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Unfortunately I had questions too but they didnt give any context . You'll probably get some context from somebody tonight or tomorrow from the podcasts or online articles.

I agree but when there's money to be taken out of the habitual gamblers hands everybody wants a slice of that pie.

It finally ends ! Sox were 0-205 when losing after 8 innings according to the Twins broadcast team.

I'm not a gambler (only very rarely and there's no way I'd ever use these gambling apps to do it, ) so I don't understand what you just said. What do you think should be illegal and what is the rez ? As far as it being free money there were plenty who didn't think that at all. I took the over when I told @Chicago White Sox I was with him on the over based on his reasoning back in December. One man or woman's free money is another's gambling debt.

No such thing ,just unfortunate timing . Sox actually increased their lead.

Oh you should also get that easily. What's the payout if you win ?

Ok let me try that again. I listened to last night's CHGO show again . At the 11: 20 mark Sean Anderson said the Sox 2nd half record was 19-23 and in those games they were a +16 Run differential 222-206.

Maybe I heard wrong on the CHGO podcast .Sean Anderson said something about it being in the positve terirory. Maybe it was since the All Star break because he said they were 18-24 since the All Star break. Ill have to listen to it again because that seemed shocking to me too because of their record. I apologize. I had planned on listening to that part of the podcast again but didnt before I posted.

2024 2 games scoring 10 runs or more 2025 11 10 or more runs scored games. Also looks like the runs scored / runs against is now in the + territory !

Benjamin 😁

Jeez mocking me out of the blue for no reason whatsoever. Boss man says that's delete post worthy. Dou t it will happen nor would I want it. Never said I am fallible just right a lot more than a lot of angry people here. I like him before he had the 4 WAR season. Its right there in black and white multiple times. How many guys have you picked out who ever did that with no previous indication it would happen ? Kind of sad you'd choose to personally attack me like that in a winning game thread. Why pollute a good environment ?

Had stuff to do saw the Sox were losing 2-1 maybe 3-1 and Twinkies had the bases loaded and no outs. A little time goes by I looked at the score and it was 7-3 Sox. 1st thought in my head was they made a mistake so I scroll down to the highlights and I see Teel and Sosa go back to back and everybody driving in runs ! Ramos, Robertson, Baldwin, Beni, hold the phone Another Beni 3 run bomb makes it 12-3 !

Looks like youre getting it tonight . Sox up 9-3 in the 8th.

I don't see a lot of name calling going on. As for mockery Soxtalk is full of mockery.You do it , I do it , people use memes to do it. If that is the reason for deleting posts and suspensions then you should have deleted your own posts 100s of time. You speak as if you are innocent of it. Now I know name calling possibly gets you suspended but where do you draw the line ? Do you have a list of names that is unacceptable? Once you go down that rabbit hole its hard to get out of it. "Let he who is without sin, cast the 1st stone" was used in the Bible by Jesus to save a woman convicted of adultery who was about to be stoned. The people holding the stones walked away realizing their own hypocrisy. I cannot cast stones because I have no authority here and cannot punish people. You do. Walk away.

Its better that he didnt win it. There are rules now that some prospects who are highly ranked gain a year towards free agency and some other things for winning ROY. Not sure that would've happened to Colson or not if he won. I dont know which rankings count towards that and Colson at one point dropped out of the top 100 in at least one ranking service after last season. Lots of new stuff from the last CBA I havent memorized or bothered to look up.

Still would've lost betting on Colson. No one is beating Nick Kurtz. Hes a lock at this point of the season.

I understand your pain but you know you still care because you're here. And you should care too that after reaching rock bottom things are progressing to a better future. It'll take some time and a new owner and yea probably a new GM if Getz is still here when the Ishbias actually dont pull out this time. But the reality of the current ownership situation means there wont be rapid progress and Getz is just here to tread water and try not to screw up anything major. Incremental steps forward is just more realistic and thats whats happening. I didnt make any money on the team reaching 50 wins but Im happy for the people who did just as I fine with people who won money betting against the Sox last year which includes Ptatc who routinely also thinks things have changed for the better in the organization. So it is possible to know how bad it was and to a point still is and still be able to look forward and see good things happening. I know that kind of middle ground stance isnt quite angry enough for some but I'll manage somehow.

Right now the Sox are in no position to trade young talented hitters.They traded Semien because he couldnt field either. Sosa can reach a higher offensive upside. Let the young guys play and reach something like a career year before you consider trading them. Of course then you want to keep them but keep the minor league talent flowing in if he's still not in the OF or a better infielder.

Not this time !

Taylor isnt that fast anymore. Elko is maybe 5th fastest runner on the Sox.Check sprint speeds. Maybe 4th without Robert.

No because you expect all players to be healthy until they are not. Robert would have never had a great 2023 if as a GM you say aww he'll never be healthy. Of course as I had stated and then it was supported by my arch nemesis Sith ,Getz biggest mistake to date was not crashing in on Robert when he had the chance in the offseason following the 2023 season. Instead the Cease trade took precedent. Why trading Robert wasnt a priority also I'll never understand. Everything else hes done is peanuts comparably. Imagine a return comparable to the Crochet return and how much better the rebuild would be doing. See Im not all sunshine I can cricize Getz . That was a huge blunder. I just choose not to sweat the little things . JR hired Getz and gave him no money to play with likely because Getz couldnt do much damage without much money. He got his feet wet that 1st year then JR gave him even less to work with when he did his house leaning started uograding the coaching and R & D staffs. Certainly not the same Sox M. O. With Colson's very non linear path that included Top priority 1 on 1 instruction in Az and then the R & D with the torpedo bat. Huge development win for the time being . You can say huge scouting wins with Shane Smith, Vasil or Houser ,Perez and Gomez.

Plus theres a huge differnce in the parameters between thinking he was ready to be called up and being called a bust or a bum which that poster called Montgomery. Just because no one said he'd have 2.0 WAR by this time is irrelevant. As usual the usual suspects citing anecdotal evidence of Sox being bad and wrong most of the time decided he wasn't ready. Also while that attitude is very relatable the biases creep in. Nothing really separates these 2 opposing sides than our attitude towards the Sox. I'm more disappointed than angry the owner has decided his team, our team is just an asset used only to benefit the future wealth of his family rather than his paying customers. But c'est la vie . That's life and death in a capitalist society. While many argue they should have social and moral obligations or responsibilities to their community ,legally they are private for-profit businesses we choose to follow at our own peril.

All season actually , all through his non-linear ( not a surprise) development. Im just glad that many of the prospects came to the big leagues and succeeded this season when someone here said " the odds are nearly 100% that a significant amount of these guys will fail, and fail hard. They are all so young, and development isnt certain, nor linear. " Now if Im being fair maybe he only meant some of the pitchers you mentioned and not the even younger position players who were set to make ther debuts this year. Thats not counting Hagen Smith or Schultz who many thought could be called up at the end of this year. I didnt think so because again that would be an ultra fast linear progression which rarely happens with early 20s pitchers . I find it incredibly odd that so very few mentioned Quero,Teel, Sosa, Vargas, Meidroth, C. Montgomery in their reasonings about our record this year. Has a lot gone wrong ? It probably couldnt have gone much worse for pitching depth purposes with all the injuries and it's showing more and more the later we get in the season. Also a lot went right Colson, Teel, Vargas, Sosa, Quero have all performed better than expected. Perez has pitched well in his short non injured time Houser came from nowhere as did Shane Smith, Vasil ,and Yoendrys Gomez. And we added the Pope to our squad too. Can't be all bad.

That was the point of this thread to pick a side on whether you thought things were improving enough to pick the over. Now of course you're going to cry about it being a weird flex . LOL you never quit. It's not the result it's the reasoning behind it, but some people don't understand that apparently. Every time anyone shows a little joy or happiness you're here to squash it. Lowered expectations from your point of view or unrealistic expectations that cannot possibly be met after losing 121 games without any money put into the team and JR intent on leaving as much money to his heirs as possible. The thing is you never quite say what you expect to happen only that everyone else who sees progress isn't unhappy enough. At least we have realistic goals based on an objective view of what is going on with Reinsdorf and the Ishbias.

Anecdotal evidence is information based on personal accounts or isolated experiences, rather than systematic and reliable data. While it can be compelling and relatable, it is considered a weak form of evidence, especially in a scientific context, because individual experiences are not necessarily representative of broader patterns and can be influenced by cognitive biases. Anecdotes are not proof but can sometimes be useful for generating ideas or illustrating concepts. Yet despite all the huffing and puffing about it's the Sox so expect bad, the guy leading his men up that hill died on it because he didn't even put any real conviction into his own words. Didn't even trust his own opinion because he fully admitted he was on the fence about betting either the over or the under. You'd think that if most of your posts in this thread say "been there done that many times before" surely you must believe your own words otherwise what's the point of wallowing in the s%*#. It's pretty easy to take one side or the other on an over/under line especially when you're not betting it you're just taking your data points or your anecdotal evidence and picking a side. Fear of being wrong I suppose.