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I know, i was just pre-empting @Kyyle23 coming in to say how much he hated farmer's announcing.

While I agree farmer wasn't a good announcer overall (he didn't 'tell you what was happening' or 'tell you the score'), DJ and Farmer would have be in stitches while driving. Benetti's humor i liked but it was more 'I understand you are being humorous', while Farmer and DJ are genuinely weird dudes and it would kill me.

Oh - so back on topic a bit. Maybe I missed it, but I looked it up and didn't see much. Ed Farmer deserved a bigger dedication. He passed during the covid years. I can't hear St. Rita without thinking of him. Gave the best call of my sox life with the paul konerko slam. He deserves a bigger day to celebrate him.

yes my bad. Very cool didn't know that was being built. Wish it made sense to do the empire builder amtrak but that's quite a ways off. Big road trip!

Curious to see this now. When you say interactive do you mean digital? I have hated the primary digital museums (see the emigration museum in dublin, which feels like it could be anywhere), but small things to participate (the typewriters at the american writers museum) do a bunch.

I think next stadium will be a good time to coordinate a bit better. They have a lot of statues, they are awesome (i mean that). They have the decals on the walls - they seem half-assed. I don't want a yankees museum but I would like it be a bigger deal to have your jersey retired

Again - my main thing is just I don't really want to remember or honor the decade preceding this year. It's not really TAs fault, but they are all wrapped together as a team that led to the dark ages. Worst of all they were all just poseurs. Hahn was a poseur GM, capable of reading the same things we were and saying that he was doing the same things as the smart GMs, but not actually being as smart or talented. That's why he had so many leaks, he needed amateurs to flatter him that his decision making was interesting when it wasn't. We had to believe this GM doing the same moves as the successful franchises would be successful. He wasn't though, he was just a poseur. So many of the players, we believed because they were highly ranked and looked the part would dominate. They did too, but they didn't put in the work of those real baseball players. They fell off. That's the Jose ramirez metaphor. They go up against a real baseball player even in non baseball and they crumble. Their Instagrams were full of them lifting rocks to get ripped but not like, for baseball activities. When it failed it all was so obvious they were a potemkin village of a baseball franchise. Now we have a team that, even if they don't make the playoffs, certainly feels like an mlb baseball team playing mlb baseball like the rest. I don't want a reminder of where we came from. No bringing ex girlfriends on the friend trip.

I was just at T-mobile and it was so great. That said, boy it needs a lot of space, and it luckily fits over a similar rail area to the one we'd build on. Fortunately it's situated beautifully with the sound and the skyline. I was sitting I believe under that pepsi banner 10 or so rows down so you got to see both, I was astounded. My impression is that 'hitting dingers in the river' sounds more fun in practice than reality. That part of the branch is not big. It would still provide a lot of fun as a transportation area (bringing water taxis alive) and mini river walk, but it's very scenic going west. Just focus on getting some of the lake/skyline and let the river be a fun place outside the park.

I almost went to 2014 but then i'd have to remember checked out paul konerko and 2013. Best to cut off too early than too late and remember being excited on christmas we may sign Alex Gordon.

Basically I think the white Sox should operate as if time as a franchise went 1894-2012 2025-present

I unno. Him and Jonathan Schoop were always compared when they came up. Both hit similar cliffs.

I got the marketing email for Tim Anderson retirement day and was kinda like...almost anti-. Kinda curious how you all feel. Prior to the year maybe a game which reminded us of a team were we used to know some of the players names was exciting. There was a time where Tim Anderson was remarkable to me. I'd often point out that the sox player development strategy in 2010-2022 was like mr. glass in unbreakable where you just keep blowing up trains and seeing who can survive. Tim was drafted in a pretty terrible draft as a longshot, had a bad hitting profile but extraordinary hands. Was often times horrible at short and then sometimes brilliant. The kind of player who never puts it together for us and then he probably hit his 99th percentile outcome. And then it came screeching to a halt. But he was also the poster child of a truly miserable era for me. 2022 I went to many games amazed at how the park was trying to will that team out of its lethargy and they just couldn't do it. They were all rich, lazy and injured. When TA did TA stuff and tried to start a fight with Jose Ramirez and got knocked out cold in one punch and never could get up...I mean was there ever a better metaphor for that white sox group? This team seems to be the opposite. They were not crowned early, they were not paid early. Many looked down and dusted, and they've kept coming back. TA was the one guy in all of that group that rose to heights not dreamed of. Him and Abreu definitely deserve celebration from that era...but I just don't really want to remember that era at all right now.

I'm going Thursday. Forecasts look miserable all week tho

Now something negative - Chsn freezes during commercial breaks like twice a game and I have to exit and restart. Drives me nuts

I was camping this weekend but on Friday night got the score and got a little nervous we’d be like the 03 royals, who started hot out of nowhere and then faded in August to 3rd place to the Sox and twins. The sad part (for them) was how it turned out to be a flash in the pan season for the surprise players like angel berroa. But then the we won the next two games like we always do. I kinda hate the “we can play like s%*# and the other team has to play well!” Stuff. 25-19 isn’t like hard for a team to do. Team just has to keep finding pitching and hit like they can. They fight like hell, and no “crushing” or “humiliating” defeat ever sets them. Great, great team to watch

I believe that we will win. I believe that we will win.

really hope bosox just hit that wall. Can't win em all

I do wish I had access to stuff like reports that would indicate which pitching targets may be most successful vs. the division, with 19 or so games left and big games vs. CLE coming up. That may be where there is definitely a "we can't throw fedde out a 4th time vs. these guys". Now, would castillo have something there - i have zero idea. Would he even show up favorably in some report? No idea. But Schultz has had his arrow up recently, we have more protection for short outings. I just hope Castillo rises up to the challenge here. We need him. I want the playoffs bad.

Things were flying so fast I didn’t get a chance to look at this deal. Not saying Boston didn’t give up a lot, it everytime there is a hyperventilating deal about a haul wouldn’t you believe it is headlined by pitching.

felt like quero has been doing better, must be about defense

I really wanted to keep giving him runway. Hope he doesn't put it together

well here is the good news: We still have Billy Carlson coming off a glowing write-up from Law, Bonemer still smashing the ball in AA, Wolkow has more time to put it together, Fauske in kanny, adding Roch Cholowsky in WS+, landon thome and Cole Prosek. And I didn't even mention Tim Elko

board fav kirby yates to pirates.

buzzer sounds

don't you dare bring up 1983