Greg Hibbard

The saddest thing about all of this is they will be like 2 under with 8 to play and win 7 of those last 8 games against second string and callups to finish 84-78 and be “just a few injury games away” from competing next year.

I finally have it “The 2022 Chicago White Sox: The Quiet Quitters”

Gavin Sheets hitting in 2 hole. are you freaking joking

I would do: Vaughn equally splits time between LF 1B DH Abreu plays 2/3rds of the games at 1B and 1/3rd at DH Eloy plays 2/3rd of the games at LF and 1/3rd at DH

That was a chefs kiss, finely crafted bases loaded chokejob they find new ways to refine it every single night, you have to admit

This team is so so comfortable down 1 or 2 runs. They are a very confident, losing team

Robert will put up Playstation numbers whenever he is healthy.

If Abreu does three more years at a relatively high level, 50 years from now a 130 year old Reinsdorf will somehow ensure they move the goalposts to put him in as the “token White Sox player” of the 21st century

But Ron Santo was unquestionably the best offensive 3rd baseman of his era. That he wasn’t in was a total mystery, especially as there are so few 3rd basemen in the hall of fame. Konerko wasn’t even close to the best offensive first baseman of his era, let alone his own team, for half of his career.

I think there is. Durham 33.8 career RWAR, 2.4 per 162 Dye 20.3 career RWAR, 1.9 per 162 Quentin 10.5 career RWAR, 2.0 per 162 Johnson 30.4 career RWAR, 3.4 per 162 Robert 8.2 career RWAR 6.2 per 162 Moncada 10.4 career RWAR, 3.4 per 162 Jimenez 4.3 career RWAR 2.5 per 162 Vaughn I don’t think it’s fair to make the comparison or an assessment, as his WAR is dragged down by playing the outfield.

I want to make something clear. I love many of our players, and I want them to succeed. Really, I do. I root for them to win. I root for them to win EVERY GAME. I wish Eloy could stay healthy. He has so much power. But since he can’t, we get to settle for 40-60% of the production we might have if he could stay healthy. Which means he will never be a superstar, but he’s talented enough to produce like a solid second tier player. You know the kind of player- a secondary player you can basically count on to do good things most of the time, but not a star. Like One dog. Ray ray. Carlos Quentin. Jermaine Dye. I wish Luis Robert could stay healthy too, because he’s the one who seems like really could be an actual superstar, someone with such freakish talent that 8 WAR seasons should be pouring off of him year in and year out, but mystery injuries just happen every other week so we will never know. We will just see 100 games or so each season if we are lucky, which I guess also puts him at the production level of a solid second tier player. I wish Yoan wasn’t so inconsistent. I figured he would be a solid 4-5 WAR player, nothing flashy, but good enough, especially considering his strikeouts. After 2019, I think I knew a lot went his way, but I was hoping he would be the top of the solid second tier player. Thats what I hoped for. That seemed like his ceiling. Now I guess bottom of the second tier is his ceiling. I wish Andrew Vaughn could put the power game together but he just can’t seem to do it. And we need it very badly. Because as it stands, he’s just a middle second tier player. Tim has become a really, really good player. Is he exceptional? No, not really. He doesn’t belong in the same conversation with the best shortstops, but he’s probably…you guessed it! The top of the second tier. I wish Abreu was 30 instead of 35, because he’s still so fucking good and I want him to have something to show for this other than a career of pouring his heart and soul into an inept franchise run by nincompoops, appointed by an old man who has lost touch with the game, and run on the field by an absolutely bewildered coot. It is a National embarassment. Jose Abreu is a great player. God, I love him. Will he ever have another .900 OPS season? Probably not, but he was never really a stratospheric, first tier superstar. He was always….yep, a second tier superstar, having probably his second or third best season. The bottom of our order? A bunch of second tier castaways and also rans that are not even good enough to be first tier also rans. What can I say about Leury that hasn’t already been said? He’s a part time utility guy any sane team would have in their lineup 40 games of the year. We end up with Josh Harrison playing out the very end of his string with a lot of hustle but not enough talent, especially in high leverage situations. We end up with AJ Pollock who doesn’t seem to have anything left worth much of anything. We send out a stray Gavin Sheets to remind us that we never really ever learn the lesson provided to us by Daniel Palka: older than 26 year old left handed slugging rookies are in the minors for a reason. Jake Burger who doesn’t have a position. Adam Engel who always had some promise but I don’t know why. I can’t even remember honestly. All of this is to say that the White Sox are a team that went out and assembled the largest bunch of second tier players ever with no superstar offensive player, and thought they were gaming the system by stacking the deck with The Hall of Pretty Good. And it turns out that sometimes you just have to go out and sign an actual goddamned superstar or two, and this Organization of Cheapskates was so fucking smart that they thought their way into a ten year debacle of albatross contracts and a rotating clown car of indifference, incompetence, and injury. I have never felt more trapped as a fan in my life.

Put El Duque in

I would like for Joe Kelly to be flown out of the country without a passport.

I’m considering attending Soxfest this winter just so I can ask question after question about Menechino and not shut up until I’m forcibly removed.

We are the worst team with the bases loaded.

There are better things to do this afternoon than watch this team get 6 more singles

I’m rooting for 35-0 KC. I want TLR in the history books for this debacle.

The keystone cops. This is a comedy routine.

We are the laughingstock of baseball.

Still angry and still pouring it into gamethreads (early bird thread for the earlybird start)

Why leave Cueto in HERE?!?! Tony fell asleep

Why leave cueto in what are we proving here holy hell

Cueto might legit be our #2 starter in the playoffs

Why on earth would you ever run him there