GradMc

The Sox surprised me Sunday tonight. I really thought they were done. The fan support was outstanding. The base really got into Altuve's head calling him a cheater all night long. I like the Sox chances with Rodon to force a game 5. If the Sox pull this out they will look to Dusty's decision to switch pitchers midstream resulting in Leury's game (and maybe series) changing homer.

Hinch wasting away in Detroit. Reinsdorf screwed up BIGLY

Bring me whoever runs Tampa Bay

And that's exactly the problem. This team is built on the almighty homer and throwing through a brick wall. The Sox need a more robust, multi-dimensional offense. Hahn has the same problem as Pace: neither has a clue how to get that done. And even if Hahn knew how, his ownership wouldn't pay for it. Keep the base thirsty says P.T. Reinsdorf.

Next season Kopech and Crochet will be starting the playoffs.

In series such as these, your weakest links are always exposed. With CWS it's been the same old thing for 40 years: The inability to build teams that compete with elite competition year in and year out. As whiny as Jerry Krause sounded he's right, organizations do win championships. As a testament, the Bulls haven't sniff a Finals in 20 years and in 40 years of this current regime the Sox made it to the big dance once as in one-hit wonder. The problems are systemic. It starts with ownership and permeates through senior management. My bet is Hahn will get thrown to the lions when the Sox get excused early from the postseason.

Find Shields and send him back.... If they got Manny, Yo-Yo goes back to second. That would be a formidable infield.

I'm sure Marco Paddy had nothing to do with this oh so wrong Wright guy.

There shall be dancing in the Land today. Hopefully, it won't be the Last.

Terribl

Feel sorry for Lopez. He found his niche in the bullpen and TLR showing once again he can"t leave well enough alone, puts him back into a position of historical failure. Looks like CWS is going to try to backing into the post-season. Others have tried that with some devastating consequences. If CWS does make it to the post season they will be excused early because ownership / management couldn't or wouldn't fortify this team with vetted difference makers. The time was now. They failed miserably.

Poor situational hitting - Frank hit it on the nose.

I hated this trade the day it was made and I hate even more now. The Sox needed setup guys not 2 closers.

Switching Yas and Eloy improves the lineup from 1 to 5

There are quite a few players on this team that fall into the category. This team is not built for an extended playoff run. The 2005 team won these games.

INDEED

Me either. This game was managed for 9 innings

Frankie Montas - part of another horrid giveaway by the august Reinsdorf management team.

CWS will not get far in the post season if they even make it. There are too many average to below average players riding the wave of the few truly elite players on this team. But that's P.T. Reinsdorf"s way of keeping the base perpetually thirsty while not interfering with hi$ bottom line. That paradigm has work well for him over his endless tenure. The hardware-seeking fanbase ? - not so much.

Exactly how I feel about him. Doesn't seem to take or seek counsel well

I enjoyed listening to them a lot more than watching the disintegration of Dallas Keuchel. I doubt Gordo could do basketball with Stacey's insights either. But that wasn"t the point. It was just a novel idea.

Britt Burns performance in that game was memorable. Bad baserunning cost the Sox dearly. Hawk was livid. If they had gotten back to Lamar Hoyt the next day, they would have made it to the 1983 World Series and won it. I"m still haunted by that Tito Landrum homerun.

Cease and Lopez are definitely better because Cooper is mercifully no longer here. Cooper's supposed claim to fame was getting way too much credit for the resurgence of a journeyman pitcher. Being a major Reinsdorf sycophant prolonged his tenure way more than Matt Thornton.

Brian bails out TLR again with his inane Sunday lineup madness.

Given what it took for MJ to get paid fair market value, ain't no way in hell Reinsdorf would be paying a 22 year old 300+ million. Getting traded was best thing that could have possibly happened to FTJR. Mis-directing ill-will towards him is grossly unfair. These Reinsdorf sycophants are nauseating. FTJR is a great talent and a potential first ballot HOFamer. In my book the Tatis-for-Shields transaction is easily the leading candidate for the worst trade in at least CWS history and the fact it was consummated by this particular regime of incompetence is certainly not a surprise. I wish FTJR well. An infield of Moncada-Tatis-Anderson-Abreu would have been spectacularly entertaining.