The K will be back to full capacity May 31st. PBJ

Just listened to Duffy's press conference. Doesn't sound like it's anything too major.

I get that but that injury almost always leads to TJ, it may be 2 months later.

He sucks.

One has to think it will affect a trade market for Duffy even if he comes back and makes the all star game. No one will want to be the team that gives up something good only to have him blow the UCL in his first start.

Seeing Bobby Witt Jr. in Springfield tonight.

Tony La Russa already losing a battle with the Sox clubhouse after publicly admonishing Mercedes for swinging at a 3-0 pitch up 11 yesterday.

The Sox has been completely united behind Mercedes, with multiple players liking a tweet saying **** Tony La Russa. Good work by the Sox hiring him, destroying that clubhouse is the best hope we likely have to remain in the race this year, tho the Sox are likely talented enough to overcome Scott Pioli and Dan Snyder as co-managers if they had to.

How did this go?

It's kinda baffling. Trash bullpen probably doesn't help.

Not his best night, but showed some flashes. Two really bad strikeouts on bad pitches. Hit a nice hard single and stole second. Also had a hard opposite-field line drive that was caught at the wall.

And to add to it, Tony just said he had no problem with the Twins throwing at Mercedes today. WOW.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wouldn’t be the first time Tony screwed up handling a Mercedes</p>&mdash; Warren Dawes (@Warren_Dawes) <a href="https://twitter.com/Warren_Dawes/status/1394764238078550020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">TLR says &quot;I don&#39;t have a problem with how the Twins handled it,&quot; in regards to Duffey throwing at Yermin Mercedes.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhiteSox</a></p>&mdash; Ryan McGuffey (@RyanMcGuffey) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanMcGuffey/status/1394859229438173186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">La Russa is a danger to his own players. To be clear, I&#39;m talking about as a manager, but also probably if he ever gave one of them a ride home <a href="https://t.co/MBB149izuB">https://t.co/MBB149izuB</a></p>&mdash; Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) <a href="https://twitter.com/alex_kirshner/status/1394863501047386115?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Now Sox players are openly supporting Mercedes.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lance Lynn on unwritten rules:<br><br>&quot;If a position player is on the mound, there are no rules. Let&#39;s get the damn game over with. And if you have a problem with whatever happened, then put a pitcher out there.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteSox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhiteSox</a></p>&mdash; Ryan McGuffey (@RyanMcGuffey) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanMcGuffey/status/1394861686130151424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

What a jackass.

Hard to know what to make of them. They have the best record in the AL, best run differential. They're getting it done.

Yet they're missing two of their best young stars, their manager is openly dissing his own players and not defending them when they get thrown at, and their former manager Ozzie Guillen is pretty much angling for the job in their pregame and postgame shows. This just seems like too much of a circus to end well.