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No problem, glad you enjoy them and thank you!

You are a dying breed, especially at your young age. Surprising.

Thanks for doing this all season, Lip Man. Always a wonderful read.

Rusty Staub le Grand Orange

Yeah that's more notable to me too. A pennant this year would've been incredible.

Cost input/labor rate certainty

I’m 32. I like to score games. I scored almost all of the Sox ALDS games this year.

And also wore down their pen...especially Cade Smith pretty sure they will all scored upon except Sabrowski

Funded by private equity you say, @caulfield12? Sorry @tray, I had to… 😉

80/20 Rule 80% Venable 20% Getz/Carlos Rodriguez/Barfield let's see with MoY going to Venable and Executive of the Year going to MIL TB over the White Sox.. WestEddy biddng up all the Getz shares @ Kalshi Chris GetzChicago WS 45% Erik NeanderTampa Bay 13% Matt ArnoldMilwaukee 12%

They get another banner/pennant for outfield display...

"Never seen a stadium like this before. And when they say that one of two things is true," Ryan told USA TODAY Sports. "Either we'll be right in making these bold bets. And if we're right, you'll see echoes of it in lots of buildings going forward. And if we're wrong, it'll be one of a kind, the only one of its kind, you know?" While Ryan is proud of the investment he, his family and their company Ryan Sports Development are making in Northwestern athletics, college fans elsewhere may wonder why they may invest so much into a program that has historically has struggled. The Wildcats have not been ranked since 2020 and with Indiana's resurgence, Northwestern has assumed the mantle of FBS's all-time losingest program. . Since then, the school and the Ryan family determined further renovations to a nearly 100-year-old stadium would prove to be more costly than building a brand-new stadium. The former stadium was demolished in 2024. "If you look at our academic facilities, our performing arts facilities, everything we try to do with the highest order of excellence," Ryan said. "So, you see that in every type of nanotechnology building, performing arts building, anything. We try to do things to the highest order of excellence." Hmmm.....basically argues for a brand new stadium model, doesn't it? “highest order of excellence” mentioned twice Well, GRF was one of its kind too, but not exactly in a good way

Neither team made the World Series thus nobody is gonna care 3 months from now. Second loser or fifth loser? People might remember the Sox massive turnaround relative to regular ol par for the course Cleveland ball.

The project, with the majority of the funding provided by the Ryan Family without public investment, will set a new standard in college athletics, transforming the traditional stadium model into a year-round community asset. Patrick George Ryan (born May 1937) is an American billionaire insurance businessman. He is the founder and retired chairman and CEO of Aon.[3][4] In 2010, he founded Ryan Specialty Group (RSG) as a holding company aimed at providing specialty services to insurance brokers, agents and carriers. RSG's first subsidiary, ThinkRisk, began business in December 2009 to provide underwriting and claims management services for media, technology, advertising and network security.[5][6]

Was at the new Ryan Field - an architectural and engineering feat. Go Cats.

Tom Skerritt, 93. Starred in Alien and Top Gun. RIP.

I don't understand why people keep arguing around deadline moves. It's a total crapshoot unless you grab the stud on the market or have a fix in mind for a guy who underperformed and the fix actually works. I would prefer the Sox didn't trade for Castillo for these reasons, but I can understand why they tried. This is just such a pointless waste of time, and that's saying something for this place. The team made the ALDS and ran out of steam when they were 1 win away from the ALCS. Let's build on that this offseason and see if they make the right moves to build a serious contender.

IF they acquired a better starting pitcher who brought them an extra win to take first place, they miss the first round against Houston to gear up for Cleveland. If they take first place, they open the ALDS at home against Cleveland or Houston, and maybe they're completely overwhelmed by that crowd, as they were in reality. Again, I'm not even sure what you're arguing against, as I agree with you that they could have done better in acquiring a starting pitcher. But of course, in this discourse, we can always imagine somebody dropping their no-trade clause because they know Sox fans are so great to play for. Or Mason Adams and Boston Smith could be turned into a top notch SP and a closer. Unless they're trading for a starting pitcher who is also the best hitting coach in the game, you keep ignoring that when it came to crunch time, this team twice set the strikeout record in clinching games. But hey, acknowledging that this team had more problems than just one starting pitcher makes me one who idolizes Chris Getz. LOL.

yankee stadium (ruth's) fenway camden jacob's field (cleveland) rate & comiskey metrodome (minn) both tiger stadiums kaufman (royals) Big A (recent reno) Oakland Coliseum Previous Arlington Safeco (Seattle) Olympic Stadium (Atlanta) RFK (DC) Shea (previous) Both Milwaukees Wrigley Old Busch Riverfront (Cincinnati) Dodger Coors Field (Colorado) Whatever San Francisco's called Milwaukee's old park had a great vibe to it. I believe you couldn't see the field from either Arlington or Cleveland's concourses. Dodger Stadium and Kaufman were both cool in that I always saw them on TV as a kid and visiting was a life's dream. Safeco is cool walking by the bullpens. RFK sucked in that from the middle tier, you couldn't see popups for the upper deck overhang. Riverfront and RFK both sucked in that they were old, worn down, the astroturf in Cincinnati had patches and was fluorescent. The RollerDome sucked, too. Magglio Ordonez left our group comp tickets, as we kept running into the White Sox at the hotel we stayed. That didn't suck. I mostly just remember the seated game experience for most of these. There's often drinking involved, which limits the note-taking. San Fran and Fenway have great neighborhood experiences, as does Seattle, Wrigley. I never got to the Bowling HOFs across from Busch stadium. Riverfront was one of the cooler fan experiences, everybody dressed in red crossing the Ohio River bridge. Sat near Joe Crede's aunt and cousin at the Sox game in St. Loo. Great food in Seattle, one real option in Dodger stadium (King Tacos?). If you walk from the Embarcadero in SF, Red's Java Hut was a must stop. My wife and I drank beers in their parking lot during their first modern World Series run, and we fell in love with that team. Rooted for them that year. Saw Curt Schilling no-hit the As into the 9th until Shannon Stewert broke it up with 2 outs. Milwaukee can heat the stadium to about 30 degrees warmer than the outside temperature. Whenever I joke that I bet they can get it up to about 120 in the summer, whoever I tell that to corrects me that they probably don't have the heat on in the summer.

I thought he passed away last year?

You're also obsessed with declaring a single trade a success. They may not try to "win" every trade, but they do try to improve the team with each trade. I get it, you idolize Chris Getz and need to frame everything as a complete win over and over and over and over, just to make sure everyone gets exposed to that very niche opinion that is very underrepresented, LOL.

Go look at the numerous posts around the trade deadline — many posters were saying that acquiring two starters was a must. Most notably, @Chicago White Sox was screaming it from the hills. I told him at the time that the Sox would likely half-ass it as always and Castillo would be their only starter acquisition. You mention the Doyle acquisition but Getz had to give up one of his starter options that could have helped this year just to acquire him. The trade deadline was a D and better acquisitions could have definitely been the difference in winning the division and advancing in the postseason. I don’t understand why this is even a controversial take. It was a one game difference in the regular season and the Sox also had a demanding 2-0 lead against the Guardians in the ALDS after playing the first two road games. A starter or even two that actually pitched in the postseason, unlike awful Castillo, couldn’t have made a difference?

This is funny. I agree with you that had they acquired a SP who did better, maybe they make up that one game. I doubt one starting pitcher gets them further in the playoffs. So there's not really an argument to "win" or "lose". You keep on obsessing over a single trade, like that made the difference. It didn't. They had a great defensive OF in the playoffs thanks to the Doyle trade. Brazoban and Bart were good pickups. One got injured, and the other regressed. That's always the risk with deadline trades. You're not picking up a guy who threw in 3 games that season. He's had an entire season's workload by the time he gets to the Sox. You're also obsessed with declaring a single trade a failure. A GM amasses players. They don't try to "win" every trade. I get it. You hate Chris Getz, and need to frame everything as an utter failure, over and over and over and over, just to make sure everybody gets exposed to that very niche opinion that is very under-represented here. LOL. Most pitchers traded at the deadline did worse on their new teams. It's a crap shoot. The Sox really had one prospect at peak value and that was Bonemer. Anybody else would have been selling low. And please tell me which starting pitcher they could have acquired for Mason Adams and Boston Smith. I'd imagine if teams were clamoring for those guys, Adams/B. Smith for Skubal would have been the first trade off the board.

Exactly, the guy was basically a huckster.

Just like the certainty Iowa will win some blowouts over teams like WSH or Minnesota or Wisconsin but still get pummeled by Ohio State. Although to be fair they did give Indiana one of their toughest games in 2025...mostly because it was at Kinnick.