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I'm gonna listen to it when I get a chance, I just like trash-talking Hahn. 😃 It's very likely I'm just jealous of Rick because his first name kinda sounds like mine and it's just a reminder that they gave that nerd the GM job instead of to me; but realistically I think you have to have played at least college baseball (or softball) to be the 'general manager'. Hahn was very good at contracts. Kin Ng is very good at statistical analysis. But having been a part of the 'club' seems to be an important factor in any sport. I do think the braintrust at SoxTalk or at any sports forum would be a better 'front office' than most of them.

personally I don't understand why he's doing media appearances and why he's on TV now. this is the least charismatic man I've ever heard of. I have the urge to give someone a wedgie just by opening this thread.

in my view, they were dead on arrival. Fenway and Wrigley are actual cool places because they're genuine historical landmarks that speak to the history of our country and favorite sport. Baltimore's stadium is just an ode to nostalgia, 'the good ol days' that never existed, a piece of architecture that has no definitive place in time or space. Nothing about the game experience itself is 'retro'. It's expensive and they're shoving every advertisement they can of think down your throat. If it was really 'retro', there wouldn't be fucking ads and luxury boxes everywhere. New era of consumerism and corporate profiteering is very much derived from nostalgia. I think it's because we realize the world is not so good these days but all we know how to do is buy stuff and have no ability to imagine a better future. I'll give the 'retro' ballparks credit in the sense that they're actually parks and not multi-function blob stadiums, the only cool one in history being the AstroDome. But New Comiskey is a dedicated ballpark and I think it's a great stadium. I hate the sea of parking lots, but I've heard many of the residents of the area prefer it that way, that the ballpark is physically separated from the housing. In terms of 'futuristic' ballparks, I think there are ways you can make them 'environmentally-friendly' or even into a bird sanctuary. There are a lot of cool architectural innovations these days, the 1920s was not the pinnacle of architecture. Hell, go full retro and just rebuild the Colosseum.

mcbain voice: that's the joke. if there was a white sox fanbase, james fegan would be a billionaire and own the team. the white sox fanbase is like 30 people on soxtalk and those two people who got married at the game and did a little dance. highlight of the season btw

"I'm a racist but I'm too much of a coward to just say it". why don't you just say what you're thinking, sox guy. you literally did, but you danced around the idea like a little passive aggressive b****. are you a little b****, sox guy?

Nonsensical. I've seen a couple of these lists and they are entirely meaningless. I compare the Sox to the Cubs and the Cubs are performing 'better' than the Sox on these dumbass listicles, meanwhile Cubs fans are irate that their team didn't do jack and at least we did....something. The "Athletic" aka NYT sports section is a fuckin rag. I think they're trolling White Sox fans for the page views, but it's not even a large fanbase. I think these guys are just dumb and bad at their jobs.

I knew the game started, and I was busy and had it on in the background, then I checked in like “the Sox are up 1 zip, let’s see if we can hold it”…then the game was over. I thought it was, like, the 4th inning. Welp. Take the win. Nice showing from Civale.

What a weird fuckin game.

I thought this game just started. Obviously the game didn’t start at 11:00pm I turned it on like “hey the Sox are up” and then the game was over. I’ll take it.

Horrible pitches.

cool, thanks. I looked at his MILB profile on my phone and it said his last game was 7/13....which was either wrong or I'm illiterate. probably the latter. a double and three walks 👀

Doesn’t look like Mead has been assigned to the active or even 40-man roster yet. Is that normal? I don’t know if it’s just delayed, but Julks has been purportedly assigned to Chicago since the trade (not for houser but the lost in space guy who I didn’t even realize was on the team).

Depending how the rest of the season plays out, I hope they think about adding a real player in free agency. Could you imagine Kyle Tucker on this team? Perfect fit. Never gonna happen. Pete Alonso isn't gonna happen either. Naylor or Hoskins seem like realistic targets, but also like fool's gold. If they trade Luis, Mullins would be a really good replacement too. I think Tucker would transform this team though, swap out Benintendi's (lately good) production for Tucker's consistent .850 OPS/solid defense/5 WAR and suddenly the team's biggest hole is it's biggest strength. Realistically, we probably don't sign anybody high value. Win a little bit in 2026 with the internal group and then maybe players will actually want to sign here.

I didn't see a game, but I watched my friend's graduation there. It's a cool park, they even had the fountain going. To my eye, I thought very well-maintained for its age, although the city and state might be skeptical. I would plan on it being much hotter than Huntington Beach. Maybe not an issue for a night game, it'll probably be very pleasant, but if you end up going Sunday I would anticipate being uncomfortably warm. You should definitely go, I suspect it's another one of these parks that is scheduled for deletion.

St. Paul Saints the new best show in town...well in the adjacent town.

Sure, but what if they just re-signed him as a 30-year-old if he's productive? I'm a big fan, I think it would've been a shame if he was uneventfully traded for a lotto ticket. For a real player? Sure, but that wasn't gonna happen. I think if he's healthy into his 30s, he's still at the very least an every day player at a hard-to-fill position (especially if you're the White Sox and allergic to signing/developing outfielders).

i don't think the pope would approve of this thread.

What if this guy was just a Sox the rest of his career? I'd be OK with that. Who else is going to play center field? I'm sort of glad they didn't trade him, we weren't getting anything back and there's no point in dumping him.

Curtis Mead hasn't been 'good', but he's not far removed from being a top prospect. Pretty good value IMO, certainly better than nothing. Also he's Australian, so that's pretty cool. Maybe he'll say things like "crikey, mate!" when he hits a home run. Still, not super optimistic that the Sox can take a struggling young hitter and 'fix' him if the Rays couldn't. Maybe the Fuller hiring has actually been helpful though.

Flex was very good for the Cubs until July. He gave up 2 earned runs in May and June then 13 in July alone, in half the innings. I think he'll land somewhere, he can definitely 'eat innings'. For some reason a baseball team is paying Kyle Freeland 16 million dollars to be Chris Flexen, so why not pay Chris Flexen $750k to be himself? He gave an awesome interview in spring training and then was excellent across 4 starts before injury. Really too bad, he was good trade fodder and an easy guy to root for; he also seems like a guy who could stick around next season. Like another poster said, he sure beats Clevinger on vibes alone but also beats out any of the AAAA pitching depth. He could definitely start on a good team (presuming he continues to pitch at a ~4ish ERA into his mid-30s).

I don't really care for the baseball postseason because I don't think this is necessarily true. If you're a good team, you'll have a great record over 162 games. Just about any team can get hot over the course of several weeks and the "best" team often does not win the World Series. Aaron Judge is thought of as kind of a "choker" in the playoffs because his OPS of .752 is far lower than his career regular season OPS of 1.025 (nuts. had to check, didn't think it was that high). The 1.000 OPS comes from 4800 plate appearances whereas the .750 is across just 262. Is Judge actually a choker or is it not enough of a sample size to make a determination? On the other hand, the baseball postseason is fun because every team that makes it has a shot unlike in the NBA or arguably NHL. "Cindarella runs" only happen in sports where there isn't a 5/7 game series or in sports where 'randomness' is a major factor that has to be accounted for. Again, arguably, why baseball is a fun sport...it's pretty random but the data starts to take shape after 160 or so games. To the point about 'extra rest', I have to imagine it's more beneficial to just have a couple days off to rest and recover after a long, arduous season. A week of good sleep has to help, right? Maybe you develop a little bit of rust, but is there any evidence of this happening after, say, the All-Star Break? Are players extra rusty or does it average out because everyone took the same amount of time off? I'm sure you could take all of the all stars in the history of the sports and look at their week before/week after splits and see if there's anything significant there. I doubt it. So basically, I agree with you that 'rest' isn't hurting teams, but I disagree that the 'good' teams always win in the playoffs.

Yanks seemed like a logical trading partner to me, but I would've expected a pitcher and a bat going to them. Hopefully Getz asked about Spencer Jones for Houser/Slater(or whoever) or even proposed Houser + Robert. Didn't think Slater was going to return anything at all, but I've actually heard this guy's name before so he must he good.

Just the sort of thing they're known to do, innit. But you're right, the path to the NL Wild Card is pretty easy this year.

If Vaughnie can keep the cubs out of the playoffs, he’s the most useful player the Sox have had in years. Keep up the good work, AV!

same thing happened to his nobody teammate weeks ago. now we have an actual good player who is gambling on the game. of course this would fucking happen, the federal government needs to outlaw this garbage.