Let's take this series!

This series win is biggest of the season. I can't believe Sox are in 4th right now though. How are the Tigers winning?

1 minute ago, EloyJenkins said:

This series win is biggest of the season. I can't believe Sox are in 4th right now though. How are the Tigers winning?

Haven’t played Twins or Indians yet

2 minutes ago, EloyJenkins said:

This series win is biggest of the season. I can't believe Sox are in 4th right now though. How are the Tigers winning?

They’ve played the Reds, Pirates, and Royals so far. Somebody has to win those games lol

Just now, Bad Hombre said:

They’ve played the Reds, Pirates, and Royals so far. Somebody has to win those games lol

all the more important for sox to beat Cleveland. 

The Reds have one of the best starting rotations in baseball...getting Votto back again will help immensely, especially if he can return to 2018 form.

What does Ricky screw up tonight? Calling it right now, he’s gonna give Robert the night off because it’s Sunday night baseball and he will say something ridiculous like the spotlight is too big for him or something like that....

Not playing Robert tonight is one of the myriad reasons baseball is struggling to fend off the NBA for second place in the world of professional sports.

Giannis vs. Doncic is celebrated around the world as a match-up that defines the future of basketball, whereas Luis Robert has yet to make a name for himself outside of the Chicagoland area because he plays for a "second tier" franchise.

In the NBA, if you're a future star, say, like Ja Morant or Tray Young, no matter what team you play for...you'll be discovered, embraced, celebrated.    Whereas MLB increasingly becomes a regionalized sport.

That said, watching baseball games in the Covid-19 format isn't as bad as other sports like football and basketball that are even more fan-participation centered.

7 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Not playing Robert tonight is one of the myriad reasons baseball is struggling to fend off the NBA for second place in the world of professional sports.

Giannis vs. Doncic is celebrated around the world as a match-up that defines the future of basketball, whereas Luis Robert has yet to make a name for himself outside of the Chicagoland area because he plays for a "second tier" franchise.

In the NBA, if you're a future star, say, like Ja Morant or Tray Young, no matter what team you play for...you'll be discovered, embraced, celebrated.    Whereas MLB increasingly becomes a regionalized sport.

That said, watching baseball games in the Covid-19 format isn't as bad as other sports like football and basketball that are even more fan-participation centered.

Robert isn't playing tonight?

2 minutes ago, soxfan49 said:

Robert isn't playing tonight?

We don’t know yet.   Idle Speculation.   Guessing he probably does, but considering how tough Bieber is and that Robert’s picked up his strikeout pace pretty dramatically the past 3-5 games, it wouldn’t be a total shock to see Engel in CF and Mazara in right.

 

12 minutes ago, soxfan49 said:

Robert isn't playing tonight?

I was just making a dumb Renteria prediction. Nothing behind it other than trying to guess what Ricky will do for an encore

Pretty sure Ricky has a mandate to play our most marketable players tonight.  

Hopefully, Ricky will come up with a line up that pisses most of the board off. Seems they score a lot of runs when that happens, and not too many when the line up is actually liked.

4 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:

Hopefully, Ricky will come up with a line up that pisses most of the board off. Seems they score a lot of runs when that happens, and not too many when the line up is actually liked.

Too true.

This game will be Girls Gone Wild on the game thread. Thanks to all the ******** who got Drew Anderson released. 

23 minutes ago, pcq said:

This game will be Girls Gone Wild on the game thread. Thanks to all the ******** who got Drew Anderson released. 

Isn’t Joe Francis in jail...?  Or hiding out in a non-extradition country?

1 hour ago, pcq said:

This game will be Girls Gone Wild on the game thread. Thanks to all the ******** who got Drew Anderson released. 

So you are thanking Ricky? 

Congrats to Eddy Alvarez of the Marlins.

First big league knock off the best in baseball, Jacob de Grom.

Smashed a 3-2 fastball to the opposite field on the ground, snared by Davis of the Mets to prevent his first RBI.  Couldn’t get up and make the throw, had to eat it.

Now 1/10.

Edited August 9, 20205 yr by caulfield12

When is the last time the White Sox had a sunday night game? Serious q.

4 minutes ago, Balta1701 said:

When is the last time the White Sox had a sunday night game? Serious q.

 

Drop Abreu in the order please. He should be batting 6th

2 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Yay even less AB’s for Robert!

 

7 minutes ago, SouthWallace said:

 

Ricky's love for batting veterans high in the order is baffling. I understand that most managers do it to an extent, but Ricky lives and dies by that shit. He will even break his adoration for the R/L lineup alteration for veteran lineup privileged. Right here we have S/S/S/R/R/L/R/R/R. Ricky should just bat Eloy 3rd and Abreu 5th. Also, James McCann has been one of the best hitters on the team this year. Maybe he should bat higher than 8th for now.