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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.

But in a good way ?

I can imagine you'd be sensitive about undeserved "mansplaining" accusations. If you need a witness that you just talk that way regardless of gender I'm sure plenty of posters on this board would vouch for you.

This is one of the most annoying things about the season. Too many in the media, and Sox haters writ large, are all too happy to jump on the anti-TLR train (which I'm onboard myself) to make him the focus of the season and distract from the team's success. That's why I keep my TLR-bashing "all in the family." TLR talk is for fellow Sox fans only. For everybody else it's "I haven't noticed -- since we're in first place" ?

Very true. I have to laugh at Zach Zaidman, who is like "this is how you know the Cubs are true champions: they've reached the stage of greatness where they don't feel the need to make the playoffs anymore"

https://deadspin.com/so-mariners-phenom-jarred-kelenic-is-having-some-troub-1847040526

Ah, now I get the weird glitching on this. Ok, Cub fan. Carry on.

Oh, well that settles it then. ? You’ve made clear that you’ve redefined “rival” to mean team you’re competing with for your divisional title. Went over this above, doesn’t actually capture the common English meaning of the word, but we get it. Anyway, I changed my mind and decided “rival” means your last playoff opponent. So it’s the A’s. End thread.

The question wasn’t “what team has the White Sox played the most?” or “what teams are in the White Sox division?” It was which team is our (yes our) biggest rival, a word that has has a more expansive definition than “most frequent opponent.” This debate always goes the same way. It’s a definitional problem. One group posits that the Cubs are a rival because they play a few miles away, compete for the same fans and same market, and have produced a decades-old feud memorialized in songs, folklore, and play games that fire the fans up more than any other team by far. Another group says “but they’re not in our division! Rivals are in the same division. So they’re not our rivals. Different division.” Never understood camp two, but sure, if you narrow your personal definition of “rivalry” to “teams we play the most games against head-to-head” then look at a list of the teams in our division at any given time and there’s your answer.

If he can "consistently beat the good teams" as well as the cellar dwellers...he'll be top 1 in baseball rather than top 27.

Why rely on easily obtainable, verified, broadly applicable data when you have meaningless anecdotes?

As I said in the other thread, if any of that Berkeley education sunk in he’s surely vaxxed. It’s probably a breakthrough or perhaps he’s just in protocol pre-testing.

Yes, that's pretty well-established. His being one of the 6% would nonetheless qualify as "weird."

Hope that's all it is. Specifying "asymptomatic," though, suggested to me that it may be a positive test.

Vaughn on COVID protocols? Weird. Have to think he was vaccinated if any of that Berkeley education sunk in...Disappointing. Hope he has a quick and full recovery.

Thanks. Thanks. Thanks a lot. Thanks.

No, it wasn't aimed at you, and I am in fact more pessimistic on Yermin than you are. I hope he figures it out but I'm surprised at how much rope this critical crowd is giving a career minor leaguer with a hot start that's fading rapidly into the rear-view mirror.