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QUOTE (Heads22 @ Oct 24, 2017 -> 08:52 PM) I would just appreciate a legal way to watch White Sox games from inside their blackout territory. I would pay $120 a year to get MLB.TV; sadly, I still cannot watch Sox games, legally. If you're willing to pay for MLB.TV, go ahead and purchase a VPN. This is the one that I use. It's reliable, reasonably priced, gives you access to blacked out games via any of the major sports' streaming packages, and, if you download torrents of movies and such, it will protect you from your ISP. Highly recommend for anyone, especially for those wirecutters who still want to watch their teams.

Houston has a lot of great storylines going for them....Harvey, first WS win, Kate Upton and Verlander, multi-hundred+ loss seasons recently, etc. Wouldn't be awful if they won but I'm all Dodgers in this series. I just think they're far and away the best team in baseball this season with a very likable roster and it would be a damn shame to watch them lose.

That Yankees trade dropped it from a 10 to a 9. Whether it was a matter of money or just negotiations, we should've come out better than we did, imo. I dropped another point, to an 8, on our inability to trade any of our vet starters (outside Rodon) for anything by the waiver deadline. Just a low floor/high ceiling A-ball prospect out of trading the bunch would've satisfied me. Flipping FA assets is a big part of a rebuild and it was a weakness. Still, that's a strong ass 8. As I've read countless times on SoxTalk, winning more games than we wanted to during the end of the season, given that most of those wins were due to contributions from our young guys, isn't a bad thing. Kopech and Moncada look to be cornerstones of this franchise for years to come....Eloy has all-star production written all over him, other young guys in the system are progressing very well and those who are scuffling we didn't have particularly high expectations of anyway (Collins kind of excluded, he showed life).

That Giolito - Gonzalez AB had to have been the longest on record this season, right? Felt like it was a 15min AB.

I think it's safe to say Coop fixed him. Will be really fun to watch what Coop can do with our other studs when they come up.

Dunning needs to put that one behind him. Ugly

Few thoughts on Lucas' start.... All these Gavin Floyd comps....to me, he looked like a young BMac on the bump. For basically being a one-pitch pitcher last night, he had a pretty damn good outing against a relatively hot team. Those HRs are excusable, to an extent, because hitters knew there was nothing but a fastball coming and it was going to be in the zone. If he was behind 3-1, 2-1, 2-0, even 1-0, Twins were sitting dead red and treated it almost like a 3-0 green light. With all the swings and misses and oppo field foul balls in the first few innings, tardy on 93-94MPH fastballs, I think it's safe to say he looks a few MPH faster to hitters than he's throwing. No wonder this guy was ranked so highly when his true velocity was 98MPH. He worked very well up in the zone. His fearlessness up in the zone reminded me a lot of Q. Obviously he's not on Q's level yet, but he's not afraid to go up in the zone, nor throw inside to back hitters off a bit. Narvaez can't be his catcher. There were a few of those curves that nipped the bottom corner of the zone...a little framing and he might have gained some confidence in that pitch. This could also be a matter of umpires being unfamiliar with his curve and the amount of movement involved. That pitch is going to come around with time and he'll look like a completely different pitcher. I didn't see many changes or sliders. Seeing some of you guys say his change looked good, it must've been straight downward movement because I didn't see much sweep on any changes. If that's the case, maybe he needs to change his grip because with a straight downward tilt on his change his curveball and change both become less effective. I think Lopez impressed me more his first start but he had his secondary pitches working so prob not a fair comp.

QUOTE (fathom @ Aug 21, 2017 -> 07:53 PM) He did at Vandy. Doesn't come close to resembling that guy now What happened to him? I don't recall any serious injuries he's suffered. Given the Sox decent success the last couple of years with pitching prospects in ml, I don't buy that they ruined his mechanics. May just come down to confidence....we rushed him up far too soon after being drafted and he got knocked around a good bit.

QUOTE (kingranch @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 12:00 PM) Kopech should start on the 18th Thanks, man. I live NW of ATL so BHam is only an hour and a half..two hours from the house. Been wanting to go check out the Barons on a Kopech night but the rest of the roster was never anyone warranting the drive. With Jiminez and Collins up, Kopech night would be great to catch.

When should Kopech's next home start be? I'm only seeing TBD on the Barons' website.

Way too high in the zone this inning. Maybe getting a bit fatigued after all the adrenaline has run its course.

Rodon-esque start thus far.

I didn't watch any of his Charlotte appearances but watched video after we acquired him....I don't remember his change-up looking this good. it graded out at a 45 a couple years ago (can't find a recent grade)...that isn't a 45 change.

He's doing a very good job of working side to side. Will be much more dominant when he becomes more effective working up and down in the zone.

There's that hook!

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Aug 11, 2017 -> 06:22 PM) How did TA reach? Groundball through the right side on first pitch

Wish we'd seen his nasty hook instead of the change-up to try to K Hosmer.

He's just pounding the zone.

Pretty.

I was really hoping he'd made it to Birmingham by tonight. Kopech probably doesn't have many starts left and he starts at home tonight. Probably would've headed over there to catch the game if Eloy was there too.

Appreciate it, fellas. I hadn't even thought of using airbnb.

My brother and I, both living out of state, have made it a tradition to go to Opening Day for the last several years. Given our string of horrible cold, rain, and even snow/ice, we're looking at changing things up next season and heading out to spring training. For you guys who have been, what would be the best hotel to stay at? We're looking to check out games, obviously, but also plan on playing some golf and are both fans of good independent restaurants and bars.

So do we wait to hit Rizzo or just plunk Happ? Or, hell, hit both of them and keep one in the back pocket for Bryant tomorrow?

2IP, 6Ks 2BB 4H 4ER What an odd line.

Speaking of arm side, this ump's arm is going to be tired if Carlos keeps punching out Cub hitters.