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The Sox play night games because they don’t draw enough for more day games like the Cubs. It’s as simple as that. It’s not that Sox fans enjoy night games more. Jerry is all about the dollar. He’s not worried about what Sox fans want. If Jerry truly cared about what fans think, he wouldn’t be throwing a team out there that is almost perpetually rebuilding and that has lost 100+ games in 3 straight seasons. Like you said, “These billionaires are not foolish.” That includes Jerry.

The Sox are signing McClung out of retirement, along with bringing back Clevinger for the fourth straight year so that shareholder bro has buddies to party with.

The kids must also not be listening to our All-Star announcer. What a shame…

Didn’t realize he learned to hit and gained some power. Man, that Madrigal pick was so ass.

Here comes the historic comeback.

When did Brad Keller become good?

Was he in the Madrigal draft? Bunch of little slappies in that one.

Brad Keller didn’t get any outs for us, lol.

Looked like he could have.

Blown squeeze. Cubs played it perfectly.

Umps just saved Quintana.

To the guy who has been swinging at everything this post season. What a dumb pitch. Even my Cubs fan buddy said that was a moronic pitch to PCA.

Priester choking.

I remember posters on the board being interested in trading for him at that time because Vaughn was consistently mediocre to bad every year of his career.

Michael Boooooosh made up for his error.

If I was that camera guy that he gave that dirty look to a few weeks back, I would have punted him for 50 yards.

I seem to remember the Sox being interested in him but @Y2Jimmy0 said the Sox only viewed him as a reliever. The Jays ended up paying him 5-years, $32 million and gave him a shot as a starter in the minors and in the majors last year. My guess is the Sox didn’t make that high of an offer to a guy they viewed as a reliever.

Interesting. With all the talk about what Vaughn added to the Brewers since they called him up, I was thinking of a stat that could show how many wins he likely added since WAR wouldn’t really work. Here’s the definition for WPA: https://www.mlb.com/glossary/advanced-stats/win-probability-added

I think I’d rather see them in Arlington Heights. Maybe being direct neighbors with the Bears would create more Sox fans, attendance, and money to spend, but if they continue to suck, none of that will happen regardless of their location.

Agreed. I think they will offer him a 1-year deal through salary arbitration. The only 1B prospect they have that is close to ready is Luke Adams I believe.

5-years, $40 million to have a manager that takes off his hat and looks defeated in the first two games of the NLDS. 🤣

Regardless, I doubt Vaughn is still this same stud going forward into next season. But the Brewers most definitely won the Civale trade and he has been a key addition to their lineup, at least for this year. I don’t remember when anyone in Chicago was making “UnVaughnted” or “King Vaughn’s Dongs” t-shirts or whatever they are that Brewers fans are printing up. 🤣

You should have said “a month’s worth of at bats” then. He was hot in two separate and non-consecutive months (July and September) and his usual “Sox self” in August.

But that isn’t exactly what happened — he had more than one scorching hot month. Vaughn was Bondsian in July with a 1.157 OPS after the Brewers called him up from the minors on July 7th. Then he slumped in August with a more Sox-like .695 OPS. However, he sprang back in September with a .942 OPS. A .942 OPS is damn good for anyone, much less what we remember Vaughn providing. But your point about the Cubs offense swooning late has been the norm. Someone posted this last night…

Vaughn finished the regular season with an .869 OPS for the Brewers and nothing is bigger than a key homer in the playoffs. He was definitely a big, albeit unexpected addition for the Brewers. Meanwhile, the last Sox player to hit a HR in the postseason was Gavin Sheets on October 12, 2021. 🤣