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I don't necessarily take pride in it. I didn't play for the team. I enjoyed watching it on television when I was 12-years-old though. The one game I went to that season is a lifelong memory. My contemporary association with the team and a game at the Cell is "fat woman shoots herself and another fan; CPD blames teens". I prefer my childhood conception of the White Sox. I know people around town still talk about it. In fact, it just came up for me in conversation this week amongst a group of young people who are 1) not baseball fans 2) weren't alive when it happened. I guess they have pride in their South Side team. I obviously see your point, we would prefer to watch a good baseball team than a bad one right now. But I will reiterate my point that it's insane for you to think winning the World Series meant nothing. It definitely meant something. Even the Cubs winning meant something for me, and I hate the Cubs.

Soto is easily the best baseball player I've watched since Bonds. Judge? Super overrated.

He’s getting hits off real pitchers too. 2-3 today, rbi double in a 1-0 win. He looked strong to end the season and fall is looking promising!

This is an insane thing to write and post

so Tim Hill is a better pitcher than Clase, right? imagine signing a relief pitcher to a multiyear contract.

Lucky for you, my own opinion isn’t rooted in the opinions of the players. I don’t talk to them. I don’t know what they think. Of course, the actual crux of the post is that, unfortunately, millionaire athletes need to be compelled to do their job to the best of their ability. This strikes me as the only reason to have a manager. In real jobs too, management is worthless except they can fire you if you don’t do your job effectively. That’s motivation!

I think Grady provides what we want out of a manager at this particular moment. Who knows about his X's and O's, his bullpen management, his lineups....but who cares. It seems like the players actually want to impress him by playing hard. Grady Sizemore is a respectable name, I imagine a lot of these players can recall watching him play. I suspect with an appropriate supporting staff, he could be a really good manager for this team. Showalter is just another TLR-esque hire. I'm not sure why everyone is impressed by Schumacher except that he likes to be called "Skip" which is a pretty cool name for a manager to have.

Pardon me, Anthony Banda has the same nerd glasses. 🤓

Did eye just spy Joe Kelly running out of the bullpen? GG dodgers. They are garbage at finding/training pitchers.

They should do a collaboration with a company that repairs train tracks.

I sort of like the Grimace bit, I'm less keen on McDonald's defacing MTA property. That decal is at least a $75 fine, Ronald. He also appears to be standing in middle of the doorway, preventing the doors from closing, so now he's just made everyone late for work. That'll be another $100. Furthermore, I've heard of guys getting fined $100 for "showtime" and this seems like "showtime". Arguably public intoxication. But seriously I hope McDonald's pays something to advertise on public property. You can charter an entire CTA train for under $4,000. if I'm the MTA's business development dick, I'm not letting Grimace on my train for under $10,000. I'd probably feel less strongly about all this if the McDonald's near my house still did that 'buy 1 get 1 free' deal on the quarter pounder. Totally absurd. I also just learned that it's possible to charter CTA trains and that it's reasonably affordable. I'm not sure what to do with this information, but I'm keeping it in mind.

Any of those guys that talked s%*# after being shitcanned was, in my mind, a pretty obvious "cancer" and likely a major source of the dysfunction. I wrote in a post last year (when this was a timely discussion. IDK how Olney and friends got away with publishing this a year after the fact), but there was a stark difference in Giolito's and Lynn's reaction after leaving the 2023 White Sox. Giolito was thoughtful and professional, took personal accountability, Lynn blamed everybody else. It's like, you're 40-years-old, you're clearly dying your beard, it's time to grow up. Something tells me that was part of the reason Giolito signed a $40mil contract and Lynn signed a $10mil one.

Brandon Belt couldn't get a contract after a .860 OPS season. Now imagine paying Andrew Vaughn $6 million dollars. I'd pay him because, why not, there still might be something 'there', compared to Nicky at $5m who is an obvious non-tender. 1b OPS was weird this season. Only 4 (qualified) players players hit above .800. Most are low to mid .700s. Vaughn is obviously at the bottom. Seems to me that the best 'hitters' are also the best athletes, and can play defense reasonably well. Look at Judge and Witt, not superstar defenders by any means, but able to play the premium positions. What's Vaughn's excuse? More generally, what's the point of the position?

I don't think this actually happened. I don't think anyone (at any scale where it would be noticed on the field) was actively rooting for the team to lose. I think the media made this up in an attempt to paint every Sox fan as a drunk, unhappy and belligerent. Personally I take offense.

That's so cool. You love to see it. He got a MAJOR standing ovation today. As he should, he's been a workhorse this year. I appreciate what he's done throughout a horrific season, and it was cool to see him go 6.1 scoreless. I was hoping to see Crochet for the last home game, but Flexen was actually nasty. Made a couple guys look foolish. I want to look at the replay though because I feel like the umpire was calling everything inside to RHB a strike, everything outside to a LHB a strike. I thought it might've been my vantage point, but then I started to see batters get disgusted by that specific call. Great way to end it for him. I was surprised they brought him out for the 7th, despite a strong performance. so it's neat to see this post and get a better understanding of why they might've done it. I think it's a cool thing to do, it ain't my money, but he also looked good enough to go out there for the 7th. more than anything, I was surprised when they pulled him after kind of a flub hit, but I was also pretty focused on the fight going on in my section. More on that in a moment. I went to this game expecting it to be a madhouse of bitter, unemployed people, but the atmosphere was genuinely the nicest Sox game I've been to in years. Everyone was in a good mood. I think beer was cheaper than normal, yet the drunks were limited (besides me, but I just talk to myself). I sat behind the third base dugout for ten bucks. Some kid and his mom kept trying to get the wave going the entire game. It picked up some steam toward the end, but I don't think you could call it a legitimate wave. It spanned one, maybe one and a half sections. Naturally, it's not a Sox game if someone isn't getting into a fight or getting shot (my past four ballgame experiences). Today, Bridgeport Bob got into it with Beverly Billy. Which was amusing. "You can't say that about my brother!!!" or something. They looked exactly the same. Well, everyone involved on all sides looked the same. The entire crew of guys getting into it looked like they could be related or even clones. All ginger beards. All fat. All wearing St Paddys Day Sox jerseys. Unique looking dudes. Actually, one of the opposing belligerent's beards was turning grey. Maybe he was their uncle. What was particularly amusing to me was that fans were cheering for them being kicked out during the Flexen 7th inning mound visit, then it turned into an ovation for Flexen after being pulled. Fun day to play hooky and I'm glad I went to at least one Sox game this year. I actually haven't seen them win in person since, truly, I think 2005.

I saw him doing it during spring training which is why I mentioned it. He seems like a nice guy, knows he’s there to give the kids a show. Again, I prefer them to be good at baseball, but it was fun to see how excited kids get by….Miguel Vargas.

Players stuck around and threw out t shirts to the fans. Vargas stayed extra long throwing out shirts and signing autographs after all the other position players left. Pretty cool. New Yoan. I hope he figures out how to play baseball.

Forgive me. I forgot they put him at SS for some reason. Yeah that was a terrible error and you’re absolutely right.

Am I in the wrong game thread? That was last night. This is a blowout.

Missing the point. This guy got lit up and I feel like even I could’ve made contact. The delivery is objectively weird.

It’s the delivery. And the delivery sacrifices velocity and it wasn’t fooling the Sox players. If Lenyn Sosa isn’t falling for it, will any other mlb player?

How does this guy have a sub4 era. He looks like a Japanese pitcher

Vaughn took it personally. Why pitch around lu bob, he sucks

At the park, beautiful day, very busy. No record today.

"he's a quiet guy but he leads by example....and he strikes out on the fastball"