****Official 4/5 White Sox at Royals Thread****
 

Bottom of the first and it's looking alright.

Welp we're tied now

Bigfoot sighting!

how long will we have a royals thread per game? I give it another 10 days

Depends on how they're doing I guess.

The umpire is most forgiving with his strike zone tonight. That's about as nice as I can put it.

Brady got him looking. He's got some good shit working early

7 pitches and these bitches get gone

Why do we have two threads?

Because I was just a little later than Pablo. I asked for them to be merged, but just let it fall into oblivion would be fine.

starting pitching is lights out so far this year... If we had one closer we would probably be 6-1

Singer is looking tough tonight. Except for 1 mistake to Sheets.

Ok, Fedde's out, and we have 2 on with no outs. Time to roll boys.

I'm here now to propel us to victory.

Salvy out at the plate.

Bally app is complete garbage. Freezes and you gotta back out and go back over and over.

Throw your big ol' bat on the table and let's do this.

Pulling Singer.

If Schreiber is more likely to get them out than Singer we should wait until the 8th or 9th to bring him in. Makes no sense pulling a guy who has a low pitch count and only given up a few hits.

Does not compute here for me.

Singer looks pretty pissed off staring down Quatraro in the dugout. I don’t blame him.

Pull my Singer

He only had 72 pitches, I don't get it.

Singer kind of looks like Frank Burns

Q looks like Gomer Pyle.

Welp, never been a better time than now to get to .500!!!!

****ing do this !!!!

I’m assuming pitch count bullshit, which I hate with a passion.

MJ

So who’s closing?

Nice MJ

Got a foul ball in dlphg seats

There we go!

Looks like Smith. Hold on to your butts.

Against the heart of their order, what could go wrong…

C’mon, Renfoe, big knock

Early in the season I'm ok with not pushing our starters so far just yet.

Renfroe sucks

Too bad we didn't get another reliever instead of renfroe.

Hold onto your butts...

Why is smith coming into the game??

And Renfroe looks at a called 3rd strike that was right down the middle.

Royals need to ignore all players named "Hunter." Forever, man...

I would keep a very very VERY short leash on Smith.

Okie dokie, it's diaper time. Cmon Will!

There’s one

Hoo boy

Take Smith out NOW

And here we go . . . .

Double by Roberts but he pulls up lame

Why is Smith even in the game wtf!! Dude has been terrible in his career

Shiiiiit. Here we go.

Our pitchers are taking out all the top players in the division by making them run the bases. Royce Lewis and now Robert.

TAKE THIS GUY OUT NOW

Think it's time to go get him.

Quartaro needs to be fired

I don't care if we choke up the lead. At least it won't be Smith doing it.

There you go

Is McArthur any better? :shake:

I wouldn't be surprised if Smith pops up on the DL. He can't locate for shit.

Cut that bozo, he sucks.

That’s gotta be the end of Smith as closer

I'll give it up for Q there, a lot of Royals managers wouldn't make that move 8 games into the season. Smith isn't some young guy he's been a legit reliever for years now and a lot of managers on a lot of teams would give him a long leash.

See? That was EZ. Mister Smith goes to Omaha!

HEY HEY HEY

Winner!

What sort of analytics are being used to make Will Smith the closer?

Nice DP

Great job MacArthur!!

Do I assume we have a new closer?

I think Q just wadded them up and tossed them

Whew....

.500 ball in early April! When’s the last time we could say that?

MacArthur has a 9.82 ERA but I’d rather have it be him then Smith

To his credit he's been the closer for the bulk of the season for 2 of the last 3 World Series champs. I'm guessing that's pretty much why.

.500 baby!!! PBJ PBJ PBJ

What's wrong with Will Smith though?

Glad I'm paying $20/month for an app that crashes all the time. Jesus

.500 is STILL SWEET

Will Smith has Mark Davis disease.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Never a doubt. They’re .500 for the first time in almost 2 calendar years!<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HEYHEYHEYHEY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HEYHEYHEYHEY</a></p>&mdash; Josh Keiser (@joshkeiser40) <a href="https://twitter.com/joshkeiser40/status/1776430206619734134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

.500 ball and a 2 game winning streak!