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Seeing people in this board race to line up behind our rival’s player in a fight is really something

I'm not gonna read all that, thanks. But you said what exactly? You're in here in 2023 dunking on people for saying they liked the direction of the rebuild *in 2017.* What exactly did you say in 2017 that was so prescient? Did you predict the TLR debacle? The parade of injuries in 2020-2022? The disastrous relief pitcher trades and signings? What was it? And by the way, being generally pessimistic, and popping up and suggesting "bad things will happen" in general from time to time, is not exactly a bold take. It's the classic fan hedge, the conventional wisdom of this and every fan message board, and guaranteed to be "right" at some point in the future.

Ha ha—people six years ago didn’t predict the bad things that would happen multiple years into the future. Luckily I did, as I’m super smart (I just didn’t write it down or tell anybody)

Out of curiosity, why? You don’t like his tough guy schtick?

I'm most impressed with the coordinated liquid spray celebration of the fans in Ole Miss's right field bleachers

One can dream. Well, you could count on me for one rooting hard against them every game of that first round playoff series like a true fan

Goddammit. I’m starting to worry that they will not be sufficiently punished for having a bad April. Watch them make the playoffs, then everyone will forget aaalllll about it. F*** this

The Sox are playing well and 3 games out of first. Who knows what will happen between now and the deadline but they are not on a "sellers" trendline at all.

I'd swap HOU/TEX/KC for DET/CLE/PIT for regional congruity and so you could credibly call the divisions West/South/Central/East. (Might also consider swapping Pittsburgh and Toronto for similar reasons)

Yes! Hopefully this is the right kind of win?

Improvement. Boooooo

It makes me sad how much I agree with this.

There are several webcams and other resources you can use to follow the Chicago area's more than 20 nesting pairs, which are believed to have come from a single pair introduced as part of an effort to bring the species back from near-extinction in the '80s. https://www.fieldmuseum.org/science/special-projects/illinois-peregrines Every time I think that life in Chicago feels drab or inconsequential, I try to remember that the world's fastest animal was brought back from the brink and now speeds over our heads while we go about our daily business, stalking their prey on thousands of years of accumulated instinct and making their homes in modern-day cliffs built by mankind.

Puke-as is right there for the taking

I'm still amazed at the stranglehold New Era has on the hat market given that the 59fifty fit is so...specific. They're just so big and structured and don't look good on everybody at all. I know about the 39thirty and floppy dad hats, but I think it's weird that in a time when every other product has so many options and so much customization you really only have like 3 hat shapes to choose from if you're buying sports team gear. I have yet to find the perfect Sox hat (though plenty of perfect non-sports hats) and I'd pay a premium for one. I feel like there's a fortune to be made just through customizable shaping/sizing of hats.

I once wore a hat in California and it killed me instantly. Also, I once wore an earring in my right ear and it made me gay

Is Moncada just getting more jacked, or is he....a little chubby? He looks slightly thicker every time I see him.

Now this is entirely made up. If any Illinois fan thinks that it's complete projection and compensation for their bottom-of-the-barrel sports presence (and that's coming from an Illinois fan).

That's a nice channeling of the typical Cub fan position, but it's b.s. The amount of time the many Cub fans I know spend talking about "how little they care" about the Sox is mind-blowing. There is obviously a rivalry between two teams who've spent over 100 years in the same city -- how couldn't there be? -- and both fan bases care. The Cubs are just passive aggressive and bitchy about it, while Sox fans are straightforward.

I prefer "Smashburger." Or after the board turns on him in a few weeks, "Fatburger".

Yawn

I shouldn't be nervous about April games but I am nervous. We need a series win to change the juju around this squad.

Every discussion involving a fight must inevitably include the: "THAT'S not a fight, I've seen way better" badass guy ?

That's how it seems to me as well. Hope it changes, as there will always be fights at sporting events -- always been that way -- but my experience is that most of them are squashed quickly and easily with even minimal security presence. But if nobody shows up they have no natural end. Saturday looked like a good example; as others have said, it was a pretty mild slap-fight that would have been a total non-event if somebody had just shown up toward the beginning. Instead it kind of lumbered along sweeping more and more people in, people could've been hurt, and now everyone's talking about it.

There actually used to be way more fights at Cubs/Sox games than there are now - I remember some wild ones. In the early years I recall just scanning the sections looking for the next one. Nowadays the games seem pretty sleepy by comparison. I think the slow response time is part of the coverage, as is the presence of some in social media/conventional media who have a strong interest in promoting any story with a "Chicago bad" angle, but I'll stop there.