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Let's get this one in the books.

It's more than a feeling

All week

I hope we play baseball next year

Remember when our guys couldn't hustle because they were afraid of injuries?

They play games all year to determine who is the champion. We could just start eliminating teams at any point and call the final two teams standing the "playoffs". It's just a label.

When all along management knew that Leury Garcia was the big piece.

This my friend makes perfect sense and we all should embrace it, except we are White Sox fans who are conditioned for the worse and love to be surprised when we somehow survive the train wreck.

Not enough pessimism. But give it time.

Without sadness, joy would be merely pleasant. With it, joy becomes meaningful. But there is a peculiar vanity in choosing sadness in advance, then congratulating oneself for having anticipated disappointment. That is not wisdom. It is simply despair wearing the spectacles of a philosopher. @caulfield12 I thought this was your thread.

In the end it was a fun season to be a fan with some great moments. A small bonus most of these guys are very "likable". I've said before that for me to be a Sox fan for so many years I had to love the game. The experience of going to the ball park. The sights, sounds, crowds. It's always better to win, but in the end I enjoy seeing great baseball. The past few years I have flipped on MLB TV and looked for the best game. Now I am watching each night. I am starting to feel optimistic again. For me I have to rate it a successful season.

Four months ago it was Mune. Before that it was guys TA, Robert, etc. Now I'm so gun shy about "locking guys in" until we see some growth in payroll over a couple years. Bad contracts cripple this franchise.

X2

Would you rather play a team who clinched and their season is extended or a team with guys trying to hang onto a MLB career and their vacation starts next week?

He didn't need anything else with that lead

While we laugh and cry at Castillo and his contract (although I don't really care, it's JR's money) there are some parallels to Dennis Eckersley. I'm a season of very unlikely White Sox turnarounds having him reinvent himself as a closer would be the most unlikely Sox thing to have happen. Exactly why it will. He just had to go throw about 15 good pitches.

Sox fans 1:00 pm "Let's go grab some lunch and a beer" Sox fans 5:00 pm

Dennis Eckersley was 32 when they finally stopped asking him to start games. His career was only half over. As starters they had similar ups and downs. It would be the most unlike Sox thing to ever happen in a season of the most unlike Sox thing to happen.

I imagine there is no leave the stadium and return?

Or if he turns into a stud closer. . .

Detroit wants to get on the plane If he allows four runs

He's still collecting a check. What an embarrassment for a couple billion men on this planet that can't pitch better.

Good wind for Castillo

See the excitement in the bench? They see Castillo warning up and know they need a few more