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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.

Yeah, recall there were a couple wild Saturdays in the left field bleachers last season. Those guys were pretty much posted up at the top of the outfield stairs all game and definitely hauled the instigators out when I was there.

What do you mean? They do exactly that every time there's a fight - it's their job. Seen it dozens of times. Fights don't just stop on their own - the security guys haul somebody up the stairs while the crowd cheers.

I’ll almost certainly regret starting this topic, but question about that fight footage making the national rounds from Saturday…Has in-game security staffing changed or something? I’ve seen plenty of fights over the years, but never seen a fight go so long at the stadium without security showing up. Usually takes a minute or two at most. That one just went on and on and security wasn’t even there by the end.

When i wrote the observation about trust it was in response to a bunch of posts seeming to take it as a given that the Twins are better and will finish ahead of us. Maybe they will, but I’m not sure why that would be obvious given that we’ve finished ahead of them the last two years; even our nightmare ‘22 season was better than what the mighty Twins had to offer.

This thread is giving me flashbacks to the RagahRagah baiting era

It’s weird that the org and fan base just seem to have a hard time believing in Burger even though he’s a first round pick. I think he’s hampered by the fact that people just wrote him off and forgot about him during his injury nightmares (myself included). Maybe it’s time to consider that he might be a legit major league hitter.

Not super relevant to the likelihood of this particular Twins team finishing ahead of this Sox team. And somehow I doubt it’s a World Series from before most posters were born that is decisive to the weird unconditional forgiveness of a team whose recent performances would have the same posters jumping off a bridge had they been wearing black and gray instead of red and blue.

Other than you, you mean?

Let's string together a few wins before Caulfield starts another thread

I'd go further - I'd say he wants to actively steal from his family, but is just too lazy to do it. Just look at a few two-second snippets of him walking to and from the dugout and it's obvious.

I feel like the White Sox lineup is good when its players are playing, and bad when our best hitters are out. It's pretty much that simple.

It's weird how many place zero trust in the Sox, but trust a team that has been worse than the Sox the last two years implicitly. (Not directed at you btw).

Sucks that we're in survival mode so early, but that's where we are. Just hope to steal a few wins with half our lineup out. That starts today, grabbing a series win. Just keep from spiraling until we get our guys back, I guess. Feels like we've been in this mode for two years, though. Sigh

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Huzzah. The Twins are dumb. Their fans weirdly all have blonde hair and they actually redesigned their uniforms to make them even more boring

Soxtalk—the place where rooting for the White Sox and being hopeful 9 games into their season is “gloating.”