The Beast

Can someone explain why Joe Kelly pitched as the opener on Friday night, did they need someone to take a turn for Kopech? Giolito needs to shut these guys down and get through 6 without giving up more than 3 runs. Hopefully that’s not too much to ask for since he has done it at times this year.

He left one up, it could have been thrown lower. He could have messed with him but they chose not to. Either way they did their job and he was a big contributor today and the whole season. Something tells me he’ll get his no hitter when he is done pitching. He definitely is in the conversation for Cy Young and a leader in it after tonight.

Competitors want to go after and win it fairly and without an asterisk, leaving no doubt as to what happened.

And needs to pitch like Mark Buehrle instead of Todd Ritchie.

Baldelli is a little b**** for trying to ice him. Now I hope they no hit them and sweep them tomorrow.

He’s one of the few hitters I trust on this team. Sure, he will be in decline over the next few years, but if they deal one of Sheets or Vaughn and sign another player who isn’t in a platoon, I don’t see the harm in keeping Abreu, especially with more talent coming in the pipeline. I also have concerns that if they let Abreu walk, we will miss his production in the coming years.

Yeah f*** his b**** ass! I didn’t see the winning fielders choice live, but did the ball get hit too slowly or too fast off of the mound for them to turn two?

I hope so too. He is the best football analyst on 670 the Score by far during the Bears season.

Those are all cool items. Ted Williams would be cool to have. Where did you get your weird autographed ones? Hopefully O'Neil Cruz turns into something. Most of my Sox autographs came from SoxFest and from Kids Days growing up. I also got a Frank Thomas autographed bat from a radio calling contest on 100.3.

Me too. I find Dan much more entertaining solo or with another partner. I’ve tried with Lawrence but he’s just not my style. He might be if he pushed Bernstein a bit more. He laughs too hard at jokes that aren’t that funny too. I do like when Leila Rahimi joins them though. I do appreciate the Bears and White Sox interviews as well as the weekly conversation with Mike Florio.

Alright, so who heard about the fun incident in Toronto last night?

God help us.

Because the Bears did the same thing to Nagy around Thanksgiving last year, except he was fired and wasn’t away from the team for his health. Do they rebuild or retool in that scenario? I hope it isn’t cancer either. Whatever it is, I hope it isn’t life threatening. If you are fortunate to get to 70. Unfortunately we just lost my father in law to pancreatic cancer at the age of 64. But for the average lifespan, people can still be productive in their 70s, especially since the average life expectancy is in the late 70s.

I didn’t know that. Thanks.

Yes I know. But I’ve held onto them to see if he would be right or not. I wonder if he thought he’d be moved because of their performance, if he was pulling his prediction out of his ass or if there was a rumor about him in the organization. I bet he knew nothing and made a prediction.

Shane might be right. Hopefully he’s not going to be a jerk about being right and spikes the football. I hope it’s nothing serious.

Bad team this year and he’s not the problem. Keep him and deal one of the three hitters playing as position players. Fill the starting pitching void that existed at the start of the year with Rodon gone. Yes that fucking hole existed and Kopech wasn’t the solution or replacement.

I don’t think they can handle that many moving pieces and sign and trade for all of the missing pieces. They should bring Abreu back and move one of Vaughn, Jimenez or Sheets to bring back some starting pitching. We need to stop discussing platoon scenarios because that is what we are seeing with the current roster. There need to be starting position players like any winning and functioning team would do. And they need to play at their actual positions too. Then deal Vaughn like they should have last offseason for quality starting pitching. Break the glut of 1B types and replace the loss of Cueto that way.

I can’t wait for us to put a prediction thread together for what we think will happen with TLR, Hahn and players on this roster. It’s almost like I don’t care how this season ends since this team hasn’t shown they can compete and go on a streak to get ahead of the Twins and Guardians. Can’t wait for the autopsy thread.

Bets on if Pujols gets to 700 this year before he’s done?

Lets see if you’re right on the first point Shane. I hope you’re wrong though and he finishes the year.

I’d be curious to hear about how you got Payton and Mantle and what you have of A Rod, Pujols, Ichiro, Trout and Judge.

The old cards you mention definitely retain value over time, especially if they are in decent shape. Cards that I grew up with from 1989-2005 are pretty much worthless because the market was flooded with them. I’ve got autographed baseballs, cards, pictures and bats from most Sox players that were with us from 1999-2004. I don’t know that I would collect a specific player unless I had some indication the value would hold like a James or Brady rookie card. Instead, I would invest in high end packs and hope for the best. A card local store owner opened up a box and one card he pulled was a Mac Jones 1/1 autograph card. He got $16K for it. The market seems to be gravitating towards good cards in high end brands, but getting HOF rookie cards is a good investment.

Good, I’m glad they got swept. Change is needed to compete with the rest oF the league. It only happens if Shane Riordan’s prophecy comes true, TLR moves up after the season OR they actually solve the holes in their roster. I disagree with starting another rebuild as some have suggested and instead think they need to retool.