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As is likely true with most every team in baseball. 20 seconds is not a long time. There must be more blown calls than this for every team. Do you really believe some teams have only one or two blown calls all season? System was designed for speed. Everyone is screwing these up.

The Sox are slightly above average in MLB for number of replay reviews won. The also have the highest percentage of challenges won. Managers seem to be all over the board with this- Melvin and Hyde have challenged 10 times and only won one, TLR has only challenged 9 but won 7 of those. Kapler and Roberts have had to most success with 12 each. TLR is tied at 12th place in MLB with Hinch, Martinez and Cash. Of the six first place teams at the moment successful challenges range from 2 to 12, with only Kapler ahead of TLR.

I'm guessing Cubs/Reds August 11.

That's OK. We'd love to see the millennials try to adjust the antenna and use a manual tuner to try to get a decent picture on channel 32 or 44 back in the 70's. You all would be Cubs fans just because it was easier!

What channel is the Youtube on?

Jason called the games remotely from a studio on the east coast. Not in Japan at all.

(6) Rick Telander on Twitter: "Tony LaRussa. Drunk at a stoplight awhile back. Drunk again recently . But not just drunk—arrogant, obnoxious drunk. Why, White Sox? This old man is your future?" / Twitter Congrats to Rick Telander for the being the first member of the "The Sox can't hire LaRussa because he drove drunk" media club to be arrested for DUI himself. Wonder if TLR will tweet today questioning his ability to hold a job. Robservations: Chicago honors legendary WGN sports editor with 'Jack Rosenberg Way' - Robert Feder

I think Ricketts is attempting to take the JR Model (TM) to an entirely new level.

Your hatred of JR apparently caused you to miss the point- I included "like it or not" and "current definition" intentionally. "Sportsman" in 2021 probably doesn't exist in the ownership realm. In a world of corporate team ownership and insane team valuations, the idea of "affluent sportsmen" owning a team is incredibly outdated, and Reinsdorf and Ricketts being the closest thing to that concept in sports just shows how outdated and unrealistic that concept is.

With 75 combined years of running major league sports franchises, like it or not, JR is the current definition of "affluent sportsman".

And yet those four NL Central teams are a combined 16-22 against the AL so far. Not showing it on the field.

Even Cub fans don't care. The 35k was in St. Louis, not Wrigley.

The 100,000 season ticket list is 100% bullshit. You don't need to put any money down, just send in an email address. There is a thread on a Cubs board where people compare their places on the waiting list. One guy dropped from 26,372 to 1,975 in one season. Another dropped from 31,000 to 4,800 over two seasons. Its just a list of email addresses the Cubs have collected over the years, most of which don't respond when offered. If there were really 100,000 looking for season tickets, assuming everyone bought just two seats, that's 16,200,000 tickets in un-met demand every season. Not possible. And if there was that much demand, every seat for every game would be sold out.

From the Wrigley Field project deliverable statement prior to renovations: "As previously mentioned, over 3 million people visit Wrigley Field on an annual basis to see the Chicago Cubs. According to a study conducted by the Macrothink Institute, 73% of visitors to Wrigley Field/Wrigleyville are non-Chicago residents, and 30-40% of visitors are from outside the state. Over 50% of visitors identified the Cubs/Wrigley Field as their primary or sole motivation for visiting Chicago. Another study of visitors to Wrigley Field conducted by Scarborough Sports Marketing in 2012, found that 59% of Chicago Cubs game attendees are, employed full time, 54% are white collar workers, and 40% are college graduates. Additionally, nearly 50% of all adults in 17 counties in the Chicago area viewed a Cubs game via a media platform in the past year. 41 The Macrothink survey found that “attendees at Cubs home games may include a larger number of “baseball fans” as opposed to “Cubs fans,” going to Wrigley Field to participate in the tradition and history of professional baseball, that uniquely American game.” This implies that at least a portion of Cubs attendees are motivated to visit not out of any loyalty to or particular interest in the team, but rather out of interest in the sports heritage aspects of the stadium and game experience; “With its ivy-covered walls, natural grass, old fashioned scoreboard, closeness of the seats to the field, and simply years of existence, it’s hard to imagine a major league ball park that represents the history and tradition of the game better than Wrigley Field. The results suggest that some fans do indeed attend games at Wrigley to participate in the game’s history and tradition.”4 Microsoft Word - Wrigley-Field-Project-Deliverable-1.docx (mayorcitysports.org)

Except for they are not selling out the ballpark. Average attendance around 34000, only two sellouts. And they have had 5 home dates against St Louis. Tourism is still low, and out of towners are a significant source of ticket sales in normal years. Tourists don't care about the quality of the team, they just want to hang in an old ballpark.

It seems to me that LaRussa/Menechino are pushing back at the three true outcomes approach of always trying to hit the long ball and instead preach driving the ball to the gaps mixed with some small ball. Fortunate timing for that in light of the new baseball and the Sox power hitters going down.

I think this post make a lot of sense. Looking back at 2005, the Sox had losing records against the Red Sox and the Angels, and the season was clearly over when the Angels swept the Sox in Chicago in September. Would have saved the time of a championship parade, expensive World Series tickets, etc.

Roger Ebert's goodbye to his former colleague is one of my favorite pieces of opinion journalism ever: Jay the Rat | Roger Ebert | Roger Ebert

I do believe that for a long period of time a LOT of Sox fans merely parroted whatever Jay Mariotti spewed forth in the Sun Times, and his hatred of Reinsdorf still is drilled into people's heads to this date. And of course Mariotti was exposed for what he is more than once thereafter.

Unless there is some reason to believe that his patients are dramatically different than the population in general, or he has a amazingly small number of patients and therefore a tiny sample size, there is no statistical possibility that 20% of his patients had post vaccine negative effect. What is juvenile and potentially dangerous is spreading false statistics about the vaccines. 600,000 dead and counting is more than enough. No one should die because they believed false BS rumors, but it will happen.

So your doctor thinks 27 million Americans are having negative effects? Time to dump Dr. Q.

It stopped in the early nineties, but existed in one way or another for many years before that. It was pretty popular in the sixties, and I recall games where both teams would throw their ace and play legitimate lineups. I believe the proceeds went to some charity. There was actually a period of time where they played a City Series at the end of the season if neither team won the pennant.

When I think of true rivalries I think of teams who have been fighting within the same league/division for a long period of time- think Cubs/Cards, Dodgers/Giants, Yankees/Red Sox. When division play started and the Sox were put in the West with a bunch of expansion and relocated franchises they lost some traditional rivalries with NYY, Cleveland and Detroit. Even though they are in the same division with Cleveland and Detroit again I think the 25 year gap prevented the generational hatred that the long term rivalries hold. I know my father hated the Yankees from the 50's, that hatred never transferred to me. So I think the Sox current rival is just whoever is giving them the biggest challenge within the division in any given year.

Lost in all this is how ridiculous it is to name this area after anyone. It's literally three dirty picnic tables and an abandoned shoe shine stand. When is the last time someone got a shoe shine at a ballgame? They picked the shittiest corner of the park and named it after LaRussa. I'd be pissed if I were him. What's next, naming a storage closet after Bevington?

Luzinski was an aging slugger at the end of his career. He had previously played over 1200 games in the field in his career, and while not a great LF, he was good enough to not be completely one dimensional. He would have been traded to the AL much earlier if that was the case. Yermin has played one game in the field, and I doubt that number will get much higher.