Greg Hibbard

I think the book is out on Jake swinging at almost every pitch. Until he learns to take more pitches, he’s not going to see a lot of good pitches to barrel.

The ongoing problem with TA has always been that there’s never really been a plan B for his high BABIP streak. He doesn’t take enough walks and he doesn’t have nearly enough power to compensate for a streak like this. Couple it with the recent defensive and baserunning lapses and it’s a perfect storm of bad. It would be helpful if he started to make some adjustments.

Burger should DH. Eloy should play LF. move Benintendi to RF. Yes he hasn’t played there, but at least he’s an outfielder by trade. And he’s better than Sheets. I don’t want Burger getting injured, period. With Eloy, it’s an inevitability. So play Eloy out in the field, where he claims he’s most comfortable.

How many little league lapse plays will it take to get Pedro to have them run laps after the game?

Moncada isn’t tradeable. Burger needs to be in the lineup. If you’re going to try to get away with Hanser at 2nd, you can try Burger there.

9-7 over their last 16 since cratering at 7-21. if they keep playing 9-7 ball over every future 16 they end up at 82-80. just sayin’…

It’s striking that Sheets has basically very similar stats to Vaughn at this point in the season. I get that Sheets is really just a strong side platoon hitter but this speaks more to Andrew’s lack of excellence than Sheets’ potential or ability.

Wait is his option this year a player option or a team option?

Haha sure, but lots of pro Athletes play at completely different levels based on feeling and emotion - and other stuff. Nobody would say Dennis Rodman wasn’t one of the greatest power forwards and rebounders of the late 90s. Would he have been a great office employee? ??

eh, I’m sick of some of the sideshow that goes with TA, but I don’t really care what he said. If he said “I hate this place” - honestly, good for him if he feels that way. JR, KW, and Hahn have built a toxic culture upon a once-promising rebuild. The fans have a right to boo, and Tim may not have even been referring to the fans. I care more that he is not playing well at all, and looks utterly disinterested in playing here now, even if what we can discern about Stone’s comments about him not being 100% are true. What’s obvious to me is that Tim wants to be gone, the Sox are fine letting him go, and after this season he will probably sign a 6 year 70-80 million dollar deal somewhere and play a lot better. He will get paid based on his resume, not a bad season on a bad team that can be explained away with culture and injuries. Tim is a guy who plays way above his head when he’s feeling great, and way below it when he’s not.

This is exactly the way I envisioned the rebuild coalescing. Hanser Alberto and Adam Haseley with utterly crucial, utterly lifeless at bats as they limply go down with a whimper.

Remember everyone, it’s not winning a game like this that’s important to Jerry - it’s the idea that we COULD have won.

I gotta say Hanser looks very good out there at 2nd base, when you just think of him as a human being standing out a position on the field where other human beings have also stood before

I was thinking the same thing.

Define normally. ?

Was nice to see a win, but it still feels almost accidental when it happens.

Man I miss Hawk. Yes, it was time for him to go, and yes I didn’t always like him towards the end. But there is no friggin way Hawk Harrelson would have taken any of this play by this group of total losers without taking every single one of them to task. We would have all felt like at least he was with us. Instead we have these company men commentators explaining to us horrible ways to feel good about this.

Vaughn should have stayed over there. Sorry, AJ.

More than anything, I’m going to keep hammering home that the Sox simply don’t have high standards when it comes to any of this. It is worth reemphasizing. Successful organizations in the MLB are decisive to a fault, and make very major moves when disasters like this happen. The White Sox are anything but decisive.

Benintendi is such a bum. Can you believe we will have to ride out five terrible years?

I’ve never watched a team I’ve been so sure was going to keep losing since those 90s teams that used to go die on those west coast trips

Elvis is injured, looks like an oblique.

There is just no life in this team

Most agonizing seasons for me: 2022 and 2023 by far - one long nightmare than never seems to end 2003- leading much of the way and then Torii Hunter mowing over Josh Paul to seal it and the Twins Twinballed us with their stupid cheaterdome. 2001 David Wells / Sirotkagate / Frank injures triceps in April, 8-19 start, very similar feeling to this exhausting disaster. 2016 (he who shall not be named and who he was acquired for) My favorite team is still the 2000 team, even over 2005. Sure 2005 was otherworldly and doesn’t seem real in some ways, and was a dream come true. I will cherish it forever. The 2000 felt like just my team - a bunch of cast offs who were perennial also rans to the Cleveland juggernaut finally punching back in the mouth and drawing blood and kicking ass. I remember the Tigers brawl game and then them winning 7 road games in a row on like Herbert Perry’s back. Jose Valentin having the luckiest roid season ever. James Baldwin opening the season 7-0 basically with so much offense he couldn’t lose. 10-2 Cal Eldred. It was a team absolutely playing above its head but they were so lovable and stupid lucky. We all knew they were gonna get killed in the playoffs but it was so nice to finally win that division.

I don’t even know. I really like Vaughn, and he literally just turned 25. But I wonder if he has enough power in his bat to be enough at that position- where you absolutely have to have power. We don’t need 25 home runs and 30 doubles and 40 walks and a .250 average. We need at .270/.870 hitter who is going to hit 35-40 bombs reliably. Can he become that guy? I want him to.