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18 minutes ago, T R U said:
In high level athletics, male athletes ARE superior to female athletes. Not because "women aren't good" but because males are just bigger, stronger, and faster by nature. If this wasn't the case, they wouldn't be segregated into women's and men's athletics.
So again, please don't confuse this with "every male is better than every female" because that's not what I am saying. My original statement was in reference to the best athletes in this country in men's sports not choosing soccer, sorry for not clarifying.
Did you ever hear of Billie Jean King? She literally proved this false.
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19 minutes ago, T R U said:
Nothing I said was sexist. It wasn't meant to be degrading to women, there are plenty of great athletes that are women.
Hmmm. So why did you specify boys team? You are obviously implying that male athletes are superior to female athletes.
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24 minutes ago, T R U said:
Literally never heard of anyone you just named. So ive made my point.
Also, womens soccer? really. You could find high school boys teams that would wipe the pitch with the USWNT. Don't get me wrong, they are the best in their field but when I said the best athletes in this country, obviously I was talking about males.
Again, proving my point that this was a completely ignorant statement. You aren't' the barometer for popularity when it comes to athletes. As far as what is in bold, this just might be the most ignorant and sexist statement I've ever read. You clearly know nothing about soccer if you were to say something like this but also, it's also just completely sexist. I actually wouldn't be surprised to see some of the best women's high school teams wipe the floor with the USMNT.
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4 minutes ago, T R U said:
Feel like ive been hearing this for 20 years, its the go to response for the soccer lovers. The best athletes in this country don't play soccer, and they never will.
So the USWNT team don't count? They are literally some of the most succesful athletes this country has. We don't have the youth academy systems that other countries have. But this comment is grossly ignorant. Bukayo Saka and Kevin De Bruyne are some of the most popular athletes in the world. I guarantee you that they have more popularity world wide than Juan Soto.
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I am in favor of relegation but it would require the Minor Leagues to be independent of Major League clubs. Having said that, it would be game changer and for the better. It would for every team to be a buyer at the trade deadline. For example, the White Sox would have been forced to be buyers this past year to avoid relegation. I do think a loan system would be helpful in baseball. I think it would allow for players who might be ready for the major leagues but don't necessarily have a space on the roster to get meaningful apperances. It could also allow for the teams to fill short term needs buy literally acquiring a rental.
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13 minutes ago, T R U said:
Soccer is the worst thing ever, no one should do anything like they do.
It has literally eclipsed baseball for popularity in the US, especially amongst the youth. Globally, the Premier League is the most popular sports league in the world.
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On 2/7/2024 at 5:42 AM, caulfield12 said:
Feels like the Glazers almost perfectly mirror Reinsdorf and family as EPL owners...
I think we are closer to Tottenham. Both in how cheap Levy is and also his arrogance. Like Reinsdorf, Levy truly believes that he knows how to win trophies the right way. They haven't won a trophy since 2008. Man United do spend money, they just spend it really poorly. But they have won trophies. Tottenham have done decently this season but it remains to be seen if they will actually spend the necessary money to compete. They definitely have that money after selling Harry Kane for over 100 million pounds. If they sit on their hands and don’t add, they will not be in the Top 4 hunt next year.
To be honest, Arsenal are what the White Sox should be striving to be. And they have delivered on the promise that they have shown after a long rebuild whereas the White Sox failed to do that. But than again, Arsenal, unlike the White Sox, hired an incredible manager and have spent money smartly. A good one to one comparison is the comparison between the 22-23 Arsenal season and the 21' White Sox season. In 22-23, Arsenal surprised everyone by challenging Man City for the premier league title. While they ultimately were overtaken in the final weeks of the season, they did make the Champions League for the first time in seven years which is the equivalent of making the playoffs. Had they just stood pat, I’m not sure they would be in the top 4 this year, let alone in the title race. Instead, they spent over 250 million pounds in the transfer window, including breaking the English transfer record by buying Declan Rice for 115 million pounds. Essentially, they got Bryce Harper when he was available. Because of this investment, they are in with a shout of the title and will be in the top 4 once again.
The White Sox simply didn’t make the necessary investment in that offseason to improve upon 2021. I don’t know what the equivalent of Declan Rice was in the free agent market but they made luxury additions without addressing real needs. In that way, there are similarities between United’s transfer window this past year and the White Sox. United spent money, but they spent it really poorly.
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This guy is as delusional as Eric Ten Hag
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1 minute ago, ChiSox59 said:
Certainly will have plenty of $ to do so...
Jerry usually rides in a white horse for his favorites.
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I think the Sox will resign him at a discounted rate. Like a two year deal, backloaded on the second year.
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6 minutes ago, Quin said:
Poutine fucking slaps.
But also Toronto has the big purse in MLB.
Toronto has also respected his privacy. It was borderline suicidal for the Cubs and Dodgers to get as public as they did about their negotiations.
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Cubs mentality was piss poor.
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18 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:
February 7, 2005 - After one of the more acrimonious disputes in team history, four-time All-Star Magglio Ordonez signed a free agent deal with Detroit. Ordonez engaged Sox management in a war of words over how he was treated, the contract offered to him and his health status. Magglio’s agent, Scott Boras, refused to turn over medical information, which infuriated G.M. Kenny Williams and basically sealed Ordonez’s fate. Then manager Ozzie Guillen publicly called out Ordonez in no uncertain terms as well over the contract situation. Considering the severity of his knee injury, which required a secret trip to Austria for experimental surgery, it was hard to blame the Sox for their stance.
Ordonez, who was almost traded to the Red Sox at the winter meetings in 2003 for Nomar Garciaparra, played with the team for six full seasons and parts of two others with 187 home runs and 702 RBI’s. In his full seasons he never hit less than .282 and in five of those years he was over .300.
He also re-injured himself and was out for the majority of 2005. I believe the Tigers tried to void the contract that year but were unsuccessful. He seems like a good dude and he's matured since than.
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11 hours ago, Tnetennba said:
Sounds like something a coaching staff *should* be able to help with, for as cerebral as Cease supposedly is.
There is zero reason to keep Katz around if Pedro and staff are gone. He's nothing special and has had ample opportunity to show he had more to his methodology than increasing spin rate through sticky stuff, yet here we are. Cherry pick all you'd like, but in the year 2023 the Sox as a pitching staff rank in the bottom 10 in all of baseball in Team ERA, ERA+, BB, HR, ER, RA, HBP, FIP, WHIP, HR/9, & BB/9. Yes there is a lack of talent, but you can't look at those ranks and think coaching isn't at all a problem with this pithing staff, especially with the names and dollars spent.
Or maybe his struggles this year will benefit him in the long term? Maybe he grows and gets better from this experience?
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9 hours ago, Tnetennba said:
Is Cease injured this year? Explain that regression. Gio was awful last year. Explain that. Lynn too. Kopech has gone from promising prospect to afterthought, whose stuff has virtually disintegrated. Where is Katz on that? Don't even get me started on the bullpen.
I'm not saying Katz is the sole reason for the struggles and regression, but I don't think he is some pitching savant either. To this point he is very replaceable.
Cease is regressing because there is a scouting report on him and he has to adjust. Gio was bad last year but he also had Covid and changed the way he approached the off season. Are we just going to ignore 2021? Or Cease's season in 2022?
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9 hours ago, Balta1701 said:
Dylan Cease has made progress? Giolito didn’t go backward the last two years? Katz also was the 2022 pitching coach for the Giants?
Dylan Cease was the freaking Cy Young runner up last year. He had a historic season and would have won had Verlander not had such the season he had. This is crazy talk.
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3 minutes ago, Tnetennba said:
The on field results beg to differ.
No. Absolutley not. Look at the progress Cease made. Look at what Rodon did. Giolito. Etc. I don't think the injuries are his fault at all. That's a Hahn and the training staff. But the results and the metrics are there. The pitching staff, statistically at least, has been the best part of these last three seasons.
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There are many things wrong with this coaching staff. Ethan Katz isn't one of them.
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This is actually a solid move that quite frankly should have been done last year. I wish we had a competent coaching staff so that they could unlock the power in his game.
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1 minute ago, Buehrle>Wood said:
Now I'm curious who the player is who was sleeping in the clubhouse. I don't think Moncadas hangovers count as a disorder.
Probably a younger guy.
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1 hour ago, South Side Hit Men said:
Sleeping Players: At no time over the course of the year has there been a reliever sleeping in the bullpen, during a game. That's just wrong. We do have a player, a position player, who has fairly serious sleep issues. and as part of our sports performance program of trying to address that issue, he has been given permission and in fact encouraged to sleep in the clubhouse at times. Earlier in the season, a couple of our veteran players approached me complaining about such behavior. To their credit, they thought they were trying to help the environment, and when I explained to them the background of the player and why we were doing that, they relented and understood. Perhaps that's something that got lost in translation in Keynan's report, but at no point have we had a player sleeping in the bullpen.
Who are these people telling him to sleep in the clubhouse? I have sleep issues. I feel bad for whomever has it on the team as it's quite debilitating. But as someone who is in sleep therapy at the moment, the explicitly tell you not to nap during the day.
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1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:
It was Jon Rauch before a game ended. Kenny immediately released him when he found out.
Close. I believe he got a shot at redemption in a start later. In fact it may have been against the Cubs. I actually don't remember who it was but he pitched well in his start after that incident. Was traded for Everrett. In fairness, from what I remember, Rauch left because he thought he was being sent down. The odd thing about Ozzie is that as tough as he was on this and as ruthless as he was, he was restorative in his approach. He allowed guys to have second chances if they took responsibility. A similar thing happened with Marte that year.
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I am not in favor of them picking up the option. But I am ok with them signing him to a two year deal where they pay little money in the first year but maybe something like $10 million or so in 2025. I'm pretty sure he has to be on a team to keep his health care. Given what he has meant to the organization and also what he is going through, I am ok with this.
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I actually really don't like this. Simply because I think Burger had much more of a future than Moncada and I wanted to see them invest in him rather than Moncada.
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Poll: Predict Final Win Total for the 2024 Chicago White
in Pale Hose Talk
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Part of me feels this could be like 2012. No expectations and a team that responds well to a huge shake up.
I honestly think it's anywhere from 68 wins to 85 wins.