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Chuck Ard Fine here with Chris Kamka, our CSN researcher, stat guru, and number cruncher.

And let me just go back to Monday. Monday night, that was a statistical Schmorgasbord for you and me, wasn't it? Those are the best games. I mean, look at it. What are you doing? Your last place and you're out in your beating team, you're beating the Royals and you're beating the Giants. I giant I mean not the best teams in the world but you're beating these guys convincingly

considered a fact that in the first I think it was 140 games this year

white sox had a run differential of negative 135 and then in the last three games

it's a plus 27 what Plus 27. What's that?

That's a team coming together.

You know, and as much as everybody says, okay, let's lose these games, and I've never

been a big fan of that stuff. Yeah. I want to see wins. I say, let's have faith in

a scouting department to do their work in the draft. Let's just see some fun baseball, right?

I want them to lose some. Sure. I want them to lose most. We'll talk to Jim Cowell,

so tell you whether or not, you know, it should be losing, right? Well, no, so here's my

feeling, and this is one of the reasons, the main reason why we're doing the podcast.

Everyone is focusing on, and including us, where they're going to finish.

We want them to have the worst record, if possible, for the number one pick on the surface.

You know, you want to have everything in your control.

I think that's an interesting debate in itself.

Yeah.

But this draft is going to be a big one. Right.

And the White Sox have timed this one out really well. I don't know if it was by design,

but Callas and company are really, really high on the 2018 draft. So whether they finish in first,

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