4 hours ago4 hr It's crazy that one of the biggest weaknesses of the season is now one of the biggest strengths in the postseason: The pitching. However, I realize that Venable has been using the pitching staff like a bullpen with the openers, guys throwing to the minimum hitters, starters throwing for a couple innings, etc. Regardless, the pitching has been great.I feel good about Wednesday. The atmosphere is going to be electric. Pitchers should be rested. Offense is primed to explode. A blowout win would be nice, but I'll take any win.
3 hours ago3 hr 13 hours ago, nrockway said:I don't understand the celibacy bit. Is it something to do with the Pope? Also Vasil hassled him for the no family thing too because he's got parents. But Vasil doesn't need much to yank your chain. Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by CaliSoxFanViaSWside
3 hours ago3 hr 39 minutes ago, hogan873 said:It's crazy that one of the biggest weaknesses of the season is now one of the biggest strengths in the postseason: The pitching. However, I realize that Venable has been using the pitching staff like a bullpen with the openers, guys throwing to the minimum hitters, starters throwing for a couple innings, etc. Regardless, the pitching has been great.I feel good about Wednesday. The atmosphere is going to be electric. Pitchers should be rested. Offense is primed to explode. A blowout win would be nice, but I'll take any win.I'm not THAT surprised, the good thing about the playoffs is you can stop worrying about overuse to some degree. We had a really rough back end of the pitching roster and it would tax our guys. Since July we've had some pretty strong pieces just tough to have stretches of 20 games in 22 days with this kind of roster build and not lose some games.
3 hours ago3 hr 10 hours ago, ron883 said:The only team that truly scares me is the Dodgers. I'm pulling for them to lose.TB and MIL are the two most difficult teams to beat right now in the playoffs, it's disgusting how well rounded they are from top to bottom, might as well be fielding a team of robots
3 hours ago3 hr It got dicey at the end... but finally Cleveland doesn't pull one out of their ass to beat us at the end.The Yankees are our worse AL match up and they look cooked.
3 hours ago3 hr 13 hours ago, Chick Mercedes said:There’s no way this White Sox pitching staff trend isn’t going to get copied on some level. We bass ackwarded ourselves into something goodPlayoff baseball has been more and more reliant on bullpens for a while now. The Sox took it to the next level by basically saying lets lean on our strengths as much as possible and play matchups as much of the game as possible. Since 2024 MLB has been putting it out there that starting pitchers should pitch a certain amount of innings and Max Scherzer said starters should throw 100 pitches. Of course this is all nonsense. But I wouldn't put it past MLB to screw with some rules that punishes a team for utilizing openers . There are a lot of traditionalist still out there.I took an MLB survery around the All-Star game and there were a few questions about new rules for starting pitchers mostly about if ,as a fan, would I be in favor of it ? I said no because you're trying to cancel the use of analytics to help teams find an edge just like how you outlawed the shift. Plus success with it doesn't mean it can be easily duplicated. I thought there wasn't a chance that Taylor would pitch after one day of rest from going 4 innings. He certainly wasn't as crisp but managed to get some outs on hard hit balls. Ballsy move but if the Sox had lost Venable knew he'd have to shoulder the responsibility for it and went for it !
3 hours ago3 hr 1 hour ago, ron883 said:Tommy Pham crash out 🤣Pham needs to disappear. As if he hasn’t done enough ridiculously stupid stuff in his career for a reporter to think he was being serious. You don’t get the benefit of the doubt when you are a wacko. Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by WhiteSox2023
3 hours ago3 hr The White Sox on the season are now 88-78. They finally made it to 10 games above .500 .
3 hours ago3 hr 3 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:Pham needs to disappear. As if he hasn’t done enough ridiculously stupid stuff in his career for a reporter to think he was being serious. You don’t get the benefit of the doubt when you are a wacko.Yeah, that is flat out embarrassing. How fucking sensitive is that dude?Vibes are good. Everybody loves this team. No need to create drama with a reporter. Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by ron883
3 hours ago3 hr 6 minutes ago, ron883 said:Yeah, that is flat out embarrassing. How fucking sensitive is that dude?Vibes are good. Everybody loves this team. No need to create drama with a reporter.no, he's our carl everett.
2 hours ago2 hr 1 hour ago, ron883 said:Tommy Pham crash out 🤣All his English teachers should have a crash out for his lack of punctuation.
2 hours ago2 hr 16 minutes ago, ron883 said:Yeah, that is flat out embarrassing. How fucking sensitive is that dude?Vibes are good. Everybody loves this team. No need to create drama with a reporter.I think Venable and the clubhouse don't care as much as cancel culture does. A HR there makes it easier for the Sox to win. As a player in a team game he knows this and his team mates know it. Haters post about it to actually stay negative bout the good vibes. It's nothing as is usually the case when blowing everything out of proportion and expecting perfection. Some of you seem to be the sensitive ones.
1 hour ago1 hr 2 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:Pham needs to disappear. As if he hasn’t done enough ridiculously stupid stuff in his career for a reporter to think he was being serious. You don’t get the benefit of the doubt when you are a wacko.Agreed and reading the story I didn't see anything that Pham could consider unprofessional or trying to get clicks. The story seemed pretty soft and light hearted to me. Just something to lighten the mood.
1 hour ago1 hr 54 minutes ago, WestEddy said:GuardsTwitter seems awful familiar...If that team could hit at ALL in the last 7 years they'd likely have a couple world series appearances. They've been top 10 in ERA in 9 of the last 10 seasons, top 5 five times in that span. No top 10 wRC+ placements in the last 10 years, and multiple times finishing 24th or worse.
41 minutes ago41 min 22 minutes ago, almagest said:If that team could hit at ALL in the last 7 years they'd likely have a couple world series appearances. They've been top 10 in ERA in 9 of the last 10 seasons, top 5 five times in that span. No top 10 wRC+ placements in the last 10 years, and multiple times finishing 24th or worse.Imagine if Jose Ramirez didn't give them a huge hometown discount. I remember there were rumors he was gonna get traded to Toronto before he signed the extension. Their offense would have been even worse the past 5 years.
40 minutes ago40 min I think what’s really fueling me during this postseason is that the Sox are handling two teams that are and have been their boogeyman teams. Houston was bad for most of the season and they took 5 out of 7 from the Sox, and honestly looked good doing it. Cleveland has been the grim reaper so many times in my lifetime, it’s hard to remember when they weren’t that team. just an incredible show of a team, they have just figured out the little things on the way of this season, and now it seems like every correct button is being pushed
19 minutes ago19 min 20 minutes ago, chw42 said:Imagine if Jose Ramirez didn't give them a huge hometown discount. I remember there were rumors he was gonna get traded to Toronto before he signed the extension. Their offense would have been even worse the past 5 years.He dealt with injuries this year and was pretty mediocre, and is gonna be 34 next year. I'm sure he'll bounce back some if he's healthy next year but the days of him carrying that offense are numbered IMO.
8 minutes ago8 min 6 minutes ago, almagest said:He dealt with injuries this year and was pretty mediocre, and is gonna be 34 next year. I'm sure he'll bounce back some if he's healthy next year but the days of him carrying that offense are numbered IMO.The hamate bone injury is clearly limiting him. It affected Beni for a year and a half after he signed with us. He didn't get any semblance of power until the 2nd half of 2024. He got injured at the end of 2022. I can see the injury limiting Ramirez for part of next year too. By the time he's fully over it, he's probably gonna be 36.
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