5 minutes ago, Soxfest said:

He dropped ball in Miami

he should've gotten out of the way, but they scored that to Acuña.

Annoying thing about this opener business is it didn't really buy Burke any platoon advantage and now we don't have our best reliever available to protect this two-run lead late.

2 minutes ago, Jake said:

Annoying thing about this opener business is it didn't really buy Burke any platoon advantage and now we don't have our best reliever available to protect this two-run lead late.

BUT we did have our best reliever face the top of their lineup.

2 minutes ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

BUT we did have our best reliever face the top of their lineup.

Yeah hard to complain about that, especially since he’s not our closer

This is more or less a game where the gamble has worked out — so far. When you burn your good reliever early, the downsides are that you don't know whether your offense was ever going to score or if the starter was going to give up a bunch of runs anyway. Today, Burke did his job and the offense has scratched a few across. I'm still not a big fan just because I don't think you want to bet on the Sox offense or Burke that often. I was happier with the strategy last year when they were using lefties to deal with the platoon advantage of opposing lineups that had lefties at the top of the order.

Hopefully the final part of the bet, that Leasure and Seranthony will lock it down, works out.

Welp

I get up for a second and the game is tied. ok.

Well, it was fun while it lasted…

I think the site just took a brief s%*# on that homer.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by WhiteSox2023

Well. Sorry Burke.

Surprisingly, Peters is leading the team in .BA (.333), OBP (.400), and tied for 3rd in OPS (.789).

Fudge. They’re gonna g 2-10 aren’t they?

The 8th inning woes continue.

you can't make this s%*# up

1 hour ago, fathom said:

Franchise is so dead

They drew 8,000 in 1968 right after MLK was assassinated with riots on the west and south sides. In those days there were hardly any sellouts for opening day all over MLB. Only 17,000+ showed up in 1959 for Bill Veeck’s first game as owner of the Sox. The Sox drew 40,000 for the opener in 1960 after the pennant winning year. I’m pretty sure the first sellout for an opener in Chicago was in 1969 at Wrigley Field which was 36,000.

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by The Mighty Mite

Sox pitching coach looks like he is in witness protection. Guess this is a good place to hide him.

this was predictable

Are you telling me that good teams do dumb things sometimes?

4 minutes ago, SouthChicagoBorn said:

Surprisingly, Peters is leading the team in .BA (.333), OBP (.400), and tied for 3rd in OPS (.789).

Screw him!! Promote the guy who's had 32 PAs above AA. LOL. And over the first 6 games, Fangraphs doesn't mind his defense.

nice play

Get two here and let’s get out of here.

Leasure mixed in a sinker there for the first time that I can remember and got a nice result jamming Vlad Jr. badly

Kirk with a real stinker of a challenge there

did they really tell benintendi to steal a base. oh it's d hill

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by nrockway

He’s out unfortunately.

I think he's out but it makes sense to challenge this one