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Maybe the only good thing to come from last night’s loss

Yep, against the Rangers, too. They then get the honor of being thrown out of the stadium...while bandwagoners cheer and die-hards shake their heads and avoid eye contact out of shame for the offenders.

Thank you. The worst ever was when I was wearing a Sox jersey and a late '80s "C" Sox hat and some idiots got in my face telling me to "pick a side" (thinking it was a Cubs hat). There are some idiots out there.

People get on me for my Birmingham Barons hat, thinking it's a Tigers hat. Then again, the entire stadium now seems to chant "throw it back" every time the opposition hits a home run, so I am close to giving up on the in-person fan population. ?

Was just going to respond with the same thought. There's no way these prices are right. This is one of those China knockoff stores with official-sounding names. Got my son a football jersey from one of these last year and the product was total garbage (the numbers were almost comically off-center). You can find the baby blue jersey in the store at the stadium and at Grandstand, though, but an authentic will cost you more than double this.

Generally authentics are significantly different (and the usual price difference much more than $10). Heavier/higher quality fabric, stich-on vs. iron-on letters and numbers, front numbers instead of blank fronts. It's hard to tell with these throwbacks, and I'm skeptical the difference is that great if the price span is so small, but I'd probably take a chance and order authentic.

Yes, the grays in particular are really cool (and really rare).

I like assuming I'm correct about something at the time I form the opinion then disregarding all subsequent evidence disproving my conclusion as anomalous and unforeseeable.

Yes, we should definitely find some way to embed trolling in literally every post because that's what this site is lacking

Can't see the picture you embedded for some reason but the '69s are one of the coolest (and least commonly seen/worn) designs by far.

Yankees now 3 games over 500 and in 4th in the AL East but apparently better than the white sox Right, maybe they can enjoy their superiority over the Sox while watching them in the playoffs from home? Seriously, this particular form of flawed logic is one of my biggest pet peeves and it shows up every year. Using a tiny regular season sample size against some hand-picked "good team" as your only valid measuring stick is nonsense. Won't belabor the many reasons why, which should be obvious. It's usually a tactic used by fans of opposing teams and other dedicated haters clinging to one way to diminish the accomplishments of a team that's harder and harder to criticize based on more reliable measures. Weird to see it used on a fan board, but I shouldn't be surprised. Reminds me of a friend I had in 2005 whose refrain throughout the season was "talk to me when your Sox can beat the Angels." The Angels played the Sox tough in the regular season, including dominating them in a sweep in Chicago in September. We all know how that movie ended.

Therein lies joke

Surprised nobody's mentioned that we're at the 60 game mark: with 37 wins, two more than last year. It seemed the Twins' one extra win (36-24) entitled them to quite a bit of "the Twins are the class of the division/the division goes through the champs" deference from some posters this offseason. Pretty humbling that we've bested the mark of even those great champions.

Nice to be on the other side if one of those—Jays blew so many opportunities you just knew it would come back to bite them. Quality W.

Well you've never been heckled by me.

No problems here. I'm all for heckling. Lost art.

I remember seeing Yankees fans strutting around as the game concluded taking pictures together and gloating, thinking wistfully "what must it be like to KNOW you're going to the playoffs and have a good shot of winning it all?" Little did I know we would win one before they would...and pretty damn soon.

Ha. I was at that game.

Somebody should tell them about their great history. I heard somewhere that that will help them win games this year. In all seriousness, I find this hard to believe. They're talented and a hot week or two away from being right back in the divisional race, let alone wildcard.

Yeah, they're definitely...blue? After a dalliance with interesting (Marlins, Sox) it looks like the City Connect project has made a swift return to boring. And who has real affinity for "Wrigleyville"? It's a stretch to call it a neighborhood. Nobody "reps" Wrigleyville. It's like the Bears wearing a jersey that says "Museum Campus."

Nokonas are interesting: super high-quality, expensive, beautiful...never owned one but I'm told they're a little heavy but extremely durable and easy to break in. Been around forever, beloved by youth players, but the pros don't use them for reasons I've never fully understood. I'm a big Mizuno guy myself.

It's WAY too early to bury Kelenic. But I like what Nick brings to this team, and that he brings it right now when we need it.

You could start slow, like by not posting about not posting.

Bad baseball face/low back pockets

No, a bit exaggerated but not far off.