Jason and Gordon are acting like the Sox are up 11 runs. Being up 8-2 is great, but there is a lot of baseball left to be played and this bulpen is a dumpster fire.

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7 run lead in the 5th. Can they hold on?I wonder??

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

with Lynn on the mound , the over today is basically free money

Might as well parlay that with whatever the Angels spread was as well.

Luckily the Angels chucker couldnt live with a 3 run lead .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

nah i'm good with just the over

Angels playing White Sox baseball in the 9th.

Only way to win a game Lynn starts is to score 9+

Honestly with the way they lost those first two games, a split is a complete and pleasent surprise.

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Quite the CallerBob take I had back there.

I wonder if these "geniuses" ever thought of making Santos into a starting pitcher. He looks really legit to me. He could be a steal for them and is still very young. Make him into a starting pitcher along with hopefully Crochet.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Only 4½ GB out of 1st with 24th best W %, and on pace to win only 70 games.

I am happy with the call up of Revelard(sp?). He probably won't continue the excellence of play but good for him thus far. Its really tough for a kid that isn't drafted in lets say the first 3 rounds to make it through to the majors because the club that drafted them wanting a guy who they spent significant money to sign who will always be given more time to make it to the bigs.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

The pity of this is amazing. All it would have taken to easily win the Division would have been to have traded for or signed a good two way catcher, a good power hitting outfielder and a good two way infielder.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Who's still impressed with Burger?

He's cooked!!!

Keep Robert and get rid of everyone else. Fuck this team.

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Mulli is Howard Stern in his prime compared to Haugh.

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Wild game. Most enjoyable.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Trying to cut down on the red meat.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Losing 2 games to the A's should be enough for Rick Hahn to throw in the towel.

I definitely want them to lose today. The cake is done. This would be the icing.

Nah , theyll probably with this one because the A’s starter has an ERA under 6 .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

In addition to being bad, this team is also very unlucky. Nothing went right in yesterday's game. Lousy fluke hits and bounces late in the game, bad bounces extra runners for the A's. Bad calls by the umpires. A grand slam in the 9th getting over-ruled. This game was a fluke for the A's to win.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Nah, they just suck.

Burger, to me, has a pretty simple fix for his hitting woes if he had a decent hitting coach. He is standing too far away from the plate and deep in the box and is chasing slders and breaking pitches away. He needs to open his stance a bit and move up in the box so he can recognize the breaking pitches and get them more on the center of the bat and able to reach the outside pitch and take it to right field more especially with two strikes on him. I believe that Robert made a similar adjustment and he is pulling the outside pitch more and making better contact. Different swing places but same principles.

It turns out that his wife saw a similar thing that I noticed about his set up and he made an adjustment in his set up at the plate. It looked like he did move up in the box and opened his stance up in the latest games. It does make me wonder how much the Sox coaches are worth? I also have questions about the way that they set up their bullpens for work and the pitch calling itself as well as the approach for going after hitters and not waste so many pitches in trying to strike out people instead of trying to get early outs? Way to often they get ahead in the count and is instead of going after the hitter with quality pitches, they instead "nibble" and end up walking the guy or throwing him a "cookie".

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Have you considered that maybe he's just not good ? That a 6 week sample size where he was hitting isnt who he is ?

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Being in the AL Central will continue to allow them to wait until they are forced to make a decision at the end of this month. Losing a series to Oakland is very bad though. They are a very bad road team and are now 6 games behind Minny and 7 behind Cleveland in the loss column (5.5 overall). I believe fangraphs have them with a 4% chance of making the playoffs.

At some point, this is who they are and Hahn needs to start thinking about how he will retool this roster.

I don't expect a full rebuild so players like Robert and Cease won't be moved, but I would expect that any moves with Giolito has to bring back young pitching given how thin they are heading into the off-season. Lance Lynn can't be brought back at his current option so it's basically Cease and prayers that Kopech/Crochet can actually contribute in the rotation next year. Even if those two are able to start the year in the rotation, neither can be trusted to pitch into games and will have inning restrictions. They could really use someone just like Giolito, but I doubt he'd sign without testing free agency. They need to get 2 highly regarded prospects for Giolito and they will want them to be able to contribute next season.

One benefit of the trade deadline will be to get out of some of these reliever contracts. I think Graveman is owed $8M, Kelly $9.5 (club option) and Bummer $5M for next season. Bummer is not likely to be moved, but maybe some team wants a lefty.

They still need to find help at C, 2B, possibly SS/3B and RF. The only spots I think they would be set at is Vaughn (1B), Benintendi (LF), Robert (CF) and Jimenez (DH/RF). Moncada will be on the roster next season, and he'll likely be the 3B (assuming his back doesn't require some surgery that puts him out) with Burger. I don't think trading Anderson makes sense on a down season and he will be back at $14M (club option), but we don't know the state of their relationship. Colas will probably be the RF next year also. I don't believe they have an answer at 2B, but don't doubt they will continue to try and find one from their group of internal candidates, but they really need to shake things up offensively much more than I am guessing they will.

So rinse and repeat another re-stack by the same group that continuously fails to accomplish anything. That's White Sox

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Maybe he isn't good but his natural power is huge and his swing is good. He's in a slump and the league adjusted to him. Now he needs to adjust if he can. we will see/ He did hit in some bad luck, however, in his slump, hitting a lot of line drives and hard hit ground balls right at someone.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip