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saved by a web gem. sosa is this year's burger

thought of a new nickname for Murfee. "Penn 11" because 11 is his ERA. edit: also Pen15.

https://soxmachine.com/2025/02/lacking-the-funds-for-strikeout-stuff-white-sox-building-a-pitching-staff-around-weak-contact-and-weird-deliveries maybe this was a bad idea

"i'm staying with the process because i've always hit" - andrew vaughn no you haven't dude

umpball worked in our favor? new guys dragging us back into this game.

CHASE'd outta here

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it was the tv guys, they said something like "they find unique ways to lose" which might be true, but at the same time, go f*** yourselves bosox commentators, you guys are not doing so hot yourselves. this was an early season moral victory. i particularly dislike the red sox for illogical reasons (ugly color socks, wear a white or a black sock like a normal person). I think their commentators are quite good and fun to listen to, but they must be eating some crow now...ya know, for now anyway. I think it would be very humorous if the Red Sox had a losing record....

Say this 5 times fast

I didn’t even realize Josh was on this team until we saw him out in right field. It’s like, bro, just try fletcher or Julks. Phone autocorrected julks to Julia, that might be a nickname.

I’m gonna try to go. I didn’t realize he was pitching tomorrow. The weather should be excellent. Kicking myself for not going today.

Seem to recall sweeping Atlanta.

Boston is struggling, they couldn’t use any of the pitchers we developed for them.

Called it!!!

100mph sinker, the guy is like 40. wtf.

It’s true, I’m hyped that Lee, a fine player, is expendable. I just think it’s funny and backwards. Any one of our catchers, including the old guys, is a better hitter than our 1b/dh’s.

Why are all the best hitters on the team/in the system catchers???

That isn't an applicable analogy because this doesn't really have anything to do with the White Sox. Any player could say this about any team and it would still look petty. It's very easy to just say nothing (again, like Giolito, a good guy and a clear leader. let me know when he says something, I might change my perspective. I think Gio has even better reason than the rest to talk trash, frankly). A normal person in Crochet's situation would either say nothing or simply be grateful that he was put in a position and given the tools to go out and "earn" 170 million dollars. Alongside his weird, unprecedented "demand" last season, it makes me think Crochet is kind of a dick. I guess a rich dick now. I still wish him the best and I hope he continues along a HOF trajectory, he's an incredible pitcher. I wish Lance the best too, I just think he's pwning himself and not the Sox and that he looks silly and if he was less of a dick some team would probably still be paying him to pitch. I think he torched his "veteran leader" reputation when he talked all that trash on his way out the door and probably a couple million dollars alongside. Regarding what players think about the Sox generally, why I think Sox players specifically are making this noise -- you think these players don't see the same stuff we do and are influenced by it? how could Crochet have perspective on how other teams operate relative to the White Sox? They're glued to their phones more than we are. How could he know how the Red Sox operate, he's been there for a month. For how historic a landmark it is, the facilities at Fenway are obviously not better than SoxPark and Henry is objectively a bigger piece of s%*# than Reinsdorf is. anyway, I think the thing to take away from this is that these are fundamentally criticisms directed toward Kenny and Hahn...and that Crochet is probably bitter that Getz didn't kowtow to his bizarre demand, even the getz haterz seemed to appreciate his hardball approach to that nonsense.

it just seems petty and disrespectful. Fenway Sports Group is arguably as incompetent as JR (although Liverpool looks great), does Crochet know that? he's saying a nice thing about the team that just made him one of the richest men to ever exist, but I don't know why they always have to talk trash.

he had a real nice game, but they're really stretching with this "first time ever" stuff

these catchers are up too close these days if you ask me. Contreras had a terrible injury last year because he got smacked in the head with a bat. it's one thing when it's your glove.

lenyn is great. these 10 run games weren't happening last year

why do these catchers keep interfering with lu bob? know he's going deep?

i go away for a minute and meidroth is on base again. 3 walks?? does this guy rock or does he just hate the red sox?

was a single pitch on that Vaughn at bat over the plate? has he walked once this season?