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Do you really think the owner's going to change his tune and spend big in FA or trade from his MiLB system this offseason? Doesn't seem all that likely. Rays also facing a lot of uncertainty without Franco and Toronto's always somehow not greater than the sum of all their considerable parts. Main positive is no more Yankees/Red Sox worship in Bristol.

Looks like the Orioles are dead in the water and the Dodgers have Lance Lynn starting. Thankfully the Braves showed up in the late innings or it would have been the most boring postseason start in years and years...

Every team other than the White Sox should be trending upwards in the AL Central as well...well, other than maybe the Royals, but it's difficult to imagine them being much worse. Royce Lewis, if he can actually stay healthy, looks like he will be able to keep the Twins afloat by himself, the equivalent of Jose Ramirez for the Guardians.

My theory of why TV sports have become less popular Posted on October 29, 2020 9:09 AM by Andrew https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/10/29/my-theory-of-why-tv-sports-have-become-less-popular/

Those that don't or can't fit in with Tomlin...usually they're pretty strong judges of character over there.

Nice job Hurricanes. Lol. OU has no ranked B12 games on?the schedule left...would likely need to beat Texas twice before they both join the SEC to get into playoffs. Huge turnaround from 6-7 year...defense almost totally flip flopped from last year.

The amazing thing is that the Phillies' manager was one of the least heralded guys out there...at least when that trigger was pulled. Look where they are now. Ofc, we get the opposite out of Grifol, but not much comparison in talent between the two teams anymore (2022-23, compared to 2020-21 Sox and Phils).

Can the White Sox be warned for not ILing enough players lol? https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-playoffs-2023-in-baseballs-october-blame-game-direct-your-ire-toward-a-person-not-the-analytics-bogeyman-012330199.html Don't blame sabes/analytics...blame the front offices and coaching staffs instead

Can the White Sox be warned for not ILing enough players lol? https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb-playoffs-2023-in-baseballs-october-blame-game-direct-your-ire-toward-a-person-not-the-analytics-bogeyman-012330199.html Don't blame sabes/analytics...blame the front offices and coaching staffs instead

Bellinger to the Sox seems more unlikely than Harper. Soler has the Royals connection. Ofc, he's probably due for a down season if he signs here.

Would rather employ Gore and Dyson as designated PRers, lol. Lo Cain out of retirement as player manager. He manages to move slower than Moncada and hurt as often.

Trading Cease for Tier B/C lottery tickets ostensibly to get rid of an undesirable Sox contract...the first time we see the opposite of that (pure best avail talent acquisition) perhaps we can start to be a bit more optimistic. And they need a better backup plan than Shaw/Banks for closer...should approach ST as if Santos will be out the entire season just in case.

You have the worst bench in the majors and Merrifield/Frazier types always seem to go the wrong way for the Sox. I just don't think there's any way in hell the Sox add back on that much payroll absolutely knowing they will be seeing another 25-30% drop off in season tickets and will suffer more pretty much guaranteed losses (especially with Grifol back too). Especially a "headline" move of Eddie Rodriguez that wouldn't move the most die hard of Sox fans to buy back into at least a partial ticket package. Of course, they might end up trading or dumping Anderson...but still stuck with Moncada Jimenez Benintendi AND the team will be even more miserable based on playing the current youth in the minor league cupboard. But we will be lucky to get half that new spending IMO and would definitely take the "under" bet.

All I know is that it's a very slippery slope between a Clevinger and Bauer. Would like to see the internal polling of women who attend Sox games (at least ten times per season) and how many attended fewer games than past seasons or watched fewer games on TV specifically due to that signing? If you were one Bauer signing away from 88-92 wins versus 82-86, for example...it wouldn't be worth it obviously.

Still not buying the Twins, but who knows with the way Royce Lewis has been playing plus the added motivation for Correa against his former team.

I think you’re in the minority on this one. Any White Sox fan from 1951-67 didn’t benefit from only one postseason appearance and the Yankees/Brooklyn Dodgers in the WS every other season while the Sox averaged roughly a 90 win pace per year. And wouldn’t your argument also hold true for the NBA playoff expansion? The common belief is that exposing baseball teams to more series adds randomness…whereas “fluke” championship series winners (like wild card teams) have been few and far between and still revolved around a couple of superstar players carrying teams on most occasions. Baseball has become more regional (except for the top 6-7 famous brands…including the Braves now), whereas NFL and NBA have become increasingly international brands. Of course, there’s the exception of the WBC…particularly the Pacific Rim countries as well as Mexico City and northern Mexico (area perceived as too dangerous for a franchise at current time).

Was Eder still in the low 90s?

This was a summary of Garfein by the way. Based on those four all basically asking to sit on fan appreciation day that final Sunday game. Our Chuck basically assumed AB was untradable but that the club was more afraid of those other three guys getting hurt once again before the offseason…precluding their ability to dump them via trade.

If they are guys like Korey Lee, Romy, Remillard, Colas and Sosa then 100+ losses is well within sight again...

With the current environment, he might be overqualified and generally too cerebral for political office. It’s not like the bar is very high.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/rays/2023/10/03/tampa-bay-rays-fans-lowest-attendance/71051141007/ Worst post-season attendance since 1919 Sox/Reds WS…there was a very strange ticket sales strategy that resulted in that one. At least it was on the part of the Reds.

https://www.mlb.com/news/twins-win-game-1-al-wild-card-series-2023

Still would like to get rid of TÁ Moncada Jimenez and Benintendi. LoL. Might be headed for 110-115 losses and contraction talk after another 2-3 years of foundering.

At least we don’t have to hear about the Cubs all off-season. There’s that. And the misery train has simply switched tracks to the Bears. Pretty seamless transition.

Skip Schumacher seems to be the right manager as well. We ended up with TLR/McEwing from the Cardinals' Way coaching tree instead.