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I made a bad decision last night and bought tickets and will be on my way to Cleveland tomorrow morning. I don't want this fuckin thing to end.

Time to keep up the postseason road warrior ways!!! Never give up - let’s go!!!

one week later “God, it’s me again”

I'm still pissed about losing the division to Cleveland. Much like the path we've taken this series, we had a firm grasp on the division and pissed it away. Doing it again in the playoffs will suck even worse and really put a damper on this otherwise amazing season. If this series was against anyone else in the AL, I probably won't even care that much. But blowing it twice to those slapdick motherfuckers in Cleveland would leave a bad taste in my mouth.

Look at the players the Guardians acquire. Foster Griffin - 2.2 IP and 7ks Jo Adell - 4/15, 6 RBIs. Patrick Bailey - 5/12 with a HR. (To be fair this was a trade in May) Lowe - 3/12 with 5 BBs Meanwhile for us.. Doyle - 1/8 Luis Castillo, Joey Bart, Brazoban - LOL The Guardians focused on acquiring good players, even if they were rentals. Getz focused strictly on players under control that they thought they could "fix". We were leading the division all year and he didn't even give a good effort to add freaking rentals that would help. He got cute and blew it. The difference between this series being over and it still going is the trade deadline. Guards did well, Sox blew it.

This team went 33-19 against their own division and still couldn't win it largely in part because they went 44-57 against everyone that wasn't an AL Central team, the A's, or the Rockies. Nevermind the CBA issue looming, there are massive question marks on this roster and over the organization. Colson Montgomery hit .163 with a .557 OPS in the second half, Mune hit .185 but at least he had a .750 OPS. Tristan Peters came back to earth in the second half. Can you count on him to be a guy who is going to push 4WAR next year? I can't. I like Sam Antonacci, he's not an outfielder. They still are going to be rostering that bum Benintendi who can only play DH and doesn't have the bat for it. They have Vargas and Meidroth and that's about the only two players you can probably feel really good about. The pitching, that's a whole mess itself. I feel like the acquisition of Castillo was their idea of spending money on next years team, just half a year earlier. We know how that is looking currently. I don't expect them to make any truly meaningful signing money wise. There's just a ton of questions. It doesn't take away from what the 2026 team was able to accomplish, but in no way am I ready to assume this is now a contending team and were in for another great season in 2027.

Man this is straight garbage

In 20 years, Burke will be honored at The Rail Yard Park, throwing out the first pitch to cheers of "Cleveland Sucks".

Getz is not perfect but people wanting to fire him are crazy. He probably should and will win GM of the year

Well. It’s been one hell of a ride. See if they can create some magic one more time.

A Sox win tomorrow will be even better than a sweep...........as long as a few of us SOXTALK loyalists don't have cardiac events along the way.

I'll stick with - regardless of what happens - this is easily a top 5 season in my White Sox fandom when I think of my enjoyment. Probably Top 3. I think I'd have '05, '00 and than this year. In fairness, I quite enjoyed the COVID squad as well (but hard to count it when it was a short-season). I'm not saying best Sox squads - more favorite seasons. Edit: 94 probably has to be in the list as well. Born in '83 so I'll start my memory from beginning of '90's.

Naw, Milkman, I think it's just a feeling of mental exhaustion from the last two days, and that'll soon pass as we gear up for the big game tomorrow!

Well boys and girls, we got at least one more game. Been a fun ass season and a promising one regardless. But it ain't over till it's over! Let's get it.

We will win this game.

I will stand on this until I die, but he has kind of been proven right to NOT add to this team. They benefited from having two very mediocre teams on their side of the bracket for the playoffs, but as wide as the pitching gap is between the Sox and the actually good playoff teams, there wasn't enough out there at the deadline to bridge that gap, and would have pissed away resources to do so. This team was definitely early and unexpected, which also goes to it not being quite ready for prime time. That's fine. But two things need to happen whenever we have an actual offseason. #1 they need to find 300 at least OK innings in the starting rotation, and #2 they need to get all that pitching in the minors back on track. You have GOT to get some starters out of Schultz, McDougal, and Hagen, otherwise this team is just missing too much pitching to fix in a short period of time, and goes back to waiting for the really young guys to break out. It could even be that Shane Smith wasn't a fluke and was just cursed this year, but they need a couple of those guys to be serviceable in 2027. As of today you have Burke as a Yes, Martin as a Maybe, and then ???. You need at least 7 to 8 starters as options over the course of 162, and so far we have 1.

There's no doubt this pitching staff is gassed. Taylor and Smith for sure are on fumes. On paper, the deadline trades gave the Sox arms for the postseason. That obviously did not work...at all. We just need a few more innings from a few guys, giving up minimal runs and hope the offense does enough. Regardless of the outcome, it's been an amazing season. If it was any other team but the damn Guardians, I wouldn't care as much. But I hope they go into Cleveland and play like they did in games 1 and 2. Then cover the visiting locker room in champagne and beer again.

Wow. And I thought I'd read bad takes before.... congrats. This takes the cake.

I’m starting to get real pumped for game 5. Our asses are against the wall. It’s do or die. Huge test for this team. Let’s go.

I do not give a f*** if we lose to RAYS they are a superior team to us with their pitching. LORD give me tomorrow and I will repent all my sins in my life!!!

hi8is IRL

This team has given everything they have this season. The last two games have shown that maybe they have just finally run out of gas. Honestly I don't know how they have made it this far with virtually no starting pitching. Just look at the other teams in the playoffs, they all had at least a couple dominate starters and some even more than that. If the Sox would of had a couple of shutdown starters they wouldn't of lost these last 2 at home. Also some of the young guys have hit a major wall and all the pressure of winning these last 2 really got to them. I'm not blaming them at all, it just sucks. Maybe they can pull a rabbit out of the hat one more time Saturday.

The offense is definitely a concern if Colson is cooked and Mune has been figured out. We can't have two players in the lineup hitting .190 and striking out 220 times. Tristan Peters is a question mark to me, Teel hasn't been all that impressive but he was coming off injury so who knows. Does Braden Montgomery take another step? Antonacci loses value because he can't play left field, so were capped on how much he adds to the overall. You can pretty much only feel really good about Vargas and Meidroth. Were going to have essentially the same players back next season until we have the debuts of Cholowski and Bonemer.

Haven't seen what is being said. At the end of the day fans need to remember that these players are humans and their families are going to defend the person. While I agree that its best for families to keep quiet, fans should be respectful.

Pale Hose Talk seems pretty dead for a team that is going to a game 5 in the ALDS. I’m guessing we’re all pretty down on the team/our chances.

I was half expecting this to end with “I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

Dude, they won 84 games and beat the only team in MLB history to make the post season without a winning record. If they can win Saturday and somehow make it to the World Series, then we can start talking about historic. I agree that its stupid to call for Getz to be fired after this season, but this thing isn't even close to turned around until they show they can repeat it next season which to me, is a major if at this point in time all things considered.

They’re very short in the bullpen due to Brazobust

I understand and respect your positions...but a contending team at the deadline should worry about a "small sample size"! Winning means you worry about NOW! The STRETCH! I get you don't want to do something stupid...but Cleveland made additions with the stretch in mind! For some reason we made additions thinking that Luis Castillo will have some sort of value to us in that stretch AND next year! Doyle as well...in a normal off-season...do the White Sox even offer Doyle a contract/arbitration?? There is NO DOUBT Cleveland's front office was much more successful than the White Sox front office was!

Not full throated but a failure in every way. And gave up more assets than a team like CLE did, who got much more. The philosophy to go after players under control past 2026, with the lockout looming, was pretty ridiculous. Getz had a really good year obviously, but the deadline was a disaster. Tough to trust him moving forward imo.

This is the first game of the playoffs I have zero confidence in this team getting it done. the bullpen is absolutely gassed. Which means they probably win this in a blowout...because 2026 White Sox!

And Cleveland gave up ~7 prospects for them, only one from their top 30 was included (#17). Meanwhile we gave up Adams (#7) and Smith (now ranked #14 in the Mariners system). We also gave up a high upside international prospect who has torched the DSL so far at 17 years old.

I am assuming Newcomb is going to open for a best case scenario of 2 innings This is where Burke cements himself as a White Sox legend with 7 innings of no hit ball.

Yes, I would say for the Chicago White Sox having an overachieving season, making the playoffs, and advancing a minimum of 1 round shouldn't cost their GM their job, even if I think he's not a good GM. We aren't the Yankees man.

Ride or die with Sean is our only hope

The Sox are 4-2 in the playoffs and can clinch their 2nd series on Saturday.

Having 2 starters (bulk guys?) isn’t sustainable throughout an entire post-season. Fortunately, one of those guys goes Game 5. Just start him. No opener.

Your entire schtick here has been everything you are pretending to be against. You have been loud, arrogant, self-serving, selfish, misleading, and flat out lying at points. The fact you have the audacity to project on to someone else, exactly what YOU have been doing by polluting every single stand of remotely intelligent discussion in this thread with your propaganda, flat out lies, and even legally defined slander at multiple points, should disqualify you from ever speaking on this topic, and anyone else involved in it, EVER again. Your hypocrisy is only surpassed by the audacity of your agenda in assuming the complete and utter ignorance of your intended audience. You aren't bringing anyone to your side, but in fact turning anyone remotely on the fence against you with your insane fantasies and made up fugue states. It's bad enough you make up whatever you want about public figures, but I won't let you to do to other members of Soxtalk. Grow up and come back when you have a shred of intellectual integrity.

I mean Getz did exactly what he wanted to do this season with the roster and the farm with near perfect execution. And he’s on the doorstep of the ALCS with big team over performance for the ages. Fire him? Extend him.

Every other divisional series was won on the road, so why can't the Sox do it? They won twice in Cleveland, they can do it again.

The numbers don't lie. The deadline was a disaster. Those giving credit to Getz also need to saddle him with this shithole.

I was surprised they threw Williams in the 9th and Cade Smith looked hittable and may be gassed like Taylor. I think we can hit them. Might need to score a lot to win.

The Sox playing Nah nah hey hey goodbye, down by 4 runs in the 9th is downright embarrassing. Amateurs!

We gave up more for Doyle than the Guardians gave up for Adell.

I still don't know how Ant's sac fly didn't go farther. 105.5 EV at 21 degrees should go farther than 349 feet. 39% of those go for homers.

Guardians guardianing. Time to do what this team has done best… go play underdog.

No. Fire Chris Getz

Location and poor stadium design has always been a drag on attendance. Once the team gets popular enough to fill the lower bowl, the 500 level seats are a tough sell. Tailgating is cool....but that doesn't bring in more casual fans. The proposed new location is only 2 miles and 2 red line stops away, is still on the south side of town, and as @southsider2k5 just said above, many people seem to agree it's a better location. Really, the biggest objection since Jerry announced the 78 proposal almost 3 years ago is having taxpayers pay for yet another Sox stadium. But it looks like Ishbia is planning to privately-finance a ballpark if he builds one there - so that removes the biggest sticking point.

Guys and gals and otherwise, might I suggest treating tray’s posts as satire? It keeps the conversation moving forward, the vibes lighter and friendlier, and it’s also just funny.