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I think we can avoid big time losing streaks but if any bullpen vet starts to show promise they’ll go out and august will be difficult. Offense still gives only a razor thin margin but the pitching has been interesting since mid-May.

Yes. Was brutal. Not even vapes but some guy smoking a blunt.

Went to a few games recently… Personal Opinion: I don’t think you should smoke weed at a baseball game.

Very impressed by this week after feeling like “here we go again” when they lost 4 straight, rallied and playing great ball.

Yes that too.

I'm trying to cheer myself up and remember that there was a chance Jerry could sell to some other poor bastard that sucks, and even though the timeline is long, we are getting a true rich boi. That's a win.

Still fingers crossed for YouTube tv

Changed the title because I kept thinking 78 people died

I feel like the stadium is in good shape and if we wait 60 years it will be quaint.

When the Jerry biography comes out from jeff pearlman in 2035 I'm anxious to see if secretly it proves that bullying works and in fact our fanatic behavior to get him to sell the team made him reach out to Ishbia.

Yes, I guess if anything this lets us know that Jerry does believe he will die and this puts his horizon down to his paper bet. But given where I assumed we could be in the transition, this is only nice in that it's official. We didn't make the playoffs in the 2010s. Very likely we will only have 2020, 2021 to show for it by 2029. It's just a stretch that is hard to come out of.

Terrible day. I heard Ishbia runs a private equity firm.

White Sox are confused by this statement

Loved the murderbot books and now enjoying the TV show on apple. Think a few here would like it.

When we were hiring a new GM there were some rumors Presti could be interested (that's when Billy left) as it was the height of 'can't pay or keep talent here'. Such a shame. The 'Paul George Championship' is a good reminder that the same year that the Bulls traded Jimmy Butler on an expiring -yet extremely cheap- deal, the Pacers traded Paul George. The pacers received Victor Oladipo and Damontis Sabonis. Oladipo immediately becomes an all star in Indiana while they develop Sabonis into being an all star in a few years. Two all stars. Oladipo gets injured badly which is bad luck, while they trade Sabonis for Tyrese Halliburton, whom the bulls decided to draft Patrick WIlliams over instead. Not sure we need the Bulls history here, but the Bulls traded one of the Stars of the next 5 years in Butler for Kris Dunn, Zach Lavine, and a pick swap to get Lauri Markannen. Kris Dunn is terrible for the bulls and is let go before eventually becoming a pretty strong bench player. He is not signed by bulls so they just lost there. Zach Lavine eventually becomes an all star for the bulls but their aimlessness leads them to need to keep paying him until it was clear his sugar-high numbers were not at all helpful to winning basketball. They trade him for a salary dump. Lauri Markannen looks promising, but after a weird heart issue they trade him for a first round pick that never materializes. He becomes an all star with the Jazz. The bulls are on rebuild 3. THe pacers are in the championship. The owner is a Reinsdorf in one, has a major market and an amazing brand he has squandered. The other is not a reinsdorf, has a forgettable brand in a small market. Reinsdorfs are such losers, such pathetic pathetic losers.

Keith Law before the season put Vargas as one of the guys he was still in on despite his struggles. Was a good call at a tough time to make that call.

Yeah, sad part is you could kinda look at either and be hard pressed to say which is the charlotte lineup if you knew nothing about the year. Robert is like the one guy who you'd say "he'd never be in charlotte"

gotta say it's wild to look at the charlotte knights line up today and not think " that is basically our lineup from June/July last year in fact probably better?

isn't this the same? They aren't paying him a major league salary so that's probably money saved?

good work everyone. Can't wait til we have the soxtalk ai to summarize the caulfield threads before I respond.

I didn't read it but did everyone laugh at complaining about bullpen spending? It's like the one place we spend.

Yeah but it was also right about now where we were all thinking "ah we stabilized the ship, just gonna be a regular bad season". Anyway I don't think it'll happen again but yeah we basically didn't win in July last year.

Did not realize we have the same record, that's hilarious.

Everyone's priors...will not be confirmed? https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/which-organizations-are-having-the-most-success-hitting-pitching-in-the-minor-leagues/ Based on stats across a number of dimensions, sox average 13.7 in the league in hitting and 23rd in pitching...