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This is no longer a "magical" season and whatever happens, we're good. I want blood this series. I want to beat the hell out of Cleveland. f*** those guys. Crush'em.

I don't understand how there are Sox fans that would want to see a White Sox vs Cubs World Series, that means you actively want the Cubs to keep advancing and that they also have a shot at winning it all. Makes no sense to me. Imagine even if you 100% believe the Sox will win, but what if they don't, it's baseball, probably the most unpredictable of all sports, then you will never ever stop Cubs fans from chirping in our ear. No effing way. It's like hoping the Packers make it to the NFC title game as a Bears fan wanting to defeat them there, nah, I hope the Packers are in last place, irrelevant to the Superbowl contenders argument. Same with the Cubs. Two franchises with some of the most arrogant and annoying fanbases.

Prediction markets need to be fired into the sun.

Now that we won't play Houston until next year...we absolutely neutralized Yordan Alvarez all year. He went 5 for 28 against us in 9 games with no homers.

The Pope has convinced Jerry to convert!

Put me down for being on Team @ron883 . Great dude who makes this place a lot more fun. I hope he makes the last gamethread of the season for us.

All I know is there has never been an MLB season where the White Sox won a postseason series, and didn't win it all.

The tragedy here is this guy buys his own land and wants to build his own stadium. We need to get back to the JR way when taxpayers pay for his stadium he designs, and then says he needs another one because the one that was built for him using his specs and virtually rent free, won't allow him to consistently compete with the Kansas City Royals.

Yea i got you

Damnit, where is @Look at Ray Ray Run. I need him here mocking me for cheering for Doyle getting a hit!

Stray thought but I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a professional sports team that seems to like genuinely love each other like these guys do.

Second guessing the managers decisions thru out the season is so easy but big picture,Will has improved this club both years as manager. They are hired to be fired but this buys will venable several years as Sox manager..maybe more. Congrats to the whole team!!!

Just when you start to think someone doesn't belong they prove that they do. At various points in the season Kay, Fedde , Acuna, Hagen , Schultz ,Colson, Braden, Murakami and on and on have taken their lumps from this board. Yet we're still in it and the Red Sox, Cubs and Astros aren't. Just have fun and stop worrying about who sucks and who doesn't. Unless they win the World Series all of us are going to end up a bit disappointed sooner or later.

Lemonparty

The cubs have really spent a ton of prospect capital for very little return in the last 2-3 years. That Tucker trade was brutal. I heard that the 4 ex cubs hitters in this playoff have like 5 home runs in the two games

Happy Soxtober

I have empathy for some of my buddies that are Cub fans. We have good fun going back and forth but this morning I feel for them. Ok that moment of silence is OVAH.

Being reported on Twitter that Chris Murphy will be the opener

Tristan Peters is the best postseason CF in Chicago.

“ WE'RE GONNA GET ON A PLANE AND WE'RE GONNA HEAD TO CLEVELAND, OHIO. SOMEBODY'S POURING ALCOHOL DOWN MY PANTS. AND WHAT WERE GONNA DO IS SHOW UP, PLAY WHITE SOX BASEBALL AND WE'RE GONNA KICK SOME ASS.” - MIKE VASIL

We are the team of destiny. With our pitching and offense playing better, we are the better team. We can beat up on the Guardians.

Cleveland is much worse against LHP than RHP. I think game #1 & game #3 will be heavy bullpen games. Hagen & Newcomb both ideally go two or three innings each. Taylor closes it out. Leverage your best relievers as needed in between depending on the situation. The single inning relievers should be able to pitch pretty much every game in the series given the amount of off days, so short of extra innings some guys won’t get used. Sandlin & Fedde are both options if further length is needed. Burke gets game #2. He has been excellent against the Guardians this year with a 2.79 xERA over 17.1 innings. His start would be on a full four days rest which should keep him strong. Every reliever outside of Hagen & Newcomb should be available to back Sean up as they are needed for game #3. This might be a good spot to leverage Schultz if additional length is needed. If not, go with your best relievers available and then close it out with Taylor. Game #4 is the tricky one. I’d probably lead with Kay and piggyback him with Martin to try and get five innings between the two of them. Davis has me a bit nervous, but if we make the ALCS we are going to need him to provide innings. Again, all relievers except Hagen & Newcomb should be available. Schultz, Sandlin, & Fedde all options if length is needed. Otherwise, go with your best relievers and close it out with Taylor. Game #5 is the all hands on deck game if needed. Ultimately I’m trying my best to get 9 innings out of Burke, Smith, Newcomb, & Taylor. Burke would again be on 5 days rest and should provide the bulk innings, but Venable would have the other three available at the first sign of trouble. Ideally the Sox can avoid this game altogether and Burke can be saved for the opening of the ALCS.

Bro acting like they won 100 games. You won 85 with a barely positive differential. Send. Them. Home.

ALCS is on meatspin

I found a new way to handle the in-game anxiety. Yesterday in the 5th inning when Kay came in I was feeling it. I turned off the tv, turned off my phone and went down to the basement and turned the radio on. Len and DJ took me home from equanimity to serenity, it was a thing of beauty.

Bee Gees ! And so eloquently stated by you to remind me why I like music and sports so much. Unfortunately the clinging to this heartbreak over the embarrassment of 2024 and refusing to acknowledge that they are the broken ones, not the White Sox. You can't let emotions in sports rule your perspectives as a fan. Having said that getting all wrapped up in a winning team is what drives you to attend games and buy merchandise so it's not easy to divorce yourself and become a dispassionate diehard such as myself and why I have problems with and run-ins with the "haters". You need to absorb almost everything White Sox related and do your best not to become biased by tunnel vision such has "It's all bad "or "it's all good." You can't be blinded by perception that because someone was a part of a failed organization and the department they were heading means they did a bad job. There are good people in bad organizations who never have the power to do things their way. So while on the surface it looks bad, as fans we aren't privy to how much power Getz actually had under Hahn and Williams and Reinsdorf. we think we know he sucked and because of that ignorant biased view every little thing he did went under a microscope by those letting emotion cloud their thought processes and that was easily the majority of this community and why I labeled it Tox-Talk for its emotional toxic nature. And like any individual working under financial constraints you have to do things unconventionally so your efforts dealing with MLB castor players is again perceived as bush league . Look how often we heard the Sox should keep Robert & Crochet. It's extremely difficult not to want instant success so you can have those joyous feelings back again, but these things take time. I got responses such as I don't care , just win . Any mistakes from the past were brought up as reasons to distrust everything from medical staff , trainers,analytics, coaching methods and of course front office people. We are still years away from having a productive Latin America talent pipeline. Many were saying that the Bannister magic wore off as if turning little talent pitching into studs was so easy . Lots of people rather complain about bums we didn't try to get or the guys we traded away were all superstars in the making who were invisible to us until they become part of a trade. Then it becomes a clash of who's the bigger whiners the ones criticizing every little thing or the one criticizing the whiners for not seeing the "vision" Getz and his new employees (Venable especially) would often talk about that they all believed in . If you believed that vision too as a fan you were a cultist drinking White Sox kool-aid, too stupid and hypnotized by Sox propaganda to think independently. It was all actually very frightening how the power structure here was so abusive towards a few in the minority willing to speak about their perspective that tried very hard to keep an open mind about Getz rebuilding the organization from the ground up and surrounding himself with people who could help mitigate his lack of experience. And sadly it's still a thing despite the good intentions "truce". SoxTalk Peace Prize worthy.

I am so giddy and happy to be a White Sox fan today. I feel like a 12 year old kid. Jerry killed my love for the White Sox the last 3 years but this team has brought it all back and then some!!!! Don't stop now boys!!!!

Can you not be a vibe killer for the duration of the playoffs? Making me Ron Simmons in here

I have a beer walk on Saturday, going from house to house trying craft beers and eating food. As excited as I am about that, I hope each house has the game playing. Last year, several houses had the Cubs game on, and I got to see the Brewers beat the hell out of them. Regardless, I will be drinking a lot of Saturday...for one reason or another.

Lmao the honest answer is WE WAS CHEATIN AND HAD TO STOP

If you give all the credit to Jerry for this playoff series win, that’s fine. But then, you have to acknowledge that he also owns the Sox 21-year playoff series win drought, which is equally as awful.

I like to think the Sox management are looking to re- shape their whole approach to pitching and roster construction Total moneyball strategy on pitching staff. Get 12-14 good arms out there and get 27 outs every nite as a group effort nitely. 30 million/year starters kill your ability to be nimble. That guy has arm trouble you are screwed. Spread good money among 14 guys with power arms. Everybody can go 2-3 innings and everybody gets plenty of work. The way arms break down these days just spread the risk.

You sad, sad man.

...Okay but what if the "honest answer" is that they actually were just cheating for a while? Lol

He managed poorly in September and blew the division

Half the game threaders are going to have heart attacks strokes , seizures or brain aneurysms.

A resurgent Newcomb would be massive for this series.

Other than media attention, it feels like every baseball fan is adopting us as their #2 team, or most wanted team to win this year. So many good stories its hard not to be a fan.

So did Doyle

We have a better chance against the Rays than the Yankees

Fedde was fired all the way up He hit 98.1 to Paredes, fastest pitch he's thrown since returning to MLB