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Stone is a true Sox fan, he sincerely loves the team, that's why he's loyal. He's in it for life, unconditionally. Maybe you should try it too. I don't mind us losing, as long as we have competent announcers, which Stone is, but shrif is not. Jerry's an idiot for hiring him. Just listen to Len instead, who definitely has his faults, but is still 100x better. shrif is such a fool. He pronounces panther correctly, yet Edgar's surname differently, when he already proved he can hack it if he tried. Why the inconsistency. Because he is dumb, that's why. If you pronounce panther right in Spanish, then do it for other Sox names FFS.

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Did you use an antenna before Xfinity picked em up Off by 1

I don't know what I'd do if the Sox blew it up again, it's already painful to see Sale, Cease, Crochet, etc. on other teams. If they take this current crop away from us, I might be done. Having aaa teams within MLB is ridiculous. I'll never forget the first time I was informed that the South Side used to be different in the old days. I was a kid, and an older person told me about how kids and teens would take the 63rd street bus all the way to the lake for a day at the beach. He said the busses were packed with youth with their beach gear, a festive atmosphere going past streets like Kedsie, California, Western, Halsted, on the way east. It was anathema to me that those areas were safe enough for kids from out west to travel thru there on the cta. Mind blowing even, I couldn't imagine those spots looking any different. When I think of streets like Racine and Loomis, I definitely get a different picture based on experience. Recently, another viet nam vet told me about where he grew up on the SE side, and my response was "oh, the Wild Hunneds", as it's known today. It wasn't like that in his day, polarly different.

Yup, which they should have returned to when they ran out of ideas, which was often. Here are all the ad campaigns I remember, if anyone knows of any others, please add: The stars at night. Winning ugly. The Hawk wants you! Chicago's american pastime. The last season in historic Comiskey Park, years from now, you'll say you were there. Good guys wear black. The kids can play. It's Time. Sox Pride. Grinderball rules. We are Chicago baseball. South Side Board of Tourism. Show the Swagger. It's black and it's white. all in. Rooted in history. Many good commercials, but some duds. Good ones include when Mayor Daley was in the stands, telling Guillen what to do. Or Nick Swisher with a sign on the field, acting goofy. Dud, IMO, was when Paulie said he could read Shingo's mind, but all he did was know Japanese. The joke flopped. But the goat Sox commercial, and IMO one of the best sports commercials ever (up there with the NJ Devil in elevator), was when a nun strayed from the other nuns in the convent, to go read her Bible in privacy. But instead, she had a radio in there tuned into the Sox game on 670. I'm chuckling just remembering it, a classic. Gold standard IMO.

My ranking would be: 1)The 83s. To me, they were majestic, not tacky. They looked like Star Wars rebel fighter pilots, which is cool to me. Plus, the colors went perfectly with old comiskey. Doesn't mesh with rate field, so throwbacks shouldn't be worn. Plus, the throwbacks are too different from the originals, so it's pointless. 2) The currents. To be more specific, the 96 onwards, which have names on the back, and the numbers are thicker. 90-95 had no names, and skinnier numbers. Plus, the original black tops did not have a white stripe on the sleeve. They looked very springtraining. 3) The 77s. Sure, they were softballish, but I liked them. They were unique, so you gotta give em that. Plus, I loved the hat. Stone looked great in them. I always like bold creativity, most people are too scared to rock the boat. Veeck went for it, so kudos for that. 4) The dick allens. Before my time, but they're ok, I guess. The earliest Sox game footage online, that I know of, is Nolan Ryan's almost no hitter at Comiskey, where the infield is astroturf and we're wearing the redpins. If anyone here knows of any game footage older than that game, please say so. Can't find any myself. 5) The Thigpens. So, so bland. I was furious when they replaced my favs. The whole branding was bland and lame at the time. Sportsvision became the lame sounding Sportschannel. The ad campaign was "Chicago's american pastime", where a sox hat bumped out a cub hat. Talk about desperate. The whole presentation was so public access. Plus, the fact it was so easy to get free tickets back then made it seem a throwaway experience. They were literally the generic aisle of the supermarket. I'll rank the road unis now: 1) The all dark 77s. Love em, they're better than the dark top, white pants version. 2)Current black tops. Looks like we wear em more than the grays. 3) Early 70s road ones. They got creative with the front wording. 4) Current grays. With diamond sock, of course, like an earlier poster said. 5) 83s. They were just a gray version of the home whites, which is fine. Good choice IMO. 6)Thiggies. Guillen played outfield wearing em, so there's that.

Wow, I was gonna post a thread asking yall what decisions JR will make soon, and this was one of the options. Here's all of them: 1)Put a 3rd row of suites above the 2nd, mucking up the upper deck even more 2)Change our unis to all white, no pinstripes, tuxedo stripe on pants. Modern minimalist look. No more old english logo, instead it would say CHICAGO WHITE SOX across the front in the blade runner font. Cap would be the same from 1977. Road unis would be all black, top and bottom, with a tiny SOX in white on the upper right chest, same font as cap. Numbers and names would be charcoal gray. The reasoning behind this would be because we're in the future now. 3) Bossard rightfully asks for a raise, so JR fires him. Replaces grass with astroturf. 4)Trance music for player entrances, throughout game, victory song, etc. The "future". Can yall see JR doing any of these How would you rank all these unis The Dick allens are great, but you're right, too red. The 1977s are iconic, but the recent throwbacks got em all wrong, they hung to players' knees. The 83s shoulda stayed till 1991. The Thiggies are only ok because of Thigs. Other than that, they were terrible. Some fans have been wearing the c hat to Comiskey lately, tho. Please Brooks, if you're reading this, please bring them back. Very necessary. I was so mad when they unnecessarily changed their look and TV intro at this time. The pullovers with happy cub patch were perfect. Then they went to buttons, stoned cub patch, then added names to the back with red bordering, which is terrible. They added red to the numbers too. Dumb move. The road unis went from the iconic blue tops to boring grey. So, so dumb. The TV intro was iconic with the rotoscoping. Then they changed it for cringe early 90s editing slop. Morons. Nope, from 87-90. almost as long as the much superior 83s. The Campbell Soup unis, worst in the majors at the time. JR's a marketing genius, eh

I became a fan because of Caitlin Clark, but then I saw how dreadful the level of play was. No thanks. and they all want raises too. They're lucky the nba props them up. Without them, the league wouldn't exist. as far as a 2027 labor stoppage goes, I do think the Sox will be good by then, so I hope things can be worked out. I wasn't too much of a fan in 94, so I didn't really care about the wasted opportunity at the time, but now it's excruciatingly painful to see what might have been. IMO, 1994 hurt us more than any other team, even more than the Spos. I think we'd have won the pennant at minimum, probably the whole thing. That year had a good ad campaign too, featuring Jim McMahon and MJ. But it was all for naught

Hmm, I wonder if this will cancel the upcoming trade deadline special hosted by Chuck Garfein and his podpartner. Guillen was gonna join them too

Your take has been disproven time and again across the internet, and in real life discussions. The point of the season is to win the World Series, so if you win it, you definitely are the best team, regardless of other stats. You can't judge teams solely by the regular season, it's only a path to the playoffs, nothing more. Countless teams throughout history have eased up in the RS, saving themselves for the playoffs. The playoffs define the season, so that's what you judge them by. If you don't really care for the postseason, then you don't really care for the entire season, since it's all a road to the postseason anyway. Everything a team does before October is to get there. Judge, and other players, do deserve criticism for October choking. You played the whole year to get there, you need to perform when you're there. a playoff HR is worth a ton of RS homers, it's not even close. Judge, and others, have no excuse. If they blow it on the big stage, then they did choke. If you KO everyone in sparring fights, then get cooked for the title, you're not as good as you thought you were. Baseball is fun because it's action mixed with strategy, so we get both worlds, which is great. But the playoffs aren't random. They're won by the teams who were better. Different teams respond to rest differently, and to home field differently. Some teams rust out too much, but oh well, they still prefer the bye than not. In few cases, teams do worse at home too, which is why it wouldn't be a bad idea for MLB to give teams the option to defer home field, woulda done the Stros some good. If a team defers, then they get the 1st 2 games at home, then no more. Imagine the fan reaction to that, would be bonkers if it backfired.

Thanks, I was looking for it and saw nothing Hopefully they get it in, I doubt the players want to play tomorrow, then travel right after. Playing today gives them a chance to be in their own homes tonight before travelling tomorrow, right

Thanks, I Hate hot dogs now. Is sacrilege the correct word here, or is it blasphemy. Or is blasphemy a form of sacrilege

Yup, that's why people shouldn't get too ahead of themselves here. WC teams have had much success lately, division titles really don't mean much. Some speculated that the loss of momentum from a bye is actually a disadvantage. It depends on the team, but I wouldn't rule the flubs out even if they ended up at WC3. If you're good, you will win, extra rest or not. Some teams do perform better under higher pressure.

Which one was your favorite I remember most of them so vividly: "go with the spirit! The spirit of 76!". "Danley, building your garages with quality!". "I meant a bud lite!". But man, that Kevin Matthews ad always irked me as a kid. Lots of Cheers and Golden Girls promos before I discovered how good those shows were. That Lou Rawls ch. 9 promo was great. Great song they should still use as their anthem.

Is he related to former Met Todd Good trade, I like it. Solid prospect