I really want to have a Shane Smith conversation. This dude is an ace.

I have to question the wisdom of listing “whoever has the most PA at a position“ when it bumps Kyle Teel and his 2.0 fWAR in favor of Edgar Quero, whose only advantage was being called up earlier.

Dug into 7-year peak WAR numbers hoping to easily disprove this thesis but Kershaw actually has a good case there: Jackie Robinson: 51.5 Kershaw: 49.7 Duke Snider: 49.5 Sandy Koufax: 46.0 (retired after a 10.3 WAR season in ‘66) Don Drysdale: 44.7

Trying to remember the last guy before Martin Perez who actually wanted to be here.

Analysts are going to be preparing their 2026 season previews in February and it’s going to be the first time a majority of them realize what has happened with the White Sox since mid-July.

@jrfegan.soxmachine.com have you heard or read anything about Davis Martin’s sinker? Last year, he was on record saying he can’t pronate his arm, so the mid-season addition of a sinker is really puzzling to me.

Having a super utility guy like Brooks Baldwin who switch hits and slugs .400 is pretty useful, imo.

Batters taking their timeout in a 3-2 count is gonna hit like crack in the playoffs.

My one NFL take is that they should be really aggressive with regular season byes. Like, keep 18 games but every team has five bye weeks.

Taylor forced that throwing error by running in on the baseline and making the first baseman throw around him.

That curveball Martin threw against Goldschmidt is only the fourth one he’s thrown against a righty all year. The first three were earlier this month.

Uncle Steve explains the kick change during tonight’s first inning. It’s the middle finger, fyi.

If Martin hangs that cutter against the Yankees, it’s going to be a bad night. That’s the pitch teams have banged in the heart of the zone.

Ooo baby Davis Martin has the 96 mph wipeout 4-seamer tonight.

If you are friends with Davis Martin, please get him in touch with me because I have a billion questions about his sinker mechanics and my wife can tell when I’m thinking about it instead of listening to her.

The 2025 White Sox are all about taking three steps forward and two steps back, which is still better than last year when they moonwalked off a cliff before the end of May.

Who’s the idiot who wrote a hand-wringer about Colson earlier today? www.southsidesox.com/chicago-whit...

The Sox have a +26 run differential in the second half.

It is coming apparent that the games Colson does not homer in are aberrations. Dongers are merely him progressing to the mean.

BREAKING NEWS: Ozzie hates Colson’s haircut

Colson was slugging .706 against sinkers entering tonight and then he got one chest high with the wind blowing out.

You gotta be fucking kidding me!?

Robert Jr has to be approaching some kind of record for bats broken in a season.

FYI the ball was as lively as it’s ever been in 1930. This is like passing a home run record set in 1999.

Just a reminder that Buehrle had a 49 start streak of 6 innings or more that only ended because an umpire ejected him from a game after 5.2 innings without issuing a warning.

Nothing worse than watching your team lose on an extremely cool play.

8/19: 🚨YES🚨 (.200) 2025: .231/.307/.397

I also want to plug one of my favorite SABR articles ever written: John McCormack wrote about a 32-team regional realignment BACK IN 1985! sabr.org/journal/arti...

New article at South Side Sox — Ya boy is 100% on board with regional realignment and tradition is stupid. www.southsidesox.com/mlb-news/114...

They have to keep finding a place for Sosa, man. I think his bat is special.

Me *in tears*: doctor, will I live long enough to see the Sox win at Kaufman Stadium again? Doctor: You’re 28. Me: Damnit doc, quit telling me things I already know!

Fuck, man. Maybe Sosa actually could slug well enough to play first.

Sat on two pitches near his hands, then got a third one and the same area and he banged it. More elite bat-to-ball and timing skills on display on that dinger.

IS MIGUEL VARGAS BATTING OVER .200 FOR HIS CAREER? 8/14: NO (.197) 2025: .226/.304/.396

I am genuinely curious if adapting the satyrical bend of a lefty shitposter will be good for this greasy used car salesman. If you hate this tweet, then I was quoting my close personal friend Joyce Carol Oates.

Air and water show this weekend.

Here I am, debuting on South Side Sox. I am Lenyn Sosa’s strongest soldier. www.southsidesox.com/chicago-whit...

IS MIGUEL VARGAS BATTING OVER .200 FOR HIS CAREER? 8/13: NO (.198) 2025: .227/.306/.399

One of the first great managers in history. A solid tier below John McGraw but he took a bunch of guys called “the Hitless Wonders” and beat the greatest Cubs team of all time.

Another signal that we’re getting a lockout in 2027, imo.

We never talk about how elevators are named after the thing they do.

STILL BEING ANNOYING

It’s starting to look like Colson needs to out-slug his K% to be effective. And maybe he can just do that! But he struggles with the edges quite mightily.

Today in “Small Sample Size Data You Probably Could Have Guessed,” Colson Montgomery’s fly ball pull rate is astronomical.

Lenyn Sosa has been improving his range at second base, too. I will continue to be annoying about this.

WHAP

Davis Martin fastball velo watch!

You’ll never convince me that Sosa wasn’t aiming for the bag.

The more distance I get from it, the more gratitude I start to have for the 2024 White Sox, because now I am so incredibly overjoyed about any small, sustained run of okay baseball. The team just got swept and all my whole vibe is “they banged, took a lot of walks and Shane Smith is back”