35thstreetswarm

I never thought I'd see the Soxtalk misery machine aimed backward at the 99-win, 11-1 postseason, world champion 2005 White Sox season but then the last few years have changed my expectations about the feasibility of a lot of things. So what the hell -- thanks a lot for that trade deadline, Kenny, our trophy could have been shinier!

Feels like you’re leaving out a key detail.

It’ll be hilarious when we’re in first place in a couple weeks. Just a laugh riot. I’ll buy a division championship tshirt totally ironically

If he said that he would've been taking ownership." But he didn't, really. I'm just hearing more of the "why can't other teams be more reasonable?!" whining

While I'm pissed they didn't go get a real difference-maker, premium assets for rentals was my top-level fear. I'm "happier" standing pat than I would've been with worthless desperation moves.

That's where I'm at. I think this team could actually contend. Rick and Kenny are not blameless, but they've been placed in an impossible situation. I'm just going to continue to hope this core can get healthy and wake up and soldier on despite TLR.

You watched a lot of MTV between like 1989 and 1992, didn't you?

It's so maddening. Why can't we just have a "normal" manager? Any manager hired through a normal process would be on the chopping block right now. Why do we have to have this weirdo nepotism experiment?

That’s a disappointing and childish response, especially from a moderator. Oh well, I’ve said my piece, do with it what you will.

Making fun of posters for their negativity (or positivity) about the play of the Chicago White Sox is not really a “personal attack” at all, though. Certainly not in the way that commenting on how someone’s family views them is. Maybe there are other actual personal attacks I’m not aware of, in which case I’d condemn them too.

Following up a bad first half with a really good second half and making a deep playoff run is…not really all that weird. Sure, nothing about their play for the first half has indicated that they will go on a run…but that’s true of every underachieving first half team. I predicted a shitty first half and big second and I’m sticking to it.

You’ve used this “your family must love” bit before. I agree with the target in this instance that it’s weird and inappropriate. Stick to baseball and leave “families” out of it.

Replace “frustrating” with “encouraging” or “exciting” and I totally agree

Yes, you shut your filthy mouth! All my Soxtalk friends and I have agreed that a .500 record in July is a totally unprecedented outrage. Right guys? (Looks around for high-fives).

Win tomorrow and get the series. Then get the next one. As awful as so many things have gone for this team we’re still a few series wins — or one hot week — away from first place.

Very impressed with the time and energy a lot of you put into explaining and posting about how little you care. Bye. No, really—bye now. You can go

“Wellllll stuff me like a sausage and shoot me with a gun, Trudy, cuz THAT ding dong is a Loooong Dong Silver! (Vigorous cowbell). A-OOOO-ga!”

Posters on this board do a lot more "explaining away" good Sox wins than they do excusing bad Sox losses, actually. Series wins against Tampa don't really count. Dominating the Yankees in a doubleheader sweep in Yankee stadium doesn't really count. Sweeping the Red Sox in Fenway doesn't really count because they weren't winning at the time, and so on. Losing to a bad team proves we're bad. Beating a good team proves that even good teams can have bad series, don't get too excited. So at a minimum, it all evens out.

You should be very proud. That’s a great accomplishment.

The team played pretty well. Sad to see Graveman blow it singlehandedly like that. He got screwed on a couple calls but it seemed like that got to him. Gotta be able to pitch around that, and pitch to contact when necessary instead of nibbling. Oh well, I know everybody here likes to tantrum after each loss but I predicted a split in CO. On to the next one, need at least 2 of 3 from Oakland.

The latter (airport bottle). Unfortunately

Et tu bmags? Boooo

You planning on aggressively "not-watching" this game too?

No Soto?