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Finishing high school is hope for a better life, whether that be via college or otherwise. There's not a lot of hope in the poorest areas right now.

Both need to be traded. Take nothing in return but salary relief if necesary.

What I'd love to see for a 2023 lineup: Chisholm 4 Robert 8 Vaughn DH Abreu 3 Pederson 7 Anderson 6 Moncada 5 Grandal 2 Colas 9 Bench: Zavala, Mendick, Harrison, Hamilton

OK if this was you and you got the idea from my post, I want credit for it.

Shut down Yoan, Yaz and Robert for the rest of the season. DFA Leury. Call up Burger and Colas. Make Vaughn full time 1B/DH. Eloy only plays if he can play LF. Go to 6 man rotation when Kopech is back.

For the 100 neighborhoods with the highest poverty rates: Start with a massive investment in PreK-12 infrastructure so that every school is as nice as New Trier HS, including money to attract quality teachers and also for paraprofessionals to provide child care/academic help 6am-9pm 7 days a week outside school hours. This includes teams who specifically go after truant students and mentor them. Neighborhood women's health clinics where girls as young as 13 can get education about and access to birth control. Tax incentives to businesses who hire, train and provide living wages to parents with school age children, and also after school and summer jobs to HS students. Better public transit so those parents have more options for getting to jobs. Drug education and treatment clinics to help reduce the demand for drugs. Yes, this will cost trillions. It will pay for itself, but not for 20+ years when today's 3 year olds are taxpaying adults contributing to the economy instead of drug addicts and criminals draining it.

The high school graduation rate in the US is 86 percent, which is up from 79 percent ten years ago, but that's still 14 percent of US adults that never finished high school, and that's not even including those who die before they reach 18. In our poorest areas, that are mostly but definitely not entirely urban, we have a cycle that needs to be broken. Girls receive inadequate education about and access to birth control, which contributes to a high pregnancy rate among unwed/uncoupled young women. Those women have to raise children with absent fathers, without the resources to both hold down a full time job and adequately raise children. Pre-teen/early teen boys have no father in the home and a mother who can't stay home because public assistance is rarely adequate and even when it is she gets shamed for mooching off the government. This makes them easy targets for gangs. Once sucked in by gangs, these kids are missing school, which is a terrible school anyway and it doesn't have the resources to try and keep them in school instead of on the streets. Before they're old enough to drive, they're dealing drugs, stealing cars and committing gun violence, possibly in jail or dead before other kids their age are graduating from high school. Those that aren't in jail or dead are creating the next generation that will follow in their footsteps if we don't take serious action. But yeah, let's prioritize forgiving college debt and making college more affordable, when making a difference in the poorest areas and having the next generation of kids graduating high school, holding jobs and paying taxes instead of taxing the criminal justice system. I'm sure the fact that one party's largest voter base is people who graduated from college within the last 10 years is purely coincidental to why this got done.

My NY6 predictions: Cotton: Notre Dame (Independent) over Houston (AAC and highest ranked G5 champion) Orange: Clemson (ACC champion) over Kentucky (SEC East 2nd place) Sugar: Texas A&M (SEC West 2nd place) over Oklahoma (Big 12 Champion) Rose: Oregon (PAC 12 runner-up) over Michigan (Big Ten East 2nd place) CFP/Peach: Alabama (SEC Champion) over Utah (PAC 12 Champion) CFP/Fiesta: Ohio State (BIG Champion) over Georgia (SEC East winner) CFP Final: Alabama over Ohio State

First game of the year finds our Jason Benetti in Ireland for Northwestern/Nebraska

Maybe the "Fire Tony" chant isn't hitting close enough to home. Maybe a "Sell the team" chant would be a little bit more embarrassing to JR and get his attention.

Hiring TLR is definitely mistake #1. However, Frank Menechino was here before that, so hiring him is a significant mistake as well and can't be all on TLR. The metrics show that the Sox had a successful offense in 2020-21 despite his approach, not because of it. Easy to knock the Grandal and Keuchel signings in hindsight, but they should have at least been frontloaded so it would have been easier to DFA them if/when they went bad. Any 3+ year deal given to a guy over 30 should be frontloaded. Not giving Rodon the QO was huge. Giving Leury and Joe Kelly multiyear deals. Keeping Eloy, Abreu and Vaughn all on the same roster, forcing one of them to be in the outfield where none of them belong. Those were all things that many, included myself, thought were bad ideas beforehand and not just hindsight.

Does Knightstalk get called up while Soxtalk is down?

They just announced you get postseason tickets with a 2023 season ticket package. Which team's postseason tickets would I get?

Moncada out

Someone tell Caulfield to start rooting for Cleveland.

Here's my Soxmath question: 1) The position the White Sox are tied for right now 2) SUBTRACT the position the White Sox would be in with a competent manager 3) ADD the number of the incompetent manager the Sox currently have 4) SUBTRACT the number of the Sox last World Series MVP 5) DIVIDE by the number of people who aren't tired of the current manager

I would do Moncada/Robert/Jimenez/Abreu/Vaughn/Sheets/Harrison/Zavala/Adrus

All singles. No doubles. Not a successful slogan for a baseball team or a Wendy's.

You're not going to get value for him if you trade him after the season starts. Have to do it before the season starts, when a team can get a full year out of him and offer him the QO (if that's still a thing).

Barstool is an incredibly misogynist organization. I don't follow or pay attention to any of them.

2022 team stats correlations to runs scored and Sox ranks: GB%: -0.49 / 4th O-Swing: -0.30 / 1st K: -0.23 / 24th most (9th fewest) 1B: 0.22 / 1st BB: 0.58 / 29th ISO: 0.82 / 29th So the worst things to rank highly in are ground ball rate and out of zone swing percentage and the Sox are 4th and 1st in those stats. Strikeout rate and number of singles have minimal impact on scoring runs and the Sox do very well at both of those. Walk rate and Isolated power (SLG-AVG) have HUGE impacts on scoring runs and the Sox are only better than Detroit in both. This team is emphasizing (and even admitting to emphasizing) things that don't translate into scoring runs. There is causation here too. Swinging at more pitches outside of the zone leads to fewer walks and more ground balls. More ground balls lead to more singles and fewer extra base hits. As someone who's statistically inclined it's horribly frustrating to see the problem so clearly and have the team completely ignore it. I know there there was a graph showing that the Sox have the fewest analytics employees in MLB, but even they have to be aware of this data, don't they?

That's the plan. You'll see every NL team visit within a 2 year cycle.

The prime window during which we'd usually drive to see the Sox on the road are all series that aren't driveable (realistically).