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somehow tanking became popular especially with fans who love the unknown prospects. Then those unknowns grow up (Moncadas, Eloys, lol) and join the big league club and stink. Wait til next year is one of the best sayings in sports history. Cause tank teams entice their own fans by the promise of a great future with guys 2-3 years from making the big league roster. It's a good excuse for the team being as bad as the White Sox.

Good plan to make the Sox irrelevant forever. Three 100 loss seasons in a row and counting. Wowsie.

Dodgers have a gem in Kopech. They should keep him. In Chicago he was a home run machine but with a good organization he proved his value. Start him as a setup guy, close him once in a while. Or make him a starter. He should thrive in LA again next year IMO. Bullpens are so fragile. The Yankees' last two pitchers tonight, though overworked in the postseason, ran out of gas and both stunk. I guess Luke wasn't that bad considering he inherited bases loaded no outs in the eighth. But he had nothing left in the ninth.

Now that is an excellent post. That's worthy of mention during the broadcast but I doubt the announcers went there. In fact I know they didn't as I watched it.

And that is why you don't fire Dave Roberts after the disappointments. It's why you don't listen to the noise if you are a good GM/owner. Boone probably will get fired even though that roster was by no means dynastic.

Ray Ray with a top 10 post for the calendar year 2024. Nice post. This post is everything greg's been saying forever. Greg detests rebuilds or so called rebuilds! Hopefully our new manager will try to win some games with the hideous roster he 'likely' will have unless the Sox wake up and play some guys not named Sosa, Lopez, Beni, DeLoach, Fletcher, Julks, Ramos, Moncada, Robinson and get rid of Justin Anderson, Nastrini and other ineffective individuals on the mound.

Day two take: He's our best manager since Ozzie (duck) and he's a great choice. The fact a sensational candidate would take this job with a capable GM but horrible owner means he "probably" believes in our top prospects including several "allegedly excellent" moundsmen plus Monte and Elko and some others. He probably thinks Robert and Monte are stars in the making. And he probably has a feeling the Sox in this day and age can somehow rustle together a serviceable bullpen. In short, our new skipper thinks we can sniff .500 this year then go for it all the year after. We shall see but this means a capable baseball mind senses a plan. Otherwise he'd wait for a better team to offer him. GO SOX! GO BR!

We have a great manager now we have to hope he is one tough SOB. Tough to stand up to Getz and Jerry and any idiot in the front office that implies he's doing a lousy job when we are 10-35 next year. This team has no talent on its current roster except perhaps a couple league average guys, a few outstanding prospects like Monte and Elko, etc. But basically we are the laughingstock of baseball and our new manager has to have the guts to laugh in the face of his superiors if they refuse to improve the roster. Again, winning 55 games should get him manager of the year that'd be a 14-game improvement with a wretched team.

When I think of baseball I think of Pete Rose and Reggie Jackson. When they played, baseball was fun and exciting both. Then came analytics. Rest in peace to Pete Rose. The fact he's not in the Hall of Fame is par for the course in baseball.

Two guys: Witt and Salvy. Salvy had a great season, bad postseason. Our fans would have never wanted Salvy, too old like Abreu. Also Royals signed two "starting pitchers" who had great seasons and their bullpen guys were above average unlike the Sox wretched starters and bullpen. ... Also don't forget they owned the White Sox and the White Sox series came at perfect times for the Royals. They were starting to slip in each of them but sweeps of the Sox got them going again.

Any chance at victory? Fenwick seems elite. Why are we in 7A when Benet is in 4A or 5A and they have more students? Weird.

He's a decent reliever but basically just another guy in terms of a bullpen piece. Good at times. A HR machine other times. Probably worth about 10 mill a year.

Yep. That was it after the shocking walk off. Freeman MVP. As I pointed out in the KC series, Yankees can't hit. They can work the count and strike out, though.

Oh geez. Fenwick is good.

The Sox are the bottom of baseball but the Cubs probably are just as annoying to their fans. They are mediocre at best.

No. He sells no tickets. he's just another guy. But I've been told on this site a lot ticket sales mean nothing. It's all about revenue sharing and TV money. Although you'd think parking would be significant revenue accumulator.

Vaughn is an interesting study. Once in a while he gets hot and rakes. He's had over 500 at bats three years in a row now with RBI totals of 70, 80 and 76. Strike out totals are ridiculous at 132, 129 and 96. Batting averages of .246 last year, .258 and .271. Obviously he's one of those guys trying to hit a homer every at bat thus he's an abject failure in that regard with just 19 HRs last season and career high of 21 homers. His production may be blah but the Sox will have to replace some of his production next season as he's probably the best hitter in the Sox horrible lineup as it stands.

Nice. Any playoff info?

Sports are a joke nowadays cause of analytics. So boring to see everybody jacking up 3s and scoring off lob dunks. And in baseball so boring to see the HR or K game play out year after year. The 3-pointer when shot in volume gives a team its best chance to win. The HR is the only thing people allegedly come to see so it finally got featured as the goal for each and every at bat.

Yeah, but the Royals are too chicken to move to Kansas. The area at the Legends would be perfect IF the Royals had to move from delightful Kauffman Stadium. There's the soccer stadium right there, the race track right there, Hollywood Casino right there, hotels in the area. Plenty of room for another stadium although parking would probably be a problem as there aren't even enough parking spots for the 20,000-seat soccer stadium. ... I think the Chiefs will wind up staying in the Sports Complex. Tearing down Kauffman gives them even more parking. Or they could build some more stuff in the Complex like Dallas has done with the Cowboys' complex. I think the Chiefs realize they don't need to go downtown. They are comfy in the Sports Complex. Meanwhile the Royals seem fixated on downtown. Again, no parking. Good luck getting lazer, older, fat sports fans to take public transportation to games. maybe one a year or two.

Can't Bridgeport be turned into nirvana? Build, build, build. Doesn't the mayor live there? Tell me why the Sox need a new stadium at this particular time in history?

Couple of comments ... The Bulls are a travesty. It's not THAT difficult to make the playoffs and the Bulls have missed out seven of the past eight years. Last 'good' season was 2015 when the team went 50-32 and lost in the conf. semifinals. Their players are all no names. Big market, awful franchise cept for the dynasty made possible by Mike. This Sox stadium talk is silly/offensive. I may not like GRate much but still we don't NEED a new stadium in this economy. The state of Illinois is losing population because of the ridiculous taxes, especially in Chicago. I mean the current Cell is fine for the players with the amenities the players need like a huge clubhouse, indoor cages, weights, and all that, medical equipment like hot and cold tubs. The stadium is still a baby in terms of when it was erected. So drop the talk of a new stadium for 10 years Jerry and see where we are as a country in 10 years. With all the bleep going on we may not even be concerned with sports in 10 years with all the bleep going on in several countries not just the grand ol USA. Keep the Cell for now. Rename it to Comiskey Park, do some cosmetic things, add even more good food and swimming pools/showers in the outfield and play ball. The wretched franchise has more things to think about than cramming a new stadium in that area they wanna move to. And if you MUST build a new stadium put it back in the old location, tear this one down and make it parking. Make the new Comiskey a replica of the old one except for the pillars that block the view and let's go old school by returning to the glorious retro stadium look of lore at the "New Comiskey Park." Commit yourself to reinventing Bridgeport, making it a glorious area with new housing, shops, etc. Sell the legislature on the reinvention of Bridgeport.

How much do the NYY and Dodgers use analytics? Seems to me both teams rely on the lift and pull theory of modern baseball as well as the five-inning starter and parade of relievers method. Pretty easy to do that without analytical genuises on staff.

Thanks for the facts. That's awesome 700 for a single gender Catholic schools is a healthy total. Yeah you are right about not making baseball/basketball even if we only had 700 at the time. If I'd have gone to school in Kansas I'd have played baseball and basketball four years. Kind of sad since I loved sports so much to have to only play intramurals. ... Yeah Petrak was coach when I was there. I went on the day 3B tryouts were held. I didn't make one error on the grounders, made all the throws, however I fouled off too many pitches. he told the pitchers to throw all fastballs but the guy broke off a few curves and I got cut. He didn't tell us personally then I saw my name not on the sheet. ... Some older guy was basketball coach and held tryouts in gym class. It was one of those days the ball didn't come my way and I got cut. Only one kid from our city champion 8th grade Q of M team made the freshman team. And he went to the coach and told him he wanted a personal tryout as he was the best player on a city title team. Good for him. He made it. Yet he transferred to Naperville his junior year as his mom didn't like something about BR. I forget what it was. Funny thing is a kid who didn't even make our Q of M team went out for basketball at Rice and started his senior year ... I should donate some dough to Rice. I will some day.

Didn't the Sox have all complete games in the 2005 World Series?