lostfan

The demise of USA men's basketball has been greatly exaggerated. It's funny how high the standards are for them. They can't just win a gold, they have to absolutely dog walk every opponent all the way through by at least 30 points or it doesn't really count.

Sure, but ain't no backup worth the $24 million or whatever his salary is right now. I think last year people got all excited about him that they started pretending his career was much better than it was because he's not Trubisky (standard Chicago backup QB syndrome) only for him to end up starting and his extreme limitations became apparent (as in he could read the defense but couldn't evade a free rusher if he had a 15-yard head start) I just thought about how Pace gave up a 4th round pick to bail Jacksonville out of their obvious mistake and got mad all over again lol.

Never been a JR fan/defender but this is an accurate description of like 90% of the owners of pro sports franchises and is in no way unique to Reinsdorf.

It really blows my mind how there are still so many people there are who don't understand Foles is actually really bad. They will just say "he won a Super Bowl" like that means anything at all in terms of right now. Might as well bring up that Chip Kelly season too.

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They all saw it coming but they're still pissed. These are all guys they'd developed strong attachments to

The way Cubs fans feel right now has gotta be what it would have hypothetically felt like if the Sox had traded Konerko, Dye, AJ, and Buehrle within hours of each other while they were all still productive players. That's a lot.

I have some unfortunate shit-talking tweets about Madrigal but he eventually won me over, I'll miss him.

Man, the White Sox don't have a bullpen, they just have a guy standing on the mound with a M240B

Burger and Sheets are better off in AAA, they still really need the PAs and they aren't gonna get it in the majors this year.

Yermin Mercedes leaving the stadium last night:

My attempt at translating Yermin's IG post "I'm never going to give up. I lasted 10 years in the minors, I always understood that the process is great but the talent and what I showed speaks for itself. With the most humility I'm speaking from the heart. My dream is to be an established player in MLB. I always asked God to give me the opportunity he gave me 3 months ago. I owe my family, my organization, and my fans an apology (new mind?) if I have failed something. I have baseball in my blood and now Yermin Mercedes is missing. Thank God for guiding me on the right path and making the right decision. Everyone that is going through my situation, hold onto the hand of God, He can do it all, and forget the critics and bad comments that are always going to exist to run over? trample? one's personality. God bless y'all, I love everybody I'm back"

I was in downtown Milwaukee 2 years ago for a work trip and there are so many good craft beer places I don't think you can go wrong. I went to Good City Brewing, which is across the street from where the Bucks play, but I think that's a little ways away from Miller Park

South Side! ASSEMBLE!

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO As much love as I have for how Billy Hamilton and Brian Goodwin have kept the ship from sinking, I'm also looking forward to not having to watch them all the time. It'll be a shame to see them go though.

1. I was in great shape when the pandemic first started. Gyms closed and I had to go and rush to go get some home equipment. I remember thinking "I'll come back and get the rest on payday" (at that point, in 2 days) and all that shit was gone. Every barbell, every dumbbell, every plate, every bench was gone and it'd be months before I would see them again. Even today the heaviest thing I have in the house is 25 lbs. I kept doing home workouts for a while but eventually that "get up and get after it" I had that made me get up and work out was gone, and eventually chips and video games won, and I started calling my weight gain "the COVID 19." I've been fully vaccinated since March so I started exercising again consistently in April and I am *not quite* back where I was in 2020, but close. 2. Mental health is fine. The main thing I dealt with during the pandemic was boredom. It hasn't really changed much. 3. I was very fortunate in that I never lost my job or stopped working and neither did my wife so our finances are in great shape. A side effect of my non-existent social life was having a lot more money so I finished some home improvement projects and I got LASIK done with cash.

Since I'm always at work on night shifts I tend to wake up when the game is in like the 7th inning

Who's going tomorrow? Gio, yes?

Grandal's bat drop on HRs is just so fucking cool. If he was a perennial 40+ HR guy it would be iconic.

It really is nice though that the White Sox have built this reputation in Cuba where they seem to have first dibs on every Cuban phenom that defects.

He's definitely got the stuff to be a 1 or a 2 but he's been walking too many guys. If he ever got a handle on that he's a front of the rotation guy.

Something I learned in the STL series (or maybe I knew this and forgot) from seeing them do it: you can tag up on a foul ball. I guess catching it makes the ball live. I don't think I've ever seen a bases-loaded flyout at the foul pole before, though.

I want Jose to play forever, but I'll rest easier knowing the transition from Andrew to Jose was as seamless as the transition from Paulie to Jose

I swear to God, nobody gets as many opportunities to kill rallies as he does. Granted, it should be Robert or Jimenez in those situations, but still