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So who would you have used with Whitlock out? Like it or not, Slaten is the next best guy right now after Chapman.

You can tell that after 1 pitch? Now realistically, LaSorsa wasn’t even traded, he was sold, so yeah, he probably does suck big time. At least he didn’t cost anything but some if Henry’s $.

He seldom has major meltdowns.

Bottom line is 1 run scored. Thats the whole game right there. This was not going to end up on the plus side for the good guys with that output.

Bottom line today is 1 run scored. This is where no Whitlock hurts.

I was taught there’s only one time to slide into first; when you can see the throw is wide plate side so you try to avoid a possible tag by the first baseman by sliding under it.

Not sure I’d go that far, but his career ERA against Boston did jump from 0.56 to 0.83.

Cedanne lucky the throw home was wide. The slide into second tells me he forgot how many outs there were.

At least he may have hastened Schlittler’s exit from the game by an inning.

Difference being Rice just told the kid to go play with his computer. Ted would have stuffed the computer down the nerds throat.

Beat me by 5 seconds

Breslow’s nerds would just tell him to go away since the advice wouldn’t correspond with the Sox philosophy.

August 29th

Rice has been a PITA against the Sox since he came up.

I believe my words were he's never put together a good full season. To me that means having some consistency. He had half a good season last year. He missed the first 3 1/2 weeks; I don't remember why.. He was pretty good his first 3-4 starts, though always throwing a ton of pitches. He was very mediocre his next 5-6 starts. Then he turned it around and was fantastic from the last half of June through the end of August, showing us all what he could be. Once the calendar turned to September, he was terrible, culminating in a 2 inning postseason start against the Yankees in a game which could have sent the Sox onward in the playoffs. Overall, his numbers were good last year. But they are an average of a very high highs and a very low lows. Any pitcher will have a bad game or two here and there. He had multiple bad months. Yes, his relief numbers this year (3 games total) are incredible. But being an ace is not just numbers, it's a mentality. An ace wants the ball in the biggest moments. An ace doesn't fall apart when something bad happens behind him. Bello has never shown that he has that mentality. Decorum prevents me from telling you what you can do with "you are foolish and you should not be posting here".

Havng a bad season presumes you’ve actually had (a) good season(s). He’s had a couple good half seasons but he’s never put together a full good season. The best that can be said is that overall he’s been healthy and never missed much time due to physical injury. This year not withstanding, stats wise he’s been remarkably mediocre overall

So should we start ordering those World Series tickets now? I'm trying to contain my giddiness. Maybe he's the new designated opener for Ding Dong. At least Breslow only had to part with some of Henry's cash.

What the team needs to do is sell. Unfortunately, another stupid cost cutting move they made is they no longer scout AA and AAA teams, so that makes trading guys like Chapman and Gray more of a risk than it was 10 years ago when you could target minor leaguers who could actually play baseball instead of just checking some athletic boxes. Wanna know why teams like the Rays seem to come up with guys who helped them immediately? It’s because they know their farm system and everybody else’s.

It’s not Bailey’s place to say anything and Breslow won’t send him down because Craig might have to admit he made a mistake with the extension.

Won’t disagree there, but when you have the nerds telling Jim Rice not to talk to the young hitters because what he’s saying doesn’t match “our” program, there’s at least some smoke that it could be happening.

Bredlow’s nerds won’t let him. I’m surprised Durbin going outside the organization for some help (a move that seems to have paid off at least a little) hasn’t gotten him sent down.

The “Sell the team” chants should stop. Now. For one thing, it’s not going to happen. ”Fire Breslow” should replace it; that one might be beneficial and it needs to happen ASAP.

Hunter Dobbin’s father apparently had a tweet or x post that said Breslow and his nerds are making all decisions both pitching and hitting and that even Bailey has very little input as to how the pitching staff is used. If it even has a scintilla of truth to it …

Maybe the White Sox had a different and what has turned out so far to be a more correct assessment/ evaluation of KC.

Unless you posted it at the time, it’s pure and worthless 20-20 hindsight.