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Amazing we are about to be 0-3 and my thoughts are the Sox look better than I expected and tigers look worse lol

Alright boys, it’s been an ugly start to the season with the Sox winless after two and those losses coming against a not great Tigers team. However, there have been some positives to cling to in the early goings. Crochet was electric and went six. Soroka was bad but was able to get through five. The bullpen has generally been very good outside of Leone. We saw the bats come alive a bit more yesterday and Robert has demonstrated significantly improved plate discipline. This isn’t a good baseball team by any stretch, but we don’t need to be good to win a game against the Tigers and as such I say why not fucking today. Without seeing lineups, it’s a bit challenging to comment on today’s matchup. I will say the Sox have barely faced Flaherty in the past and the Tigers haven’t faced Fedde since he added a sweeper, so let’s treat this like a clean slate. That being said, Flaherty is coming off a really nice spring with increased velocity and has historically been much stronger against RHs. As such, I think Shewmake should get a second straight start at SS and I’d also use Sheets at DH ahead of Eloy today given some dumb situational hitting yesterday. I haven’t gotten to see Fedde pitch since signing with us, but am very excited to see this new Bannister endorsed version. I am very familiar with the pre KBO version of Fedde and was never impressed, so hopefully the difference is immediately clear. Either way, hopefully he can give us five or six solid innings today while actually flashing a little bit of stuff. Would be great if he could be a little more than a back of the rotation innings eater. I don’t plan to do any bold predictions today, but I do think we pull off the win on this beautiful Easter Sunday. Let’s fucking go!

I've been watching this team since 1990, and baseball in general since around then too. I'm highly critical of the White Sox org because I want them to win. I want them to be good. But we have all watched them fail repeatedly, and stupidly, especially over the past decade. The White Sox don't operate the way good orgs do, and have not earned any benefit of the doubt. It is possible, healthy even, to be critical of a sports team we have invested time, energy, dollars, and emotion into. It's also cute that you crow about insults and name-calling, but have been engaging in the same behavior since you showed up on this site. I guess emotional maturity isn't guaranteed to increase with age.

He actually did his first interview in English recently. Luis is awesome. Mad respect.

Anyway, Mena went 5 IP, 0 ER, 6 K, 2H, 1BB I don't care if it's one start and 3 games into a 162 game MLB season, I am salty.

I absolutely cannot believe people thought this team would be better than last year.

It’s time to move on. I’m fine if he’s out two months. I don’t have any desire to see him play in Sox jersey again, and I was one of his biggest fans.

5.2 2R both on solo shots. Fedde threw a ton of strikes. You'd take that every time out. Nice job.

How in the world was this guy someone they thought they had to trade one of their best prospects for?

Perhaps they finally figured out he's missing a heart.

Does Eloy EVER stretch? Like, ever???? I have never seen a man pull or tear so many muscles in my life. There are 50 and 60 year old men in beer league that are more durable than this guy. It's absurd.

Grifol is just the worst. Does he know Hill sucks? He truly is the worst manager I’ve ever seen.

Jerry is so cheap he only buys the small Gatorades from Costco. Each player gets one...

Play Shewmake every day

Cash Considerations is JRs favorite playet.

ILoy is hurt again. Surprise!

I can't wait for Eloy and Yoan to be off this team.

Guys that is Jerry's plot. He's gonna make attendance drop so bad he can use that to move the team. It's only gonna get worse. This mother Fucker has sucked 44 years out of Chicago. Time to say screw you jerry

This team is going to be like 5-25.

"Down in front!" Which one of you guys is blocking this guys view?

To be fair that has to hurt like a bitc....

Eloy and Yoan in same game?

Kopech throwing 16 out of 17 for strikes.

A paper bag at least has some fibrous integrity, even wet. I’d say he’s more akin to wet toilet paper. And not even double ply.

Death, taxes. Eloy Jimenez annual IL stints

It’s three games and I can’t wait for this season to be over.

I guess he looks like Adam Eaton, but without any of the talent.

$5 Coke is not a deal

LFG KOREY LEE!!!

Such a no brainer.

I tried to derail it? I guess I don’t see how the plan for Schultz is consistent with the approach for Crochet so far. They specifically started small with Noah with only two innings in his first couple of starts and gradually ramping up to three and then four prior to his injury. My guess is he would have topped out around five innings max per start and pushed for 80 or 90 total on the season if he had remained healthy. IMO, that would’ve been a very reasonable plan. Meanwhile, Crochet came out and pitched six innings right out of the gate. There doesn’t appear to be any sort of ramp-up plan at the moment, unless going from 87 pitches in a start to roughly 100 somehow constitutes that. You have mentioned him pitching 90 to 100 innings total this year which feels like a reasonable target to me. But how will they achieve that? If he goes five or six every start we’re talking 20 starts max. Do they just shut him down 3/5 through the season? Do they shift back to the bullpen at some point when he caps out? I think the vast majority of this board is supportive of him starting and working towards 100 innings or so. I think the concern we have is do the Sox have a similar limit in mind and do they have a good roadmap in mind to get him there? They are already deviating from the approach used with Noah, which seems to reflect a very common practice in the industry for building up innings in minor league pitchers. As such, it’s only natural for us to be a bit nervous on whether the Sox are going about this the right way. And that raises the second concern which is doing this transition in a major league setting where wins do theoretically matter. This conversion is far more likely to be successful if careful discretion is used throughout to process and that becomes much harder when you have a clown manager who is on the hot seat and could be tempted to push Crochet beyond reasonable limits. Garrett should be handled with kids gloves at all times until proven otherwise and I just don’t see Grifol managing with any sort of tact. There is a very real chance he fucks this up and I’d feel much with a different manager or him at least starting more slowly down in Charlotte.

This has literally been your shtick all spring. 1. Make outrageous and unprovable statements 2. Mock anyone who brings facts into an argument. 3. Cry when someone calls you on 1 and 2. If you want to have an intelligent and fact based discussion let me know. Until then, run along.

Watching someone twist themselves into a pretzel repeatedly trying to prove they aren’t wrong can be entertaining from afar at times. But this is not one of them.

Good on grifol to play Shewmake

I won't wish death on anyone, as Billy Joel sang we eventually all wind up sleeping by ourselves. What I will say is that new ownership will give the franchise the chance to start doing things in a professional manner, to be competent and functional for a change.

It's important to know and identify the Bust Bros. Here is a helpful guide: Bash Bros: Bust Bros:

More like dollar store s%*# lol

He was also ass for the entirety of ST. It's not shocking at all he sucks when the bell has rung.

The day it happened?

Switched to Jason: "Eloy walking out the box. Wondered if he's hurt himself?"

These new rules suck and baseball is no longer baseball. Time violation strikes and balls added… runner starting on second in extras… Just deplorable. f*** manspread.

Pedro, get out there and fight for your players.

GET THROWN OUT GRIFOL

What I never understood about the DeJong and Maldonado signings was that anyone who saw them play last year could tell they were done. DeJong’s bat speed is toast and Maldonado can’t catch.

Hence #2

Luis Robert vs the world. The rest of the lineup is hot garbage ?

And outside of off the top of your head, how do you come up with those numbers? And even with your numbers , he's half a season as the #1 guy. My problem is even though he was spectacular, they let him through more pitches on opening day than everyone but 3 or 4 guys in the league. I MO, that's just asking for trouble with a guy that has been constantly injured.

Celery Salt.,...MVP... MVP

Unfortunately the only person who can fire JR is JR. I’ve detested this the man since 1982 when they brought in Sportsvision and you needed a special antenna to pick up the games, what a fiasco and how stupid as the Cubs were televising all of their games on free TV on WGN. JR and EE showed what kind of scum they were when they were interviewed after the Sox clinched the 1983 Western Division and they defamed Harry Caray, Harry knew what he was dealing with those 2 and wanted no part of them as he bolted to the Cubs in 1982. Just about every move JR and company has made in his 43 years of Sox ownership has alienated Sox fans and some wonder why Chicago is a Cub town by at least a 60-40 margin.