Chicago White Sox vs. Kansas City Royals GAME THREAD

5 more to go Abroo

JOOOOOOOSEEEE

abroooo

Josavior!

Pls stay this hot for 2017

nah, 4th season is always the back-to-reality year

>sox fags thought he would be a consistent mvp candidate after 2014

kek

I don't think I've ever read anyone say that.

not even sure what you're trying to say here

he was talked about as the next coming of Christ after one good rookie season

english not your first language?

I don't remember that at all. 2014 was a fucking abysmal season, I can't imagine anyone being positive back then for anyone other than Sale and maybe Q.

no, what do you mean by back to reality?
the words "back to" suggest to me that he'll be back to some previous season performance, but he was much better in 2014 and 2015 than he was this season, but you're obviously trying to say that he will be worse, so that doesn't make sense.

Are you trying to say that his reality is crap? even though other than a few months this season he's been a great hitter?

and where did you get this information that someone's 4th year they're worse than usual? I've heard of sophomore slumps but this is a new one to me

and thus, I am not sure what you're saying

Maybe it was just ESPN and MLB network hyping him up then.

I definitely remember it literally day though, was worse than the Puig hype

I've boycotted both networks so I don't care

There's only one true sox media to me
And I guess following sox beat reporters on twitter

>not watching mlb network
what a fag

Players the Sox should keep: Sale, Q, Rodon, Melky, Frazier, Eaton, Jones.

Players the Sox should dump: Everyone else

>keep frazier and melky
>dump anderson and abreu
yeah ok man

The 4th year thing was a joke, bad attempt at bantz. In terms of his hitting, yeah .300 is still really really good

>Are you trying to say that his reality is crap? even though other than a few months this season he's been a great hitter?

I was saying back to reality to make fun of White Sox prospects always floundering (at least recently), not specifically referencing Abreu's career trajectory.

OK i see how my post was a lil confusing, my b man.

Seconding this

Btw am i the only royals fan here?

I see your attempt at banter

However abroo isn't a white sox prospect, he can have the power to avoid the curse!

Name yourself GMT while posting pics of the Great Aku and we'll party like it's 2010

yeah not him he must have died

Shame right before his royals finally got good

Hope that doesn't happen to me....

Dangit Rodon. Please minimize damage

welp

God damn it

This team just can't play the royals

Well at least we won the most important game in the most spectacular way though

Gg royals see you next year

JUST

3 homers

Has someone been letting shields get too close to Rodon

Rodon has always been shite

>the makeup game was during the day
Derp.

Well it seems it's the "same shit, different day" episode today.

He's shown good improvement since coming back from injury and not having to pitch to Navarro.

Shame about the past few starts though. I still believe in him for 2017.

I feel like the white sox are a catcher and a closer away from being a contender next season.
what are the chances they sign Jansen?

>yfw they sign him for the 2nd biggest reliever contract (after whatever Chapman gets) and then he turns to crap as usual

hoping burdi, petricka, putnam can solidify the rest of the bullpen with jones, robertson, some lefty

>hoping

Jason Castro should probably be the priority

Can't believe we missed zputty and jpetty so much. These literally who's from triple A have all ALL sucked.

I feel like we could sign the WAR leader in every category and still wind up below .500

We really need a total FO overhaul before considering the rebuild

Until then might as well go All In 2.0 in 2017. I'll consider it a victory if we can break this 8 year post season drought.

I don't even know who the hell Blake Smith is either but boy has he sucked

This shit is so fucking retarded

The fuck is wrong with our scouting that it basically failed every basic reporting of the royals and how to play them

Fucking retarded

Well it doesn't mean anything but yatta carlos san

>yfw Kenny is here forever

white sox needs for 2017:

1. catcher
2. bullpen
3. center fielder
4. left fielder (melky should just move to dh desu)
5. 5th starter

fewer holes than the previous couple seasons, I guess. and there are some internal options that should be able to help with the bullpen and outfield, and fulmer could be the 5th starter

Melky at DH what about Morneau? Or you thinking hell be gone?

Oh also Ajax returning?

And as mentioned above wouldn't jpetty and zputty coming back help the bullpen?

well he's not that good so probably

neither him nor ajax are signed for next season

yeah, petricka, putnam, burdi are the internal guys that could help the bullpen. minaya hasn't looked that bad either. ranaudo hasn't had a shot in the pen has he?

they probably need to sign a lefty since fucking duke is gone, and the closer situation is pretty dire

internal outfield options are tilson unless he's dead, coats is alright, leury, and of course fucking avi will be around, fuck.
I'd love to have Fowler though, someone who gets on base like that would be huge. the sox haven't had a decent 2 hitter in years

Oh right Tilson

Damn, if we had Fowler instead of ajax

If Robin knows what's he doing, which he doesn't, we should see Ranaudo pitch "relief" today

Oh wait there he is

Not bad I guess

And that's that

So long royals

Thanks for crushing any dreams left of a .500 season

At least we won that Sale game and he helped his case a bit more

that's probably one of the quickest 11 run games in history

>started at 2 15pm

And now time for another loss to look forward to.

Ah fuck you for reminding me

Can we beat the Lillies, bros?

Doubt it. Just aim for that top 10 pick while keeping up Sale's (RIP Q) cy dream

>caring about picks at this point

Just wanna win out and be seen as 'the team to watch' in 2017, is that too much to ask?

It's nice to see a lot of the meme team Royals fairweather fanbase is already abandoning ship since they won't be in the postseason this year.

>confirmed bandwagon cucks

You should know by now that it is

still gonna finish over .500, unlike you overhyped cucks

I really think Ventura is the next great thing for us