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10 hours ago, tray said:
I dislike the 78 site. It's a dump. All the railroad tracks converging there and the quality of the river at that point. It's awful.
I think a key part of the plans for building a zillion dollar stadium would involve removing the railroad tracks
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The more I think about it, the more angry I get about canceling Soxfest. Especially coinciding with the failure of the rebuild. They're not even trying to hide their contempt for the fanbase.
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12 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
When Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani joined the Angels in 2018, my cousins and I made a bet. How long until he leaves Orange County to join the Los Angeles Dodgers?
We knew it wasn’t a matter of if, but when.
Not just because the Blue Crew is one of baseball’s marquee franchises, while the Halos are as respected as a soul patch. Or because Angels owner Arte Moreno makes NFT investors seem as smart with their money as, well, the Dodgers, who just signed Ohtani to the richest contract ever in professional sports, at $700 million for 10 years.
Nah, we knew Ohtani was fated to leave because he's a young, talented person — and folks like him usually get the hell out of O.C. the moment they can.
We saw the best minds of my generation flee for Austin, Texas, Chicago, New York, the Inland Empire, but especially L.A. — the place our elders taught us to fear as full of crime and liberals. Our friends and relatives left to find opportunities that were impossible in staid, conservative, expensive Orange County. They rarely looked back. When their new neighbors asked where they were from, most would demur and say “Southern California” or “near Los Angeles."
City, civic and county leaders didn't care about this exodus, since O.C. was never meant to be cool. We were the spot where people moved after they made it. Orange County was aspirational, and if you couldn't afford to hack it here, good riddance and don't forget to take along other underachievers like you.
This thinking went on, unchecked, for decades. But it’s finally dawning on the lords of O.C. that losing our young to Los Angeles and elsewhere portends doom.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/column-shohei-ohtani-just-latest-224818706.html
Orange County *IS* LA (LA Metro) to everyone from outside the LA area. And even many inside it. It's LA's suburbs. Talking about them like two separate regions sounds weird, like talking about "DuPage County losing its young to Chicago."
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On 11/24/2023 at 10:56 AM, AJ'S Cousin said:
they caught lighting in a bottle in 2005. If AJ doesn't steal 1st base in game 2 against the Angels we'd have down 2-0 and going to LA. We might have been toast, but my cousin (LOL) bailed us out or we'd still be looking for our 1st WS win since 1917.
I've never seen somebody try to spin the most dominant post season in MLB history as some sort of squeaker. Fascinating
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Yeah, virtually guaranteed we'll be watching Bummer in high-leverage situations on TV next October, listening to how he "just never got traction with the White Sox, but has been a revelation here in Atlanta with a chance to perform on the big stage..."
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This is one of those weird situations where I'm 100% on board and ready for them to rip the Sox...but then they choose something dumb. I mean, Getz acknowledging that he doesn't like the team was the one encouraging thing I've seen this offseason. It gave me hope he might make dramatic changes instead of just resting on the "we have a talented group" nonsense. I guess Grifol could've been a little more tactful about agreeing with that accurate assessment, but this is like number 650 on the list of things to spend a whole podcast ripping the Sox about.
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12 hours ago, CWSpalehoseCWS said:
Only the Sox would hold a fan fest event at the ballpark, outside, and in the coldest month of the year.
At this point I'm expecting them to let everyone line up, keep the doors locked, then announce after a couple hours that the fest is canceled. All while Jerry watches the chaos from behind the tinted windows of a running limousine across the parking lot. Possibly masturbating
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On 11/11/2023 at 11:55 PM, Balta1701 said:
And yet here’s Brooks saying “Detroit is a better job than our craphouse”. Detroit!
It's just the famous "this puts Detroit in a position to compete with us," reimagined for the current White Sox upside-down universe.
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I'm a little torn here. For the most part I acknowledge losing him is bad. He was recognized nationally as an up-and-coming broadcasting star. His leaving -- especially at the low point that is offseason 2023-2024, and to a division rival -- sends a terrible message. It is yet another manifestation of FO ineptitude and organizational rot. I also appreciate that he had all the right enemies; I enjoyed watching him piss off a certain type of fan. His replacement will probably be worse (please no whining Len Kasper voice ffs).
*BUT* I just never really liked him, as much as I genuinely tried. I found him annoying and corny. So I personally won't miss him that much on the broadcasts, even though I take his departure as bad news.
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22 hours ago, Jake said:
I didn't want to talk about it when the news broke, but the feeling is still there. After all the baseball-related s%*# I've been served, I didn't really waver. But my overwhelming feeling upon hearing the Benetti news was that I didn't want to be a Sox fan anymore. I feel basically stuck, there's no other team I care for and I continue to harbor the resentments towards various Sox adversaries. But man are the White Sox playing with fire (with me specifically, at least) if the expansion teams get rolling soon...especially if Charlotte gets one.
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3 hours ago, MiddleCoastBias said:
I'm a sucker and easy money for Jerry. I pout and moan about this franchise, and then I'm over on '47's website looking for new hats to wear to the one series the Sox come to Boston every year.
It's an abusive relationship and I can't quit it.
Ditto. I'm also of the naive mindset that the team has at least a spiritual existence independent of the ownership group that is holding it hostage. My loyalty is to that team, and that laundry, and there's nothing Jerry or anyone else can do to break the bond. Even still, ended my season ticket package last year and went to two games: Opening Day (continuing a long streak) and Halfway to St. Pat's for a long-running friends/family group outing. I expect I'll continue at that level and pray that somehow the team will reward my loyalty someday.
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1 hour ago, greg775 said:
Had a couple questions. I watched none of this World Series. Not a pitch.
a.) I read somewhere ratings were at a historic low for WS. My question is does this matter? Do Fox and the other networks care at all about ratings? Or is all good in that area because there were still a ton of commercials and advertisers bought in?
b.) As a sporting event, how was it? Were the games good? Was it glorified home run derby combined with batters foolishly swinging at bad pitches and striking out? Did any starters go past five innings? Did the pitch clock help make watching the game of baseball tolerable this WS?
c.) I heard some podcast guy commenting on how there are not enuf Americans playing MLB and too many foreign players and also too many no name players. He was lamenting the average person, average person, cannot name 2-3 players on any team except the team they follow closely. Anything to this?
d.) Have analytics simply ruined baseball? Eliminated all popular stat categories? Is the shift the most annoying trend in sports history?
Peace out.
Yes and no
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Bruce Bochy: who knew? (Besides everyone, I mean.) I swear this season was custom-designed to torment me personally.
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7 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:
Millions more Americans care enough to watch Women’s College Basketball Championship over Manfred’s Wildcard Series. Millions.
Women’s College Basketball Final (April 14)
TexSox’ MLB 94 Total Game Regular Season Schedule (April 15 - June 30):
44 American League
- Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees (44 Games)
44 National League
- Chicago Cubs vs. Saint Louis Cardinals (20 games)
- Chicago Cubs vs. Milwaukee Brewers (18 Games)
- Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants (6 Games)
6 Inter-league Games
- Chicago Cubs vs. Nashville White Sox (6 games held at Wrigley Field)
22 other teams: Contracted
All Star Game Week (Week of July 4th)
National League Wildcard Series (July 10-20 Best of 7):
All Four Teams Eliminated on July 20
- Dodgers vs. Giants
- Brewers vs. Cardinals
League Championship Series (July 10-20 Bye & Best of 7):
National League: Chicago Cubs = Bye Week
Nashville White Sox play Cubs over seven Exhibition Games held at Wrigley Field to keep Cubs fresh for World Series (July 10-20).
American League: Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees
World Series (July 21-30): Cubs vs. ALCS Winner. All games held at Wrigley Field.
Taste of Chicago, Air & Water Show and the Chicago NASCAR Street Race moved to July 21-30 to keep fans occupied on off days.
NFL Hall of Fame Game (July 31)
MLB completely avoids competing against both the NFL & College Women’s Basketball under new schedule and playoff format. MLB may possibly beat the Woman’s College Basketball TV ratings if all goes right.
The Womens' College Basketball Championship was pretty epic, though. Much more compelling than this World Series.
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10 hours ago, caulfield12 said:
Without Altuve and Correa and further removed from that time period...the hate has declined by at least 50%.
To paraphrase Jerry Krause, *organizations* steal championships.
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1 minute ago, Milkman delivers said:
In my mind, absolutely. But this would make it unarguable.
Yeah - this plus being the architect of the only 21st Century baseball dynasty? Pretty good. Not, like, good-enough-for-Chicago White Sox-good but pretty damn good.
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I remember when many of us (myself included) regarded the Rangers with detached bemusement, sucking up all those high-priced free agents to stick on a hundred-loss team. I remember convincing myself that, sure, it would have been *nice* to have Semien, or Seager, but we didn't really *need* them, and they were just going into a black hole in Arlington. Good thing for the Rangers -- now they can ride them right into the WS while we enjoy our championship window at home.
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17 hours ago, Milkman delivers said:
Not a fan of the city of Philadelphia or its fans, and Bryce Harper always seemed like a douchebag to me. Yet I’m somehow rooting for them and I don’t know why.
He could've been *our* douchebag. Sigh
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1 hour ago, chw42 said:
I feel like the Astros are pretty much a lock to win it all if they beat Texas.
I felt the same way in 2019 and 2021...
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Oooof. Real ratings winner. At least the Phillies made it.
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14 hours ago, South Side Hit Men said:
They interviewed these clowns back in June, and recall at least a few stating they were in the Church of Satan, though I couldn’t find that particular video clip today.
https://www.thesisters.org/copy-of-grand-mother-vish-knew
Religious beliefs: Church of Satan.
The divil is a'comin' for ya!
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2 hours ago, Harry Chappas said:
This sentiment is idiotic. Baseball is a random generator sport. Unlike the other major sports...maybe hockey is similar, the playoffs are an absolute crapshoot. The goal of any organization should be to make it there. Once there, all bets are off.
Yep - and the Dodgers have a ring, plus another one they would have won without historic cheating. They're doing just fine.
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8 hours ago, chw42 said:
This is probably the best feeling you can achieve as a hitter. I know cause it happened to me in middle school gym class during indoor whiffle ball. 😂
My son did exactly this in a little league playoff game I was coaching last year. He hit a three-run homer oppo to right field where it landed clearly fair. But no line out there and no fences in a public park, so the other coach -- a d-bag who'd been whining and screaming all game -- screamed and lobbied the ump to call it foul. Which he did--while my son was rounding third getting ready to celebrate with his teammates. He had to go back to the plate with his teammates all still yelling and apoplectic that they'd had three runs taken off the board. Next pitch he put one in basically the same place, maybe a few feet further in from the "foul line." He stared down the ump as he crossed home plate, which I scolded him never to do again, but it was secretly my proudest moment 😆
Thanks for indulging my anonymous brag.
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Sox looking at building in South Loop
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Very San Diego-y