Everything posted by southsider2k5
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Munemania: AL Rookie of the Month of May
Less than two years, hopefully. It means he was successful and we dealt him to load up.
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“The 78” is alive and well for the Sox, Bears are 'advancing' Hammond development
The problem is the connected spaces in the loop are much smaller. I am pretty sure you would need to consolidate multiple blocks to make that happen. The only actual space I can think of is the old post office if they were willing to build on top of the overpass.
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Crochet Trade Outcome Tracker
His health was always going to be the biggest argument against a big extension. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. His fastball speed has definitely dropped off, and he has moved off of his primary fastball in favor of a sinker.
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“The 78” is alive and well for the Sox, Bears are 'advancing' Hammond development
A few things seem to be coming together. #1: The Sox want to build a new ballpark outside of Bridgeport. If they wanted to stay in BP, it would be really easy to come up with a plan in the old ballpark + parking footprint. #2: They seem to want to be as close to downtown as possible. They are very intensely working to create space south of the financial district, with Ishbia going to work acquiring an old rail yard with tons of work needed to do to get it to the state for a ballpark. #3: Because of the complexities of this deal, and the dance that needs to be taking place between Amtrak and the Sox, this is NOT going to be cheap. There was talk of Ishbia paying for a stadium, and undertaking a project like this with a ballpark at it's center seems to confirm that idea. Maybe they try to get some money for the state, but I have to image they would rather own this, and then create the ballpark village as the real profit center long term for the ownership group. #4: With the FIre across the river, the ballpark village concept makes more sense, as you now have another professional franchise in the area with all of those dates worth of people to come to the area for the village and games. #5: None of this will be done by the time the lease is up. Looking at the timeline, this could well be lining up with Ishbia taking over the Sox. I imagine they will sign a short term lease extension to get the park done, and then the village construction takes place after the opening of the park in the early to mid 2030's. Was the timeline for the ownership transition aligned to take place with the new ballpark? Stay tuned.
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
Yes, if you delete things I said, you can change the meaning of the post. Congratulations on trying to pass that off as intellectually honest. It's also a classic SSS, which is why I added a full year sample to demonstrate better that there is a difference between "relievers" and "closers". Your statistic is wrong. A closer with a 60% save rate is not Average. They are among the worst in baseball. Even if you want to drop the threshold to 2 saves to capture more noise, the fact there are only 4 total, means there are 26 others who are above that mark. 4 of of 30 is 13.333th percentile. In no world is that "average". That is below far below 50th percentile. Your big flex literally reinforced my point. Thanks for the assist.
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
Can you read? Because nothing you said contradicted what I said. I even went back to the last full season of 2025 to further clarify the point. You are erroneously associating "relievers" with closers. Why is this an important distinction? Because only closers get a chance to actually save games, versus a non-closer who can blow saves, but gets very few actual saves.
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“The 78” is alive and well for the Sox, Bears are 'advancing' Hammond development
The White Sox are dead last in MLB in total revenue. They trail the #29 team by about 20 percent. What doesn't make sense is to keep doing the same things they did to make them dead last.
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
AI is only as good as the prompt you give it. Judging by the answer you got, I am guessing how accurate the prompt was. Proof? Last year you have to go down to 30th in saves in MLB to find someone with a 60%, or worse, save percentage. Coincidentally, it was Leasure at 58.3%. I rest my case.
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
For "relievers". That's not closers. There are 20 player's with 3, or more, saves in MLB currently. Of them none have an equal, or worse, save rate than Anthony. He is dead last.
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Peak Wood vs Peak Gibson and Peak Marshall
A thread about Peak Wood? They make a pill for that now. Call your doctor.
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
And strike out 200.
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
If he can figure out how to make more contact, he will be hige
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Fire Chris Getz
Add that to "It's not that bad"
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4/19 Sox vs [insert location] A's
Sox finale here:
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“The 78” is alive and well for the Sox, Bears are 'advancing' Hammond development
There are so many quality pieces of Sox and Chicago history that could be chosen and incorporated into Sox Park that with some creativity you could build a gem. Plus if they can build an OF angle open to the skyline and build the entrance at the top of the 100 level, you fix a lot of the new Parks screw ups.
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White Sox @ A's 4/17/2026
f*** no. See you at your funeral.
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**Water-Cooler Thread (TV stuff)**
It was a great show. An all timer.
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White Sox @ A's 4/17/2026
I don't know what got into Davis, but hopefully it is contagious
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4/17 Games
Dutch is #1 until proven otherwise
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White Sox @ A's 4/17/2026
Brooklyn, not LA.
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Fire Chris Getz
Well, knowing Jerry it's probably not a GOOD salary.
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Fire Chris Getz
Or will he hold on until his value is gone? Stay tuned
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White Sox @ A's 4/17/2026
He at least draws crowds...
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Fire Chris Getz
Somewhat? That would be a HOF line