Good morning from Chicago,

The talk has turned from there being time to there being a need for urgency.

“We’ve been in this little rut now for a while,” Jake Cronenworth said. “We gotta find our way out of it, because there are eight games left.”

The Padres lost again last night. They lost to a bad team. A really inexperienced and bad team.

The White Sox are four losses from 100. They are one season removed from losing a Modern Era-record 121 games. They had five players in their starting lineup last night who made their major league debut this season. They had lost six games in a row and scored more than two runs in one of those. They ran into two outs at third base that cost them runs last night.

And they beat the Padres 4-3.

You can read in my game story ( here ) how the Padres

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