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Yes, this is definitely a job for...The Cooler

Absolutely. I have a son in high school and he's legitimately busy--8 hours of in-class time followed by sports and then homework. College is a breeze compared to that. Hell, I had more time in law school than that (and certainly more than I do now).

I'll go: to add to the recs from Southsidehitmen, Vito & Nick's, Michael's, and the most underrated in the city in my opinion: Bartoli's. Edit: Eater has a solid overview here: https://chicago.eater.com/maps/best-chicago-thin-crust-pizza-restaurants-tavern-style

The TLR-thrown games have masked what may be a real awakening by the offense. We really should have won series against the Dodgers and Rangers, which coming out of the Rays series win would have had us all feeling pretty good. Hoping the bats stay hot and the pitching comes back around. It's high time we get on a little bit of a roll.

Finally -- somebody willing to stand up for your early 20s as a fun time of life ?

The thing is, now would be the absolute perfect time to fire TLR—right before (hopefully) a couple key players come back and the schedule eases up. A jolt of energy in the form of a new voice could really help turn this team around in a big way. Ahh, if only. Fun to imagine…

Just like “Twitter isn’t real life,” Soxtalk isn’t Sox fandom.

There's not really a vaccine debate going on that I can see, though it seems like you want to start one? All I've seen is people trading speculations about the established fact that Cease is not vaccinated, and those appeared to be over anyway. Don't be a snowflake. All is well.

None of that really refutes my point, but it's all fine I guess.

Complete shit for a few-week sample size he played with us, yes. Not shit for the first portion of the season and not really shit now, especially as compared with what we have. Yes, it would be great to have an all-star at the position but that was not happening.

Least surprising thing ever. Soxtalk would've exploded if we brought him back, but it would have been a decent move. He was due to rebound.

Um, interacting with people who are elderly and immunocompromised is a recognized and legitimate exemption/reason to *refuse* the vaccine? That's a reason you get one. I think you're trying to agree with me but have gotten mixed up, amigo.

I'm not sure any team in the Central is going to play well enough to hold off a Sox team that "catches fire." That's the thing that gives me hope. To me the risk is that we just never really get healthy and keep seeing what we've seen to date.

Come on, Knights -- let's do this

I’d say there’s about a 1/100,000 chance young, healthy Dylan Cease has a reason for not getting vaccinated besides the obvious. Make that 1/1 billion that both Cease and Graveman do.

“Good.”

Recalculating... Honestly, post-TA injury, and with the continued refusal to play the regulars we do have available, I have no idea. I mean, I have no idea who the "Chicago White Sox" even are at this point. The question is really: "Do the White Sox make the playoffs [plus or minus 5-6 of their best players]?" How does one even answer that?

I mean, this is a B-game lineup. I don't even know what to say. Where the hell are Luis and Yoan? How many games are we going to just punt this season? This is really sad.

Wow, they actually cut the anchor loose. Enough punted games. Good riddance to one of my least favorite White Sox ever. Never sat well with me that we had a member of the cheating Astros on our squad.

Yes, as a division winner.

I don’t really get the criticism of the thread, or the confusion about it. It’s not a specific defense of all Hahn’s moves, or a criticism of all criticism of the team. I read it as a commentary on a specific type of posting habit here, i.e. a tendency to flip positions on moves only after they don’t turn out well. Feel free to take issue with the actual prevalence of that habit, but seems pretty clear to me that’s the point and it’s a logically consistent one, at least in theory.

I agree 90% is high for a percentage in favor of the Kimbrel signing, but it was a clear majority. Bullpen was widely regarded as the top need at the time. I remember coming in and expressing a pretty muted note of criticism of the high price we paid, and getting hammered by posters demanding that I identify which high-end reliever was available at a better price.

I do agree that JR saddled us with a totally unnecessary handicap in TLR.

Too early to ask these questions imo, especially for me since I predicted a lackluster first half followed by a good second. Talk to me in July after (hopefully) our players have come back from injury and we’ve had a chance to ride this out a bit more. We’re not that far back as it is, and a five/six game win streak could get us right back in the division race and would change the whole outlook around here (and if a week’s play can dramatically change your outlook you need to reassess your perspective.). Hell, I know nobody wants to hear this, but we could disappoint this whole season and come back like gang busters and win the WS next season. These things don’t always happen “on schedule.” Everyone talks about the Braves winning the WS after limping thru the first half, but look at the Yankees who folks regard as unbeatable now—they struggled for the first half of last season with the same team due to injuries and poor play and essentially missed the playoffs. Success (which we may or may not find) does not necessarily look like perfect play during every month of your window.

Lighten up. It’s worth it for no other reason than to see the various earnest responses that have followed it, kind of proving OP’s point. Losing a single series to this supposed juggernaut was definitive proof to lots of posters that this team was garbage. Shockingly the reverse doesn’t seem to be true? That’s worthy of a little parody.