Bananarchy

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 10:09 PM) BTW, what the Sox need to do is stop performing patch work. They need to do a full on rebuild with someone other than Kenny and IMO, other than Hahn and their current scouts. Clean house, built it correct. Problem is, they've already taken like 2 or 3 years building it wrong. Any FAs you sign should be either cheap scrapheap guys or people you intend on flipping at the deadline. Stay the course regardless of what fans say. You have to. Otherwise, pull a Yankees and buy the best players either in trades or elsewhere. Trot out a lineup of: Eaton Cabrera Cespedes Gonzalez Abreu Frazier Kendrick Ramirez Castro For all the broken record comments I get, I have ACTUALLY been broken recording this for a long time. The Sox need a complete rebuild and there is no good reason not to rebuild.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:57 PM) Wouldn't it have to go from 20% (5 teams) to 25%, 4 teams? 12.5% would be the chance of any of the 8 remaining teams winning it all, if all things were equal (which they're not, since the Wild Card teams sacrifice one start from their ace in the Division Series). It's telling that White Sox fans are more excited hoping for the Cubs to lose (myself included) than actually excited about our own team over the last 4-6 weeks, but it is what it is. Honestly, with how bad things have gotten...maybe some additional suffering in the form of the Cubs winning the World Series might finally wake up someone at 35th and Shields to the reality of the situation. Like most, they're probably counting on the Cubs somehow being cursed or blowing this thing. There's certainly no guarantee that will happen, not when you have a young team that doesn't care about what has happened in the past and just kind of shrugs like high school students do when you talk about the 1960's when they only care about the latest computer game, iphone, ipad, etc. If it didn't happen in their lifetime, the players often aren't aware, even of icons like Ernie Banks, Fergie Jenkins, Billy Williams, and gasp, Ron Santo. That's what I thought at first, but it's not really correct. The odds of you reaching the World Series if you make the division series is 1/4 (25%). The odds of a Wild Card team making the divisional series is 1/2. It's a simple and statement. Odds of reaching the World Series from the DS x the odds of making the DS = 25% x 50% or 12.5% Cut that in half and that's their chances of winning the world series. Now that the Cubs have beaten the Pirates, their chances have doubled. Even if all things aren't even, they have increased significantly the chances of them reaching and winning the world series.

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:54 PM) Is Arietta that good or the Pirates just that bad haha? Arietta wasn't great but the Pirates didn't capitalize.

QUOTE (whitesoxjr27 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:46 PM) News media just told me the cubs are a step closer to winning it all. Statistically, if all teams are equal, the Cubs double their chances of reaching the world series from 12.5% to 25%. They're not wrong, but it's still kind of silly.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:41 PM) Nobody I know either! You don't talk to many adults?

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:39 PM) Anyone else feel like AustinIllini's posts are a like a bloody broken record? You're right. Let me be like everyone else here cheering for a team they don't actually caring about the way they cheer for the White Sox.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:29 PM) Too you I was once like you, then I grew up and learned to like baseball for what it is. A game. I want the White Sox to win. The Cubs can win and I'll be happy for their fans. Make no mistake, this White Sox team is agonizing and the fact that Ventura is still on the bench next season makes me miserable. I am a die hard White Sox fans and I tried hard to buy into this team. I was wrong. The Cubs have nothing to do with it.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:27 PM) That is your opinion. That's a fact.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:23 PM) lol that's true the Hawks fan base is a pile of garbage. I know there are fans out there that played a little hockey and loved the Hawks forever growing up but then there's the rest of the fanbase. A lot of that is a result of the sport, as well. Hockey just isn't that wide spread in the US.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:16 PM) I am a diehard Sox fan, I have no sympathy for Cub fans. That's fine, but recognize being a diehard Sox fan is not predicated on disliking the Cubs.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:17 PM) I know some knowledgeable fans who aren't dicks and it'd be nice to see them win it for them. But my god, the amount of bandwagon Cubs fans and their total douchebaggery outweighs my desire to see my Cubs friends happy. It's the same with Blackhawks fans, honestly. I'm wearing my Toews sweater right now, but I totally appreciate that our fanbase is bloated and mostly hockey garbage.

Yeah, that's a great play.

Playoff baseball is so electric.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:09 PM) I mean I don't really care if they do or not. Just another of the other 29 teams that are not the Sox so its kinda whatever. I just watch and enjoy baseball. QUOTE (Soxfest @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:09 PM) Me neither F the Cubs always and forever. There are some honest to goodness Cubs fans who I feel deserve to see their team win. There are meatheads, but my grandmother lived 80 years and never saw her team win. There are a lot of those kinds of fans still alive.

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:06 PM) In a "because New York" and "because Texas" world, I'd pick New York 99/100 just sayin'. Why? Houston and the White Sox are in the same "Pay no Mind" list, to where the teams have to be really good for anyone to know they exist or act like they exist. I sympathize.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:03 PM) I'm going Jays for this post-season. I guess my order is: 1. Jays 2. Astros 3. Mets 4. Royals (make our division look good) 5. Cubs (despite having some annoying friends, I do have some good friends that are big fan I wouldn't mind them winning for them. And my mom has always been a die-hard) 6. Rangers 7. Dodgers 8. Cardinals (I don't hate them but they've won enough) In Richard Roeper's book "Sox in the City", he talks about why he wants the Cubs to succeed and would be happy for them. That's about as much of my interest in the Cubs themselves. And those are middle fingers on TV.

That's kind of BS, honestly. The Cubs are so stupid. It's like they think they won't get suspended.

QUOTE (fathom @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 09:01 PM) How so? Granderson and Wright two of the nicest guys in sports Because New York

QUOTE (Big Hurtin @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:59 PM) So... Cubs Cardinals Dodgers Mets Go Mets, I guess. The Mets are so hateable. Go 'Stros

Wild Card games are terrible.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:54 PM) I don't think he is trying to say that it was a hard play. Right, he made a good play look harder.

Good grief Kris Bryant.

QUOTE (Mike F. @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:44 PM) What's your Twitter username? I'd like to follow you lol. @79JoseAbreu

The young guys came hungry.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Oct 7, 2015 -> 08:36 PM) Yup. We have instant replay, clocks to regulate time between innings, and all this new tech, yet we don't have a fair strike zone. In any game, not just this one They could implement that and essentially not tell anyone. Just have a little earphone in the home play ump's ear calling balls and strikes.