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Good start to the second half

I mean... we still are, AND he blew a bunch of money irresponsibly. If the Sox didn't waste so many draft picks leading up to and during the "window", or were able to actually develop some of those players (eg Crochet as a starter), we might be in an entirely different spot right now. Or we'd at least have been under no illusion about a quick-ish path back to competitiveness.

Dude, he has a back injury. The same thing that killed Crede's career. Maybe he's a dickhead or acts like he doesn't try, I have no idea, but I can absolutely tell you back injuries kill careers.

RP are also the most volatile way to spend your money, as we've seen. It's not a sustainable path to winning. He'd be better off investing that money into drafting and player development. Just run with a tiny payroll, period.

I don't think Chuck has any more insight than we do w/ Yoan. It's clear Moncada's back is fucked up. As other posters have said, back injuries can ruin a career. Why the Sox are so cagey about this I have no idea, but they've been that way with injuries for a while now. Eloy - maybe they're right. I also bet Eloy would look a lot more like the old Eloy if the team was winning.

I've been beating the Harper drum since the banner with his name on it in the United Center. That was the point where the rebuild cracks started to show. I also don't doubt that Hahn is working with limits that hurt his ability to GM, but he's still squandered tons of money on relievers and terrible players, and our minor league system is awful and has no chance to reinforce the majors to keep the window open. That's all on him.

Great ab by Benintendi - had some pitches to hit and didn't but also had a 10 pitch at-bat and worked a walk. Wish more of these idiots could do that when they foul off hittable pitches.

Hopefully this is for Sheets. Frazier needs to go down, too, but Sheets and Colas are lefties and it doesn't make sense to keep both. It's probably for Frazier, though, because this team loves Sheets. I guess Sheets could be used in a Matt Stairs type role if Frazier goes down, but that probably won't work very well since Sheets sucks.

Frazier cannot read fly balls

Oakland may suck but they’re as annoying as they’ve ever been in this shithole stadium.

Two bad at bats

Looks like Romy is done. What the hell did he do to his shoulder?

Sheets and Andrus need to go. Burger gets a little more slack but he’s running out too.

That was a fitting end

On the plus side it wasn’t a ground ball to the left side

That’s foul

These guys are just so undisciplined

Cubs can mash mediocre pitching. I like watching Cleveland get blown out.

Thank goodness for the extra runs. You know Ohtani was gonna get his. Also these guys keep scoring like this they’ll make a run. Can’t get back to 0-2 runs per game though.

Yay an actual run

Basically gonna lose entirely because of Ohtani on both sides of the ball

When you don't score runs you end up in these situations.

At this point just let them walk it off. Sox aren’t going to score even with the ghost runner.

Cease is way up on the fastball this inning. I think he's about out of gas.

Another solid at bat by Burger, but to no avail