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I was complaining about the Yankee game and lamenting baseball being glorified home run derby. Oops, then there's our Sox game: 0-0 thriller.

Nice to see the manager use his closer when he needed the outs earlier in the game. Venables masterful skipper?

Opener could not have gone better. Domination. Embarrasment (of a bad Angels team). Sox new manager will finally lead the way.

Sosa could become a fan favorite. OMG winning changes everything.

Beni learned how to lift and pull last season. He's a real big leaguer now. Looks like a new manager makes all the difference. Sox could build on this rout. Maybe we're as good as some of the middle to lower echelon teams now. HR Beni.

We should scrap that question this season. Just 'cause. Pitchers only go five or six max and we gotta accept it.

I've got to break the habit of expecting the Sox to lose. Great performance so far today. Sean Burke one of our rare draft picks to be special.?

You know, we might actually win this game. They have White Sox on their roster. Please let us know how many fans are really at the game. It can't be over 30,000 can it? Southsiders are not dumb. But the Sox might win this game and even the series. The Angels reek. p.s. I predict we are 10-30 after 40 games, but Sox might win the opener folks. I'd consider betting large on Chicago.

In my world friends do favors friends for a small token. Sorry if we are enemies not friends here. I never disputed being lazy.

My utmost respect. And if I ever make it back to the Cell a free beer from greg.

We have some very smart Sox experts and baseball minds on this site. When the roster comes out, please start a thread and go through each player and tell us normal fans if that player could make the roster of any other team and rate them on a scale of one thru ten. thank u

It's sad I'm not on any Bro Rice alumni lists cause I only went there the first two years and am not technically an alumni.

This actually is the best time of year to add once highly regarded now longshot players. Seriously if we add Candelario it's our best acquisition immediately of all the 'stiffs' we've acquired since last season. Except for that big trade.

This guy has to be added! He is young and his stats from last year actually are reasonably good (majors and minors). Geez get this guy now. He actually might win us a few games with his bat. I'd start him next to Robert on day one.

Overall No. 1 pick?? LOL at all the statlovers or as I call 'em statniks. They had to be so happy when they first got the maniac, I mean Moniak. Who knows, mabe they even tanked to get him. On a serious note, of course we should pick him up and start him on Opening Day. We got a shortage of OFs. He's interesting. Add him NOW! No brainer. And add Canaria too and play him opening day. Again, why not?? They are young and mabe ready to have a great April. Their bats arguably are as good as anybody we've got not named Robert.

I'm proud I helped turn this thread into a Brother Rice thread, nyuk nyuk. Just kidding. I love Bro Rice.

Not meaning to start a war here, but some analytics lovers (not saying you) love to see relievers pitch. Six-seven a game sounds about right to go with the four inning starter.

Should be interesting if the fans boo a lot on Opening Day.

I gave him an F because obviously he believes this silly rebuild/reload plan will work. This roster is an F.

I notice we are winning some games in ST. Are the Sox actually good?

Are we that good? If we win 81 with a no name roster he's manager of the year for sure.

I haven't heard of any of our pitchers so I have work to do. That said, do you guys think we're looking at two times the order for all our starters and that's about it? The Sox are into analysis now, right. Not flaming here just wondering. Are we expecting 4 to 5 innings max out of our starters?

Ugh. I'm sick the boys and coach Stamas couldn't bring home the gold. It's so tough to win state in Illinois it could take decades to make it back there. Kudos for making it this far and leading by 7 or 9 in the fourth quarter. ... My other school Benet hung on to win first state title in history. I went to both schools so it was quite a night watching the Rice and Benet games.

I watched the two overtimes and now am watching Benet. ... High school bball needs a damn shot clock. So whoever gets the first bucket in OT basically stalls the rest of the way? Great. Rice had three point shooters and we woulda won if there was a shot clock. ... Not sure what you are talking about on the 3 pointer. Should we have fouled before the shot to send them to the line for two free throws with us up three? Was it a mistake letting the guy shoot since it was stall ball time? Then that stupid rule where the clock keeps running after baskets that killed Rice at the end. Bottom line is you can't blow a 9 point lead in the fourth quarter when you can stall and march to the FT line and run out the clock. I'm not complaining though. We should have beat DePaul again but it's so tough to get downstate I'm proud of the boys for second place. Might be a while before we get back to Champaign though. Odds are against it with so much talent in greater Chicago area.

I think every owner of every business is trying to figure out if AI can save them millions of dollars. That probably includes coverage of sports in publications. Fans aren't stupid though. Nobody is going to pay for that s--t. You can get mlb.com for 120 a year or whatever and get your box scores and any info you need. And frankly you'll know exactly what's going on with the Sox just reading this message board. As a customer, tomorrow I have to purchase for 13 bucks the IHSA coverage of the 3A and 4A illinois high school state title games. So that's a way to get a person's 13 bucks. I would not pay that to get articles about the games.