Bananarchy

QUOTE (Hatchetman @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 05:57 PM) My daughter and I made some Halloween decorations this weekend: Unhappy Family I have been somewhat critical, but that is great. QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 06:50 PM) Aren't you a Notre Dame fan? and [/thread] Of all the fanbases, Notre Dame's may be the most delusional.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 06:56 PM) Supposedly the Cubs think they can play Heyward in CF. I don't know enough about NL players, but that Cubs outfield is pretty crowded. Is Heyward a Fowler replacement? I guess the OBP and OPS+ are a little better.

Thoughts and prayers with him. Really puts everything into perspective.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 07:00 PM) Starting Hammel is bullpen by committee anyway It's just brutal. But I understand Theo's feelings on this. This Cubs team is ahead of schedule.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 02:13 PM) Yea if I'm the Cubs I'm taking full advantage of their rookie surplus, trade away guys you don't believe in (Baez most likely) and sign guys like Price now to make yourself legit contenders. They have like a 4-5 year window before any of their young hitters really require money, you have to spend on pitching now to capitalize. Plus, it's the Cubs, if they need money to pay players they will find it somewhere. Right, and even then, it's not like the Blackhawks where they HAD to move people. The Cubs can pay their guys if they want. My guess is they won't because that farm system is still bubbling with talent.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 12:25 PM) Soxobama, lol good times. I still think lester and his stuff sucks. He bided time this year in the NL but that can only help so much for so long. I think that contract turns absolutely dreadful for them sooner then later. With 135 million and 5 years I'd get rid of him if anyone just wanted his contract. Not that they'd do that. He's just not a number one and probably not a great 2 either. But he played in Boston, so he's jesus.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 12:10 PM) lmao AustinIllini doesnt post in all caps, dead giveaway I DON'T GET WHY PEOPLE DO THAT. GO NINERS DERP GIANTS

QUOTE (DrunkBomber @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 11:59 AM) We used to have another poster on here was keen on San Fran. Per chance do you have an affinity for classic cars? I don't care for the Giants much, but I despise the 9ers.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 11:57 AM) convenient No one expects (or, in my case, cares) the Cubs to be in the playoffs when they plan a vacation in October. QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 11:58 AM) Damn. AustinIllini Voldemort-ing it up in here. Summoned by name. But yeah, he wins. Granted, that's if it was wine from vineyards. We went with Sonoma. It was a lot of fun and not quite as crazy as Napa.

QUOTE (JUSTgottaBELIEVE @ Oct 19, 2015 -> 11:48 AM) Why is it that guys like Jordan4life and AustinIllini disappear from these threads when the Cubs start losing? I was in San Francisco drinking wine, hiking and not thinking about the children on this board nor the imminent implosion of the Cubs. "People called me out for wearing a White Sox jacket!" Of course they did! The White Sox are terrible. It's Bears season.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 01:25 PM) Average age of the Cubs: 28.3, they are actually the 11th oldest team in the MLB this year. If the Mets win tonight they'll be younger, with an average age of 27.9. The Sox are actually the 9th youngest team in the MLB, at 27.7. Correct, I was referring to starters.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 12:39 PM) Is anyone else as sick of Eddie Vedder as I am? Ten and Vs. were good. Vitalogy was okay. Everything since is just meh.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 15, 2015 -> 12:03 PM) He is Mr. Cubbie Chubby post after post after post. I'm assuming you just cloud your judgement with blind fanaticism. I suggest you get over the Cubs. There is no comp to a team that gets the the LCS with an average player age of under 25 years old. The George Bret Royals, the Big Red machine of the 1970s come close, but they were significantly older on average. The Cubs are going to be good for a long time. For your own mental and emotional faculties, I suggest you get over it real quick.

This board is going to be ten years of misery. The Cubs are going to win for a long time. They're way ahead of schedule.

This would be such a Kenny move. That's why I hate it.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 10:24 PM) Despite the playoff series win the sports radio talk this week so far has been mostly about the Bears. Agreed. The Bears are the undisputed kings of Chicago. A Bears Super Bowl victory now would be bigger than the Cubs or the Blackhawks in Chicago

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 10:21 AM) Cubs have also averaged 85 losses a season over the last 35 years, and despite that were still able to consistently draw fans. What other team has cracked their model?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 08:59 AM) Except it does for a franchise that you are actively rooting for right now. It's been said before but the Cubs are an anomaly. There is statistical evidence that suggests that the Cubs are the only team which draws in correlation with the price of beer, not wins and losses.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 10:13 AM) My friend moved to Chicago a year ago and is acting like she's waited a lifetime. Her boyfriend moved THREE WEEKS AGO and is acting like it. They've both told me this feels more like 03 than 07 or 08. What the f***. God, they're like Blackhawk fans.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 06:59 AM) I'd rather have a stadium full of loyal fans, than an empty stadium. That is way better in terms of being able to put a quality product on the field year after year. It makes it easier to sustain success and recover from failure. Flailing year after to year to capture the "casual fans" is exact how we have managed for years now. The casual fans only need to look north to see what "disservice" they do to their baseball club. Right, but no strategy works when you team is consistently awful.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 14, 2015 -> 12:45 AM) I'll only say two things. Bandwagon fans of any "hot" or trendy/popular team in ANY sport suck. Doesn't matter if it's Florida Gulf Coast, Butler, VCU, George Mason or the Cubs/Astros/Royals/Mets. Two, the biggest problem with the current Cubs' resurgence is that will take almost all of the air out of the atmosphere for the Sox...90% of the coverage will go to the Cubs. We will be lucky to get 2-3 days of favorable coverage between now and Spring Training, IF we actually do something significant in terms of trades or free agent acquisitions. There are only so many column inches in a newspaper or minutes available on a broadcast. It will be almost like the White Sox don't exist, their scores or an Abreu/Sale highlight will get thrown in at the very end just to be "fair" and inclusive, but nothing short of a playoff run will get them any attention. Not even bringing back Ozzie Guillen as manager. Well, maybe if Mike Ditka was named manager of the Sox, haha. Going from a 60/40 split, or 2/3rd's:1/3rd versus 90:10 is going to really hurt this offseason, and we're already hurting as it is...it's like rubbing salt in the wounds, that the Cubs are doing (successfully) the same thing we haven't done until it was way too late (assuming we are actually planning to get younger instead of more veteran hitters). But the formula is so simple. Make a splash in the postseason, draft well, and when the season starts win baseball games. Don't worry about the Cubs.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 11:03 PM) I feel there is a pattern that this team has little luck getting production out of veteran NL players. Get them while they are young. The last thing they need is to get another pitcher. I loved the Fulmer pick, but I am a little concerned this team can't develop fielding talent. The WAR statistics for developed fielders under Williams are staggeringly bad.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 08:57 PM) Times have changed. Media is different now. If the Sox were advancing to the ALCS, I guarantee you Chicago news stations would interrupt their programs to cover it. Good post. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was huge. The problem was, it was really pre social network and it was immediately after the 2004 Red Sox team. But every station was covering it.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 10:49 PM) Whoa whoa. The Shark and Laroche flops came outa nowhere. I imagine we'll all be impressed again this offseason. Avi not taking a step forward was a major blow too. Feel bad for Rick that he has more work to do than he should. I feel bad for Rick because he's under Kenny's thumb. I'm getting impatient with the inaction in the managerial front, however.

QUOTE (kitekrazy @ Oct 13, 2015 -> 10:45 PM) Great post. A moderator here doesn't seem to understand this. Thanks. The mods have been nothing but fair to me, and I appreciate that. It just makes me sad that being unhappy about the last 9 years of White Sox baseball and the direction of the organization and admiring what the Cubs have done leads to us being called "Cubbie fan", "Cub fan", or "troll".