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I think that's why the poster wrote "what not to do on the back end." The whole "Cubs won a World Series and I'd be happy with a World Series" post kind of goes without saying [typing?] at this point.

The Cubs really seem to be waging a multi-front war on their fans over the last couple seasons.

It's funny, I suspect that if you took a poll back in late 2019 to see who folks wanted to be the *regular* RF, Puig would have beaten Mazara handily. Mazara was not even on the radar. Now we're arguing over whether he'd even be a suitable backup to Mazara. I think a lot of folks have talked themselves into Mazara (myself included) and are measuring Puig against the version of Mazara they've built in their minds. Puig has a world of talent and is on the right side of 30. Particularly given the strong support system on this team I think he's worth a flyer.

I remember this little older lady standing next to me literally jumping into my arms after Iguchi’s homer. I was jumping up and down with the rest of the crowd cradling her like a baby. Leaving the stadium that night was definitely the first “oh my god, this could really happen” moment for me.

Blackout game ALDS game 2 Funny how these threads also function as “age polls” (reminding me just how young a lot of the posters are).

Me too. If nothing else I hope I get to return to watching my Cub fan friends hate us right back, all while bending over backwards to appear not to (a time-honored Cub fan tradition).

Happy to start this as an unapologetic member of the "I care about how we do as compared to our crosstown rival even though I fully recognize they're not in our league or division" club. Will the Cubs continue their now-clear downward trendline, or will the pretty-intact core of a former World Series team rebound? Will Bryant get traded? Will the crosstown series become fun again?

Yeah, that was rock bottom for me (from a fan perspective).

He had a couple nice outings between the debut and the blowout where he was clearly hurt. He looked like he had conquered some of the control problems that plagued him earlier that season. In any event, I’m really excited to see his progress this year but prepared to be patient.

Nice story, but more importantly: did the helicopter go over 110 and was anyone's mom present?

Which part of you - the part that likes 6 WAR players? All of me wants him to be right!

Well, it could be worse: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/padres-phase-out-their-spring-training-hat-after-fans-say-design-resembled-a-swastika/ar-BBZVBkE?ocid=ientp

He's back.

Very lazy/boring list, but then power rankings usually are. After making a big deal up front about how "2020 is not 2019" they basically just reproduce power rankings from the end of 2019 with a few little tweaks. It would be fun if one of these would actually take a position and predict huge jumps/huge declines that will inevitably happen over the course of the season.

Wow we're still going with the speeding thing. This thread is bonkers and I like it!

It really is strange. He’s the voice of the White Sox and he’s in there mixing it up with anonymous fans on Twitter, and getting riled up in the process. Someone needs to remind him that there are many debates that you lose just by entering into them.

My eyes just read a huge spider crawling on somebody's 2019 ST hat. I keep instinctively swatting at my screen

Yes, I prefer expensive and useless. In seriousness, every team should pray for players on its roster who are handy and cheap, particularly in a bench role. If Holt comes relatively cheap he'd be a great addition to this roster.

I'd be good with that. I always thought black on black and white on white would be a cool look for the Sox, but fear that the negative fan reaction to some of the poorly-designed white-on-whites from players' day may have poisoned the well on that idea.

Pretty close: https://jerseybarn.com/collections/majestic-2019-mlb-spring-training-jerseys/products/mens-white-sox-yoan-moncada-2019-spring-training-cool-base-black-jersey

I've long thought it would be cool to do the right kind of uniform refresh to coincide with the Sox coming out of the rebuild, but this is not what I had in mind.

Fine. Hope he tortures the Cubs.

I'd hire like 30 new Chevy Pride Crew members (build on a strength--can never have too many), then buy a bunch of old people to sit at the top of the lower-bowl aisles, like at Wrigley, maybe dress them in funny/adorable costumes. Bring Wally the White Sox Wolf out of retirement as a backup mascot and call it an offseason.

I'm really glad we've established that Andrew Vaughn and Cody Bellinger are not the same person. Remember when that guy used the equals sign in his post? Hahaha! That was so wrong! Cody Bellinger is an established player and Andrew Vaughn is a prospect! So much for the equals sign!!! Looks like they don't "equal" each other at all, hmm?! They are also different people inside totally different bodies. They live in different houses. They even live in different states! Imagine using an equals sign! I get what you're saying, michelangelosmonkey. Psyched to dream about Vaughn in the lineup for the foreseeable future, and appreciate the difference between quoting a one-sentence blurb from a fluff baseball prospect list and publishing in a peer-reviewed journal.