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    Five players you would keep to build around

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    19 hours ago, joejoesox said:

    Keep Vaughn and Kopech. they might still have some untapped potential, and bc they won't get you much in return

    trade everyone else if you get great offers

    you're gonna be stuck with Moncada and Eloy unfortunately

    Cease and Robert might get you a haul though

    I feel like the major issue with 95% of the roster is the Sox would be selling low. Nobody’s ever healthy long enough to have any real value.

    The exception is Cease.

    Crush me now(2023) or Crush me later (2022)

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    1 hour ago, MiddleCoastBias said:

    *Jerry Reinsdorf liked this*

    We're playing right into their hands, holding on to the false hope that they give us every year that MAYBE they'll get healthy and put it all together. We keep coming back for more and they keep shoveling more of the same crap at us - and we take it.

    Sox fans have an abusive relationship with ownership and management, and we can't break ourselves from it.

    To be fair, all I do I check in on most games on my free TMobile provide MLB.com package. If it’s a good game, I stick around. If not, I check out.

    I’m not a local anymore, so I don’t spend a dime on the team.

    Do you still get pleasure out of rooting for a particular sports team?

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    Being a fan of the Sox, Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and University of Illinois has provided very little reason for optimism or enjoyment in the recent past.

    I don’t even have expectations of championships for any of them, either. I just want my teams playing meaningful games.

    I’d be happy being good enough to make the playoffs in the pro sports. Illinois being in the top 25% of the big 10 in football and basketball would be my goal.

    If any of them could sustain success for more than a season or two, I’m sure my expectations would change, but it has rarely happened in my lifetime. 80s Bears, 90s Bulls, 2010s Blackhawks had good runs.

    The Hawks were actually good in the 80s and early 90s, but thanks to Dollar Bill, I couldn’t watch them on tv, so they weren’t on my radar as much.

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    Mid Life Career Change

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    Tex’s first post quoted  in this thread describes my boys perfectly. Both very smart, but they’d always miss turning in assignments, so they would teeter at the A-/B+ or B-/C+ line in so many classes. They’d be humming along with great grades, then, boom, 0 out of 100 on a nothing assignment. I dreaded checking their grades. I was so happy when they finished HS and moved to college. Something about the college environment led them to be more responsible.

    I’ could own this site if I had a dollar for every time they told me, “I’ll talk to my teacher” about a missing assignment.

     

    World Baseball Classic 2023

    in The Diamond Club

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    4 hours ago, Tnetennba said:

    I’m not invested in any particular team, more certain players on different squads, I just want fun baseball to prevail.  These games have been awesome and the atmosphere seems incredible.  As others have said, how can you not love this?

    International sporting competitions are all pretty great. Kind of hard not to get into the “USA USA” spirit and think, “These fans of the other country are dicks.” 

    Then again, so are ours.

    Fun game. Turned it on in the 5th for the Bard meltdown. DeRosa left him in too long.

    The Turner slam was fantastic. Can’t wait for tonight v. Cuba.

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    Free MLB.TV Through T-Mobile

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    Great perk for TMobile customers. I had MLB Network for a few years, and the number of times I tuned in and randomly caught them talking about the Sox could be counted on less than two hands.

    As an out of towner, it’s nice to just be able tune into the games and get it free.

    Last Comiskey Documentary...

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    I loved that Sox team and hated the A’s. They were such d-bags.

    The opening scene where the stadium was shown pre-white paint makes me wonder who thought painting it was a good idea. 

    The nostalgic me wishes they never tore it down, but I also remember “seeing” quite a few games there with an obstructed view thanks to my Perfect Attendance tickets. I don’t know that there’s anything they could have done to remedy that.

    CF bleachers we’re the place to be.

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    Long live the pitch clock

    in Pale Hose Talk

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    It feels a little rushed to me, but it’s definitely an improvement. I wouldn’t be surprised if they agree to add a little more time. 

    I’m also not crazy about a player getting an automatic strike if he takes a little while to collect himself in the 9th inning of a big game. We’ll see how that plays out.

    Overall - big improvement. Stone and Benetti are going to have to squeeze the Nationwide jingle in at 45RPM.

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    2023 MLB offseason signings and rumors thread

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    42 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

    Sox relief pitcher Scott "Rad-Man" Radinsky had the same illness and missed the entire 1994 season. The Sox brought in Paul Assenmacher and Dennis Cook to help cover up the shortcoming but of course that was when they were actually trying to win a World Series instead of paying "Lip service" (no pun intended) to championships and parades. 

    The players were trying. Not so sure the owner was in ‘94.

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