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We would be LUCKY to miss the playoffs in the aggressive, first-class way the mighty Padres might. I’m but a humble White Sox fan, but I’d like to personally thank the Padres ownership for showing the rest of the baseball world what a third place team is supposed to look like.

Wow! Then they would have like three or four high profile position players as a core! They haven’t had that since…well, like a few weeks ago when they were in third place. ?

Boy, it would be something if the Padres missed the playoffs….

I agree—it’s a laugh riot. Hard to remember that there were Cub fans still crowing about *this season* just a few weeks ago.

I don’t think “most” feel that way—fanboys, sure, but it takes a lot of imagination to envision the Cubs building a contender out of this trash heap in basically one season.

Long drive so missed the game. Game thread with page count in the teens. All I can ask for!

You are even more dumb than TomTom

From season-changing loss…to season changing win?

???. Everyone hates you

I’m sure I’m not the first to mention the douche behind the plate with the “Wrigleyville” fail Jersey. What a waste of a ticket.

I'd love to see Houston knocked into (and out of ) a play-in game.

Yes. Don't mess with the space/time continuum

I'm afraid you've missed the point. It's not open to question whether you "do" or "don't." [have FO-level transparency into the market e.g.]. You don't. Neither does anyone on the board.

This applies to every opinion about the organization that's expressed on this board, really, except maybe the ones coming from Jerry Reinsdorf/Rick Hahn's joint burner account.

Yeah, this is the reason I'm at peace with the trade despite my skepticism about the price. There's no question it dramatically improved our team this year, and every contending season is precious. No guarantee we'll get a clearer shot again.

On #3, this is similar to some other responses I've seen to skepticism about the prospect cost of the Kimbrel trade (and other past trades), where the premise of the cross-examination seems to be that fans have no room to criticize a trade because they (i) don't know for sure there were better deals available for the same return, (ii) don't know for sure whether there were preferable returns the other team would have accepted for Kimbrel/player, or (iii) don't know for sure whether there were better deals out there in general. Fair point I guess, but keep in mind you can make the same point about any layperson criticism of any trade, and taken to its extreme it makes every FO move above reproach. You can always point to the informational advantages of the FO to suggest that whatever trade was made had to be the best and only one available. You don't really have to have FO-level transparency into the market, or your own solidly-formulated and vetted alternative trade, to opine that a trade was an overpay.

Yes, they should feel free to suck it a lot

The Cubs aren’t in our division they’re not in our division aaaaaaAAAAHHH ?

every day i wake up and wish for health, luck, a sunny day, and a Soxtalk game thread with a page count in the teens …and with that post I push it to 20 ?

Yeah, the Cubs sucking is part of what makes it fun. I had the supposed decade long Cub dynasty shoved down my throat for years. They implode and what, we’re supposed to be upset about that? I’ll never get the whole “i wish we wouldn’t beat the Cubs’ asses so badly” point of view.

Today and yesterday—two of the more enjoyable games I’ve ever attended. Let’s use this as a launching pad for a nice run.

I was there. What an awesome game. Thinking back to so many crosstown series over the year, I feel fortunate to be in a position to watch this team dominate. I don’t know if that win was sufficiently narrative-furthering to satisfy the connoisseurs, but a day spent high fiving Sox fans at Wrigley Field is always a top day in my book.

Was at game—great atmosphere, awesome day, awesome win. Missed game thread, but 15 pages means good day.

You’re in for a rough couple years. God love you though. You’re going for it!