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Oh no Caulfield you read this wrong. I appreciate your posts but KC is going crazy. The atmosphere will be different from all other playoff games so far. Yankee Stadium was a morgue last night. KC is going nuts. It'll both be sold out with maniacal noise. No way the Yankees will have many fans making noise there. Hell they were dead in NY for the games. NYY is finished. They need Rizzo badly. That one guy can't even run, I think it's Cabrera. Soto is doing better than Judge but Judge is doing no damage and looks lost. The hack NY is starting in Game 3 will be rocked. The Sox should be ashamed. Watching the last two games I saw a LOT of bad baseball hitters and pitchers. Baseball is in trouble with this kind of talent. KC goes from 106 losses to possible AL champs. Wow. Get it together White Sox. p.s. Pham is hitterish right now.

This is insane. The Royals lost 106 games last year and are going to be playing for the ALCS next week after taking care of the ridiculous Yankees who do not have what it takes. Both the Royals and Yankees have some horrible hitters on their teams and horrible pitchers as well. This again makes me laugh at the Sox ineptitude. The Sox never needed to tank and don't need to rebuild now. Get a good manager and get some non-awful players and make the darn playoffs. Look at KC and Yankee rosters. They are FLAWED just like the Sox. A 106 loss team is ready to play for the AL title. My gosh.

Rodon ridiculously bad this time through the order. Yankees playing like chumps at home, KC leads 3-1. Yankees need another bat named Rizzo and he ain't available.

But he fizzed early. I wonder if he made any $$ in another profession.

Pham actually is pretty locked in right now. As we know and the Cards know he's streaky. Yankees have to at least pay attention to Pham, MJ Melindez while not letting Perez and Witt beat them. Also Massey is locked in right now as well. Will the Royals pitching prevail over NYY in this series? Would u bet the house so to speak on KC?

Pretty simple. Judge and Soto vs. Witt, Perez , Vinnie and Melendez for KC. Yankees barely win despite lousy outing from Cole at home. Royals get squeezed by ump? Walking too many and the bad call at 2B. If Yankees lose Game 2 Royals win the series. Their pitching is much better than NYY.

Sad that Harry died. I wonder what he did for a living. Time flies.

Yes, some crucial flags against the Crusaders. Carmel should have gone for two points after scoring with less than a minute to go. They'd have scored two IMO and won the game. Instead they kicked the extra point. In the final game tying drive by MC, Rice got hit with some questionable flags for MC to tie it up. Rice has an excellent receiver in Maxson and didn't throw to him 'that' much. Great h.s. game though. I still can't believe Rice scored on a winning field goal, taking just 40 seconds to get in field goal range. Normally doesn't happen against a team like MC. Not sure why Carmel played an out of state school in its opener, losing. Kind of showed the world they indeed can lose on a given night. They rattled off four wins in a row after that though. MC is 4-2. Rice 3-3 now. The Rice kids could have a letdown vs notre dame next week. Hopefully not. Give 'em two days off coach and get after it. No matter what it's nice to beat one of the big three of MC, Loyola and Rita.

To be fair their starting QB was out with injury, illness or something. I conveniently left that out, lol. Carmel looked like they had good pieces, it was one of those games that just went Rice's way despite a few crucial ref calls that went against BR.

This is why I hated the idea of a tank/rebuild. What was Vaughn, third pick overall? And a complete bust. Teams that try to win thru the draft via the tank route are ill advised to do so.

I watched the game in its entireity. Great high school football game. Lot of ifs and buts on both sides but Rice prevails on a last second short FG. Carmel's long first drive was good for Carmel but bad. They scored a TD, missed the extra point, but took almost the whole first quarter to score. It set the tone for a slower paced game on both sides not a shootout. It helped of course that Carmel didn't have its QB but still, great win. Rice put some fierce hits on MC and I'm sure the Carmel kids thought they should have won but knew they were in a physical game. Great high school game. Rice will make the playoffs now if they build on this and don't get fat and happy and bomb next week. Great stuff.

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What a waste of time. Identify a guy and go get him. Geez.

The second half of this season they should have done something creative like that. Why not? None of the in-game managing stuff matters right now. Have Getz do the roster and let celebrity managers work with Grady on the day to day lineup, etc.

I think he'll be available. Playoff flameouts.

Is Hyde of the O's our next manager? Is he slam dunk choice cause of his resume?

Looks like Hyde is gonna get fired. Is he a slam dunk choice for the Sox? The O's finished 20 over .500. ... I'm glad the O's lost to make up for the playoff series where a better Sox team lost to the O's. Britt Burns tossed 9 scoreless innings but gave up a homer in the 10th to lose 3-0 and prohibit a game five in which the Sox would have won and advanced thanks to Cy Young winner Lamarr Hoyt. Instead we got beat because Dybber had a brain lapse on the basepaths. I think that year was biggest choke in Sox history. We were home and only had to muster one run to win game four then win it on a Sunday with Hoyt. Glad those bleep Orioles who were way better than KC got beat.

Rice is due for a stinker and Carmel has our number. I hope the team can regroup, start a new season at 2-4 and win out. Then try to get at least as far as last year.

At least Robert allegedly is good defensively. If you want to win 49-55 games next season you better keep Robert and Crochet. In theory Robert could have a decent year at the plate. Without Crochet the Sox start all unknowns once again. And the bullpen as it stands has a lot of bodies but is abysmal. To Sox fans. If Sox trade Robert and Crochet do you see about 40-50 wins again? Maybe 35-45 wins?

I didn't know u were eligible at 4-5. If the guys don't give up after the MC game there's hope of winning out IMO. Then I guess we're in trouble in the playoffs as you said those four teams are all good.

Fellow Rice fans/alums: Nice win over St. Patrick. At 2-3 odds still are not good for a playoff berth. It's a shame cause our three losses are by no more than 7 pts. The schedule stays tough. So we figure to lose to Mt. Carmel to make us 2-4, then beat Niles, St. Laurence and SICP to go 5-4 and get in barely. The Crusaders are better than their record IMO.

I would think Vaughn and Lopez are gone cause of $$. Lopez is no good and Vaughn seems to be mediocre prospect at best. Jerry can save 11 million between the two to give mediocre relief pitcher candidates.

Being a White Sox fan is misery. The White Sox ... where the team's best players get traded to fuel tank jobs/rebuild jobs. What a joke. It used to be the Sox had as many as five studs or more at a time on their team Now? It's laughable. Sosa and Ramos and Fletcher and Kory, get ready for 550 to 600 at bats in 2025. LOL.

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The team that's going to take the field and the pitching staff I'm assuming will be identical to the current team/roster. Since the team has played .500 or better the last two weeks I'd say that implies we could go from 41 wins to 50 to 55 wins next year. The only way we'll be back at 41 wins is if the pitching is abysmal again out of the gate. Without Crochet, the starting unit is weak. And the bullpen is ungodly bad. I'm just assuming Sosa and some others will hit the way they've been hitting and some of the starters might be able to duplicate what they've done lately. Still very many question marks. I'll say if the roster is basically the same, the Sox win in the upper 40s next season. 50 wins max though.