Harry Chappas

Yes he did he was holding a kid. Jack Ruby was his name.

Rodon has sooooooo much riding on that game tomorrow. Could be upward of $100M swing if his early season stuff is back.

You have to remain inside the baseline. It is the box to the right of the line that is important on throws to first, not from first.

Got home late up early, no buzz or anything at the game but still feel hungover from lack of sleep. Back at it shortly.

JCA is the best team in the state regardless of class. They will breeze through 4A. The new Rice head coach is only observing and has no current role. He will be really good.

I am tired of the tv schedule being the rationale for these game times. MLBN, FS1 and TBS are not preempting any real programming if these games are moved around and why they cannot have two games on at once in idiotic as well. They can overlap. I get FOX, CBS, ABC and maybe even ESPN who have regular programming but not these networks.

You are right but if he wanted to make a move that was the right one. Oddly i think he wanted Cesar in the game and thinks Leury is better than he actually is and TLR wanted to leave him in. His Leury fascination is real. Sheets/Hamilton would have been fine but I think Hamilton is on the roster to play defense in the 9th inning for Eloy.

Agreed. People seem to forget Madrigal has had some serious injuries and appears to be a tool.

If you are going to hit for Engel, hit sheets and put Hamilton in RF. He played for things that never happened. Not using Kopech was dumb. All that being said. The offense needs to be fixed by getting MLB hitters.

The Leury LaRussa love affair is something. Tony loves his guy that can be mediocre everywhere. Needed to hope he or Cesar got hot as Leury is what he is. Giolito needed to give 5 innings that is on LaRussa for leaving him in but he needed to be better.

Seems like he had never played a full MLB season before. He is not the issue nor Engel or Garcia. I give Vaughn credit he handled more adversity as a player than some players on this team are capable of as professional athletes. The top 6 in our lineup have a .417 OBP in this game and we have 1 run. Zero clutch hitting and ability to string good at bats together. These are the guys paid to produce and are failing not Vaughn, Engel and Garcia.

Anderson saw one strike and swing at three pitches. I know this sounds negative and I love Anderson but he is just not a leadoff hitter. This team should never struggle to score runs. We need to score here.

If the series is 0-2 it is Cease as he needs the experience in a playoff setting if the window is remaining open. If It is 1-1 Rodon and hope.

His uncle Early played for the Sox

I believe and I am sure you will refute this, the cubs may have taken a lesser offer for Bryant then spun any offer from the Sox for Kimbrel because the PR on Bryant going to the Sox would have been rough. Every guy they traded seemed to end up where they wanted especially Baez. Kimbrel was never a cub in any regard to the fandom so there was no risk in having him or Tapera ending up on the wrong end of a trade like they could see with Jimenez and Cease. Kimbrel can save every playoff game and it would not move the cub PR needle, Bryant with a big game certainly can. You can disagree with my opinion as you certainly do but that is how it plays out logically to me as to why Engel is in right and not Bryant. Kimbrel was a consolation prize for that trade package and it seems to be beneficial to Kimbrel so it worked out.

Everybody agrees with you on this but the cubs may not have wanted to move him to the Sox. Money wasn't the object so what do you think it was that kept Bryant from being moved to the White Sox as he would have been ideal. The other option Gallo panned out as badly as Cesar with a higher price tag.

The issue with this team is not flipping he switch, resting players or home field advantage. The issue with this team as it is constructed is that other than Grandal and maybe Moncada on occasion there are currently no players that give good consistent at bats that make a pitcher work. McCullers lead baseball in walks allowed and the White Sox did nothing to take advantage of this. They have seen him 3 times this year and it is the same story each time, they have no chance at all. Their inability to adapt to a pitcher is very concerning. Maybe every team is like this but Lance McCullers while good should not be making it look that easy every time out. There were no adjustments to their game yesterday. If they face him in Game 5 I hope they have a better plan.

Bullpens are too volatile unless they are facing the White Sox. Gio goes until he gets into trouble.

WTF is with the hit by pitches. I know it's not 1967 but at some point there needs to be something done.

Dane Dunning didn't make it out of the first innning last year so we won the trade. THE BIG BASTARD

It's the variety of fastballs and location that makes it work similar to Bartolo Colon later in his career.

Ball 1 was a strike in the top of the first

Need to lay off the offspeed stuff...I know it is easier said than done.

I have been wondering if there is some sandbagging going on here.

Lefties are better at holding runners so we have that. I really thought Cesar would be there as a left handed bat. I like the defense.