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Ahhhhh yes. No White Sox loss is complete until Ray tells me how to be a fan. Now I can sleep.

Everyone has already, dick

Anyone who thinks Ricky is a good manager is a fucking moron

I would not even wait till the end of the year.Shit can his ass tonight and let cooper finish the season and playoffs.He can take his boy rodon with him because he has been bad or hurt ever since he put on a sox uniform.Make a statement hahn that this team dosnt deserve this crap and send him packing.

It's not. The seasons have peaks and valleys. The Sox won 20 of 25 games; that's remarkable, that's called a peak. No team plays .800 baseball all year. The Sox now are in a bit of a valley, just as they started the season. GUess what? They're win percentage is still .607. That's a 98 win team; you guys can go ahead and bump the preseason win projections, but I'm 99% sure not many predicted a 98 win team. The valleys for good teams hurt MORE because the games are closer. Our valleys last year were 8-0 blowouts. So many here wear the emotions of a baseball game likes it's an NFL SUnday. It's nonsense. Seasons run in runs; hitting can be contagious, bullpens run together frequently, SP tend to get hot together. It's human nature. It's how all large sample games work; it's a collection of many small samples which have a lot of noise. The White Sox aren't hitting. They're still a good hitting team. You should be excited that the way the Sox are losing is a way that won't be possible in the playoffs; because those pitchers won't be used. Baseball is a long season. It's fun to get excited but so many people lose the grander picture. Right now the Sox are worried about staying healthy first, and staying in the top 4 seeds second. Honestly they probably don't care as much about a division this year as others due to the top 4 seed rule. You can get angry that you think these games are all must wins, but it's just not being treated that way. 6 months ago we were all just begging for baseball. COVID had overcome. I made a guarantee to myself then that if we got baseball, I would enjoy it. I have been miserable watching this team for the past few years; this year, they're fun, exciting, competitive and on pace to be a NINETY EIGHT WIN team. Have they been consistent? No, but almost NO TEAM is. I've read that people aren't excited for the playoffs, and they're in football mode and that this team stinks now. What in the fuck? They've outperformed every expectation put in front of them, and we're going to see post-season baseball for the first time in 12 years while suffering in the midst of a financial crisis and a pandemic and people want to complain because they didn't win TWO games? People are taking this for granted, and it's that which is frustrating to a fan and a human in this world we live in. You don't like what you're watching, then watch something else... but calling this a trash product when these guys are putting a top notch product on the field is pure nonsense. Go Sox! ANd Luis Robert is going to shut a lot of dumb asses up come October. Rant over.

Hah, I love Stoney.. "Oh, THERE'S Bummer, throwing in the Sox pen!"

AJ Hinch could help in the video room

He was trying to teach them what they’ll need to win in the postseason by reminding him them they’ll be at a managerial disadvantage

Honestly this series should cost Ricky his job. What an abject disaster.

Wrong again...most said Sox were talented enough to overcome his bad managing

Or we could get a good manager...

A starting pitcher fresh off the 45 day IL and you put him in a bases loaded jam. How the fuck is that a good managerial decision? RR simply does not put his players or his team in a position to succeed.

Could Rick Hahn walk down and fire Rick Renteria on the spot right now? It's almost like sabotage at this point.

As a Michigan fan cheering for a team all season long that is really entertaining and good only to go into the state of Ohio to have your soul ripped out at the end of the season seems exactly like football to me.

A “valley” less than a week before the postseason starts is no time for a Pollyanna pep talk. What’s happening is troubling.

ive honestly not been this upset about white sox baseball in a long long time... even though we are in the playoffs... I so fucking pissed right now. I can't imagine how the players feel.

I am so angry I want to throw thousands on a credit card tonight for season tickets just behind the 3rd base dugout just to loudly boo Renteria at every home game next season when he’s announced. This is why I shouldn’t have internet access lol

His reasoning for putting Rodon in. I was experimenting. In a pennant race. Fire him now.

Honestly thought he had done a pretty good job this season and then this series happened. That’s one of the worst handling’s of a bullpen I’ve ever seen in a series. Absolutely horrific.

You don’t bring a guy with his history of wildness into a situation where he can’t throw his best pitch a lot (slider)

I’m glad Rodongate happened because it’s such a huge managerial error that he will be a nationally known baseball laughingstock by the end of the week

If we are eliminated next week he should be fired before the plane takes off.

A semi competent manager wins this series 3 games to 1

tsk tsk, guess he's calling the game like a football announcer and not a baseball announcer

I wonder when Ray Ray is gonna leave a long post on Steve's Twitter chastising him for the Ricky hate.

If we fall to 3rd place I do kind of wonder if they contemplate making a manager move. Probably not, but damn I’d be concerned as fuck right now if I was Rick Hahn and watching how Ricky has managed this series.

I’m going extra pessimistic here, but it’s great to see Bummer look good. Will help when we’re losing 7-1 in the 8th next week.

FIre Ricky tonight. This guy is such a fucking clown piece of absolute shit.

Sense of calm comes over my body when you see Engel going to catch a ball and not Eloy

I don't think I've ever seen a player foul off as many hittable fastballs as Grandal

Ray i don't mind you. That said you are not a rational fan ,there is over the top negative fans on here. You are on the completely opposite end . There isn't a bigger homer on this board than you.

ya need to Go Go yourself out of here with that take.

Yeah no reason to give him any in game reps.. That would make no sense

I’m your cousins girlfriends brothers neighbor. I was lying.

Their job does solely exist to entertain us though.

The similarities are there. Sox fans wanted to quit on the team in September of 05 too. Does that mean yo walks it off tonight to take division lead and never look back?

lol yep.

This is actually the funniest part to me; in my circle of friends/family in real life, I am considered a pessimist. I don't paint rosey pictures of the team; I have pre-season analysis for each of the past 5 years to back that up. This year though? Yeah Sox80, I've been pretty optimistic because they've played like a GREAT baseball team. To say I'm a homer because I am excited and positive about this year is complete nonsense and actually the entire issue with the negativity that has consumed this place.

Then you say nothing and just sit his ass on the bench for a game or two. Then if asked, just say it was a rest day for him. Either just do it behind the scenes and not talk about it like that, or just fucking tell it how it is and move on.

Please tell me what he was supposed to say to the media? "Yeah the rookie phenom we signed for 88mil sucks ass right now. No really. Kid couldn't hit off a tee. What a loser!" Some of y'all really don't understand how teams talk to the press.

Fantastic post and fantastic thread. You get it. I get it. But for the people who don't get it, you probably aren't going to convince them otherwise. You are just wasting your time replying to a lot of the responses in this thread. Cleveland just lost 7 in a row, and now they feel on top of the world. If we win 2 or 3 of the games against the Cubs, we'll forget about this mess and head into the playoffs feeling much better. And very intelligent thing you said about how we lost these last two games. In the playoffs, we won't be using Ruiz or GG in those spots because we will have better options available.

You need what I'm drinking.

I couldn't be happier with my decision to not give a shit about the results of this "season" because you people sound absolutely miserable.

Well I look forward to our matchup next week with the Tigers and Royals.

So your answer to an already small sample of games - 60 - is to break them down into even smaller samples and dissect them and discredit the team that way. Interesting way to watch a team play a game. If you removed the White Sox from the conversation, here are the records of the following teams: (I removed the Cubs and the Twins because since they're good teams that the Sox didn't lose to so they don't count in your eyes because they don't fit the criteria, even though they're 50% of the Sox winning opponents lol) KC: 21-24 DET: 21-22 Cards: 25-24 Indians: 25-22 Reds: 27-27 So tell me again, how are the Cards, Indians and Reds superior to the "losing teams" the Sox have beaten? Since the Sox wins vs those teams don't count, then the winning teams wins vs the Sox don't count. So what are we left with? A bunch of .500ish teams. So please explain to me again how the Sox just can't beat any teams that are as good as the .500 cards and Reds.

no what happened is that the white sox have lost 6 of their last 8 games and are about to blow the division. That's the only thing that has been lost.

The White Sox took 3 of 4 from Minnesota one week ago. People have just lost their minds.

and that's a lot of the playoffs; timing and luck. Getting hot at the right time. The Sox aren't hot now, but the could get hot on Saturday, or Monday. That's baseball. Complaining and calling this a shit product and being critical of everyone on the team and in the organization is just complete nonsense. For a group of fans that have experienced such little success over 40 years to be so arrogant and off putting about the success they achieve is hilarious to me. It's like a terrible golfer who throws a fit on every hole after every bad shot and putt and then never even celebrates the very rare good shot. His expectations are at a level that is just nonsensical.

Anti mask Missouri governor has Covid 19.

Indiana to allow full capacity at restaurants and bars. You really have to be demented to hang out in a crowded bar right now.