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Sox, Guardians, Twins head into the final day of the season in a 3 way tie. Guardians hold the tiebreaker, so the winner of the Sox-Twins game needs Cleveland to lose to clinch the division. Sox win 6-1 and watch the end of the Guardians-Royals game in the clubhouse with Tony, who has still not returned to manage yet. In the 11th inning, Sal Perez hits a 2 run HR and the Guardians can only score 1 in the bottom half, thus falling 1 game short of the division title. The Sox clubhouse breaks out in celebration. Southpaw breaks open the bubbly and the boys get good and drunk. Tony announces, via post-game show interview, that he'll return to manage for the playoffs. However, the party gets the best of him and he receives his 3rd DUI while drunkenly driving the team bus to Admiral Theatre later that night. He is fired the next morning. Sox host the Rays in a 3 game playoff at the G Spot and win it in 2 games, with game 2 being a walkoff basehit from Romy Gonzalez scoring pinch runner Adam Engel. Tony tries joining the clubhouse celebration but is met by G Spot security at the back entrance and not allowed to enter. That night, Leury gets his wife pregnant with Leury Jr. Who will eventually be drafted 3rd overall by the Tigers and win 4 MVPs while destroying the sox throughout the 2040's and early 2050's. In the ALDS, the Sox overmatch the Yankees with superior pitching and win the series in 4 games, again clinching on their home field. Meanwhile, the Mariners making their first playoff appearance in 21 years, shock the Astros to advance to the ALCS to meet the Sox. A local Seattle radio station somehow manages to arrange a Lou Piniella vs Tony La Russa wrestling match with each former skipper wearing a singlet donning their former team's logo. Tony wins the match via TKO after knocking out Sweet Lou with a folding chair. In his post-fight interview Tony says he is still with the team in spirit and will be drinking more spirits later that night. This wrestling match victory gives the Sox all the momentum they need. They sweep the Mariners and head back to the World Series for the first time in 17 years. ALCS MVP Eloy Jimenez credits Tony's inspirational victory as the motivation the team needed to advance and dedicates his MVP to Tony. The Sox meet the Dodgers in the World Series and shockingly, the day before the series starts Dave Roberts is suspended by the MLB for cocaine use. He reports that the MLB must have mistakenly tested Ron Washington's urine when the Dodgers beat the Braves in the NLCS but he can not prove it. With Roberts gone, the Dodgers hire Tommy Lasorda's corpse to manage the World Series. Tony is upset as he was hoping to be the first corpse to manage in a World Series. The underdog Sox take advantage of the demoralized Dodgers clubhouse and win the World Series in 7 games, after AJ Pollock hits a Grand Slam in the top of the 9th inning off Craig Kimbrel to erase a 5-2 Dodgers lead. Nick Madrigal, who is in the outfield bleachers as a fan, catches the game winning home run with his Toys R Us glove he brought to the game like all the other 12 year olds. The day after the parade, Reinsdorf sells the Sox to Jeff Bezos. The White Sox dominate the rest of the 2020's and 2030's winning 6 World Series. However, they never win another after that as the curse of Leury Jr. casts a dark shadow over the franchise for the rest of eternity.

Here's my perspective: Maybe I am not quite as perfect as you are, but I can say with 100% certainty that I have had loads of days where I didn't work to my 100% for one reason or another. Most of them were related to places or situations I didn't want to be in, but didn't really have a choice because I didn't have a better option. I am not programmed to give 100% all of the time, in every single situation, nor do I believe that the vast majority of people are. Bad working conditions, crappy racist bosses, unrealistic expectations, out of touch companies, profit over health and safety, hangovers, bad home life, money stress, and a million other things can happen at a job which can down productivity. Hell we are living in the era of the "Great Resignation" and "Quiet Quitting" amongst everything else. So while I appreciate the lecture on "effort" and "pride", I believe the reality is far short of that. Keep in mind, being a boss is just as much of a job as any of the other jobs out there. They have responsibilities and things they need to do, and they need to realize if their actions aren't working, that THEY might have to change to get the most out of this particular group of employees. It is easy to paint a picture of this all being lazy players, but that isn't reality. Don't underestimate the value of mutual respect for your employees, or even understanding their quirks, style, or even language and culture at a deep level, and then being able to relate to them. Champions aren't perfect every moment of every day, they are just at a higher level more often than almost everyone else on the right days.

Guardians

Just keep chucking sliders out of the zone and we’re good.

Global Thermo-Nuclear War Shall we play a game? In the scene where the Black Widow boots up SHIELD’s supercomputer from a bygone era, she asks Captain America, “Shall we play a game?”, with Captain America replying, “Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?” This is a reference to a line from WarGames, a 1983 Cold War sci-fi film.

how do you score 2 runs in 10 innings against the Tigers?

Yeah not gonna be mad at him for being a good person

Thanks to Abreu, I really can't be mad at Leury instinctively preventing a man from falling onto his head on concrete.

He can f*** off

Sidebar, this new censorship after the upgrade is funny. Fucking… no problem. f***… no bueno. ?

Banners fly forever. There would be no better middle finger to Tony than to win it all without him.

Yermin Mercedes enters the chat. Tony approved of this bean ball attempt. Tim Anderson's like "Child Please". This is the game Tony La Russa lost the clubhouse, and it never recovered until Miguel Cairo took over the ballclub.

Even if the rally falls short - if they keep this alive the final month it at least gives me much more hope and optimism heading into next season (because it really does mean TLR played a pretty huge role in this fiasco). It doesn't mean that there aren't other bigger issues to fix though, cause there are.

This injury was suffered on August 12. The strategy of not putting him on the IL has allowed him to play in 12 of the team's 28 games since then, with a .194 average and a .515 OPS in 38 plate appearances.

I’m not going to deny that the roster construction of this team is awful. But if they re-sign 36 yr old Jose Abreu over trading 25 yr old Andrew Vaughn, they are the dumbest fucking team in baseball. Eloy needs to DH. Vaughn needs to play first base. That part isn’t difficult to figure out. The rest, I’ll leave it up to the “experts”.

Door was open when Girardi and Maddon were fired. Screw You Jerry.

Good lord, how can anyone still defend Tony? Cairo isn’t great by any means, but that stupid asshole completely torpedoed this rebuild, along with Hahn.

Should have walked Reyes to set up a force at home. You'd have to face Baez regardless.

Elvis coaching because staff is asleep

Liam is still available.

Kelly is faster than any of our outfielders.

They almost did. Baez almost got under the tag except he missed home plate.

8 games back.

Oh yeah Pito ! Loved seeing ANdrus on the move . I was just thinking he should be going.

Pardon my French. Unfucking believable

Leury isnt even playing and hes costing us baserunners

1 pitch 1 out energy

Everytime Pollock bats, and angel loses their wings.

I miss Gaddis

His velocity sucks so much this year that I totally forgot he used to throw up to 97 and consistently sat mid 90s.

That’s gotta be the worst defensive OF config in the league this year.

Remember on opening day when Lucas looked great and we all felt good. Nevermind the last three innings of that game. Let's all remember the good vibes from the start of that game.

Players are people too. Everyone has bad days. Everyone also has days where they aren't 100%. Even being well paid, human motivations vary day in and day out when the work can be a grind. It's easy to hold players to some idealized standard, but playing is a job for them too. Players are still human at the end of the day.

They’ve scored 5+ runs 8 times in the last month. They were games against the Royals, Angels, and Rangers. Theyre 7-1 in those games. They are 3-2 when scoring 4 runs. They are winless over the last month scoring 3 or fewer.

It takes a lot of coincidences for the tigers to score 5 runs

Whoever wins the central will do so with a whimper, falling assbackwards into a division title by sucking slightly less than the competition. Your 2022 AL Central champion White Sox slogan - winning by default.

And with that I've vented most of my frustration with this organization.

Here's my perspective, maybe it's biased. I watch high school kids bust their asses in their off season for a chance to try out for varsity. They don't have coaches motivating them all the time. Maybe it's a Texas thing, but I bet @southsider2k5sees the same thing in Indiana. Maybe it's a teenager thing? No. My daughter runs ultra marathons. I think I can expect the same effort, pride, and competitiveness from an $8,000,000 professional baseball player as I see from an insurance agent running a 100k race. Maybe Cairo went into the locker room and told those guys It's not their fault, they did all they could and it's Tony's fault. Maybe tossed in a shoulder rub. But I'm guessing he's holding them to a standard that professional athletes should have. I think if they can't individually hold themselves to that standard then cut back their party budget a bit and hire a professional motivator to give them a motivational backrub before the game. Fans and their employers deserve at least that. And fire Tony. He was brought in to win a WS. This roster ain't playing in October so there isn't a need. And if you think the roster is substantially better than 2020 keep Hahn. If you think it's the same or worse, fire Hahn. And start dumping players that can't give 100% unless everything around them is perfect. That ain't ever going to happen. Champions overcome obstacles, they don't go catatonic and give up.

I mean, not only does Tony bear a lion's share of the blame, but he was probably already hated by a large amount of people in Chicago due to his Cardinals' affiliation.

What Carlos did was far worse than what Luis did. He was never the same again because he broke his own wrist

Lynn stepped up clutch once again. That was his 5th straight start with one ER or less and second straight start with zero ER's. Amazing when you hit 5 home runs how much fun the game is and how much easier it is to win. Good job boys, you decided to stop letting a horrible pitcher look like a CY Young candidate and pounded him hard! Don't Stop Now Boys! No matter how bleak it looks, you still have a chance and it's for your taking if you are hungry enough!

Brilliant idea! Would a hologram qualify? Or get Madame Tussaud working on a replica?

Yeah, remember when he was good? That was fun.

Sox need to sweep Cleveland too; and then 4/6 against Minny and I think that will get us both tiebreakers.

Everyone feels safer when Tony isn't driving.