2 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

Smart FOs never assume that on whole the squad will play to their projections. They work night and day to cover worst case scenarios because this is real life, not a projection. The Sox just assumed Eloy would put up 5 WAR, Moncada would stay healthy, Robert was a 7 WAR MVP and so on and on and on. 

Well guess what -- if they had planned for a scenario like this they'd still be in a great position. But, a failure to plan results in failure usually.

I don't really agreee this. There are so many guys who have punched below their weight this season. Lynn, Giolito, Moncada, Eloy, Robert, Grandal, Kelly, that there's not much they could have done to plan for it. They could still have planned better and been in first place in the AL Central and on pace for 86-87 wins if that's your goal fine, but I wouldn't call that "being in great position" when that's still straight into the wild card round or even bounced into 2nd place if Cleveland gets hot for the last week of the season while the White Sox are playing the Twins. 

1 minute ago, chitownsportsfan said:

Smart FOs never assume that on whole the squad will play to their projections. They work night and day to cover worst case scenarios because this is real life, not a projection. The Sox just assumed Eloy would put up 5 WAR, Moncada would stay healthy, Robert was a 7 WAR MVP and so on and on and on. 

Well guess what -- if they had planned for a scenario like this they'd still be in a great position. But, a failure to plan results in failure usually.

I think we can all agree that the Sox ended up with much bigger issues this season than the rags they threw out there to cover RF and 2B.  Even with the realistic options which were out there this off-season. 

The goal was to win 95+ games and compete for a trip to the World Series.  Lamenting that we are going to lose an 85 win division doesn't really solve the big picture .

 

3rd time a charm with bases loaded?

When’s  giolito going to give a refund on that extra 50 grand he whined about

I guess have a day Gavin

These guys with the bases loaded….wow

Time for the patent pending bases loaded double play!

1 run again. Pathetic

Shocking!! A “productive” out?

How do we keep sucking this bad with the bases loaded? 

I think Will Smith just realized he only needs to lob the pitch right down the middle and he can get outs!

Whomp whomp whoooommmmp.

Have they hit a slam all season?

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

How do we keep sucking this bad with the bases loaded? 

More like how many times have they loaded them in this game?

1 minute ago, Tomtom said:

I think Will Smith just realized he only needs to lob the pitch right down the middle and he can get outs!

What the hell happened to him? He's throwing 88 now? 

1 hour ago, Jack Parkman said:

I have no idea where or how they're going to cut payroll. 

It would start with trading some of their expensive relievers and letting Gio and Abreu walk.

They should treat Grandal as the backup catcher next year. Maybe they get a bit of a bounce back when he's only playing 75 games.  

He’s been a split catcher his entire tenure here. 29 GMs saw that in 2019. Just too hard for catchers to excel in their 30s.

One can always point out a few outliers, but 99% of MLB catchers are backups or out of the game into their 30s. His high workload prior to the Sox only wore him down more.

150 starts at catcher, 300 White Sox games heading into today.

 

1 minute ago, fathom said:

Have they hit a slam all season?

 

Looking at the box score, Giolito sucks. Good thing they didn’t give him a deal. Now add a starting pitcher to a shopping list. Two of them because Cueto isn’t a long term solution.

we could start with the bases loaded every inning and score 5 runs for the game.

 

This offense is just so bad.

Just now, harkness99 said:

we could start with the bases loaded every inning and score 5 runs for the game.

 

This offense is just so bad.

If they update Manfred ball to this....we are truly fucked.

1 hour ago, Dick Allen said:

To borrow and old JR line, anyone who thinks this team can catch Cleveland is crazy  

Pretty sure they felt that way internally at the deadline, just decided to not run fans faces in it like Jerry did 25 years ago. Explains why they did nothing beyond a minor backup catcher for LH reliever trade at low salaries.

8 minutes ago, wegner said:

 

Tony despises Haseley. Tony rather start an everyday outfield of Jake Lamb RF, Leury Garcia CF and Nick Williams LF.

 

 

My favorite part about this series was the delusional posters who after two games were like “You know what we’re actually a bad match up for the Astros if we see them in the postseason”

like get the fuck outta here

Embarrassing performance by the pitchers today 

Ruiz sucks so bad