson had no business up here. Should have let foster continue

Or put in Detwiler. 

Either way.   They were playing with fire as soon as Anderson was inserted into a tie game.    And it blew up in their faces.

Bigger picture, Hahn and Renteria can fall back on the injury excuse, but this was a winnable ballgame.

The Indians were really scuffling offensively, Lindor has been trying to do way too much from the 3 hole and getting out of his game entirely....but you could just see him rounding 1st base and forcing the issue at 2nd, it was like he knew he had to be safe, you could even see the determination/frustration etched on his face.

Superstars lead.   Luckily, Cleveland can't afford to retain the services of superstars, except LeBron in the NBA.

 

Edited August 8, 20205 yr by caulfield12

Just now, soxfan49 said:

Maybe one day Mazara will hit a ball hard

It’s like we all kinda saw this coming but still kinda taken aback how bad he’s looked so far 

It’s a damn shame when you had the chance to take the first 2 against a division rival. Bieber has been lights out all season and could very well shut us down tomorrow and all of a sudden we drop 2-3 against Cleveland yet again

Two more shitty at bats with RISP

RISP...

1 minute ago, HahnsKiddieTable said:

It’s a damn shame when you had the chance to take the first 2 against a division rival. Bieber has been lights out all season and could very well shut us down tomorrow and all of a sudden we drop 2-3 against Cleveland yet again

We took 2 of 3 last time. 

White Sox hits=5

Indians hits=5

 

Score, Indians 6, White Sox 0

1 minute ago, HahnsKiddieTable said:

It’s a damn shame when you had the chance to take the first 2 against a division rival. Bieber has been lights out all season and could very well shut us down tomorrow and all of a sudden we drop 2-3 against Cleveland yet again

Ricky is showing no urgency, it’s just insane. At least it’s nice to see people blasting him today.

Hitting with RISP should be right around 0.075 about now.

That's REALLY hard to do, for even the very worst teams in baseball history.

1 minute ago, Blackout Friday said:

We took 2 of 3 last time. 

Sox lost 2 of 3 in Cleve.  Game 3 win started the winning streak. 

Nice to see Hamilton looking good after such a disaster for him last year. Must feel good for him. 

Just now, SouthWallace said:

Sox lost 2 of 3 in Cleve.  Game 3 win started the winning streak. 

Shit you’re right. My bad. 

Just now, fathom said:

Ricky is showing no urgency, it’s just insane. At least it’s nice to see people blasting him today.

You just wonder if guys like Renteria and Cooper spend any restless nights playing over these games in their heads?

At least Ozzie, the first half of his White Sox career, he had that fire/passion/desire...until his personality and ego got in the way of things.  But at least he had the right instincts and intuition to manage the team effectively.

This game was over before it started guys, we knew that.

OR OR OR

We could have used IAN HAMILTON instead of Drew Anderson.

ANYONE ELSE.

But no...

 

Heck, we could have used Lin-Manuel Miranda and gotten a better result, in tandem with Larry David.

Edited August 8, 20205 yr by caulfield12

1 minute ago, caulfield12 said:

You just wonder if guys like Renteria and Cooper spend any restless nights playing over these games in their heads?

At least Ozzie, the first half of his White Sox career, he had that fire/passion/desire...until his personality and ego got in the way of things.  But at least he had the right instincts and intuition to manage the team effectively.

What does Ricky know about trying to win games?  Watch Cooper find a way to blame this on having to use an Opener

Where the fuck was that Blue?

 

For once in his life, PNoles is actually correct.

Goddamnit Grandal block the ball...

Just now, SouthWallace said:

Goddamnit Grandal block the ball...

Told ya, guys. This isn’t anything new with him. Get used to it happening in fits.

Edited August 8, 20205 yr by hi8is

1 minute ago, soxfan49 said:

 

HE’S ON THE ROSTER BLAH BLAH BLAH