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I hear you Caulfield on my badmouthing the Yankees. But maybe I've learned the Royals are just that good and the Yankees still potent. KC did contain NYY's bats and could have easily won that series if Salvy and Witt had hit a lick. NYY could not get a big hit that whole series and several players seemed White Sox-like at the plate. And the bullpen did implode the one game against the Guardians. However I'm assuming Soto, Judge and Stanton have gotten it together. I will say bet the house on Dodgers if they take the first two. Otherwise it's the Yankees' year finally.

It's NYY vs. LA Dodgers. It coulda been the KC Royals vs. the Brewers. Quite a difference in $$ for the networks. Hard for me to pick the winner, but I'll assume the Yankees will continue their recent lift and pull for HR ways and they will win. It wouldn't shock me however if the Dodgers finally win it all. Dodgers get to open at home so I'll say if the Yankees lose both games in LA they won't come back and win. If they win one or two in LA, they'll win it.

Exactly. It takes a rare breed to want to take the El to games. Cub fans are used to it. Plus Wrigley is a better neighborhood isn't it? Sox have some big parking lots now, right? People want to drive to the game especially suburb people and don't want to mess with trains and the El. Or buses. I'm stunned the Royals and Chiefs want to abandon the sports complex here. KU played a football game at Arrowhead Saturday and it was so easy to drive in and leave and park. It takes forever to exit a Chiefs game in the car cause it's 80,000 fans but still at least the fans aren't stuck in some 12 level parking garage. Ugh.

White Sox2023: We beat St. Laurence handily. Sounds like another good game. Laurence is a smaller division I believe but still we whomped a good team. Is Rice emerging as one of our top teams in the last several years even dating to the previous coach Badke's teams? What is your take on what's going to happen and please summarize the win against St. Larry for me. Thank u. ... Will we make the playoffs and host?

Baseball should be ashamed of itself. In the Dodger series Game Six today both teams used seven pitchers going about an inning each. It's disgusting the role of starting pitcher is becoming extinct. Soon in a year or maybe two will all games involve about 7 pitchers going 1 or 1 2/3 innings apiece? So like I said before the future of pitchers is NO CONSIDERATION for Hall of Fame. Cause even closers aren't going to close long enough to rack up a decent amount of career saves. Prices going up, up, up and the quality of baseball players down, down, down. Can u imagine negotiating contracts with these one inning wonders? For instance will Kopech earn a gazillion dollars in his next contract?? For what? An inning a game maybe four games a week? 3-4 games? Sickening times we live in. ... Good thing baseball has a pitch clock cause with all these pitching changes we'd be up to 4.5 hours per game instead of 2:30.

Baseball is full of mediocre to lousy players. Cleveland's bullpen implodes. Somebody told me baseball average batting average is under .250. Shows how impressive the Sox losing 120 games was. It's really difficult to lose that many games in this current environment. How can anybody pay Cease a gazillion dollars in in his next contract after what he did?

Our fave team has been run by buffoons of late. Sad stuff.

Aha this backs my argument that tanking was so dumb. We had some elite pitchers we let go starting with Sale and Quintana. We had Abreu all those years and only needed another thumper to go with the .250ish stiffs. You are saying you can win with two sluggers and this backs my contention the Sox wasted oh, so many years by trying to lose.

But don't you agree their batting averages show they have a lot of Sox-like stiffs? Jazz is awful, Volte, Wells, Berti, Verdugo can't hit, etc.

I don't think the Yankees are a titan team. Although it helps that Judge is starting to connect for two homers this series. Stanton also hit another homer. A bit of improvement for NYY's HR attack.

Exactly. The Yankee bullpen had been hot lately, on a roll, then tonight the two guys Weaver and Holmes who had been hot, both stunk. Both gave up homers that cost NYY the game. I mean remember when closers were considered to be blah closers if they even blew five games in a season? Bobby Jenks, Thiggy lights out for the Sox and all the great closers in baseball? Now a reliever may be OK for a while but ultimately he'll start to suck. Like Erced of the Royals was on a little roll then he got hit. Not sure how a skipper should navigate a bullpen with so many average to lousy relievers.

These long searches are dumb. Just pick a guy. And make it Rick Renteria. Hire him and apologize for getting rid of him before.

Yeah, I watched all the Royals-Yankees games cause I was able to and wanted to see what KCR were about this year. The games were generally boring with everybody waiting for NYY's bats to awaken which they never did. Witt was horrendous and Judge was a joke.

I hear you but I'd personally like the Sox name to die if they leave Chicago. I see no way Illinois will tax the people even more to build an unnecessary baseball stadium this time so if they have to leave they leave. Only hope is if the Sox can convince the government it'll be a boon for that part of the city. Of course in theory it'd hurt another part of the city, Bridgeport.

I agree. This time the climate is different. We've accepted a lot of b.s. going on in our country. The majority of Illinois will accept the Sox leaving. They'll just say, 'Geez guys get a grip. We already have one team in Chicago; let's not get greedy. Give somebody else a team. No big deal. We got a team."

I hope they change their name. No Nashville White Sox b.s. Call em the Nashville Musicians.

Great post. Even though I despise what our Sox have become, selling them to a group that will IMMEDIATELY move 'em to Nashville is distasteful. The Sox are an embarrassing mess but everything u wrote here is true. The end of the JR era has nullified any good will over the 05 title and Bulls dynasty made possible by MJ.

Not bad effort from greg, folks. They had 41 wins and I also had under 50 which is hard to do. I'm a little ashamed I didn't go lower. I knew the team reeked thus me not purchasing mlb.com for the first time in many moons. I'm sure I'll stick with under 50 wins for 2025 cause I don't expect much movement except trading Robert and Crochet and those players we get aren't ready.

There's a lot going on in Chicago right now. Unless it's fake news I've read about companies leaving and people leaving Chicago and the state because of excessive taxes and safety. I read the southside patch. I know about the carjackings, house invasions, robbing u in your own driveway, etc. My point is suburbia might be the way to go if things don't change society wise. Why would a team want to be in the city with its taxes when suburbia beckons close by?

I guess that would be normal rest for Cole right? I didn't add days right.

I watched the ND game. Nice win and use of the star wide receiver. Is Stack a junior? I see he played some QB at the end. Rice has some hard hitters on defense. Can we beat St. Laurence? They seem to rack up a lotta wins this year.

Not sure what Cleveland has in terms of pitching as I don't follow baseball anymore cept for the Sox. And I know the Royals a bit after finally going to two playoff games. If Cleveland can contain Soto/Judge (and Judge looks lost right now) I take the Tribe. I'm thinking five games but I have no facts to back that up. All I know is the Yankees hitters take too many pitches and don't score runs anymore. They have so many lousy hitters. I'll take a Cleveland-LAD World Series. I would say bet the house, but I'd at least bet one month's rent. I would say the Yankee set up man and closer were good versus KC. In this day and age I don't know how reliable relievers will be series to series. I wonder if NYY will go with Cole in game one. That'd be weird to have him pitch again after pitching the clincher in KC.

Baseball is in crisis mode or should be over the age of its fans and demographic. People over 55? Yes. They like/love baseball or used to. I'm thinking those people would support a Sox winner. They would LOVE the ballpark out in Naperville/suburbia somewhere. The island is fine with them. Most games are night games. They are GOING HOME after the games not partying. The island is fine if there is land to build open air parking lots not downtown garages. Young people want no part of baseball. It still is boring to many with all the pitching changes. Granted it's sped up a bit thankfully. Suburbs forever for sports stadiums. Again ... the Dallas Cowboys don't seem to mind having their own mega complex. p.s. Young people who hate baseball to begin with aren't going to head to a new city ballpark to pay for 10 dollar beers before games and eat 30 dollar burgers at the joints by the new stadium. And nobody wants to stay at a 400 dollar a night hotel by the park!

But I say you move the palace of a stadium out there and the people will come. New people who don't wanna navigate the city.