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Lovely day to retake 1st place

Entering 2026, the White Sox were given virtually zero chance to make the postseason: just 1.1% on FanGraphs and 0.8% on Baseball Prospectus. In over 20 years of public tracking (PECOTA since 2003, FanGraphs since 2014), no team has ever made the playoffs from a baseline that low. The previous record holders were the 2015 Texas Rangers (3.1%), followed by the 2008 Rays (3.8% on PECOTA), 2021 Giants (4.2% on PECOTA), and 2017 Twins (5.1% on FanGraphs). Coming off three straight 100-loss seasons, including an MLB-record 121 losses in 2024, and backed by an AL-leading 11 walk-off wins, you can certainly argue that this is probably the most miraculous team in modern baseball history.

Do we think if we make a banner with Quero, Acuna, Romo, Castillo and Shane Smith, it'll have an inverse effect?

Is this a white sox game thread or a place for a bunch of bitches to be bitches Enjoy the moment you whores

Royals sure as hell tried harder than the Red Sox did these past few games. White Sox were just on a mission yesterday.

You mean the game thread?

Making the playoffs is infinitely better than watching a 100 loss season. In spirit of this thread, ill keep my actual thoughts about this team to myself.

PUT JERRY ON THE BANNER!

dude, I'm an old polak. I drink tables under the table, and don't even know WTF's going on. I've had people's bosses come to my office the next day asking me why I tried to kill their assistant (who tried to initiate a shot drinking contest). We got game.

Let's make it even more crazy over the next month...

Getz being interviewed next. Someone get WestEddy some Kleenex. 😉

in theory he's a 5 WAR catcher as he matures.

Yes, because assuming the taxpayers will build you a third stadium in 40 years ISN'T the peak of arrogance.

No comment was the perfect answer lmao

Oooooh, that's not good. We got to get you on the Banner Plan for Soxtalk. It's just 29.95, but we are running a playoffs special for 20.26 if you send your credit card information RIGHT NOW>

Instead the Red Sox let a team they could see in the playoffs clinch on their field. Loser s%*#.

This is why not scoring against their bullpen earlier in the week was inexcusable. You don’t see the Guardians swinging at 3-1 pitches that almost hit them.

f*** this guy, hope he never pitches again in the majors

All we can do is win Offense clicking now....screw the Astros, we can beat em.

7-5 CLE we have to hope Wacha shuts them out tomorrow

I still say Sam and Chase should be 1-2 in the lineup everyday.

KC showing more fight in one inning than Boston did all series.

Yeah Buddy!!!!

Nice play from Colson

Take it to the Railyard thread you (lovable) bozos.

I didn’t know the thread title was missing “stadium” at the beginning of it

It's really too bad that Chase isn't playing on Hispanic Heritage night.

You can live track pretty much any professional sports charter these days. Some people go super crazy with it and use it to try and figure out trades/signings/hirings/etc. IIRC there was a bunch of frenzy tracking flights for Shohei a few years ago. Sox: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL3777 Guardians: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL3778 Edit: Yea the Ohtani is a Blue Jay debacle lmao

Oh no! Hawk Harrelson used to say, you win 60 and you lose 60. It's what you do with the other 42 that count. If that holds true, looks like a Rockies sweep.

Working with a killer hangover is no joke . I understand why they had to party, but judging by the pictures that I saw they got totally blasted . I wish they could have waited.

The 18.6 fWAR improvement from the team as a whole is 3rd in the 21st century. Behind 27.5 fWAR from Boston in 2013 and 21 fWAR from Kansas City in 2024.

Look I will take "can be" over "absolutely and I have almost 50 years of failure to prove it".

Yeah. Letdown games, trap games, and not coming out fully motivated (despite intellectually understanding the importance of a game) are things that never happen in sports. They're a totally ridiculous and unheard of concept, not a well known phenomenon that fans and players alike have observed and acknowledged throughout the history of sports. (Sorry, was the sarcasm laid on thick enough to match your tone?) This team has been resilient and I expect them to keep on being so. But they do have to guard against letdown effect here.

This new pope guy be makin miracles happen in year 1

Wild card is a death march. We need to win this division.

I mean only a real douchebag would tell this admin staff how to do their jobs. Speaking of which, where is ron?

I actually like the clean look I get now...it is basic...but this is a message board! Feels like the early 90s all over again!

[immediately gets traded to Cubs and becomes MVP]

I will go to my grave swearing that this was the funniest thing Richard Simmons ever did in his whole life.

I’ve always despised the Red Sox more than the Yankees.

Red Sox are garbage. I hate them with every fiber of my being

And why wouldn't a commissioner or alderman be against this with this reality? Once it starts being built those officials can say "we were against it but it was out of our hands". Government officials love political cover like this! They know it is going to happen regardless so they can kiss up to the locals by taking a popular position knowing it doesn't change a thing.

Personally I'll like for Len to move to tv with the guarantee he gets to move to radio for the playoffs.

Not saying Connor is great but much better broadcast with his lower key approach. I notice how at times he and stoney would go silent and let pictures tell the story. I like that over the alternative. Thanks for your efforts schriffdawg, but I bid you adieu.

He's not Schiff.

Wegner is on your siiiiiiiiide