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Another flyout to deep center in the 3rd. Little thing, but I appreciate that he's wearing his Sox batting helmet instead of the W-S helmet.

This whole saga trying to figure out what Yermin is saying reminds me of that satirical ESPN bit back in the day where Barry Sanders says he called his coach and said "I'm tired", but the coach thought he said "I'm retired".

Feel like this is where we bump that juggernaut thread again. We're top-5 in odds win the World Series and have been doing it with a roster fall of replacement-level guys, call-ups, and underperforming studs. And these guys have been contributing to the point where we need to debate what to do with the roster once we get the starters back. Now Tim is hitting HRs, Moncada is hitting HRs, Abreu is driving in runs, and we've got three dynamos coming back from injury soon. We're sending a message to the rest of the league - get fucking ready.

Lol at Baldelli making a bullpen move for Zavala.

Agreed on this front. And it's not like we're struggling to score runs either, and expect more offense once Eloy is back soon. While Zavala's swings a wet noodle at the plate, I don't see a pressing need to replace him just to get a few more hits.

I joked in the GT last night that it would be the last we saw of Burger for a while after he swung 3-0. And that's how we get two catchers in the same lineup.

Burger popping out on a 3-0 pitch. Guess that's the last we'll seeing of him for a while ?

Love the new look today of Abreu, Vaughn, Moncada, Burger batting 3 through 6. Be interesting to see how that plays out. Vaughn just missed a couple last night, could've easily had 2 dingers but for a fraction of an inch on contact

Confirmed: TA reads this board. ?

I think I was advocating for this as Rodon's roll to start the year, hoping to find the next Pomeranz. Clearly didn't remember the last time he was thrown in relief, and I'm glad the Sox didn't try to do it in retrospect, given what we have in Rodon now. Anyway, maybe Lopez can be our Pomeranz!

Opens up a spot in the rotation for Mendick!

I can only imagine Keuchel's response when he sees Burger a 3B and Moncada at 2B behind him

Well I'll be damned, would you look at that!

It's Cash, though, he's definitely going to what he sees sees and knows the best.

Don't forget Escobar and Tatis.

Doubtful. Cash will go with AL East Chapman

Anyone catch the bit on the ESPN feed last night while Story was batting during the Derby? They had someone on reporting that the Rockies explicitly told teams that they would not listen to offers on Story until after the ASG, but then acknowledged everyone expects him to move. The curious bit was that Ravich's next line was about how teams will certainly be interested in him and specifically mentioned the White Sox as the type of team that might be interested. Didn't mention anyone else. Probably just a throw-away line from Ravich but I found it interesting that he mentioned us and no one else; he didn't have to do that.

He looks so gassed. Hope he lives through this, want to see him really get his swing going and see what he can do.

What is happening to Ohtani!

Definitely true, oh man. Hopefully they'll find a middle ground. I know that year that Harper kind of cheated and didn't wait for them to come down added so much drama as he made his comeback in the final, but it's less fun when we can't watch each of these go out.

Yep, the pace is just too frenetic and they have too many graphics on the screen, so much going on. I feel like an old man getting upset and yelling "slow down!"

I see a couple folks saying Jason needs it, but I've got to commend the two of them for just how well they've called the games just looking at monitors for half the season. It's really felt seamless where it feels more like that they're at the game and it's only some moments that stand out and break that illusion where I remember that they aren't there (most notably those games where there's a delay in one person's feed so they end up talking over each other). They've done better than I could've imagined, given the constraints. With that said, I'm sure they're even happier than us that they get to travel and call the games first-hand.

Why would we want someone else's problem.

This may be a contributing factor to why Eaton isn't around anymore - the fans and his teammates really seem to enjoy being around Billy Hamilton, seems like that clubhouse/energy guy that provides many of the skills (and intangibles) that made Eaton expendable.