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Apparently there's a ball game being played.

This was fucking awesome. Rizzo is sitting in left field and Moises's first home run literally bounced off his hand. Rizzo couldn't make the catch. Bounced off his hand. He says "that's why I'm retired" 😅. How can you not be romantic about baseball?

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🤷‍♀️ You were the one making fun. If that was your point, you didn't express it very well. You seemed to make the point that the new owner "cares" and I'd argue he doesn't give a s%*# the same as Jerry. Mind you, I'm not defending JR, simply that all of these bozos are cut from the same cloth. Public ownership is the way it should be. Well-funded, democratically accountable, the profits go to the people.

A lot different these days, innit? What's actually left besides that fire station they turned into a restaurant? Feels to me like everything in that area is brand new. Yeah I don't disagree. It is what it is. I just think it's amusing to say the guy "cares about sports fans" or somehow feels some noblesse oblige to Sox fans. Orioles fans got fooled. This is an investment for them. The racketeering Mets owner is arguably the biggest con artist and my conspiracy theory is that he's spending all his money before the SEC takes it from him.

I think it's bizarre to think the new owner cares about you. Or that any of these people somehow made this amount of money ethically. Somehow, mortgage con artists seem even worse to me in the midst of a housing crisis. Jerry made his dough helping to hide rich people's money, also not good, but prompted, maybe, the one good piece of legislation from Reagan's term. People like Dan Gilbert and the Ishbias are continuing to defraud Americans. Here's a lawsuit the company is involved in: https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/ohio-sues-united-wholesale-mortgage-over-broker-scheme “Buying a home is hard enough without having to worry about a lender scheming behind your back,” Yost said. “This predatory business practice has no place in Ohio.” Another one is just about the hostile work environment/environment rife with sexual harassment: https://www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/25a0097p-06.pdf A third where the company allegedly stole from its' employees retirement plan: https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/uwm-accused-mismanaging-401k-assets-class-action-lawsuit All of these billionaires are basically criminals.

In fairness, the new owner made his dollars ripping people off on their mortgages in a society where nobody can afford to buy a house. Or his dad did, and the nepo-babies just expanded it and are up against legal action. Several states have taken legal action against their company as did the federal government pre-Trump. You don't make a billion dollars by being a kind or ethical person. You're probably a criminal. The Isbhias are fucking con artists plain and simple. Us on the internet might be thinking, "why doesn't the City or State buy the team?" What if the White Sox were democratically accountable and the revenue they generated simply went to the public? Did Reinsdorf earn the money? What did he do to deserve it? Are the people in Green Bay communists? Their team seems to be pretty good. Why does this random town in Brown County have one of the best teams in NFL?

I think it's a reasonably good site but the Related Idiots are blowing it. Not sure whatever happened to the U of I project, but UChicago has built a similar kind of thing in Hyde Park, the Medical District is trying to attract something like that (and has a failing one as it stands) and UIC is trying to do some kind of 'innovation center' around Harrison/Racine. There are much better, cheaper locations for such a thing. Also seems like there aren't enough of these jobs to go around and I dunno why two state universities would compete with each other particularly with federal funding at a pause for the foreseeable future. I think they could just build apartments and a park and call it a day. Ideally, just a park and maybe a little bit of retail to go along with that newish Target, movie theater, shopping mall across Roosevelt. It's developing into a neighborhood, I would be thinking more locally rather than a major arena. I'm not even sure the Fire really fit the bill. Do think it's a bit of a deadzone unless they build all that extra transportation infrastructure...which is unpopular and, imo, redundant when the City/State could spend limited funds elsewhere. But it's still well-connected to mass transit, just not a 2 minute walk. Chicagoans wouldn't mind walking 10 minutes to get to the Red/Orange/Green line. Could expand Roosevelt bus service if it was really necessary. The dream for me would be to make a new kind of Grant Park along the riverfront there. Keep the open space and offer some programming/a new site for festivals. Maybe a sports complex. They have a skate park taking up a large swath of land for some reason a mile east, how about something sports-related that kids actually like?

yeah I think Thorpe is sort of the comp. He also dominated the minors before looking not-so-good in MLB. Both throw the 4-seamer around 89-92mph. I think one difference is the arsenal. Drew relied a lot on the 4seam and it was consistently crushed. Threw a cutter sometimes that looked better. I thought he should throw a sinker. His only good pitch is the changeup which is elite, but if you throw a changeup for the bulk of your pitches, it's pretty much just a really slow fastball. As I recall, hitters were just ignoring it and smashing the fastball. Thorpe can still be good and maybe he doesn't need a sinker if he could throw the slider reasonably well. Meanwhile, Murphy seems to throw a 4seam, cutter, sinker as fastballs and mixes them with a change, slurve, slider. Reasonably good arsenal for a guy who doesn't walk people and seems to have the hitters guessing. That might change against better competition. Also, unlike Thorpe, he is left-handed. I think he could be, like, a pretty good 4th or 5th starter. Or at least a nice bridge to bigger stuff lefties like Smith, Schultz, Oppor. Probably not lefty Greg Maddux.

Doesn't look like it. Seems like a better prospect than most of the pitchers they are sending though. For instance, Connor McCullough is going, is almost two years older, and is a level behind. Tyler Davis is about to turn 27 and is at Birmingham. Murphy got the promotion to AAA and is lights out in 2 starts. Doesn't have huge stuff. Spring Training will be interesting.

Good for Bibee I guess. He looked really good. Should've played Quero

This happened down on the farm. Was watching LHP Shane Murphy on the second monitor and he looked really good. One hard hit ball that didn't score. Lots of groundballs. Out after 54 pitches in his second AAA start. I think this guy is starting for the Sox to begin 2026.

true, but he gave up 5 runs in it. 8 inning CG. He looks unbeatable in this one. Seems like it. Feels like a guy you want to bring in for the 6th or 7th. Grant is leading the team in this stat. But I dunno what the stat really means. https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/major-league?pos=all&type=3&sortcol=7&sortdir=default&stats=rel&pageitems=30&qual=20&ind=0&pagenum=2 this is what I'm looking at

I tend to agree. I guess his 'left on base' percentage is 83.6% which is quite high. But it feels like he's blown it in a lot of high leverage situations. There's some 'leverage index' stat, but I'm not sure how to interpret it. edit: he ranks really low in it according to Fangraphs 'pLI'. 76th of all relievers.

is Bibee really gonna go CGSO? c'mon now

He doesn't seem to be the guy you want to bring in with runners on base. Pretty low whiff/K rate. Give him a clean inning. Dude still has a 3 ERA. But that ball was really softly hit. I'm blaming it on the manager.

Colson crushed that ball....too bad it was right to a defender. This has to be his best outing of the season though. He's been lights out. I think if Colson's hit drops, Benny drives him in.

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They're playing with fire bringing Bibee back out.

I think they'll touch him up this third time through the order. If he stays in after this inning.

not even close, what was Hedges thinking LOL. 16 SBs in 11 seasons...not happening this time.

Luis would've caught that

It's gonna be so funny when the Mets miss the playoffs.

👀 Murphy scoreless through 3. 1 hit, 1 bb. 👀 Hard hit double in the 4th, nearly gone, but Shane 2.0 gets the next three. One more 1-2-3 inning for our man. 54 pitches through 5. Done after 5. Too bad. But a really great second showing at AAA. ERA at 1.80. Have to think he makes the team out of Spring Training.

oof. Hate to say it, but maybe if he misses some time it helps Crochet's shot at Cy Young.