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I laughed at the line "at this stage of the rebuild." LOL. We gonna be rebuilding forever at this rate of dumping players. Look folks, we don't have enough talent to consider the stage of our rebuild anything but EARLY.

Tell your son we fans appreciate the linemen and get hungry for Rita. Rita's starting qb I read was hurt for the first meeting. We also owe Rita for some dominance throughout history. Rita used to beat Rice every year back in the day. Impressive we pounded Downers in the second half. It was a 7-point game at half and our fans had to be worried considering the turnovers. Hope our QB is able to throw some in the final. Rita may dare us to throw and try to stifle our potent ground game. If we win it all, from what I read, the MVP should be the offensive linemen. Tell those boys we appreciate you and are hopin' for one more monster effort. This is high school football so no matter what we love our Rice players, win or lose. But if we do win, these kids are immortal. They may even hold a parade down 103rd Street or they should. If we lose ... it may be a long time before we have a team this good again. Rita figures to keep it close. I assume their coach is good and he will have a game plan. Coach Q obviously has been great in coaching up and recruiting this team which has not even had one game that's been close unless we consider the MC game close. So tell me, will Rice win? What is your son's attitude about the final? U should be proud. The linemen have been special. We are the favored team so we have to complete the deal.

Do we have any common opponents?

Congrats to your son and the line(s). Two more wins somehow and it will forever be known as the best team in Rice history even though Tom Mitchell won one. This team has clubbed everybody except Mt. Carmel which obviously is one of the top teams in the entire country, prolly a top 3 team nationally. Do you have a gut feeling? Do we beat Downers or do the suburbanites pull a Nazareth (dominant team) and roll us?

whoa ... nice win. glad we get the home game. should be the biggest crowd in rice history unless some of those games at Gately were more as well as some Prep Bowls in soldier field.

Agreed, we have lost some big ones. However ... we're gonna find out like you say. Coach Q may be different. We indeed will see. One game at a time. hope we don't overlook St. Chuck North with Downers next week looming.

exactly i'm just fed up with signing up for one event and then having to cancel, etc. won't do it and i need tonight's game.

Someday the Sox new owner will field a winner and buy three guys like u mentioned. At that time, I hope he builds on it adding pieces. Sox were so dumb to lose all momentum after the 2005 title. Shoulda been a turning point in the franchise. We were on top of the baseball world.

O'Hearn is the kind of guy bad teams pursue. Reasonable money. We shoulda kept Vaughn. O'Hearn is just another guy.

Thank u. It's just frustrating to be on the board so long and post so much stuff about past Sox players to have my fandom questioned. How many people know of Tommy McCraw, Bill Nahorodny, Luis Alvarado, Tommie Agee, JC Martin, Ralph Garr, Dave Nicholson, Sandy Alomar, Bobby Knopp et. all? Just cause the Sox have angered me the last two years doesn't mean I didn't grow up a huge Sox fan. Sox deserve all the scorn guys like me give them on the board.

Geez. Frustrating for me to be thought of as a Cub lover when I wouldn't go to a game if u gave me free tickets in the fourth row behind the dugout. Maybe I'd go if they were playing da Sox.

I never said I wasn't an ANGRY Sox fan. Why the bleep would I root for the Cubs? I told you I remain a Sox fan although I'm close to abandoning baseball because of our failed tank/rebuild jobs. I am a PLAYOFF ONLY fan of the Bears, Blackhawks and Bulls as all three have lost me since their years of ineptitude have turned me into a fair weather of those teams. There are a lot of fairweather fans out there, why not me. Notice no Cubs on that list. I'm not even a playoff Cub fan. Me no likey the Cubs. Ask Fathom. When the Sox were good I would freak whenever the Cub beat us in the season series. I am not a fan of the Chiefs, Royals or Cub. I am a tru southsider. Give me italian beef and tavern pizza and i'm a happy southsider. Also a Schlitz, Falstaff, Old Style, Olympia. Your disdain for greg is remarkable.

Thank you. I so appreciate it and your post here.

Good line, but please stop teasing me about being a Cub fan. I swear on a stack of Bibles and I am a practicing Mass-goer that I am not a Cub fan and in fact didn't even follow them at all in this year's playoffs. Now I was a Sox and Cub fan as a 10-11 year old when gramps took me to some Cub games as I was a kid who loved baseball and he was our sole relative except for my rich uncle who liked the Cubs. So he needed someone to go with. Not sure why he stopped taking me to games after one or two summers. Maybe he thought my dad would get mad at indoctrinating Cubs. I am a true Sox fan. My story is good but it will take a while to explain and it'd probably bore people in a day and age of quick hot takes and people yawning at story telling. Go Bro Rice! We should take an offseason poll in a day and age where all we hear about are the polls in politics: Is greg a Cub fan?

I haven't been able to watch as many games this year. Saw some early. So I ask ... how is our quarterback? Does he run well? Throw great? What's the key to us putting up all these points? What's up with the defense? Hard hitters? Size? Pass rushers or d-backs cover well. If we ever are to lose what will be our downfall? Go Rice.

Sometime I'll tell a story here about my dad, a lifelong Sox fan, and how I prevented a travesty at his viewing/funeral. Rest in peace to a tru Sox fan.

Sweet ... what is your son's mood? Does he act as if the team is hungry? Are u concerned about our next foe? What is team morale like? are we healthy?

I do know we clobbered Rita, but never underestimate what happens in rematches in the playoffs (except when you play Mt. Carmel twice, they'll rout a team both times). Little worried about St. Chuck. They are ranked 10th in Sun Times. Glad the game is at Rice. We need a big loud crowd. Being on a Saturday it'll probably be a smallish crowd. Hope the guys stay focused and keep it rolling.

Nice win today. We pounded Jacobs. This isn't hyperbole and not meant to jinx Rice but we've never had a team potentially this good. It's destroying its first two playoff foes. Can we beat Carmel and/or St. Charles North? Are they any good? Good records? A Rita-Rice final would be insane. I would probably prefer not playing them. We've played them so often they won't be afraid of us. I love the makeup of this Rice team with the major college guys in the correct positions to best influence victories. The weather is turning and mabe we're built for the cold with our linemen. Please give me any info about Rice's chances next week.

Funny how we consider age 26-29 a hitters prime now. Anything after 30, yawn. Anything under 26 and he's been rushed. I think we need a do over and get rid of all analytics. Can u imaging Pete Rose. nowadays? He'd have to lift and pull to make a roster. All those incredible oppo field hits and hustle on the basepaths would mean little to nothing.

Not to be a jerk but how do some of us remain Sox fans? Pathetic product with the only highlights the past few years the play of Colson and Robert maybe his first year. The staff of so many great names (Mark, Hoyt, Bobby, Peters, Horlen, Wilhelm, Sale, Wood, Garland, Pierce, Lyons, Walsh, Faber, Thiggy, McDowell, Cease de resistance, need I go on?) turns to a staff where I can't name one starter (I forget the name of the flamethrower who has looked good at times). ... And finally if u do watch a game, u have to suffer with poor Schiff and Gordo (don't like his accent sadly; love Stoney) or Stoney. Ah for the days of the aforementioned pitchers and Harry. Our team certainly has been at its low ebb with Schiff at the mike. I know $$ rules all but how can Stoney keep signing to broadcast this wretched club.

Hard to believe Schiff is entering year 3 with the Sox. Team has been so pathetic during his tenure.

The team had to do this. Again ... tanking is one thing but not picking up Robert's option would have been yet another slap in the face to Sox fans who have spent a ton of money during the tank job for bad baseball (but delicious corned beef, roast beef sandwiches; pizza; shakes), overpriced beer and pop. Robert is one guy who could play for just about any team, along with our new SS phenom.

Any way we need to worry about Jacobs? Long bus ride might annoy our guys.