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Hot take: 83 jerseys suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

I like the 1971 Road Uniforms. I picked up a tshirt with that style from '47 Brand that I wore for the Sunday night crosstown game at Wrigley and fist pumped a guy wearing the button up jersey of the same style. I love those kind of random Sox fax interactions.

Wilber Wood was only good for about 42 starts a year and maybe double headers. Couldn't really count on the guy too much. Wonder what his 71-72 stats would go for on today's market. The 71 squad made Chuck Tanner Manager Of The Year for a 23-game improvement.

After tonight, that’s 125 starts from five dudes in 135 games. That’s pretty good in this era…probably the most in MLB this season. If Lopez and Lambert get 2-3 starts each this month, that’s ok.

Agreed but also bring back the sleeveless home whites as the alternate

Gutsy move taking him out here. He has only given up 6.

He had a great start against Seattle in his start after that. And a great one against the Orioles. Also pitched very well against the As. And some of those losses were tough luck. To be honest, the turning point was kind of the loss against the Royals in August where he actually pitched really well.

My preference is that Dallas stay in for a minimum of 400 pitches tonight

Stacy is better at this than Beckham

Leury is invaluable. Backup SS and 6 other positions more than fine, are you kidding me?

Yes, it's a good beer. The ones they brew here are typically good. The ones in NY/Col previously brewed here (312, IPA), not good. They should keep the cans the same, or just wait to issue a World Series commemorative issue! In terms of the alternate uniforms, I like these the best. Tommy John 1971 - Would have been a great 50th anniversary selection for this season.

The 83s are awesome. Let's get the series started with a dub and keep the Tribe dreaming of any sort of crazy comeback.

They’re better in moderation. Definitely ready for them to retire them as the alternate. Maybe a couple more years. Have a 40th anniversary thing, and then no more.

No fastballs to salvy ok thx bye

We can offer him the QO right? No brainer, take the draft pick and if in some crazy world he accepts you'll gladly take him on a one year market rate deal.

https://www.milb.com/scores/chicago-white-sox/2021-09-03 https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=09/03/2021 Hope there is at least some offense today.

Yes! Love those.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Why be sad, that's a nice home alternate

Well no, as has already been noted the WAR per dollar scale is not linear and 1-2 WAR players don't get contracts equal to that valuation. This isn't difficult to understand. Moral to the story, one guy is replaceable by minor leaguers like mendick, the other isn't replaceable by nearly any other catcher in the game.

That is not how "math" or "logic" works. Either 1 fWAR is worth $8-9M, or it is not, and it's worth the same regardless of whether you Stan for player or not. Leury earned 1.8 fWAR for $4.7M in salary, or $2.6M for each 1 fWAR he earned for the Sox. Grandal earned 4.3 fWAR for $25M in salary, or $5.8M per 1 fWAR earned. $2.6M for 1 fWAR >>> $5.8M for 1 fWAR Yet you are trying to claim Leury is not worth $3M/year, marginally higher than the ML minimum. It's absurd. Also, @chw42, there wasn't a single report of another team offering Grandal a contract in the 2020 offseason, let alone the size of the one the Sox handed out.

Lol Grandal has been worth 4.3 fWAR in 113 games with the Sox. Based on your numbers, that makes him worth 32+ million. He's been paid 24ish in that period. And unlike 1-2 war players, value does actually scale linear in the 3-4+ WAR range.

I kind of like Leury. Hope he gets a chance to win a ring.

One offer I thought should have been made from teachers unions is to mandate vaccines for all teachers and in turn, all students mask up until a certain vaccination threshold is reached in schools and the masks get removed. I have no idea how well that would work or how much pushback there would be but it was just an idea. I do wonder how well living with the virus floating around and being vaccinated will go, particularly if the kids are vaccinated and more employer mandates get more people to take the vaccine. Is the goal to make cases more manageable and not overrun hospitals with getting as many people vaccinated as possible, getting boosters each year and wearing masks during the peaks of the virus each year? I’m not sure we have all figured the goal for the future and dealing with this virus yet, but science changes with new evidence so I just think we don’t know yet. You mean, the ones who are 12 and up? I’m wondering what parents are more likely to vaccinate their kids, those with older or younger kids? Are some parents concerned about the long term impacts of the vaccine or that the vaccine isn’t fully FDA approved? It would be good to study further. One of my conservative friends at work (both he and I are vaccinated) and I were trying to figure out the answer to the question, do vaccines help slow the spread of the virus? Regardless of if they do or not, what is the goal? Is it getting most people vaccinated and the rest are at risk of hospitalization or death and the rest of us get a yearly booster shot (so cases rise but we avoid hospitalizations and deaths)? Anyway, it goes along with your point. I hope you and your children don’t get it, my wife and I sent our son to daycare and he got a nice cold which got spread to us. We are both vaccinated but we thought it was possible we got covid from the daycare. Luckily it was a bad cold and my wife tested negative, which HR asked for because she and I had fevers. It’s tough to keep everyone safe…

Damn Strange, hope she gets better soon. I know every case is unique, but when I had the breakthrough - as stupid as it seems - I tried to smell strong objects, like candles and deodorant to test if my smell was coming back. At first I couldn't smell them, then faintly, then gradually more and more until they fully returned. Tracking my sense of smell was fairly consistent with my overall symptoms.

I don't know how those guys are moved but not Stan Bowman. They need to blow that up.

We are the Champions my friends!!!!!!!!!!

CHAMPIONS!

Champs baby...party like its 1917!!

I am literally tearing up!

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!

World Series! Hell YES HELL YES

URIBE's DEFENSE!

OOOOOO-RIIIII BAYYYYYYYYY WORLD f***ING CHAMPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

URIBE IZ THE MAN!

Season starts and ends with a 1-0 victory! Great season :D

2005 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS!!!!!!

WHITE SOX WIN!

f*** YEAH!

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Time to go crazy!!!!!1111111111 WORLD SERIES CHAMPS!!!!111

World Series Champs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THEY DID IT!!!! THEY DID IT!!!!!

YES!

World series champions.

Your 2005 WS Champion Chicago White Sox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!