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Personally I wanted this game to go like 20 innings. I like watching the Sox even if they’re losers. They’re still our losers. And it means the regular season is over, that’s kinda sad.

Last day of school vibes

My goodness, a song that’s “SPECIFICALLY about getting a blowjob”? Now I’ve heard everything!

he is still owed 46 million dollars, the Royals should be the one giving up prospects to get out from that. I can't imagine any scenario where any prospect more valuable than Wilfred Veras is traded for Perez. I'd actually like the guy on the team but you'd have to be foolish to give up anything of actual value.

Dylan Cease has pitched 16.2 innings in his career during the seventh through ninth innings. Logan Webb has 26.1 IP this season. nice outing but did he even consider not throwing so many pitches?

I sure hope not, it was an attempt at a joke considering the track record of professional sports teams, but specifically Omar Vizquel and Brad Aldrich were front of mind. Speaking of Vizquel, I had this video game when I was a kid "Triple Play 2000" that led me to believe he was the best baseball player that ever lived. I didn't think about him for 20 years until I heard he was molesting developmentally disabled batboys...

This is all a great point and I don't disagree with it in principle, I just have trouble imagining a scenario where they hire or promote or otherwise create this many executive roles and then hire the ensuing staff to make it worthwhile. Somehow I imagine it's 6 VPs, Getz, Jerry and 5 personal assistants because the 6th VP's just quit due to a pending sexual harassment lawsuit. I think it's great that they hired the supporting VPs they did and maybe that means turning over a new leaf. I don't rule it out, I'm just not optimistic that Reinsdorf actually wants to pay salaries to staff an organization. I'm not the sort of fan that thinks Reinsdorf is "cheap" when it comes to spending on the Sox or Bulls roster, but I imagine he views players as assets and front office staff as a sunk cost.

I think a better analogy is that the boat is actually a submarine and everything will seem normal for a while until that extra gravel or air (dead) weight added to the ballast causes the sub to sink slightly lower than it ought to and it implodes and everyone dies a horrific death. at least with a boat, there's a chance to evacuate.

too many chiefs, not enough... I wonder about an organization where half the staff has 'manager' or 'executive' or 'president' in their title. One time I worked for a company where every wagie's title was "such and such manager." the company is no longer in business. in the context of Reinsdorf organizations, too many 'decisionmakers' seems historically like the primary problem.

throwing his helmet down aggressively is what got him tossed. one of the worst calls i've ever seen considering the circumstances. on the flipside, the cubs blow it again in spectacular fashion. i like cody bellinger hugging acuna in the bottom of the 10th instead of holding him on the base, pre-congratulating him on his 70th stolen base. next ball in play is atl walking off the cubs. bad team, should've traded bellinger.

I thought good pitchers came to the Sox to die and vice versa. I thought the Dodgers just told pitchers it was all in the tongue and the finger and their careers were rejuvenated but guess what Lance is still fucking bad

why decline the option? the only possible "benefit" I can imagine is that it saves Reinsdorf money. either he performs better next season and you trade him for literally anything, or he expires next season and it's the same thing. they're not going to decline the option but I bet he plays more at 2b next season and they sign somebody like rosario or (100% chance of happening) adalberto mondesi

I think it's hard to put the White Sox below the Mets or Padres, especially the Mets and their con artist owner. The Sox and Cardinals were worse than everybody thought, but in retrospect there's nothing surprising about their underperformance. It was a bad combination of bad, overpaid players. The not-Dodgers and not-Yankees were gilded losers and deserve far more scrutiny. The Mets are a worse team, were more overhyped to begin the season and, as far as I can tell, Steve Cohen is a bigger asshole than the other guy, but the Padres are stuck paying their losers for the next decade and have to make decisions on Snell and Soto. At least the Mets got rid of their most overpaid losers and turned them into maybe-good players. The Padres might also still make the playoffs, I don't know why they'd publish this article now instead of waiting literally a week. Anyway, the front office turmoil should be viewed as a positive for the Sox, it's a good thing that those guys got fired even if Getz isn't the 'right guy'. Not to mention, that fat fold shooting mystery is arguably the funniest thing I've ever heard about happening at a baseball game and ultimately baseball is about entertainment so that should be reflected in the rankings.

Mets put up 11 runs on the Marlins in the first game, now Johnny Cueto will face off against Kodai Senga. I feel like San Diego is gonna take the final spot at this point.

how about the cubs blowing a 6-0 lead. 2 run, 2 out error lol

Not many and they’ll move the second they’re old enough. There’s a lot of bias in this thread suggesting Arlington heights or orland park is accessible to the majority of potential fans. It’s very clearly not true. I’m not sure that I’m willing to prove it, but it’s almost certainly true that soldier field is more accessible than the horse racetrack. The difference between football and baseball though is that people will make the trek there to watch a game once a week and spend hundreds of dollars on the affair. There are 10 times as many baseball games and they’re considerably cheaper to attend. Anywhere in Chicago is 10000 times more accessible to people than any of the suburbs. the financial component of it is that there’s more money in cities than suburbs now. at least for an economy based on pointless consumption (baseball is purposeful). The inversion started happening a while ago.

The suburb discussion drawing in “more old school fans” is a dead end. The team needs young fans. Stay in Chicago, think about a fan base 20 years from now. Kids like baseball more then you think. Those tinley fans will be dead.

it seems like it basically just read that one article and plagiarized it. very impressive technology. if the sox do stay in town, the present site or soldier field seem like the best options. I don't like football but I love Soldier Field and it feels like a perfect site for a ballpark and still "on the south side", would love to see some home run balls ding those boats in burham harbor. I'm less impressed because I don't think it has any idea what the development ecosystem looks like in Chicago or anywhere for that matter. It seems like a surface level analysis that has already been performed by many different human beings. it feels like plagiarism. Something tells me it doesn't get trained on webpages like this or this when analyzing such an issue; ie regulations or public initiatives that might influence development in one area or another. I think it just read a couple articles (10 versions of the same 'report' that mentioned these 3 sites) and regurgitates the same point of view as the writer(s). This technology fascinates me but I think the end result is that everybody gets even stupider. everybody is already overly reliant on technology, now these programs are trying to replace critical thinking; what other fundamental human being qualities will AI try to emulate and replace?

Dylan Cease is the obvious one missing here. I'm not considering guys like Burger, Colas or Sosa. Burger was a high draft pick who is performing to expectations finally. Yaz was "better" last year but 200 slugging points worse than 2021. He's aging, so he doesn't count either (he does count but we're ignoring him for the sake of argument). Let's look at the regulars. Yaz: worse Elvis: worse Vaughn: bad and not developing how he's expected to...can't blame the Sox except for drafting him.. Tim: worse Moncada: worse Benintendi: worse Robert: better, young 5-tool superstar who will improve irrespective of his environment; particularly relevant to this argument because he's a loner and doesn't feed off the energy of his teammates. most normal human beings do. Eloy: worse Sheets: worse Hanser: bad and got worse Frazier: bad and got worse Haseley: bad and got worse popeye: good one day perhaps did anyone else get at bats this season and is still on the team? looks like every single player except the finally healthy unicorn took a step back. let's look at the pitching staff. cease: worse kopech: worse giolito: better than last year, anyway (not according to FIP). consistent. lynn: ? clev: fine pitcher, but a predator bummer: worse i'm gonna stop there because this is boring and the trend is obvious. the only players who didn't take steps backward are no name rookie Gregory Santos and Luis Robert. I really don't believe that every once-good Sox player just turned bad all of a sudden at the same time, I think they just hate coming into work and that has a noticeable impact on their job performance which is predicated on making good decisions at the level of a millisecond. And the team staff can't be expected to help them perform at the level that they're capable of. That's ostensibly why they even have coaches. Any "mental hurdle" is going to be a drain on a player's performance. I believe this was obvious even before the La Russa stuff and especially before Middleton said anything. Players play better when they actually like their jobs, nobody on this team likes coming to work. That's a matter of organizational efficacy not 'we need better players'

we thought we had "players" this year and last. as I said, I don't think it's a coincidence when guys with track records all underperform at the same time. Again, not saying Salvy is the solution but the GM should probably try to address the issue.

this is the hire that seems out of place. It concerns me that he hasn't played baseball since before Luis Robert was born, it concerns me that the Royals have a garbage farm system under him despite having all losing seasons and it concerns me that he evidently has a very deep, personal relationship with Dayton Moore. He seems like a balding nepo baby that has failed up for the last 30 years, but maybe that's inaccurate.

it's certainly a factor, maybe one that can't be quantified. Perez intrigues me because he has a good attitude, other players take him seriously and we have two young catchers on the team that could benefit from his presence. His contract expires before we'll ever have a chance to win anything and I tend to think "vibes" is a bigger explanation for every Sox player falling off a cliff at the same time than everyone just suddenly becoming bad at baseball. The vibes are rotten and this is a team game pretty much more than any other major sport; and a sport where the slightest mental hurdle can turn you from a superstar into a minor leaguer. Does that mean Perez changes everything? Assuredly not, but you need someone like that that can actually bring a team together. You can read between the lines and see that there have been two clubhouses for the last several seasons, I think they hired Grifol because he's Cuban and American and speaks both languages, but that didn't fix anything. Should the Sox stop bringing in Cubans? No, I don't think so, but it probably means something when half the team speaks a different language and had to defect (never to return home) in order to play for the Sox. They probably feel a deeper connection with each other than they do the rest of their American or Dominican-born teammates. Hiring a gusano was probably the dumbest thing Rick Hahn could've done.

personally I have a cyst on the inside of my mouth that I had surgically removed years ago but has come back in force recently. I think the gland or whatever produces a cyst is just screwed up.

imagine having a chance to win a game, finding yourself in a high leverage situation at the end of the game, having a fully-rested bullpen, and deciding to bring in the guy who hasn't pitched in months and has only pitched 10 innings in total this year.

Gavin Sheets has a career OPS of .698, .330 vs left-handed pitching. Oh, that sucks. Ok fair enough, he's a platoon bat, there's a role for a guy like that on major league teams. .733 OPS vs right, declining from .900 as a rookie to .643 currently. Ok, well maybe he plays good defense at a premium position ... this guy should be laying bricks in trempealeau county wisconsin, not playing professional baseball