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I dunno why we just cast him off. he can't throw a strike but his stuff is nasty.

marlins got a guy OPSing .200 at A+, a guy ERA-ing 6 at A+ and a third player who might be interesting as a utilityman. stands to reason that Burger was never highly thought of around the league, though he's a great guy so you hope for his success. Also his daughter was born with Down syndrome right after the season ended, you have to think he has bigger things on his mind than baseball. hope he can turn it back on.

never mind

yikes. you know people think this exclusively because it's on the south side of chicago, right, and the dummies think they'll die or whatever if they walk around on a street with a number in the name. strange to see you write this. it isn't a bad location, it's the perfect location for a ballpark. very easily accessible for the entire region regardless of your mode of transportation (I typically walk). the surrounding neighborhood is a 'safe' one, albeit a little bit boring if you're a drunken baseball fan. I generally dislike the parking lots, but you'd find that the residents of the area prefer it. Not everyone wants their neighborhood to be infested by drunk frat boys the way Lakeview is. who "rates" it as bad? racists? it's a great ballpark to watch a game, I've been to a bunch of them, there isn't a bad seat in the house and the tickets are cheap to boot. way better experience at SoxPark than Wrigley for 1000 reasons. what would be "bad and dumb" is if the city and state supported a move that completely contradicted their previous financial investments in the south and west sides of chicago in order to move a major south side employer to the loop. one might call it hypocritical and anti-democratic; and I imagine taxpayers wouldn't be too happy about about their taxes funding projects that undermine things their tax dollars funded less than a decade previous. one might call it stupid governance. the related site is a fucking boondoggle anyway and will be harder to get to and will waste even more of your tax dollars on an entertainment facility. I can't believe people entertain that terrible idea to begin with (including the unelected bridgeport alderman), turn the site into a park and be done with it.

this is definitely the truth. he was ordained 'team leader' for no reason in particular. there was some promo the team did last season, can't remember the context, but it's about Vaughn being out in the community representing the city on behalf of the team and this that and the other. it seemed expensive and like the marketing department worked hard on it, and so like something they wouldn't do for a guy who was about to be non-tendered. still, I think that was last year and this is this year though. What is his arbitration estimate, $10mil+ right? he was already bad and somehow regressed, you have to think the leash got shorter...look at TA for example, I'm more shocked he was non-tendered than I would be if Vaughn is. I think Elko isn't on the team yet because of Vaughn's entitlement at bats, but I can't imagine it lasts into next season. You'd love to see Elko get a cup of coffee at least in a wasted season.

Manoah went down there and came back posting, like, a 3 ERA. It was a big meme until he came back and killed it. Sad that it's like this with Colson, but I wouldn't read much into it, be optimistic that he has the brainpower to make the appropriate adjustments.

sure glad I turned this one off after this first inning.

What are we down to, 30 fans now? RIP John, it's too bad this is the last Sox team you'll see, should've tried to hold on for like 8 more years, we might have a winner by then.

it's a great jersey...for me to poop on.

vaughn caught in rundown between third and home, vargas thrown out by a mile at third. that was the difference.

did the leg kick get even worse or am I reading too much into this one video?

I was just thinking the bottom of the lineup is way stronger than the top, then Brook hits a bomb! He crushed it.

seriously, like damn dude.

Oh, a 100 page thread I never looked at. Thanks!

What do we think of the bears draft pick? Did we really need another tight end? Apparently this guy is great. is there a thread for this? Game thread seems appropriate since the draft is right now and this thread will be locked shortly.

That’s pretty mean…yet very funny.

Great post and poetic to boot. On the other hand, Tim hill is sailing his yacht on the Hudson and laughing at us on the way to the postseason.

I would’ve cut him. I’m surprised they didn’t. I’m not surprised because they’re been shoving him down our throat as “the team leader” but he’s bad at baseball and seems to have a bad attitude to boot. I didn’t like his comment “I don’t need to a change a thing” yes you clearly do.

I think Luis has a couple years left and a team option, right? I’d be thrilled if he plays himself into a position where “we can’t pay him”. I thought this would be true of Tim Anderson, that he’d get the Swanson/Boegartz (pardon my Dutch)/Turner treatment, instead he gets cut. Let’s hope Robert is more like Dansby than he is TA. you make a good point about “if”, but what else can we go on? For either perspective. “If this” happens, the Sox suck; “if this” happens, they’ll be great. Some amount of faith is required to be a sports fan, I think.

I think he’s right. That tweet about the swing decisions is a meme, but the at bats generally look better. One might think it takes some time to “put it all together” when given new instruction and being expected to perform it to perfection while on the job. I think Vaughn is a lost cause pretty much for this reason. He never improves his game or tries to do anything different. Beats the dead horse, connects on the fastball for a month, inevitably goes back to being the worst first baseman in the league. Meanwhile, LuBob’s stats are dreadful, but he’s actually doing a new thing. He’s walking at an extremely high clip. We know he can hit, now he can walk, if he puts it all together he’s a top 5 player in the league. Cant trade him.

There’s definitely room for optimism with this team compared to last season. There are several young guys at the moment developing into real players before our eyes, whereas last season was entirely a wash at the major league level. Sosa, Baldwin, Quero look like actual players and are fun to watch and root for. this is actually the year to tank, might get a proper draft pick, but the difference between this year and last year is just another year of the youngsters’ growth with a more few players added into the mix; and it feels like some of them took steps forward. I’m still thinking this season and last were better than the previous year. Firing Hahn/williams was the ultimate bandaid ripped off.

You’re talking about the president, right? Or JJ Redick? I’m curious who you might be referring to.

With a crochet L today and a Smith win, the two pitchers now have the same winning percentage. I’m just saying.

luke buckner

the former top prospect in the system (free-falling in ranking) is ostensibly a shortstop. one mighta thought he would be up here by now, but he doesn't appear to be very good at baseball. I mean, he's better the last few weeks, raised his average from .059 to a blistering .169, so there's some optimism that if the trends continues, he'll be batting 1.000 by his 24th birthday.