root for Astros

would take 0-4 Sox

4-0 Rangers

I think we need to go 4-0 to end the year to get the division. I don't think CLE loses more than one more

Bichette a massive bust this year

Grand slam!!!!

Baty grand slam!

Mets announcers are so good man. They had the whole scouting report of Baty vs. Williams teed up.

That more or less clinches it for us. We can win at least 1 of the next 4 right? Right?

Just now, chw42 said:

That more or less clinches it for us. We can win at least 1 of the next 4 right? Right?

Yes we can....I believe....and/or I also think Texas will lose 1 more.

Just now, wegner said:

Yes we can....I believe....and/or I also think Texas will lose 1 more.

Baltimore too.

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

Baltimore too.

Stop trying to make me nervous

Ofcourse the one time CLE loses, we cannot take advantage.

With TEX losing we are pretty much in, but we missed a big chance to get back into 1st tonight and I have my doubts CLE will lose again...I wad actually surprised they didn't score in the 9th given all their BS comebacks.

3 minutes ago, wegner said:

Stop trying to make me nervous

I don't think we're going winless against the Royals and Rockies the rest of the way. Baltimore also plays the Yankees to end the year. It's basically 99.99% that we're at least getting the last wild card spot.

Baltimore wins out and White Sox lose out

Baltimore goes in with 4-2 tiebreaker advantage

both teams finish 81-81

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

I don't think we're going winless against the Royals and Rockies the rest of the way. Baltimore also plays the Yankees to end the year. It's basically 99.99% that we're at least getting the last wild card spot.

Yankees have already clinched home field and setting up postseason rotation for Tuesday though

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

I don't think we're going winless against the Royals and Rockies the rest of the way. Baltimore also plays the Yankees to end the year. It's basically 99.99% that we're at least getting the last wild card spot.

But it's that .01% that'll bite ya in the ass....let's win tomorrow.

5 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Baltimore wins out and White Sox lose out

Baltimore goes in with 4-2 tiebreaker advantage

both teams finish 81-81

Will you stop talking about us losing out. If we don't win a game against COL we deserve to be sitting at home anyways

25 minutes ago, BigHurt3515 said:

Will you stop talking about us losing out. If we don't win a game against COL we deserve to be sitting at home anyways

So we should just pretend those scenarios magically don't exist?

Let's go with Fangraphs odds then and just turn on tv's next week instead.

Will be there playing or not.

This is the White Sox we're talking about, after all.

Conditioned to failure over 125 years.

It's in the DNA.

Edited September 24Sep 24 by caulfield12

Going into the last week of play in 1967, the Red Sox had only four games to play, the White Sox and Twins had five each, and the Tigers had six. Most thought the White Sox were best situated to win the pennant because in their last five games, the Pale Hose were scheduled to play the last-place Kansas City Athletics twice and the seventh-place Washington Senators three games.

Interestingly, at the start of play on Wednesday that final week, there was still the quite possible scenario of a four-way tie for first place — imagine the discussion regarding tiebreakers! According to Jeff Miller, in his book Down to the Wire, in the spring of 1967, some engineers at Honeywell apparently decided to amuse themselves by calculating the odds of a four-way tie for first in either the National League or American League. Their calculations showed that the chances of a four-way tie were ***30,315,229 to 1***. As Miller mused, why the engineers chose to use the company’s time this way remains unknown — baseball had never seen a tie involving more than two teams before 1967.

But that Wednesday (September 27) a gloomy cloud fell over the South Side — the White Sox lost a doubleheader to the lowly A’s. Nevertheless, they still had a chance going into the final weekend because at the start of play on Friday all four teams were within a game and a half in the standings. The other three teams had a harder row to hoe — the Twins and Red Sox would play each other twice on the weekend and the Tigers had to play four against the fifth-place Angels. And things got worse for the Tigers because of rain on Friday, requiring them to play back-to-back doubleheaders on the final weekend.

The ending is well known, and celebrated in Red Sox Nation.

Mariners 3

Astros 4

second and third two outs for Ms

Just so we are all aware, Peter Lambert of Houston is scheduled to start tomorrow which would line him up for game 1 of a wild card series

6 minutes ago, BigHurt3515 said:

Just so we are all aware, Peter Lambert of Houston is scheduled to start tomorrow which would line him up for game 1 of a wild card series

We actually did alright off him, but just couldn't get the big hit. The 2 guys in the Astros rotation we can't hit are Brown and Wesneski.

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

We actually did alright off him, but just couldn't get the big hit. The 2 guys in the Astros rotation we can't hit are Brown and Wesneski.

Pretty sure Brown would be game 2, I think he is pitching Friday

Naylor walks off the Astros. Rangers still alive. Hader had to throw 44 pitches.

There's a chance that the winner of the AL West will be under .500. Just crazy.

Astros on ropes bottom of ten in Seattle

5-5 bases loaded off Hader

Just one out. Three walks.

Old friend Josh Naylor walks off Houston. Lol.

Back to a tie with Rangers at -2.

Both teams win out and Sox lose out :

82-80. Astros take three seed by virtue of tiebreaker

Rangers take 6 seed

Or Balt wins out 3-0 and Sox go 0-4, lose by virtue of that tiebreaker of 2-4 versus Baltimore