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The Sir

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  1. Yeah, since 2012, the breakdown of WS participants looks like this: AL East- two appearances by one franchise (two victories) AL Central- four appearances by three different franchises (one victory) AL West- one appearance by one franchise (one victory) NL East- one appearance by one franchise (no victories) NL Central- two appearances by two different franchises (one victory) NL West- four appearances by two different franchises (two victories) With the exception of the Twins being a garbage team in the playoffs, which I am totally OK with, the AL Central performs just fine in the playoffs.
  2. Very cool. Those are the best experiences with this game.
  3. Guilty. I don’t give a wit about the NFL at all today, but there was a game in the 1990s where the Bears had 1st and goal at the Broncos’ one yard line or so in the last possession of the game. We sucked, they were great, so it looked like an upset was coming. Nope- the Broncos stood us up through four downs and “we” lost 17-12. I cried my eyes out. My dad whooped my ass.
  4. Yep. I always thought it was weird that my dad was a Yankees fan (he grew up in upstate NY) but didn’t really care about them one way or another. He taught me a lot about baseball and he supported my budding love of the White Sox when I was growing up but Yankee games didn’t dominate the TV and he showed no real emotion about them. I think the ‘94 strike kinda wiped him out, and I don’t think I’ll be as chilled about as he is, but I definitely understand now how fandom changes from boyhood into manhood. Honestly, I think one of the most beautiful aspects about the game for me these days is how it ties my whole life together. I’ve had a whacky life and I’ve been all over the world, but for all the differences, the Sox have always been there. Whether it was living in Chicago and secretly listening to them on my portable radio after bedtime, or living in Spain and having stateside relatives send me game tapes, or being in a faraway state at college using this newfangled Facebook thing to gather fellow Sox fans for the World Series (unsuccessfully, I might add), or fiddling with the radio at an airfield in southern Afghanistan so I could listen to Chris Sale dominate some poor bastards, the Sox have always been there tying it together. So I think that’s a cool impact on my own life, and I’m grateful for it.
  5. Some people take this to a fever pitch level. I love the White Sox and I’ll watch them or at least check the box scores every day during every season for the rest of my life. I’ll buy merchandise and on rare occasions travel to Chicago to go to games in person. But I’m not that ten year old who cries at losses anymore. Maybe it’s the recent mediocrity or maybe it’s just all the worries of being an adult, but my fandom has changed. My wife, my kids, my money, those are much bigger things for me now. If I could have guaranteed success in all of those categories but never see another winning White Sox season, I’d take that deal in a heartbeat. Hell, I’d happily take the White Sox never winning a single game again if that was my reward. Love the team but my priorities are very clear.
  6. Can you lay out objective criteria as to how he is supposed to do that?
  7. http://twinsdaily.com/topic/35173-front-page-twins-alds-game-2-recap-nothing-works-twins-lose-12th-straight-to-yankees/# This thread is full of schadenfreude laughs. I especially like the one that says “This is confirmed. Yankee Stadium smells like the armpit of the older brother who never let you win.”
  8. Oh this is dumb. A lot of things get discussed on this website- White Sox baseball, all baseball, our jobs, our relationships, and in days of yore, even politics. The typical White Sox fan experience? I will always love this team but I’ve been in the state of Illinois for all of ten days in the last twenty years. You guys talk about your hatred of the Cubs and it couldn’t matter less to me because I don’t even know any Cubs fans. Should I run around and screech at people for daring to talk about something that doesn’t interest me? If the guy wants to mention reliable info that our team’s owner is a good guy, then I’m interested. If you so totally do not care, then you are welcome at any point to...you know...stop caring.
  9. I was pretty ambivalent about Keppinger (but didn’t think he would totally flunk out of baseball) but man, I was excited about Melky. I still remember being in a great mood that morning at church because I had just read the news. I don’t blame JR for him being so blah.
  10. And what Sox fan is unfamiliar with Lee Elia? C’mon now.
  11. 14 consecutive playoff losses for the Twins since 2004. That’s the longest playoff losing streak in MLB history. Keep it going!
  12. This is totally false. Just look at the transition from 2005-2006. We won it all and then proceeded to upgrade Orlando Hernandez into Javier Vazquez and Carl Everett into Jim Thome. Our only downgrade was replacing Rowand in CF with a failed prospect. AFAIC, that counts as trying to to put them over the top. It’s not JR’s fault that our four aces from 2005 more or less sucked in 2006, or that the entire bullpen stunk in 2006 besides Thornton. From an ownership perspective, what more could you have wanted? They got the players, and the players blew it.
  13. To be fair, that’s not an entirely stupid risk aversion. Miguel Cabrera sucks now but the Tigers are going to be paying him $30 million per year until 2024. Pujols has been a disaster for the Angels. Stanton will be a Yankee until the Ivanka administration and he’s already playing in a mere 18 games. I’m sure by the last several years of their own mega deals, Bryce and Manny will constitute curse words in Philadelphia and San Diego respectively. It might be unexciting, but it’s not like “the hell with signing long term deals for free agents” is an unsubstantiated belief.
  14. Your claim from the OP is that he’s trying to end up in second place because it’ll strong us along. I reject that. I think money matters most to Jerry, but he also wants to win. So he’ll pay Herrera and Keppinger and Laroche in an effort to WIN for cheap, but end up falling short. Second place is often the result but it’s not the intent.
  15. This. Jerry’s a geriatric billionaire. He probably wants to make sure his heirs are set up for an easy life after he passes so money is priority number one- he’s not gonna a good chunk of his fortune to Machado or Harper or Cole, but he’s not trying to fail. That’s ridiculous.
  16. I read something about a prominent person on the autistic spectrum the other day, and it mentioned how one quirk of theirs is that they have rigid adherence to their favored ideas. I see this with Jack all the time. Nothing can talk him down from an idea once he believes it to be true.
  17. You say there’s evidence for lots of things for which there usually is not. We have an owner who is cheap and that often results in not signing the best players and therefore ending up second fiddle, but we have won a WS recently which some more storied franchises can’t say for themselves. There’s no evidence that Reinsdorf is actively aiming for that situation. We’re just a mediocre team because we have a stingy owner.
  18. Cripes, Jack. You can believe this unsourced absurdity if you want to, but you don’t have to insult everyone’s intelligence for wanting a bit more evidence on the matter.
  19. Lemahieu strikes out to lead off the game. Tim Anderson will be the MLB batting champ this year.
  20. No way. We’re either 10 or 11, depending on how the Angels do. If they win, we get 10 no matter what. Don’t lose 90, win this game and go out on a high note.
  21. Turnbull (3-16, 4.59) vs Detwiler (3-5, 6.85) An 0-4 day for our boy will still have him ahead of 4-4 days by either Lemahieu or Marte. If either of the usurpers decide to go 5-5, Timmy needs one in hit in five tries. This is just the coronation. Tune in at 2:10!
  22. We didn’t shut them out yesterday, but you get a like nonetheless.
  23. So Mendick PHs for the guy competing for a batting title, and not Yolmer? I really just want to know what Yolmer has pictures of Ricky doing. Just give us that. C'mon!
  24. That's going to end quickly in the playoffs. No worries. Twins haven't won a playoff game since 2004, and their last 13 have been losses. That ties them for the longest playoff losing streak of all time, and I think the Yankees will put them in first place, alone. I'm very happy to be putting the nails in Cleveland's coffin.
  25. Bye bye Civale. Bye bye Indians. Needing to sweep the Nats who are fighting for their own homefield advantage while hoping for the Rays and As to lose two of three against the Blue Jays and Ms respectively is not a good place to be. And I don't want Palka around much more, but I'm glad he got that. Good for him.
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