August 23Aug 23 13 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:Just listened to Len's call. Chills baby! Chills!No SSSU?
August 23Aug 23 Your first place Chicago White Sox improve to 68-62 with their 11th walkoff win.13 games into this intense 16 game stretch without an off day, they are managing a winning record so far.It can make for a stressful watch, but being able to win a series vs. a hot team while playing less than their best baseball is still a positive.Detroit was swept by KC and look nearly finished. Twins were also swept by SD with their new BP arms getting lit up today. Guards managed to win consecutive games for the first time in a month while sweeping the Rockies.That leaves our Sox 3.5 up with CLE and their baby soft schedule back to being the closest threat.
August 23Aug 23 20 minutes ago, Falstaff said:The post-game show was really good today, Our Chuck was eating hot wings for losing the pick to click with Ozzie. Then they interviewed Emma, the "cutie patootie", that got the walk off homer from Friday night. She gave Rogers the ball and he gave her a signed bat, signed a ball, and a signed jersey.😍
August 23Aug 23 1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:Excellent win.As far as the hitting issues, you're best guys strike out a ton, they have low batting averages. That combination almost results in a 'home run or nothing' situation. That's not good.I don't have an answer except maybe with time they'll get better as they get more experience at the big league level.Today's batters are facing velocity with so many pitchers giving max effort on every pitch. The pitchers are not as guarded because they know TJ surgery is an industry expectation.Average Speed by Pitch TypeFour-seam fastball: 94–95 mphSinker / Two-seamer: 93–94 mphCutter: 89–90 mphChangeup: 85–86 mphSlider: 84–85 mphCurveball: 79–80 mph Historical Velocity Trends2008 (Start of tracking): 91.9 mph2015: 92.9 mph2021: 93.7 mphToday: 94.7 mph
August 23Aug 23 you guys think colson is having a rough year, well at least he's not Julio Rodriguez or worse cal raleigh. Edited August 23Aug 23 by chitownsportsfan
August 23Aug 23 Sox have six left with the Twins, three left with Cleveland, three left with Kansas City and four left with Detroit.
August 23Aug 23 4 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:Sox have six left with the Twins, three left with Cleveland, three left with Kansas City and four left with Detroit.We need one out of three against Tribe in that series for the tiebreaker IIRC.
August 24Aug 24 21 minutes ago, bmags said:she gets usGo ask her out bro, I'm already tired of her content in my feed. Chicago 6, which is a good number, but we got baseball to play. Go thirst in her DMs.to be clear: this is aimed at Scott. Edited August 24Aug 24 by chitownsportsfan
August 24Aug 24 We were awful this whole series its a minor miracle we won 2 out of 3. Props to Fedde, Hagen, Clutch Benny and Tristan Peters.
August 24Aug 24 18 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:Go ask her out bro, I'm already tired of her content in my feed. Chicago 6, which is a good number, but we got baseball to play. Go thirst in her DMs.to be clear: this is aimed at Scott.OK Boomer
August 24Aug 24 Can’t wait for the “actually the royals are going to win the central” phase of the year
August 24Aug 24 12 minutes ago, bmags said:Can’t wait for the “actually the royals are going to win the central” phase of the yearWell they are technically closer to 1st than Cleveland was on this day last year lolWild how Detroit collapsed down the stretch and hasn't been quite right since.
August 24Aug 24 1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:Sox have six left with the Twins, three left with Cleveland, three left with Kansas City and four left with Detroit.We win one game in either the tigers or Guardians series and we will win the season series. That is essentially an extra game we can add to our lead
August 24Aug 24 3 hours ago, Colome's Hat said:Just listened to Len's call. Chills baby! Chills!I'll have to go back and listen. For anyone with MLB.TV, you can re-watch games locally (no blackout) after a few hours and you can select the radio broadcast for the audio.
August 24Aug 24 A clutch late inning victory at Irate Field. We even got a little MMA action in between it.
August 24Aug 24 49 minutes ago, Colome's Hat said:We win one game in either the tigers or Guardians series and we will win the season series. That is essentially an extra game we can add to our leadWin one game against Rangers and will almost definitely have tiebreaker over them as well
August 24Aug 24 4 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:Fair.But it's also true that if you at least can put the ball in play good things can happen. If you have a lot of strike outs, well...nothing can happen except maybe a dropped third strike.The batting averages of Vargas, Muni and Colson are now .246, .223 and .213 respectively...I mean that's not good at all.Makes you appreciate even more what guys like Thomas, Konerko, Ordonez, Lee and Valentin did in the early 00's. They hit a ton of home runs and also had good batting averages.If you put the ball in play it can be a DP. If you K with 1 out you have another hitter to try. Thomas was one of the greatest RHH in baseball history. Sox don't have a guy like that now.I'd take it more seriously if you were telling me their wRC+ or wOBA was bad instead of their batting avg.
August 24Aug 24 1 hour ago, Colome's Hat said:We win one game in either the tigers or Guardians series and we will win the season series. That is essentially an extra game we can add to our leadIf we get swept by Cleveland, we essentially lose 4 games in the standings. 3 from the sweep, 1 from the tiebreaker.If we win 1 in the Cleveland series, we essentially lose 0 games in the standings. Minus 1 if we lose 2 of 3, but plus 1 for clinching tiebreaker.1 win in that series sort of equals 4 games in the standings.Or is my math/logic bad?
Monday at 04:42 AM5 days Newcomb hasn't given up an earned run in 12.1 innings. in those 8 games the Sox are 6-2.Taylor had a streak going back to July 4th of 22.1 innings that ended today. in those 16 games the Sox were 12-4.Since 6/21 in 22 games covering 21.1 IP Jordan Hicks is 2-0 with a 1.27 ERA & 1.82 FIP with 32K & 8 BB. Also has 5 holds in that span and 1 blown save. Sox were 10-12 in his 22 games
Monday at 07:19 AM5 days Author 8 hours ago, Falstaff said:The post-game show was really good today, Our Chuck was eating hot wings for losing the pick to click with Ozzie. Then they interviewed Emma, the "cutie patootie", that got the walk off homer from Friday night. She gave Rogers the ball and he gave her a signed bat, signed a ball, and a signed jersey.I really want one of the Sox x Hot Ones hats and sweatshirts but being broke in California hurts those chances 😆
Monday at 07:21 AM5 days Author 8 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:White Sox hit into the least amount of DP's in MLBThey’re too busy striking out and hitting the ball in the air… and I don’t mind it one bit. Really hard to b**** about an offense that is first in runs and third in homers, but…Welcome to Soxtalk!
Monday at 07:25 AM5 days Author 8 hours ago, Lip Man 1 said:Fair.But it's also true that if you at least can put the ball in play good things can happen. If you have a lot of strike outs, well...nothing can happen except maybe a dropped third strike.The batting averages of Vargas, Muni and Colson are now .246, .223 and .213 respectively...I mean that's not good at all.Makes you appreciate even more what guys like Thomas, Konerko, Ordonez, Lee and Valentin did in the early 00's. They hit a ton of home runs and also had good batting averages.It’s a totally different era across the entire sport. Top line metrics like batting and earned run averages have proportionately moved across the league.Seems like every year the CY candidates hover near 2 for an ERA and there are only a couple of hitters over .300Back in the 90s I’d venture a guess that those measurements were more like a 3 ERA and .335 for hitters.Just remember back when seeing a starting pitcher hit 96 mph regularly meant he was a stud. Now, that is basically an expectation while the real impressive heaters are getting up to 102+.Insane.
Monday at 07:28 AM5 days Author 8 hours ago, Falstaff said:Today's batters are facing velocity with so many pitchers giving max effort on every pitch. The pitchers are not as guarded because they know TJ surgery is an industry expectation.Average Speed by Pitch TypeFour-seam fastball: 94–95 mphSinker / Two-seamer: 93–94 mphCutter: 89–90 mphChangeup: 85–86 mphSlider: 84–85 mphCurveball: 79–80 mphHistorical Velocity Trends2008 (Start of tracking): 91.9 mph2015: 92.9 mph2021: 93.7 mphToday: 94.7 mphWhat Flagstaff said 😆
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