Just now, Chicago White Sox said:

Why are they going to go the “cheap ass route” after making the playoffs and see a huge revenue increase?

JR history lol

we know they did spend 2020-23

but the payroll was a much higher baseline going into 2021

and then the lockout

ownership won't rush out to sign anyone the first month after WSeries like big market teams will to lock in deals before market conditions change

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by caulfield12

1 minute ago, chw42 said:

Houston just seems scarier to face cause they have Yordan. Rangers offense just doesn't have anyone like that.

Rangers are a weird situation now, as their lineup has some LHP mashers. Jung and Joc are out.

The offense looking like this against the Rockies isn't exactly encouraging going into the playoffs. Especially since the game tomorrow won't matter and they'll rest guys.

2 minutes ago, Jake said:

Thorpe was reported to be part of the taxi squad. That said, I'm not sure that his 15 days are up and they didn't use the Castillo IL trip to circumvent that.

Where was this reported? Based on this, it sounded like was no longer eligible for the regular season roster.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/09/16/tommy-pham-activated-munetaka-murakami-benched-for-all-important-series-finale-in-cleveland-will-venable-chris-getz-drew-thorpe-edgar-quero

don't look at the stats of Quintana and Feltner coming into tonight, they mean nothing

Just now, fathom said:

Rangers are a weird situation now, as their lineup has some LHP mashers. Jung and Joc are out.

How long is Joc out for?

Braden gets robbed again

1 minute ago, Jake said:

Main thing about Houston is they have Josh Hader and their ballpark strongly favors right-handed hitters which the Sox don't have so many of

Yep, Rangers stadium seems like you have to destroy it to get it out

Tough luck continues for Braden

7 minutes ago, Snopek said:

Good god it was sarcasm about a meatball comment from someone else.

It’s impossible to tell with the s%*# being thrown around in this thread. You’d think the Sox and Rockies records were reversed.

1 minute ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Where was this reported? Based on this, it sounded like was no longer eligible for the regular season roster.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2026/09/16/tommy-pham-activated-munetaka-murakami-benched-for-all-important-series-finale-in-cleveland-will-venable-chris-getz-drew-thorpe-edgar-quero

The 15 days you have to sit out after being optioned don't apply in the event of an injury to the big league club is my understanding

fucking corpse ball is back

1 minute ago, PaleAleSox said:

It’s impossible to tell with the s%*# being thrown around in this thread. You’d think the Sox and Rockies records were reversed.

Fair enough.

Cleveland isn't gonna lose today, so they better get some urgency quickly here

3 minutes ago, fathom said:

Jerry won’t spend before the lockout due to cost uncertainty. They still haven’t gotten their TV issues all resolved, which is what they needed to raise payroll.

Sorry, but agree to disagree on this. They don’t go out and add Castillo’s $22M salary if that were going to tap them out.

2 minutes ago, fathom said:

Rangers are a weird situation now, as their lineup has some LHP mashers. Jung and Joc are out.

their first five hitters are all firmly in the 700s but Seager still isn't locked in and Langford has been scuffling too

And we lose our challenges

Sam and Mune wasting our challenges. The usual suspects.

Just now, Chicago White Sox said:

Sorry, but agree to disagree on this. They don’t go out and add Castillo’s $22M salary if that were going to tap them out.

It was to lock in some contracts before the lockout

4 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

JR history lol

we know they did spend 2020-23

but the payroll was a much higher baseline going into 2021

and then the lockout

ownership won't rush out to sign anyone the first month after WSeries like big market teams will to lock in deals before market conditions change

Jerry has aways rocked a league average or better payroll when competing. We have years of data to support this.

Ugh, Colson?

Not going to stress over this. Don’t see it happening tonight. Excited for a White Sox post-season game on Tuesday.

Well hopefully pinch hitting the coldest hitter on the planet will pay off here Will

Here we go