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Can we get more excitement in here?? The game has been over for hours after the Sox just completed the sweep, and we have 4 comments. Collins looks like a catcher. "Slow, bad defender" Madrigal legged out a triple, turned a couple double plays, and looked sharp defensively. Abreu continues to drive in runs. Kopech threw a goddamn gem. No one has anything to complain about so everyone went quiet? That's a winning streak, folks! We've broken past that .500 barrier and there's no looking back. Let's go Sox!

The fuck did you say about me punk?

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What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little b****? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. YOU'VE BROUGHT ME HOME KIDDO

Harold on suicide watch

hE oNlY hItS sInGlEs

That ain't cool man. Pretty shameful tbh.

Did Yermin die

Len intentionally making bad jokes to get at the Benetti haters.

Good lord Jose should deposit that into the LF bleachers, he is just not seeing the ball at all.

Yeah we should have traded Betts for Verdugo.

Benetti on a Sox game is like a turd on a pizza. Nice to see him out of the booth. Hopefully his ESPN gig takes him away more often. And hey look another ump with no idea of the strike zone. Yay.

You're such a dumb arrogant fuck Ray. The situation is much more complicated than your haughty reply, which I had to read because @ptatc quoted you. He was much nicer than I am about it because ONCE AGAIN STOP FUCKING TALKING TO ME OR ABOUT ME. And fucking read this you fucking goober. Maybe you'll learn something. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/so-you-want-to-bunt-in-extra-innings/ The bunt is never justified EXCEPT IN SITUATIONS WHERE 1 RUN WILL WIN IT. If you had read half the sabermetrics I have in your life you'd already have known that. @Dominikk85 also correctly ID'd the situation and the slight increase in the chances of scoring A RUN. The usually run expectancy (that is lower on average) is thrown out the window in situations where 1 run wins it. You should have known that but instead you didn't and ran your mouth like a b****.

One thing to remember about all of the predictive stats is that it uses the data from all outcomes against all players and teams. It doesn’t look at the outcomes against the best teams or the best pitchers in this case. The odds of bunts being a better option might be increased against the other teams best reliever as opposed to the worst reliever. Unless you can find a data for this individual pitcher, if he is one of their best ones, using the data for the league average pitcher won't necessarily apply. This is also why analytics have less value in the playoffs. Teams are nolonger facing average or below average teams from which the data is derived. Not all stats can be generalized to all pitchers, hitters and situations.

Agreed, I've loved the way Collins has looked this year. Incredibly impressive improvement imo in multiple facets of the game. Hard to be consistent offensively without playing a lot but his contact has improved a lot and he's been fine with the glove. Certainly not "unplayable" like people were screaming for years.

Sorry to be a little enthusiastic for a guy who has worked hard on his defense and is making a helluva lot more contact than he used to. Obviously he was not the star but he had a nice game.

If the bullpen was as good as it was last year, this team would probably be 16-5.

Between Yermin, Collins, and Ruiz, the ST roster bubble guys have really raised their stock up to this point.

His finger is bleeding badly and he gutted out a huge inning stop the hating good god. Job well done young man.

Fun fact, if this margin holds, the White Sox will have the biggest run differential in the AL.

No, that was Eloy, remember?

All the Madrigal haters go run and hide lol.

I hope Jason doesn't pay much for where he lives cause he lives rent free in the minds of so many people here.

Timmy didn't even homer and we're getting some pasta

It was a mirage. Remember when Latos went 6-0 for the Sox to start the season? Same thing. Arihara sucks.

please keep doing this

Even though it sucks that Eloy is injured, at least we found out that Yermin can hit and Vaughn can play an adequate LF.

Well, the attempts at comedy could be dialed down to only 50% of his content.

Yay no Benetti

Why do we need to start our worst hitter on the team when Vaughn has been hitting well and only plays 7 innings a game anyways?

Kopech & the Bats - YESSSS

I hope he does continue to prove my skeptical ass wrong. Being wrong is way better than the White Sox having a bad second baseman!

All ten strikeouts His first start he was perfect the first time through the order, this time he got 8 strikeouts. Kopech is going to break some records when he builds up his arm strength up enough to go 100-120 pitches a night.

Nice game for Collins, especially considering how little playing time he has had.

Hmmmm almost like nicky isn't worthless as an offensive player with his current "weakling" profile. If he finishes the year anywhere near 110-120 we'll just chalk it up to Harold's eye glass prescription being expired.

thats not good enough for a rookie with under 50 games played

Hell of a start - guy is so nasty and his command was so crisp.

at least we know why this is happening now

Little Zach can’t hit the ball outta the infield.

Madrigal telling all the haters to shove it. Me included.

OPS up to .800

I think this thread is going to get more and more fun

Nick is gonna shut a lot of people up.

My life has already started improved, have not had to listen to a Benetti home run call today

Moncada might have gotten it going a bit from an average standpoint but he's still not hitting anything particularly hard.

hahah, that wasn't a strike, but the ump might be scared he's gonna hit in the nuts if collins got crossed up again this inning

Tony larussa was not using advanced team metrics there. Thats pretty obvious to me. How can you have advanced metrics on grandals ability to do something hes done twice in 950ish career games and 3500 PA's. And yes, Robert has an incredible chance of swiping a bag vs travino. We can agree to disagree on this. It was a boneheaded move that put the game in the hands of a lesser hitter and gave up an out despite robert being able to steal without doing. Nicky big stick bailed him out though like the machine he is!

Fox News is a rank propaganda channel that has divided this nation. It is hard to stop them because they have convinced their viewership to distrust news sources and only tune in to their channel. This has to be challenged head on in some way. Their anti-vax nonsense has to stop.