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  1. notin
    While I totally agree, it still isn’t an excuse for the status quo…
  2. notin
    Because the lack of offense is costing than more games. The house is burning down and your trying to douse the burning drapes. Is it an issue? Yes. Is it their biggest one? Not by a long shot. And the solution is right there assuming Cora ever wakes up and tries it. Houck is not a good starter. And using him to piggyback Hill (who actually is a good starter is another waste. The 2 or 3 games the Sox might have won with a good closer are nothing compared to the number of games the pitching has held the other team to 3 runs or less and the offense still couldn’t do anything about it. I mean, ghost runners are a run basically handed over to the offense. You don’t even need a hit to drive one in. But the Sox have only driven in 3 of 7. The Sox bizarre defensive play in late innings just makes it worse. Robles should have 0 blown saves and the defense has given him two…
  3. notin
    The Sox scored 5 runs in 28 innings. Twice the White Sox scored 3 runs in the third inning and never looked back. How is a lack of a closer the issue there? Also they do win the extra inning game and Robles closes it out if the Sox play proper defense and guard the line…
  4. notin
    The Sox have allowed all 7 ghost runners to score, but have only driven in 3 of 7. The ghost runner is essentially a gimme. Hit a grounder to the right side and a flyball. It doesn't even require a hit. The RP can actually do his job well and let one score. But somehow the Sox just cannot get the ghost runner home. Also worth noting, one of the three they have driven him came after giving up 6 runs in the top of the inning when the Angels might not have been so concerned with him...
  5. notin
    What did the sun ever do to you?
  6. notin
    And the thing is, these “back in the day” comparisons always involve the elite arms from that time. Bob Gibson didn’t do this. Nolan Ryan did that. The Sox don’t have Gibson or Ryan. The Sox don’t even have Jim Lonborg. They have Nate Eovaldi. And the only way Eovaldi becomes the next Lonborg is if he takes up skiing…
  7. notin
    As long as the Sox don’t replace Fatse with Jarrod Saltalamacchia…
  8. notin
    But for every Jim Lonborg, how many Mark Fidrych’s were there?
  9. notin
    But will it be 60-70 all year? With no real ST, we had to expect those shorter outings..,
  10. notin
    So the closest thing he has to a qualification is an anagram?
  11. notin
    Taking starting pitchers out before they get hammered is hardly new; it’s been done for decades. That’s what pitch counts were for…
  12. notin
    It does take a lot of talent to shutdown this offense the way Fatse has…
  13. notin
    JBJ is also on a very short list of Sox players actually hitting. WTF Cora?
  14. notin
    Right. And how many of those players have Scott “Let me take you to free agency” Boras as their agent? Again, no counteroffer from Bogaerts? Don’t feed me the “he was too insulted” ********. Because chances are very good he wasn’t even there and because saying “no” without a counter is an old and extremely well-known Boras tactic. But if your argument is these guys are intentionally tanking because they are not being overpaid enough - let them all f***ing walk. Seriously. I can understand concern over contract. But tanking because of someone else’s contract? That shouldn’t be condoned…
  15. notin
    With this offense, absolutely…
  16. notin
    That 2 run outburst in the sixth inning snapped a string of 42 consecutive innings in which the Sox failed to score multiple runs…
  17. notin
    Isn’t that exactly what having a dedicated closer does? That’s actually literally why the role was created. In postgame press conferences, when asked why a certain reliever was used, rather than tap dance around whatever, managers got to say “because he’s the closer.”
  18. notin
    No. We never heard that expressed here…
  19. notin
    Stupid play by Garcia. Good for Vazquez for taking advantage
  20. notin
    Yeah!! RBI groundout!!
  21. notin
    Coming up:6-4-3
  22. notin
    Sure. Let’s just get back a pitcher this time. I’d be ok with Graterol…
  23. notin
    And don’t you believe they win them with 2 run leads instead of one? They’ve only blown 2 multi-run leads all year. And one of them was due to an error…
  24. notin
    I was all for stretching Whitlock out and expanding his IP in the pen. But at least he has a lot of potential as a starter. Houck is useless in multiple inning roles…
  25. notin
    Ok, get shut out by Shohei Ohtani? That’s understandable. But Keuchel? Is this 2012? There are no stats that even place them as average. Fire Fatse now!! Go without a hitting coach! It will be better!
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