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My friend Katie, who is queer and whose wedding I went to, works for Howard Brown. She knows the Hendriks and has nothing but great things to say about them and how wonderful allies they are to the LGBTQ community. I identify as queer myself. It's wonderful to see someone who is as big of a name as Liam being such an ally.

It's almost like they could have had Harper instead or something. But seriously, Rick Hahn is not good at his job. I think almost all of us know this by now.

That's a weak ass argument. You have Sanchez and Sosa in that scenario. Harrison is cooked. Mendick has earned his spot. We have already wasted enough time fucking around with Leury and Harrison as the starting 2B. I'm not saying Mendick is the long term answer, but for now he has the job until he squanders it. Harrison's time is up.

He knows . Wegner is a comedian . Pretty funny and nice guy.

We are never accepting new members. Sorry folks.

DSL. 18r. 22h. 10w. 44LOB! Wow that’s a boxscore

You bet...

What a freaking stud Montgomery looks like. I wish they would have gone after high schoolers in early rounds in the past.

I really like that comp. I was leaning towards Konerko for obvious reasons but I think Mags is a better comp.

just wait until its 42069

Putting my own tweet here since I don't feel like typing it all out again.

"Ladies and Gentlemen. White Sox Fans from around the globe. Let's get ready to argue about how best to argue the proper methodology for arguments!!!!!!!"

https://theathletic.com/3361419/2022/06/14/liam-hendriks-white-sox-pride-night/ I'm very glad this guy is on my team!

I'm a Pizzaterian. My Dr is not crazy about the diet, but I think it is going to catch on. Heading to the game next Thursday, so I will supplement it with a Cuban Sandwich.

This is great!! I am Proud Dad of a gay Son. While Texas has its major issues, Dallas is a HUGE ally for the community. I am proud my team is an ally too!

Golf outing tomorrow so I am posting earlier as to not be derelict. Some wacky game times this weekend that I hopefully need to post threads for. So the fuse or fire is almost lit....are the boys ready for liftoff in a NASA hotbed? Let's all hope so as Dusty pantsed Tony last season as I am sure we all still recall. The season series last year down there was brutal sans some Hot Carl. Hopefully we get another Michael K (not NYY version) Sunday night to wow us again. Below is a nice little preview I found from some site as the pathetic Chicago media doesn't have the resources....at least that I could find. Maybe former poster Greg Pratt could talk to his bosses about that. I didn't post odds as they are not forever in our favor this weekend. LFG Chicago White Sox Record: 30-31 Houston Astros Record: 39-24 Friday’s Starters: Lucas Giolito 4-2, 3.88 ERA vs Framber Valdez 6-3, 2.64 ERA Saturday’s Starters: Johnny Cueto 0-3, 3.53 ERA vs Justin Verlander 8-2, 1.94 ERA Sunday’s Starters: TBD vs Cristian Javier 3-3, 3.20 ERA What to Watch: Houston comes into the series with the clear pitching advantage. They will have their two best starters going in this matchup so it could be tough sledding for the White Sox. Chicago will need to make sure that their offense carries them within this contest and hope that their starters can dominant. Justin Verlander has been lights out this season despite returning from injury and he has helped Houston remain atop the division. The Astros at home can be a tough team to beat so the White Sox will need to be ready.

Arxy....he gets the hits.

Pretty sure no MLB player has ever had the name Arxy. Possible promotional tie in with Arby's?

I like him. I’ve been a fan since he was doing well as a 17-year-old in the DSL after coming straight stateside. I just don’t think he’s in top 100 consideration. It’s hard as a corner profile in High-A. He was power but not ridiculous power and that’s usually what it takes. He’s young and he could absolutely break out more in AA or something but I’ll need to see it first. He’s probably the prospect I would trade at the deadline though if he’s super valuable to the industry. He needs to be added to the 40-man in December and I’m just not sure Sox can afford to carry him for years while competing. I’d probably rank him in the 4-6 range right now but the system is definitely better than preseason

Sox have the easiest remaining schedule in all of MLB. If they can't find a way to win this weak division, it will be their own doing. Get healthy, beat the piss out of Minnesota and Cleveland head-to-head. Win this damn division. Twins and Guardians ain't shit. Fangraphs actually projects the Twins to have about a 44% chance to won the division, Sox at 35%, and Guardians at 21%. I think Cleveland is about to fade fast with a tougher schedule coming up. They've feasted on dogshit teams for the last month.

game is tomorrow homie

All I can think of is The Good Place character and I love this even more.

Yuck

We already swept the Tigers so this series should be a Sea Breeze

The offense took off after they sent a black hole to the minors. Go figure.

Props to the person who said Maggs for a comp for Vaughn. Perfect. I was searching for a good comp and there was one under my nose the whole time. idk if Vaughn is ever going to hit 38 HR like Maggs did in 2002 though. I see Vaughn as more Detroit Maggs than Sox Maggs.

I mean, Leury is a huge success story no matter how frustrating he can be at times. So I'm going by bWAR because it's easier to sort the draft board, and Gordon (5.5 WAR) out produced 21 (22 if you count Wade Townsend twice) #8 picks since 1980, not counting the picks since 2018. 14 outproduced him.

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Maggs is up there as one of my all time favorites. A couple of Maggs fun facts, he did a workout for Houston, but they weren't impressed and didnt sign him. He had a workout for the White Sox and the Sox scout was hours late. Maggs waited and got a contract. And the White Sox did expose him to the rule 5 draft. Nobody took him.

Jennings threw over 1000 big league innings, Khalil Green played 736 big league games, Mike Zunino is in his 10th MLB season, and McKay made the majors real fast and broke down and go hurt. Kip Bouknight was born 10 years before me so you're really digging going back there. I'd say 4 of those 5 aren't busts.

Vera pitched June 9th. If he doesn't pitch today, at what point do you get worried?

Probably needs to be pinned.

Fegan with a nice prospect piece on 5 position player prospects on the upswing. https://theathletic.com/3367375/2022/06/16/white-sox-prospect-hitters/ Will provide the bit on Sosa. Yolbert, Colson, Ramos, andd Colas are also talked about at length.

Erick Hernandez + Chappelli doubles. Chappelli will be here on known as Chappi after the heroic robot

Detroit looks really rough but what they have on the field wasn't the plan. They wanted their young rotation to grow together and instead they all got injured together

I think he ends up somewhere between Pauly and Manny Ramirez.

Credit to Fegan as well for writing the story, getting it out there. And I'm glad you posted it, @Colome's Hat, because it deserves as much visibility as possible. Goes without saying, but awesome stuff from Liam.

Jeff Bagwell is who I see when I look at him. He just seems like a professional hitter to me.

Was Buster Olney really a golden spikes award winner. I never knew it - or did you mean Buster Posey? Never mind - has to be Posey. Cause I just assume Olney has been a career journalist (vs. a former upper echelon college player).

They wanted Sean Burke. They agreed to a deal with Sean Burke for $900K. He likely could've gone earlier. This is the part of the process that you're refusing to understand. It's overslot because the White Sox felt he was a better player than the 94th pick. Think of it as them trading up to select him. That's essentially what it would be like in other drafts.

Konerko is the first name to jump to mind, but I foresee AV being a better more consistent version.

I don’t trust the dopes in charge to get it right if they tried again. Selling off valuable parts is great and all but when you refuse to spend on impact talent to supplement a solid core and dumpster dive for depth you end up where we are now. We probably all hoped that the full tear down and rebuild was a sign that they were going to do it right or differently for a change but the same stupid obstinate patterns remain. This organisation always doing it their way has proven not to be a winning formula.

I’ve always compared him as a cross between Josh Donaldson and Paul Goldschmidt. He’s a cornerstone player.

Konerko and Goldy are much bigger. I don’t know, But I’ve learned long ago watching NBA that most players are not like many others before. I am troubled finding a position for him in my mind. Short right handed players are difficult to project at first base imo. Right handed Prince Fielder with less power? But again, not being left handed in the field is tough for a short guy. And that’s high rent. I almost prefer Vaughn in left field.

I think you are overestimating a return on a 35 year old DH/1B in today's game. He's worth more to the Sox, both in current production and intangibles, than anything you would get for him (a solid prospect if you ate the salary, otherwise a couple lottery tickets). Couldn't trade him at his max value (after MVP "season"). He will be here until he wants retire, and I think he's earned that right. All ears on most other players, save for Robert, Vaughn, Anderson, Kopech and Cease.

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just when you thought Keuchel couldn't get worse...he somehow does.

I know, it's a beautiful star I orbit around. It's insane. BUt it's similar to people that love sudoku. I get this box score, I look, there will be like 25 runs scored. You'll say to yourself "wow must have been some big performances" but then basically every hitter just has a single. But there will be like 30 errors you can't see. Then you'll look at the hitters and they all struck out like 15 times, but the opposing pitchers will all have horrendous numbers barely striking out anyone. I just want to be the scorekeeper at the games. It has to be just stupefying and hilarious and beautiful watching this baseball-like game.