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Than Turang? why? he led MLB with 2B fWAR by a good margin and has better speed/contact skills galore better arm too Aranda non-catch lets MIL back in it

Eh. I’d rather have Meidroth.

So let it be written, so let it be done.

I just realized the Sox drafted Madrigal (#4 overall) well before Bryce Turang (#21 overall). 🤣

https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/finding-way-caleb-bonemer-adds-130000751.html So far, the fall has offered encouraging results. Through 39 at-bats, Bonemer has hit .282/.349/.590 with a .939 OPS, four doubles, a triple, two home runs and nine RBIs. He has also drawn four walks against eight strikeouts. It's a small sample, because pretty much everything in the AFL is a small sample. Still, we'll happily take the extra-base hits.

Four factoids today: October 25, 1955 - Sox co-G.M.’s Chuck Comiskey and John Rigney made their first trade; shortstop “Chico” Carrasquel and center fielder Jim Busby went to Cleveland for slugging centerfielder Larry Doby, the left-handed power hitter the Sox had been lacking the previous three years. The deal also made room in the starting lineup for a rookie shortstop from Venezuela named Luis Aparicio. Doby’s best year was 1956 when he drove in 102 RBI’s with 24 home runs. He was traded to the Orioles after the 1957 season but returned to the Sox, who bought him from the Tigers, in May 1959. That year he appeared in 21 games and hit .241 October 25, 1983 - Thanks to the most wins in the Major Leagues and a second half run among the best ever, pitcher LaMarr Hoyt won the Cy Young Award. Hoyt was 9-8 at the All-Star break then exploded to go 15-2 in the back half ending the year with a record of 24-10 and an ERA of 3.66. In addition, Hoyt pitched almost 261 innings with only 31 walks. He then threw a brilliant complete game 2-1 win over the Orioles in the A.L.C.S. in Baltimore in the first game. Hoyt became the second Sox pitcher to ever win the award following Early Wynn in 1959. He easily outdistanced the Royals Dan Quisenberry 116-81 in voting points. Hoyt won 52 games between 1981 and 1983. October 25, 1993 - Sox manager Gene Lamont, who guided the team to its first postseason appearance in 10 years, was named American League Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Lamont would beat out the Yankees “Buck” Showalter for the honor. Lamont got 72 total points to Showalter’s 63. Lamont picked up eight first place votes to seven for Showalter. October 25, 2005 - Game #3 of the World Series set the record at that time for the longest game by time duration in history. The 14-inning game went 5:41 minutes in Houston and ended when another Sox role player, Geoff Blum, belted a home run giving the club the lead at 6-5. It would end 7-5 with game #2 starter Mark Buehrle picking up the save because the Sox were almost out of pitchers. The Sox rallied from a 4-0 deficit in the game against the Astros Roy Oswalt to come back for the win. That record would be broken in 2018 when Boston and the Dodgers played 18 innings lasting 7:20 minutes.

But but but that Go Cubs Go theme song

Should have been two outs and bases empty 4-0 Rays series on Rays arguably won the deadline too with Peralta/Hicks...

UCF BYU is sheer craziness that running into the kicker penalty in OT is going to be played over and over

My postseason record was 4-1. You bet your ass I'm making the first gamethread of their next postseason run.

See also Korea, North/South

I guess that truce is definitely over......sorry Kyle.

She has least two bobbleheads now

He SHOULD be, but yeah, we all know better as long as Jerry is still signing checks.

-With all that information processed, the White Sox will add here from the outside. I wouldn’t expect Tarik Skubal to be on their free-agent radar, but money will be spent in this area. O’RLLY?

I think I speak for all of Soxtalk when I say f*** Ron.

You need to play to the strengths of your ballpark. Slug is king here. And for people who have been watching the playoffs, the Brewers have needed that home run ball. As Chris talked about, these were more mechincal things then it was approach.

Don't get too crazy with this whole series gamethread thing.....Ron would never relinquish control during the season if given the opportunity.

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Here's my last set of ballparks that I have visited. This one is for older ballparks. Wrigley Field: I haven't been there since the major renovations. This is a difficult one for me to rank because of not seeing the Ricketts overhaul and because of my blind hatred for the Cubs and anything Cubs. That being said, I've sat in some pretty crappy seats at Wrigley in the lower deck with the overhang blocking popups. The concessions area was cramped and the food was unremarkable (though I don't know if the food is better now). Communal urinal troughs in the men's room? Gross! All these faults inexplicably get totally swept under the rug when grown men weep at the thought of this place. That being said, you can't beat the atmosphere there and there's no denying that the place has become a bucket list destination for some. Even a number of Sox fans acknowledge enjoying the Wrigley experience. Unlike the Sox under Jerry, they've done a masterful job of embracing their history. Obviously the neighborhood is a huge draw. Parking sucks, it's not next to an expressway, and yet they still manage to draw huge crowds even when they're bad. Fenway Park: I was there 30 years ago, so maybe the park as been renovated since then. You can't beat the history and how it's integrated into the neighborhood. When we walked up to it, I was amazed at how it just looked like another building. Much more so than Wrigley. That being said, other than the history, I thought the place was a dump. Cramped concessions, cramped seating, the food was just standard ballpark fare (though that might have changed). They've obviously done extremely well there and it'll be their forever home, but IMHO, I thought the place was overrated. Transit access was great - we were able to take the "T" from our hotel to Fenway no problem Angel Stadium: One of those "there's nothing wrong with it" ballparks. The concourse is worse than Rate Field. It's surrounding by nothing but parking lots, but unlike at Rate Field, you can't just walk to a nearby neighborhood and it's not right by a couple of train lines that are a few stops away from downtown. There IS a train station near the ballpark, but for most people the only way to get there is to drive and park. On the plus side, it's just a couple of miles down the road from Disneyland. They seem to have done a fine job renovating the place in the 1990s and the Angels always draw well despite many years of poor play, but it'll be interesting to see what Kroenke does when their lease is up in the 2030s. My guess is either massive overhaul or build a new ballpark next to it on the parking lots.

What a nailbiter at the end! Great game. As I said earlier, i'd be glad for either franchise to win it all. At least the Brewers have waited longer (1969 expansion vs. 1998 expansion) plus 1957 for the City of Milwaukee. The Brewers and the Padres are the only 1960s expansion franchises that still haven't won a WS. Another bonus of the Brewers winning is that I'm sure most Cubs fans will hate to see the Brewers win the WS (LOL). Remember last year's playoffs? Boo hoo hoo! Mean Brewers fans waved an "L" flag when they won the playoff series against our beloved Cubbies at "Wrigley North". How dare they!!! 😭😭😭😭. Is Paul Sullivan still sore about that?🤣

Just like Rick Hahn promised!

I know it's just two guys, but I wonder why they felt the experience at Rate Field was the worst fan experience. That seems way over the top to me. The best anecdotal experience I have is that I worked downtown for 30 years and was always known as an unabashed Sox fan. In all those years, it was always a tough sell to convince people who weren't already big Sox fans or just huge baseball fans who will go see a game anywhere to go to Sox Park. This included coworkers and especially people who were coming in from out of town for conferences. It had nothing to do with false perceptions of crime in the area and they knew it was a short ride on the Red Line to get there, it was just people thought the park was generic and the area around it was boring. I know that's unscientific, but that's been the challenge for the Sox for decades. Tailgating and chest thumping about the South Side isn't bringing in more fans. @Falstaff , I too have met some diehard Cubs fans who said they like Sox Park over Wrigley. So, that's definitely not unheard of. Not every lifelong Cubs fans likes the bar scene culture around Wrigley. Of course, it still doesn't change the fact that there's not enough people out there who feel this way to make the Sox a better draw.

Merkin's story: https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/5-offseason-questions-for-white-sox