With football season now underway, you’re getting a football-themed game thread. If you don’t like football, suck it up, you can deal with it for one day. Let’s be honest, even a football themed game thread is more entertaining than whatever the heck the White Sox are doing.

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For the last 2 ½ weeks the White Sox have been taking the metaphorical knee at the end of the game. Unfortunately for them, there’s about five minutes left in the fourth quarter and they’re only up a point. Luckily, the rest of the AL Central is deciding to punt the ball back to them on first down, for some unknown reason. I don’t think it has anything to do with the fact that the Guardians share the same city as the Cleveland Browns, but I can’t say for sure.

No matter how you spin it, the White Sox are bad again. They don’t have an offense, they don’t have a defense, and I have no hope anymore. I started planning the possible attendance of a home playoff game in my head and now they might very well not make the playoffs, so this may in fact be all my fault.

Nevertheless, the White Sox have an important game Friday night against … the St. Louis Cardinals? Great job, MLB, for inserting interleague games during the most crucial part in the season.

Either way, the schedule is already set and the South Siders are in St. Louis to try to collect a win for the first time since Sunday thanks to a sweep at the hands of the … Pittsburgh Pirates? Seriously, what decade is it?

Either way, let’s get into the game tonight. On the hill for the Cardinals is Matthew Liberatore. I like Liberatore, and I think he’s better than his record. As a former resident of Milwaukee and an attendee of many Brewers games, I can tell you that he’s caused the Brew Crew some issues in the past. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on who you’re cheering for, Liberatore is incredibly inconsistent.

He posted a 3-2 record with an ERA less than four in the month of May, with four of those six starts coming against the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs. He immediately followed it up with an ERA of more than eight in the month of June. He’s been up and down ever since and most recently gave up five runs in just over four innings to the Colorado Rockies. The game did come on the road, but come on, the Rockies?

As for the White Sox, they’re throwing out Anthony Kay again. I would say “every kiss begins with K(ay),” but last time out he looked more like the kiss of death. He allowed five runs in just over four innings against the Minnesota Twins. Oddly enough, the stat line was pretty close to the stinker that Liberatore put up, so this may actually be a pretty fair fight.

Outside of a bad first month of the season, Kay has been solid for the White Sox, and they could really use him tonight. For as bad as this divisional “race” has gone as of late, there are just 16 games left. Any win at this point does wonders for Chicago, even if the Cleveland Guardians pull a rabbit out of a hat at the end of the game again. Here’s to hoping Cleveland’s baseball team starts to take after their football team and lays an egg during the month of September. Then again, the White Sox are from Chicago so … you can connect the dots.

Here is the starting lineup for the Chicago White Sox:

Here is the starting lineup for the St. Louis Cardinals:

First pitch is at 7:15 p.m. CDT. The game will be televised on CHSN and can be heard on ESPN Chicago 1000. Drop your predictions and thoughts down below!

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