3GamesToLove
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This is maybe a WELL ACTUALLY, but maybe important if eventually you press charges--what you're describing is larceny/theft. Robbery refers to taking something directly from someone's person by force or intimidation.
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The Sox are the only one of the charter franchises to never play in the postseason in consecutive years, and have the fewest postseason appearances amongst those teams as well. They're definitely in the conversation.
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The only thing I care less about than college basketball is college football, so I'm aggressively ambivalent about Walton.
Mike Schur on the Saturday, though, is a (Ken) Tremendous proposition.
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2 hours ago, flavum said:
Phillies-Mets and Angels-Astros are also Fox games at the same time, so chances are Cubs-Sox is regional, at best.
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Seriously, a sustained period of competitive baseball and multiple postseason appearances is enough for me. I've thought since the beginning that I don't think the Sox need to win a championship for the rebuild to be deemed a success. We did the one-off World Series win already.
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4 hours ago, ron883 said:
Oooo interesting. I may have to tune into that. They'll have an obvious Sox Homer on the Cubs broadcast. AJ says hawk is the greatest commentator of all time after all
You won't have a choice. This is a FOX-exclusive national broadcast.
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52 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:
a bunch of heresy but nothing concrete. Still, where there is smoke there is fire and the smoke has followed Eaton around his entire career.
Heresy =/= hearsay. Unless you think Eaton is divine.
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Incredible. I've been a Spurs fan since '07 (got to watch Champions League football there in 2010--the famous 3-1 win over Inter), and I never thought this would happen. Still in disbelief.
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22 hours ago, ptatc said:
As opposed to positive regression? 😁
17 hours ago, Dam8610 said:Positive regression is a thing. As an example, Willy Adames is due for some positive regression.
Yup. Regression doesn't denote things getting better or worse.
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1 minute ago, RichieZisk said:
For those of you who can't make make it trust me that you would be much angrier if you went, spent a bunch of money on concessions, still got soaked, and then find out that the game is still going to be postponed which is very likely what would have happened.
I guess so. I'll just stay in tomorrow anyway and watch baseball on TV. Last day of the Extra Innings preview on DirecTV.
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Sucks. I made arrangements for work and can't swap the days now. Was going to be my first home opener.
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$20 for parking really adds up.
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Probably going to about the same games as last year, which is lower than it was four or five years ago but that's largely due to general lifestyle and spending habit changes rather than an indictment of the team. I just like watching baseball.
I am going to the home opener for the first time ever. So that'll be interesting.
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I'm kind of shocked by all of the ownership shills around here. Most of the rest of my baseball corners of the internet have taken on a decidedly pro-player bent over the last few years.
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Maybe a somewhat underappreciated player. As a kid getting into baseball in the late 90s he was fourth on the all-time homer list and yet I knew very little about him compared to those others.
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Sticking solely to guys I saw play........
Ray Durham
Alexei Ramirez
Chris Sale
Magglio Ordonez
Frank Thomas
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Good for Harold, and for those of you who grew up watching him play. I guess this makes the ball I got him to sign at last year's SoxFest extra cool now. As someone who only saw him play in his final stint and even as a kid looking at his career stats in Who's Who in Baseball, I never quite got the adoration. I still don't think I do.
Baines is the new example that'll be used to show the Hall being watered-down. He's a worse candidate than Rice or Dawson. This shows the flaws in the committee system in particular--a system which is responsible for bad selections going all the way back to the 60s.
From Craig Calcaterra at NBC's HardballTalk:
"Baines played for 22 seasons, amassed 2,866 hits and made the All-Star Game six times. He was a fantastically consistent hitter, posting an OPS+ of 108 or greater every single season between the ages of 22 and 40. He was also a durable player, not missing a whole heck of a lot of time to either injury or ineffectiveness until his late 30s. Even then he managed to hang around until he was 42-years-old. In the early part of his career, with the Chicago White Sox, he was the star of the team and the face of the organization.
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For all of the pros in Baines’ column as listed above, it has to be said that Baines will be one of the weaker inductees in some time. He led the league in exactly one offensive category in his long career: slugging percentage in 1984. He was rarely a top-10 finisher in the most important offensive categories. His highest finish in MVP balloting came in 1985 when he came in ninth. While Baines may have meant a lot to the White Sox in the first part of his career there is no way one can honestly argue that he was ever the best player in the game or even one of the best five, six or, usually, ten. His failure to rank highly in hitting categories is especially notable given that over 1,600 of his 2,830 career games came at DH. He was certainly not thought of as a Hall of Famer by the men and women who covered him during his day: he was on the BBWAA ballot five times and never received more than 6.1% of the vote. He fell off the ballot in 2011 when he received 4.8%."
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As others have said, Benetti's weakness in the Sox booth is his constant need to look for corny jokes and zingers--the occasional one is fine and I have no problem with it, but it gets too goofy at times. Last night on ESPN? No such problem. I don't know if it's a Stone thing, or what.
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38 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:
Kopech vs. Otani would be an interesting match up.
36 minutes ago, TheTruth05 said:If it rains like it's supposed to tonight then the Baseball God's want to see it
Ohtani is not pitching Friday. He pitches weekly (Sundays, hypothetically); not on a usual five day schedule.
After his last start, it's even unclear if he'll even pitch on Sunday.
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Both of mine are pretty embarassing.
First album: Hanson--Middle of Nowhere
First show: Linkin Park, supported by POD, Hoobastank, and Story of the Year. Rosemont, 2004.
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Not sure if we have any Jason Isbell fans here, but a cool confluence of tour dates this month: Isbell at the Auditorium on 9/14 (still some [bad] tickets available), Amanda Shires at Thalia Hall on the 20th, and Drive-By Truckers (w/The Hold Steady) at the 312 Block Party at Goose Island on 9/22. Isbell, his wife, and his old band in the city all within 8 days of one another.
I'll be there for all of them. This time four months ago I had heard good things about Isbell but had never actually listened to him or given the genre much of a chance. Within a week or two it was all I was playing and I'd made plans to see him at Summerfest. Now I'll have seen him twice within five months of discovering him. It's been a long time since I so totally got into an artist as this guy. If you appreciate great songwriting, give him a listen. I don't think you'll regret it.
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51 minutes ago, South Side Fireworks Man said:
Nothing wrong with that.
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3 minutes ago, kwolf68 said:
Kopech is young, he comes from Texas, he maybe even fits the "redneck" stereotype, who knows. Kopech has spent his entire life becoming a pitcher, by all accounts a damn good one. Michael Kopech has absolutely ZERO understanding or perspective about other cultures, he probably is not able to see the world from the view of a black person, latino, or even a gay person. He probably even considers them all "the different". Michael Kopech is not an enlightened person. And he is 22 years old. That all said, as he associates with more latin people, black people, people who are conservative, people who are liberal, and even gay people he will grow from it and realize they aren't so bad and hopefully become respectful and tolerant. If he CHOOSES to continue to be a narrow minded idiot I'll judge him at that time, but at this time I want to allow him to grow up and be lead by the world baseball is going to soon open for him. Good luck in that quest Michael. I so want to root for you and I typically like rooting for good people.
I don't take much issue with most of this post, but much of Texas is very diverse. Kopech's hometown is only 56% white.
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2 minutes ago, ChiliIrishHammock24 said:
It's a good rule.
It's the only language I specifically mention in my syllabus.
Reinsdorf assures Ron that Abreu will always be a White Sox
in Pale Hose Talk
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So who is Ron!?