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Just like the certainty Iowa will win some blowouts over teams like WSH or Minnesota or Wisconsin but still get pummeled by Ohio State. Although to be fair they did give Indiana one of their toughest games in 2025...mostly because it was at Kinnick.

What was TB's record in games Peralta started? Ofc WEddy also argued that Robbie Ray and Castillo were "equal" acquisitions at the deadline based on overall team results in their starts. In 2026, Luke Keaschall hit .281 vs left‑handed pitching and .277 vs right‑handed pitching, with stronger production on the road (.293 AVG) than at home (.258 AVG)Keaschall or McCarthy instead of Dominic Fletcher/Braden in RF the last two months gets the job done as well.

Two offenses that went quiet in postseason but Padres were just 2-3 big plays away from a completely different result against Milwaukee...France girder ball, Machado robbed homer by Mitchell that would have tied it and Morejon/Miller wearing down at the exact wrong time for SD.

Does WestEddy believe they actually would have gotten the same performance out of Peralta? There's a nice symmetry going from Brewers to ex GM Stearns to now the Rays facing Milwaukee. Just like former Guardians Caminero Yandy Diaz and Jake Bauers all facing each other ... Rasmussen traded from MIL and ending up with Rays, etc.

Or opens it up for the first three loss team...probably from the SEC. Hard to imagine anyone in the Big10 besides OSU and Indiana. Maybe UCLA?

We used to buy those cheap scorecards day of game, write out the starting lineups, etc. Almost nobody except broadcasters and those listening at home on the radio older than 50 would do that anymore.

33% is upper deck isolation/heights 33% lack of things to do in surrounding area/parking lots 33% low attendance most seasons leaves visitors a depressed feeling except for weekends totally different atmosphere 2008 G163 or this year's post season...at least 25 or so home games this season as well ramp were quantity in Old Comiskey but just a reminder of seat segregation in GRF suites in middle destroy coziness

So then you can imagine the White Sox really did move to Tampa but hired about ten future big league GMs instead.

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/milwaukee-brewers-broadcaster-sends-emotional-154607213.html

The White Sox aren't going to use TAnne Murray as a starting SS. They would go with Acuna or Meidroth first and foremost. As bad as Colson's season ended, he was still 13th out of 26 in SS ratings. It would be a minor miracle if Colson could be out of bottom 5.

"Still, there are differences here. I have a home reliance metric that looks at how much of a team's overall run differential is based on its play at home. It's expressed as an index, and Milwaukee's 125 tied with the Chicago White Sox for the highest in baseball. The Rays were more middle-of-the-pack at 104. The disparity comes at the plate. Milwaukee's 5.52 runs per game at American Family Field were considerably more than any team. The Brewers' offense was still good on the road, ranking sixth at 4.75. The Rays were 13th in home scoring and 15th on the road. Of course, it should be noted that while these numbers explain Milwaukee's greater degree of home reliance, its offense performed better than the Rays through either prism." espn.com/mlb

SI2027 NFL Mock Draft 3.0: Gilberto Manzano’s Pick Predicti...Eight quarterbacks could come off the board in the first two rounds, but one signal-caller takes a dramatic fall in the top 32 picks.big falls for Manning, Dante Moore, Ryan Coleman Williams Chambliss the best player after Smith, but can he hold up to physicality (see Jayden Daniels)?

Surely, the walk rates have a lot to do with the rankings as well. And Antonacci's proclivity for hbp's.

One way of saying they have no starting pitching and outfield depth. Remember how a year ago Quero AND Teel supposedly provided them a niche advantage over the rest of baseball? Now, not so much.

No helicopter trip? that's a bit more fun

Dred Scott Courthouse Children's Museum if you have a family Ted Drews Frozen Custards Imo's ravioli and garlic cheese toast Anheuser Busch brewery tour Grant's Farm

Was that the old Adams Mark?

Ian Seymour? Definitely not Booser he rocked.

Municipal/Memorial, it was a huge stadium not meant for baseball with terrible winds off the lake. Late 80’s, it made 2023-25 White Sox games look like Margi Gras, só no wonder “Major League” used that team Once we sat in the LF bleachers and serenaded Jeffrey Leonard to his annoyance, think he was on Milwaukee Maybe 2000-3000 in stands second Arlington Park tried to overplay the Natural soundtrack, but all I remember was the stifling heat at both facilities First time to Three Rivers, got a bunch of free BP balls from Bobby Bonilla Second time sat in box seats at PNC with Chuck and Bruce Tanner Probably favorite memory was befriending Scott Radinsky and Dominican RHP Jose Ventura when they came to the Quad Cities (hanging out in bullpen) and were playing for SouthBend….we really shocked the suburban neighbors bringing Ventura who was about 6’4” with black horned-rim glasses to play pickup basketball in front of my house at midnight Then we went to a number of games in that magical 1990 season for free at Old Comiskey through will call/comp tickets from Radinsky….had Sosa too, the late (and gangly) Carlos Martinez, favorites in late 80s were Eddie Williams and Ivan Calderon, eventually Lance 1 Dog Johnson vividly remember a snow delay in April back then as well Tucson for ST Tokyo Dome Kyocera Dome Want to go to Hokkaido someday, really cool newer stadium

White Flag season/JR jokes…

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50222334/alcs-tampa-bay-rays-clinch-world-series-spot Comprehensive Jeff Passan story on Rays’ success The Rays' stability, in part, has come from their ability to complement their longtime employees with new faces to replace those who left the Tampa Bay machine and eventually took over other baseball operations departments: Andrew Friedman (Dodgers), Chaim Bloom (Boston and St. Louis), Peter Bendix (Miami), James Click (Houston), Taylor Smith (A's) and Matt Arnold, who runs the Brewers. The Rays' fingerprints are everywhere in baseball. "Since I was drafted at 17, every coach that I've been with, the players they drafted, you could tell that everybody was just a straight-up A-plus human being," Walls said. "And if they weren't, they got out. You've got to be a good person to be in this organization. You gotta care about winning. Winning has to be your only priority. And if it's not, they sniff you out real quick and you're probably not here long.”

Safeco Oracle Park Dodger Stadium first two Rangers Comiskey & GRF Wrigley new Twins Busch II StL 20ish games Royals/Kauffman 50ish games Tiger Stadium & Comerica Memorial Stadium Cleve Memorial Stadium Baltimore Atlanta Fulton County Three Rivers & PNC Yankee Stadium LAA

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/milwaukee-world-series-tickets-expensive-175406172.html Brewers' fans heading south to Florida for cheaper WS experiences https://www.fox6now.com/news/world-series-brewers-timeless-tickets-seating-options-limited&ved=2ahUKEwily7nXqcqXAxWaAIAAHb6KLroQ0PADKAB6BAgaEAE&usg=AOvVaw2u_lhR1L5C-qP6XPeyjX_P $1000+ "timeless tickets" sold a decade ago providing Brewers' fans some of the worst possible upper deck seating arrangements https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/brewers-president-of-business-operations-sides-with-timeless-ticket-holders-we-did-not-live-up-to-the-spirit-of-the-program-232154310.html

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/bad-pathetic-nonsense-bears-fans-022509391.html Scoop Jackson column on Ben Johnson getting blasted

Pirates Reds etc. A's will have more revenues in the beginning in Vegas TB CLE MIL LAA with Kroenke/entertainment district Colorado with Broncos' group running it Sox farm system now well behind DET MIN CLE Royals new stadium/increased revenues