#roster sox

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ROSTER SOX @2023SS

こんにちは 名古屋店 コジャです。

ロスターソックスが新たに届いてますよ。

ROSTER SOX “DOG” ＼1.650-(with tax)　※SOLD OUT

いつも人気なのに。。。 こんな素敵なラインカラーが出たら相乗効果で可愛さが何乗にもなってしまうではないですか。

これからなら、 ショーツに合わせてキュート×ネオンカラーを全面的にアピールしていきたくなる足元アイテム。

ちなみに、 ピンクラインが生成り、オレンジラインはホワイトです。

. . .

ROSTER SOX “BEAR” ＼1.650-(with tax)

2023SSのBEARはメジャーリーグの某チームをモチーフにしているのでしょうが、 中部地方の方には「おっ！」となるユニフォームカラーではないでしょうか？

しかも刺繍が施された「BEAR」が、 その日本のチームのマスコットキャラに見えなくも無いところも、 WAREHOUSE名古屋店を御利用なさって頂いている方にはササる方が多いのではないでしょーか？笑

また刺繍が施された位置が絶妙っ。ワンポイントの中のワンポイントですよ。

. . .

ROSTER SOX “TIGER” ＼1.870-(with tax)　　※SOLD OUT

人気ランキングで常に上位に食い込む「TIGER」。

今季はREDにはオレンジと、それぞれがMIXされた生地となっており、 やや短め？丈なのでショーツを意識しちゃいますねぇ。

こちらもリリースの度に、 ちょっとしたリニューアルを施していてで、 持っているけどまた欲しくなる一足ですねぇ。

. . .

ROSTER SOX “BEER” ＼1.650-(with tax)　　※YELはSOLD OUT

シーズン毎に仕入れる「BEER」。 今季は風味（デザイン）が変わって三段「BEER」。

黒ビールとIPA(で良���のかな？)のHALF×HALFで合わせるのも面白いですねー！

BEER SOCKSファンや初BEERの方も是非。

. . .

（左から）

ROSTER SOX “SAKE” ＼1.650-(with tax)

ROSTER SOX “SHOCHU” ＼1.650-(with tax)

ROSTER SOX “HIGHBALL” ＼1.650-(with tax)

ROSTER SOX “LEMON” ＼1.650-(with tax)

お品書き風で↑↑

取り敢えず「生」。の後は気分で。

春夏だからこそ、 [BEER]以外の《ALCOHOL SERIES》もフルラインナップ。

これからの季節、キンキンに冷えた飲み物がたまりません。 BEERと共に短パンや半端丈をツマミに御堪能下さいね。

. . .

ROSTER SOX “COLLEGE by X” ＼1.980-(with tax)

久し振りのカレッジソックス。

まさしくあの名門カラーや？？なものまで。

ナイスカラーリングな展開となっております。

これから短め丈にショーツと一緒に楽しんで下さいね。

. . .

シーズンに何足か買い足すのも楽しみの一つになってきた靴下選び。

完売している物も多数御座いますが(^0^;) 是非御検討下さい。では失礼致します。

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TEL：052-261-7889

《2023.7.4.現在の営業時間》

【営業時間：平日 12時～19時、土日祝 12時～19時】水曜定休

[reinsdork]

June 13th, 2024

Garrett Crochet records 13 strikeouts, a career high.

[normalgoalie]

“Allegedly”

[opidiod]

if craig breslow/john henry/whoever is making decisions on Cora actually doubts the importance (and therefore monetary value!) of a good manager after seeing the comparison of the 2024 red sox to the 2024 yankees then idk what to tell you!

[twinstakes]

Minnesota Twins Recap vs the Boston Red Sox - May 3rd, 2024

The Minnesota Twins started a 7-game homestand with a 3-game series against the Boston Red Sox while also trying to extend their winning streak to 11. They’ve won 10 in a row against two teams with losing records. Boston was 18-14 entering the first game of this series and they were sending RHP Tanner Houck to the mound for this game. He was 3-2 with a 1.60 ERA & a 0.921 WHIP including a complete…

[waggle100]

More 🤡 Ball today

[drowningfornow]

first sunday with no football .... baseball season is still months away .... all joy is gone from the world

[wexhappyxfew]

“Don’t leave my sight again” for Kennedy and Bucky! Only if you want! I love your writing! <3

HI SWEET ANON!!!!! thank you so so much for popping this in the askbox and for the love on my writing! it means SO MUCH!! i had a lot of fun with this one - we went in a direction i wanted to explore a bit more with the kennedy x bucky dynamic, especially their ever-present bickering about sports with their (respective) red sox and yankees, hehe. i really enjoyed this prompt because i could still utilize the dynamic i wanted, but inject the prompt into the writing in a way that was more heartfelt and meaningful than anything, so, please enjoy!! :D

lips itching to grin

(a/n): kennedy x bucky girlies, we're back and better than ever and focusing on the early days again with these two, specifically in the ever-present baseball rivalry (with a side of heartfelt and slightly flirty banter that neither side may or may have not predicted.....). ps: there's a whole lot of baseball references in here along with a deep dive into the red sox and yankees baseball almanac of 1942 players, as (to preface) they discuss a yankees x red sox game from 1942, with some of their own perspectives (though we enter the conversation in the middle lol). please enjoy!!! <3333

"Alright, well, runners on first and second, game-tying run at second, bottom of the 5th," Kennedy started, as she watched Paulina offer one of the newer replacements a dance as Billie Holiday sung with those swing trumpets over their heads, "you got Joe DiMaggio coming up with two outs. Dick Newsome's already at 78 pitches."

"Easy," Bucky offers as Paulina and the replacement move out towards the center of the floor and start dancing - Kennedy likes seeing her smile, "DiMaggio hits an RBI double and makes it to second base. Then you ain't even tied up anymore. Score's 4-3."

"But," Kennedy started, glancing upwards at him with a look as she tilted her head, a smile on her cheeks, "you got Charlie Keller up next. Getting to that point in your roster where it gets a little….hairy."

"Says the one with Joe Cronin on your-"

"Focus." Kennedy said snapping in front of his face, bringing a smirk onto his lips as he looked back at her, "We're talking about the fucking Yankees right now, Bucky."

"Don't call them the fucking Yankees."

"They're the fucking Yankees to me, got it?" she said and she watched Bucky turn from his position leaned up backwards against the bar to actually facing her, "What?"

"You get really passionate about your Red Sox, huh?" he said, leaning his hand up against the side of his face and watching her, "I'd hate to mess with you-"

"You already have." she told him in a sing-song voice as she turned and took a sip of her beer and looked out to the dance floor again, "Try growing up as the only girl in a house full of brothers. You either play baseball or you are the baseball, I'm afraid." Bucky snickered at that and sipped his own drink - bourbon maybe, she could smell it on his lips from here.

"What the hell kinda baseball did the Farley brothers play?"

"Wouldn't you like to know."

"Clearly not that great of baseball, you're all Red Sox fans."

"Says the one who willingly became a Yankees fan."

"Willingly-"

"At least I grew up in the area! It makes sense!"

"Can't knock me, Yankees' got a fan all the way from Wisconisn - can't say the same about other teams now, huh?" Bucky said leaning towards her with a grin, "Gotcha there, huh?" Kennedy watched him.

"Bill Dickey comes up and goes out swinging," Kennedy said, staring him down, "Red Ruffing's taken outta the game. Atley Donald's up on the mound. Johnny Pesky's up to bat. Donald walks him. Tony Lupien comes up - an absolute bomb outta the field. Rest of the game is a no-go. Red Sox win. 6-4."

"For someone who despises the Yankees, you sure do know a whole lot about them." Bucky said, sipping his drink again, "It's cute. You trying to impress me with that Yankees stuff."

"I just know a whole lot about games where my Red Sox win," Kennedy mouthed back, the tops of her cheeks burning, "you'd know if I was trying to impress you."

"When's that happened?"

"Never."

"Huh."

"Exactly." she said, sending him a look and he smirked again, his eyes watching her in that manner they always seemed to, "What's that look for?"

"What'd you usually play?" he asked her, that lazy grin growing on his face, "C'mon, I know you were probably in a group of kids that got together to play. What were ya? No….let me guess. First base, you're pretty tall." She stared at him and raised a brow. "No?"

"What about this," she started, standing up straight and holding out her arms, "screams first base, huh?"

"Fine. Shortstop. Speedy, quick-witted-"

"I'll take that as a compliment."

"Don't get in over your head."

"Continue…." Kennedy said with a smirk.

"Shortstop." Bucky said, "Final answer."

"Ding-ding, you're correct," she said with a smile, "usually my older brother and I fought over that position. He usually gave in."

"You were convincing enough." Bucky said, sipping his drink again.

"I was better than him." she offered back, catching that look on his face, "What, like it's hard to believe?"

"Nah, nah," Bucky said shaking his head back and forth and grinning, before avoiding her questioning entirely, "you like hitting?"

"Usually was middle of the pack, sometimes cleanup, I flip-flopped." she said with a winning smirk, "Wasn't often I got cleanup though, my older brother, he's a fucking giant, like 6 foot 5 or something - Bobby - he usually could drive in any and all runners. Sometimes he let me in the spot. It was usually some stupid fight we'd have, but he'd let me have my ways sometimes. Which was nice." Bucky grinned at her again and she couldn't tell whether that was just how he decided to look at people or if there was something else going on behind those eyes and that smile. But she just left it for the time being and took to sipping her drink again.

An upbeat Ozzie Nelson beat came over above them, which immediately sent Kennedy thinking of home again - its summer, the windows are open, her mother's got the radio playing the music she always used when cleaning the house; a mix of Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. Sometimes even some Ray Noble. Any sort of music as such would remind her of that time in her youth, racing around the house with her brothers, this music in her ears, the kitchen smelling like lemon soap and freshly scrubbed, the linens hanging outside, the sound of her mother sweeping and shooing away her brothers or their dog, Gunny.

"My ma loves this music," Kennedy said with a smile, looking out to the dance floor as people danced and clung onto one another, as if it were the only thing they had apart from those flying coffins - human touch, more important than anything when they were here, "she played it all the time at home."

"She a big band fan?" Bucky asked her, and she looked to him with a smile and nodded. The corners of his eyes grew soft - she noticed he did that sometimes when he was really listening to you; really, really listening. When she had first noticed it, she'd been taken back at the intensity with which he would watch and listen, but he did it so subtly she had never really noticed until now.

"Always has been." Kennedy said with a nod, "I mean, with five sons and one daughter, there isn't a whole lot of space to listen to quiet jazz, or…something or other. Everyone always wanted big band being played." Bucky let out a bark of a chuckle and then got quiet again, glancing her way with that cautious look painted on his face. He knocked her shoulder lightly.

"And you?" he asked her, a slightly playful look on his face, lips itching to grin again.

"What about me?"

"What do you like?" he asked her, "What does Kennedy Farley dance around to her when no one's looking?" Kennedy couldn't help but laugh, a real genuine laugh and shake her head.

"Usually Benny Goodman or Glenn Miller."

"Like mother, like daughter." Bucky said with a smile, "What's she doing now ya think? Your ma?" Kennedy shrugged, feeling slightly homesick at the thought of her Ma, at home, with all her children off to war, or college, or school, her husband off to work, leaving her in that big house all alone. Her stomach twisted unpleasantly and she couldn't fight the sad expression off her face.

"Probably getting dinner ready - she makes a damn good beef stew. Chop the carrots, onions, celery. Let the beef sit and marinate for a while. The whole house would smell almost like Christmas Eve," Kennedy said softly, before quirking out a grin, "waiting for Dad to get home from work." She stared at Bucky who watched her back. "Your ma?"

"Much of the same probably." Bucky said, leaning up against the bar and schooling his features evenly, "Cooking up dinner, waiting for my dad to get home." Bucky smiled almost bittersweetly. "Wish she didn't have to be there alone, ya know?"

"Yeah," Kennedy said quickly, her emotions warping with her intense want to berate him yet again over baseball, but her softer side took over and she looked at him, "I don't doubt though if I went home, she'd be telling me 'Don't leave my sight again.'" Kennedy said with a small smile. "Broke her damn heart for me to come out here. Only daughter. One of the youngest." Bucky watched her, his face quiet, his expressions even and he seemed at once, intently focused purely on her.

"She didn't want me to come." Kennedy told him honestly, feeling like if she didn't get it off her chest now, she never would tell a soul, "Here. Flying B-17s, being a gunner, getting my hands on a .50 cal. She hated the idea of all of it. But I guess she let me go because she knew it was what I wanted. What I needed. For me." She looked over at Bucky and saw nothing but that gentle, fond expression on his face. She smiled slightly. He smiled right back, almost instantly.

"Well, I'm glad you're here," he said, watching as her face morphed from sadness to mild surprise, to which he laughed at, "yeah, I swear to ya, Farley. I really am. Hey, who was it that saw you shooting that .50 cal back in training and hand-picked you for my gunners, alright?" She was quiet. "That was me."

"And then of course Birdie took you under her wing and the rest is history, but I didn't forget that at some point in time, you were one of my waist gunners," he said, knocking her shoulder lightly again, "a good one at that, you know that?" Just hearing Birdie's name made her heart squeeze.

"It's really nothing special-"

"You shot Expert, Farley," he said, holding her gaze with a firm look, "that sends eyes wandering, I promise ya."

Oh.

She watched him for a moment before her fingers were getting twitchy and she needed something for them and to get herself to look away from that look in his eyes.

"Cigarette?" she asked him, pulling from his gaze to dig her hand into her pockets and produce the slightly crumpled cigarette packet she always had on hand. He watched her before slowly nodding.

"Sure." he said, as she innately popped open the top and produced two cigarettes, sliding one onto her lip and the other into his own hands, "Thanks."

"The least I could do for a compliment like that." she said, almost bashfully, as he placed it on his lip with a chuckle.

"First time anyone's ever told you that?"

"People don't tell me a whole lot of things like that ever so," Kennedy started, before attempting to smile, "yeah, first time for everything" Bucky watched her curiously as he produced a lighter and leaned forward to light up her cigarette before doing his own.

"Really?" he asked her, almost surprised - why would he need to act surprised, why did he even bother to care? She nodded. Bucky watched her for a moment, fingertips drumming against his cigarette as he stared at her; his gaze not one she was entirely even turning away from or wanting to.

"Cleanup." She stared at him, raising a brow.

"Tell Bobby Farley that you shoulda been in cleanup in the lineup." Bucky said, turning towards the bar again and calling for another drink, "Shortstops are usually closer to the top of the lineup anyway, right?" Kennedy watched him, her heart pounding.

"Bucky-"

"I woulda put you in that clean-up spot any day of the week, believe me." he said, smiling at her, with a grin, before turning to the bar and getting his drink. And she recited deep from within her mind, something Bobby Farley had taught her well and good in their screaming matches - 4th slot in the lineup, cleanup spot, usually one of the more or most important players in the lineup; they're powerful, drive in runs and more than anything are one thing - consistent.

[senatortedcruz]

This website has a dearth of chads and jocks like the sports fandoms are gonneeeee for the most part. Anyways did you guys know the Red Sox have a player on their roster who was arrested for pleasuring himself in a dollar store parking lot?

[warehouse-staff-blog]

こんにちは 名古屋店 コジャです。

本日は2023AW入荷のロスターソックスのあれこれです。

ROSTER SOX “Enjoy Beer Drink” ＼1.760-(with tax)

今季はBEERが一新！

某炭酸飲料を彷彿とさせるデザインは、 "Enjoy"や"Drink"が入る一昔前のデザインをリソースとしていると思われます。

ビール好きな方から、 世界中から愛されるシュワシュワラバーまで愛用して頂けるENJOYな一足。

まだまだ暑い日々が続く良い時期に素敵な一足が投じられましたよ。 是非足元で楽しんで下さいね〜。

. . .

ROSTER SOX “NEO MIX” ＼1.870-(with tax)

何だかんだでいつも完売するネオンカラー。 「まぁ僕が好きだから」という想いだけでセレクトしていましたが、 蛍光色が好きな方結構多くて嬉しいです笑

. . .

ROSTER SOX “Heart by X” ＼1.650-(with tax)

[by X]シリーズで初めて扱う【❤】柄。

個人的にハートや星、花柄が好きなので、 今回は星ではなくハートをセレクトしてみました。 （リアルな花や星にはあまり興味が無く知識も御座いませんが(^0^;)）

「良い年齢のおじさん」でも是非チャレンジして頂きたいワンアクセントアイテム。

. . .

ROSTER SOX “DE LA by X” ＼1.650-(with tax)

こちらも[by X]シリーズで初めて扱う【❀】柄。

上記でも述べましたが個人的に花柄が好きでこちらもセレクトしてみました。

ハート共に可愛らしさが全面に出ますが気恥ずかしさは置いて、 純粋に「良いなぁ～」「可愛いやん」と思えたら是非取り入れてみて下さいね。

若年層には溶け込みやすい柄かもしれませんが、 年齢を重ねたからこそ【❤】や【❀】のワンアクセントが活きますよ。

. . .

シーズンに何足か買い足すのも楽しみの一つになってきた靴下選び。 是非御検討下さい。では失礼致します。

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《2023.10.17.現在の営業時間》

◎東京店　【営業時間：平日 12時～19時　土日祝 12時～19時】無休 ◎阪急メンズ東京店 【営業時間：平日 12時～20時　土日祝 11時～20時】無休 ◎名古屋店【営業時間： 平日 12時～19時　土日祝 12時～19時】水曜定休 ◎大阪店　【営業時間： 平日 12時～19時　土日祝 12時～19時】 無休 ◎福岡店　【営業時間： 平日 12時～19時　土日祝 12時～19時】 無休 ◎札幌店　【営業時間： 11時～20時】  木曜定休

今後の営業時間等の変更につきましては改めて当ブログにてお知らせ致します。 お客様におかれましてはご不便をお掛けいたしますが御ご理解の程、宜しくお願い申し上げます。

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☞ 『WAREHOUSE直営店の LINE公式アカウント開設』

WAREHOUSE&CO.直営店からのお得な情報や、エリア限定のクーポンなどを配布しています。

LINE公式アカウント開設にあたり、 2019年3月26日（火）以降、提供しておりましたスマートフォンアプリはご利用できなくなっております。 お手数をおかけしますが、今後はLINEアカウントのご利用をお願いします。

ご利用されるエリアのアカウントを「友だち登録」して下さい。 ※WAREHOUSE名古屋店をご利用頂いているお客様は【WAREHOUSE　EAST】をご登録下さい。

※直営店のご利用がなければ【WESTエリア】をご登録下さい。

.

☞[リペアに関して]

弊社直営店で行っておりますジーンズ等のリペアの受付を休止させて頂いております。 ※ご郵送に関しても同様に休止させて頂いております。再開の日程は未定です。

ご迷惑お掛け致しますが、ご理解下さいます様お願い致します。 ※弊社製品であればボトムスの裾上げは無料にてお受けしております。お預かり期間は各店舗により異なりますのでお問合せ下さい。

.

☞WAREHOUSE公式インスタグラム

☞WAREHOUSE経年変化研究室

☞“Warehousestaff”でTwitterもしております。

ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー

WAREHOUSE名古屋店

〒460-0011 愛知県名古屋市中区大須3-13-18

TEL：052-261-7889

《2023.10.17.現在の営業時間》

【営業時間：平日 12時～19時、土日祝 12時～19時】水曜定休

[loserdudes]

the bruins meet the entire 2023 red sox roster

[goalhofer]

2024 MLB American League All-Stars Roster

Pitchers

#00 Tyler Anderson (Los Angeles Angels/Las Vegas, Nevada)

#19 Mason Miller (Oakland Athletics/Bethel Park, Pennsylvania)

#29 Tarik Skubal (Detroit Tigers/Kingman, Arizona)

#39 Corbin Burnes (Baltimore Orioles/Bakersfield, California)

#45 Garrett Crochet (Chicago White Sox/Ocean Springs, Mississippi)

#48 Emmanuel Clase (Cleveland Guardians/Río San Juan, DR)

#52 Clay Holmes (New York Yankees/Slocomb, Alabama)

#55 Cole Ragans (Kansas City Royals/Tallahassee, Florida)

#67 Jacob Lugo (Kansas City Royals/Bossier City, Louisiana)

#75 Andrés Muñoz (Seattle Mariners/Los Mochis, Mexico)

#89 Tanner Houck (Boston Red Sox/Collinsville, Illinois)

#93 Kirby Yates (Texas Rangers/Kauai County, Hawaii)

Catchers

#13 Salvador Pérez (Kansas City Royals/Valencia, Venezuela)

#35 Adley Rutschman (Baltimore Orioles/Sherwood, Oregon)

Infielders

#2 Gunnar Henderson (Baltimore Orioles/Selma, Alabama)

#5 Corey Seager (Texas Rangers/Kannapolis, North Carolina)

#6 David Fry (Cleveland Guardians/Grapevine, Texas)

#7 Bobby Witt; Jr. (Kansas City Royals/Colleyville, Texas)

#10 Marcus Semien (Texas Rangers/Berkeley, California)

#11 José Ramírez (Cleveland Guardians/Baní, Dominican Republic)

#12 Jordan Westburg (Baltimore Orioles/New Braunfels, Texas)

#17 Isaac Paredes (Tampa Bay Rays/Hermosillo, Mexico)

#21 Joshua-Douglas Naylor (Cleveland Guardians/Mississauga, ON)

#27 Vladimir Guerrero; Jr. (Toronto Blue Jays/Santiago, DR)

#50 Willi Castro (Minnesota Twins/San Juan, Puerto Rico)

Outfielders

#16 Jarren Duran (Boston Red Sox/Cypress, California)

#22 Juan Soto; Jr. (New York Yankees/Santo Domingo, DR)

#25 Anthony Santander (Baltimore Orioles/Ciudad Agua Blanca, VZ)

#31 Riley Greene (Detroit Tigers/Oviedo, Florida)

#38 Steven Kwan (Cleveland Guardians/Fremont, California)

#44 Yordan Álvarez (Houston Astros/Ciudad Las Tunas, Cuba)

#99 Aaron Judge (New York Yankees/San Joaquin County, CA)

Manager

Bruce Bochy (Texas Rangers/Melbourne, Florida)

[thepixarau]

So I keep talking about that Pixar Super Smash bros idea and I’m going to continue because I think it would be cool

So the character roster would be: Woody, Buzz, Sulley, Mike, Jessie, Flik, Mr. Incredible, WALL-E, Dory, Ember, Ian, Atta, Joy, Barley, Wade, Merida, Elastigirl, Imelda, EVE, McQueen, Joe, Syndrome, Remy, Mater, Bo Peep, Dash, Violet, Jack-Jack, Sadness, Bing-Bong, Hopper, Doc Hudson, Linguini, 22, Luca, Alberto, Giulia, Meilin, Latso, Arlo, Spot, Anger, Disgust, Fear, Harris Hubert & Hamish, Marlin, Nemo, Crush, Randal, Carl, Dug, Héctor, Miguel, Ernesto, Evelyn/Screenslaver, Ming Lee, and probably even more! Or maybe some of these would just be spirit fighters/bosses

Arena ideas: Andy’s Bedroom, Sunnyside daycare, Monsters Inc. factory, 4*Town concert arena, Ant Island, Radiator Springs, Gusteau’s restaurant/city of Paris, Portorosso, DunBroch castle, Element City, East Australian Current, Carl’s house (as it floats around buildings and clouds and eventually ends in Paradise Falls), Riley’s mind (switches between Honesty Island, Goofball Island, etc), Land of the Dead, Monsters University campus, The Great Before, a Cars’ themed racing arena, Clawtooth Mountain, Bug City, the Axiom, Pizza Planet, P Sherman’s dentist office, and many more!

Special items: the Pixar ball that you can throw at opponents, a plate of ratatouille (and other dishes from the movie) that can heal damage, an Incredibles mask that temporarily gives you one of the families’ powers, a Zurg arm-cannon that shoots tennis balls, and of course the Assist Trophy that calls another character to aid you in battle! I imagine characters from this item would be like Pepita, Rex, Kevin, Sox, Massimo, AUTO, Gale, the circus bugs, Jackson Storm, Fergus, Bruce, etc. Basically characters that had some importance in the movies’ but that I don’t think would be in the official playable roster

[optimistredsox]

14 July, KC @ BOS, 4-5, win

I might be in too deep. This team keeps winning and delighting and surprising and the nugget of cynicism that every Boston fan has lodged firmly in their heart seems to be temporarily dislodged. Will it stay thus for the rest of the season? I dunno. I hope so. This is such a different team from the Sox teams I've loved in the past. They're SO YOUNG. I was looking at the active roster, as you do, and basically the only two veterans active at the moment are Kenley Jansen and Dom Smith. Everyone else is crazy young. Yeah Raffy is a veteran relative to the team but he's still about 12. You can't have a 12yo veteran. And he's the face of a six year old. A six year old who packs enough dip to kill a horse, but still a six year old. Sorry, this is going to be a bit of a rambling post as the All Star break means I don't feel rushed to get something out before the next game starts. And I don't really care about the All Star Game. Am I going to try to compare Sunday's game to the Sox season as a whole? A game that had so much fun and joy but still managed to be a bit of a nailbiter and rough around the edges. Sort of like the season so far. Ok that's enough comparison (though I really do wonder where we'd be without all those injuries at the start of the season - I don't necessarily think we'd be doing better).

Anyway. The game.

Bello gave up a dinger to lead off the game, which wasn't great. But then Raffy hit a 2-run dinger, which was great. He drove it to right, which was a nice change from all the blasts over the monster of late. It did get a bit stressful - the Sox were up 4-1 at one point and then all of the sudden it was a lot closer than that. Ok, maybe not all of the sudden... it was a run in the fourth and a run in the sixth and then, terrifyingly, a run in the 9th. But that wasn't enough for the Royals to come back, which is good. In fact, it's better than good because we won, maintained the third wild card spot, and have a few days to chill. You know what that means? Bright sides.

Brayan Bello did better. He went six and a third and gave up three runs on seven hits. He struck out three and walked one. Remember when he was dreadful in day games? That was awful. Thankfully he was good yesterday.

Bernadino got the hold, coming on with one out in the seventh and throwing up zeroes. It's what he does.

Kenley Jansen came on for two innings, taking the ball in the eighth. He did give up a run in the ninth, but it was ok, and he's been so good this season that I think he's allowed that. He's got 19 saves and a 2.16 ERA. Really enjoying watching him this season. And he dominated the 8th. Impressive.

Jarren Duran, before jumping on the next sand worm to Texas for the All Star Game, had a day, going 4-for-5 with a run scored. He's been so much fun to watch this season.

Raffy Devers went 2-for-3 with a 2-run dinger and scored twice. He also took a walk and didn't strike out. He also played some good third base. He's really good at the moment.

Dom Smith had another good game. Dude is growing on me. Great picks at first base - this solid veteran anchor coping with young 'uns hurling the ball with an excess of excitement. He also hit a two run dinger, on a pitch that was about five inches above the strike zone. Dude launched it. It was great.

Dave Hamilton went 3-for-5, played great second base, but was also caught stealing. He's not going succeed in every swipe. But I kinda want him to.

Both of the two-run dingers came with two outs. That is awesome.

We din't make any errors! Hurray!

We're only four and a half back!

It's the All Star Break! Have a beer and a taco and chill out, there's a few days off baseball!

[strawberryblondebutch]

Take this with a grain of salt, maybe, because I loved (and still love) playing the heel in hockey and in softball.

But the wildest part to me about Korbin Albert making the Olympic roster is Hayes saying that the booing and criticism got to her, it impacted her performance, and they're still rolling with her.

The best ability in sports is availability. Number two and three are a short memory and a thick skin. You're going to get booed. Your opponents are going to boo you when you do well. Your own fans are going to boo you when you do poorly.

And I'm saying this as my own harshest critic. I'm the girl in the locker room throwing my gear on the floor and cursing myself out after a bad showing. My coaches knew better than to tell me good try so I wouldn't snap at them that, if it were actually a good try, we would have won. I cannot imagine letting the crowds get to me on top of that.

It's one thing, as we've observed time and again, to sell your soul and take on a player with a nasty personality who at least has a proven track record in the game. As far as I'm concerned, Patrick Kane and Jake Virtanen can both go to hell. But between the two of them, GMs are more willing to take the heat on the point-per-game guy than the guy with more PIM than points in Russia.

Professional-league teams have to balance winning games with keeping fan vibes high. It was the right choice for the White Sox (a phrase you will never hear me say again until Jerry sells the team) to cut Liam Hendriks, knowing he wouldn't pitch for them again, but getting rid of the guy who just came back from cancer? Terrible vibes. National teams don't have the same vibes requirements because those governing bodies are nonprofits that don't rely on private funding (and even if they did, they're making way more on youth participation than on jersey and ticket sales). But I still don't get taking the vibes to make the team worse.