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The real issue is how Lightfoot is going to have 2 million people, maybe more, social distance in November for the parade. ?

If you would have told me before the season started that the Sox would be tied for first place with 60 games left I’d have been ecstatic.

For me personally it's been an incredibly trying 3 months. I'd imagine most small businesses owners feel the same. To be able to finally unwind with a ballgame instead of endless political twitter or trying to lose myself in a vidya game -- it's GOING TO BE FUCKING HEAVEN. I need it man, and it's happening. Thank goodness.

I honestly think this is fun. We've all seen plenty of your typical baseball seasons. We will all see plenty more of them. It's something different this year. Try to enjoy it. It will go back to normal, don't worry.

See you next year!

Dude, try reading my post again and I'll give you a second chance to respond without being such a smart ass.

One hot streak versus one cold streak could make or break the season. That makes it kind of exciting. Games start really mattering immediately.

Guys. Stop it. All of you.

This is not accurate. There are many other factors you aren't considering such as underlying health issues. Not to mention, there aren't many 69 year old MLB players.

I'd encourage you to read up on baseball history. Not changing the rules and adapting doesn't lead to nostalgia, it leads to no fans. If anything they should be doing more rule changes ... this is a practice year essentially. Try anything and everything. They should be implementing every single rule that was on the table as a trial period. Keep the ones that work. Not like it matters though - baseball is dying. And will continue to do so into a niche sport until they change the rules about stepping out of the box. Keep the batters in the box between each pitch, shorten the game 30-45 minutes and you save the game.

For the safety of all those involved and to limit unnecessary travel, I propose that the White Sox just play all 60 regular season games against the Tigers.

Can you argue this in one of the many other threads where people are also arguing about covid

I dont want to make this political, but the current President has gotten away with more lunacy than arguably every other President. I spent countless hours prior to his election pleading with people that what we have seen in the last 3 years is exactly what we would get if he was elected. If anything he has not been attacked enough, because there is simply not enough time in the day to go over everything he has done to harm the institutions of our nation. He has harmed even non-political institutions. There is simply no way to quantify the damage that has been done over the last 3 years and those who have attacked him should be credited.

When I am referring to swinging far left, I am specifically referring to post Trump. I'm not referring to Obama who, in my opinion, was a relatively moderate democrat. What I would give to have Obama in office right now. Are there aspects of Obama's policies I disagreed with, absolutely, but was he a good leader and a solid human being who wanted, in his views, what was best for our country, absolutely. I feel that way about pretty much every president during my lifetime (Republican & Democrat), the lone exception is the current president.

I think what he is saying is that he is assuming you don't have any underlying conditions in professional athletes and thus he is saying that 99.9% of ballplayers would survive. I will caveat this is probably not a bad guess, but obviously we don't have data to come to this approach. I would also say I guarantee there are baseball players who have underlying conditions, whether heart disease or high blood pressure, etc. But in general, a ballplayer should be in as low risk of a bracket as possible (from a health perspective), albeit a higher risk perspective in terms of risk of getting the virus.

There’s absolutely no possible way that is true.

Sorry but you are living in a different world. There are millions of Americans who went back to work because they need to support their families. They work in all type of different jobs with different degrees of exposure. Most professional athletes can opt out if they choose and live off their past earnings.Those that choose to play will make big bucks and will be tested and protected a hell of a lot more often than the average person. Athletes are no where near lab rat status compared to most workers on the front lines.

The pitching decisions for 60 games in 61 days will be fascinating to watch. I think the Sox benefit from basically having 7 starters on the roster: Giolito, Kopech, Keuchel, Rodon, Lopez, Cease, and Gonzalez. With what also looks to be a strong backend of the bullpen, and a dangerous offense, I think the Sox are set up for success in this truncated season

I'm excited there's going to be baseball. No one is happy about only 60 games, but this is a better outcome than what it could have been. More than anything, I'm happy that we'll get to see this team, that we were so excited about in January, finally play together. Interesting to see over the next few weeks: - What will the schedule look like? - How many players will be on the roster? - Who will make the expanded roster? - Will any Sox players opt out? - Where will the Sox set up their taxi squad? Now let's keep our fingers crossed that there is no major outbreak, and they can play the entire season.

Rodon is playing for a contract, he is not opting out.

Here's how I look at it - it's a completely insane year, so go for broke! If your team wins the World Series, it's "look at all the hardship these guys battled through this year; this win is even more special". For the other 29 teams, it's "Hey, this year was absolutely nuts, ehhh, whaddaya gonna do, you know? *shrug*"

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The problem is that it is also a near statistical certainty that we have been under-counting deaths as well. We know from comparing mortality numbers to historic mortality numbers, that there are a large number of deaths that we can't explain, in states that we know have had outbreaks. We also know that there are below average mortality rates in states where there haven't been outbreaks so the whole they are committing suicide trope isn't really working there either, otherwise they wouldn't be below normal. It is very clear in these studies that we are not getting the whole picture for COVID cases or deaths, and that is 100% what the government wants so it has the cover to send everyone back to the slaughter, oops I mean work.

The last semester of education was a joke. They might as well not have school if this is what its going to be. My son is taking a bunch of AP classes including Calc, Physics and Robotics. That will be nearly useless if its a zoom once every few days with a bunch of home work is the schedule just like last semester. The pass/fail shit is stupid as well because it doesnt help those trying to get academic scholarships when their GPA and all the hard work they have put in gets neutered by randomness. High School is a sprint to college. At this point if they close down school again this fall. I will just pick up and move to somewhere where my kids can actually get an education. Not glorified babysitting service where the teacher gets to check in every few days. They are not ready nor will they be for a online curriculum.

Jose has shown to be slow out of the gate too. I know in the past people are quick to blame the cold weather. Kyyle23 beat me to it. Lol

Can someone change the title to reflect that he is signed now ? We didn't need a signing tracker this year due to the low amount of draft picks but the Sox Talk populus should probably be made aware of the signing in a headline.

Man, what a lovely video from Kenny. Say what you want about Reinsdorf and how conservative he is with free agents and draft picks, it makes me proud to cheer for a team that won the World Series with a Black GM and a Venezuelan manager, that is by far MLB's leader when it comes to charities and outreach to the community, that has a super strong ACE program, that is represented by diverse, caring people like Anderson, Giolito, and Eloy. They don't give rings for that stuff, but it's a big reason I'm a Sox fan. Compare that to rooting for the Ricketts.

Well now that they have finally set a date, I guess we are able to discuss baseball again. I know there are a lot of people that aren't about this type of season and will probably step back and keep this season on in the background, I'm interested in seeing what this season will entail. How pitchers are used, how players are called up, in game actions, everything is going to be pressed into a small time frame. I'm actually excited to see how this all unfolds. players I'm really looking at in this scenario are Vaughn, Kopech, Rodon, Madrigal, Crochet, Burdi, Mendick and Encarnacion. lets talk some baseball again

I agree with you. Our pitching sets up very well for this type of season. Our young position players get a good taste of the "bigs" and the extra spots allow us to look into the future a bit.

Completely agree with these two. I love Vaughn but it's so difficult to see us starting his clock for him to not get any playing time. And with Madrigal, his potential contract extension (if he's worthy) will probably be quite cheap due to his skillset and the market for it, so punting that year of service time is pretty insignificant compared to someone like Robert, had we not extended him already.

It will indeed be interesting, and definitely depends on roster size. I would expect the following: No sight of Vaughn. Already too many guys in the 1B/DH/bad catcher or corner OF mold to fit another dude in for a limited number of games. Then there is also blowing a full year of service time. HIGHLY doubt we see him. I think Kopech starts in the rotation from the get-go. Should get in 8-10 starts, depending on how they handle the rotation. Sucks for Rodon, but I think he's one of the easier guys to throw in the pen. Can't role out seven starters for 60 games - can you? Maybe he slides back into the rotation if needed due to injuries or ineffectiveness. Madrigal at 2B from opening day. Punts a year of service, obviously, but no time for games now. I think the Sox will monitor Crochet, but I'd be surprised to see him throw a major league pitch in 2020. Burdi will be in the bullpen mix. If there is essentially a taxi squad, I think he'll be on it. If not, depends on injuries. I'd say we most likely see him pitch at least a little in the bigs. Mendick will be on the roster and get limited time with Madrigal entrenched at 2B. Encarrnacion will be the primary DH and play most days.

I agree and excited to talk baseball. Its like we're finally getting something back. A little normalcy. No it's not what it usually is. But it's something. I want to see Garrett Cole pitch for the Yankees. I want to see Mookie bat for the Dodgers. I want to see everyone boo the Astros when They're on the road! I want to see Luis Robert play! I want to see all of our boys!

I will be super interested to see which players are going to opt out across the league. There will assuredly be a few. Especially those that might have high-risk family.

The PA obviously thinks they have a very good case despite what the boot licking media says. Who knows maybe they have a "smoking gun" email.

The idea of commemorating the Black Sox scandal is foolhardy. How about inviting the Astros and have people bang garbage cans? Some things are best left for history.

What did he confirm? That he is ready to play and expects to be on the opening day roster while ultimately serving as the closer during the Sox miraculous 2020 world series championship run!

I doubt it. It's going to be a regional schedule.

They could lose the battle but win the war. Now is not the time for this fight. After 2021 is when you fight. This is doing more damage to the sport, than helping.

So in a matter of a little over 2 hours, this dude tweets, "Manfred will announce a schedule," "wait, no he's not, more dicking around needs to happen first," "just kidding, he announced it." What in the hell?

Trevor Bauer remains awesome. I'm as pro labor as you can get, but the MLBPA were pretty dumb to reject that proposal yesterday.

Man, I just really don’t think this is worth it. We have pretty much zero idea what the long term effects of this is, and whether or not players will be the same after recovering. Because they aren’t going to get 60 games in.

Knowing this, it's hard for me to understand why they should've accepted this

And I would have much rather of seen him beat Aaron than Bonds.

I would do this: 1. Luis Robert OF 2. Michael Kopech RHP 3. Andrew Vaughn 1B 4. Nick Madrigal 2B 5. Jared Kelley RHP 6. Garrett Crochet LHP 7. Dane Dunning RHP 8. Jonathan Stiever RHP 9. Matthew Thompson RHP 10. Andrew Dalquist RHP I'd probably put Norge Vera in the top 10 but he's not officially signed.

Go back to 2010, the Tea Party Patriots and Mitch McConnell deliberately obstructing everything Obama tried to do...even after the Dems actually made numerous attempts to compromise. If Trump loses in November, he will spend every single day of those subsequent four years trying to destroy Biden, not any different from the birther controversy. Fox News, Breitbart, Alex Jones, Rush, OAN, etc. will do the exact same. Why would anyone expect that dichotomy to change, the divisiveness to be healed? It only seems MORE unfair is because this last month has been the bottom of the Trump presidency in terms of support and polling. Obama reached similar numbers in the upper 30’s, but actually had the ability to reach out to more than just his base. In fact, you can say the same of every President re-elected in modern times, even GW Bush and Nixon.

Yes, I am extremely proud of the team I root for, for these reasons

Its funny how much my position has evolved here as I have gotten older.

Well said and couldn't agree more. The talking heads that want to make this ONLY about police don't understand what this is all about. This is about being SEEN and HEARD as an equal. White privilege has nothing to do with having more money or success. It is about being able to live a normal life because our skin is white and if your skin color is different you are viewed differently. THAT is what needs to be changed. And this is a problem across any political persuasion you align yourself to. The police is a small part of a larger problem, albeit a part that helps keep POC down. Police system was built to keep POC down. The whole system is setup to keep POC down. KW was also right that black people can't do this on their own. They need white people, Asian people, Hispanic people, etc. The more voices of different backgrounds is the only way things get changed.