Tony

That went away quickly. Offense hasn’t been looked at super closely because of the 4 game winning streak, but the passing game has looked like s%*# for way too much of this season.

Yikes

Which I personally believe is one of the main issues they need to solve, among a few others. There is not going to be one solution to baseball's problems, because it isn't that simple, but I believe most of this falls on the current group of owners in the sport. There have already been articles written about the Brewers possibly shopping Freddy Peralta because of his incredibly team friendly deal, as well as the Tigers considering the market for Tarik Skubal, a year before he hits free agency. Both teams made the playoffs in 2025 and have a solid foundation, and both Peralta and Skubal are huge parts of their teams, respectively. Both players are in the primes of their career, but Milwuakee and Detroit believe they don't have a good chance to keep either, so why not get some prospects? We've seen it for a long time, and it's simply not good for baseball. The Crochet deal was slightly different, but certainly in the same ballpark of moves that shouldn't happen on regular basis. The problem isn't the Dodgers or Mets. The problem is the White Sox and Pirates. The sport has evolved and you have owners with deep pockets that view their organizations more than an incredible investment. On the other hand you have someone like Jerry who literally laughed with reporters during Ohtani's free agency tour, that the White Sox wouldn't be making an offer. Yet they all play in the same league, competing against each other. Some teams have tried to keep up, while others are seemingly content to keep trotting out payrolls that look like they are from 2004. And history has shown us small market teams can be ultra competitive, even with lower payrolls. If owners don't want to keep up with 2025 prices, then get out of the game. Sell your team, make billions in profit, and go home.

Today seems like it would be the day if he's going to go on Sunday. If he doesn't practice today, feels like him coming back for Sunday is a long shot.

Miss you buddy, this place is better with you here!

I’ve maintained for a while the Bears (George specifically) have wanted to win, they are just too dumb to figure out how. It hasn’t been about not being willing to pay or make big moves, ownership is just simply bad in hiring and foundation building. Jerry is far smarter than George, which makes him even worse

Anyone who thinks he had a good game is lying. He didn’t. Think it was clear early and BJ went hard to the run, and it worked. It’s been an up and down season for Caleb thus far, but my hope is it looks a little different by end of year.

I very rarely a blame the refs guy but that roughing the passer call was a joke against the Bears

1000% agree. By far my biggest gripe with the Bears right now is what the 2025 Draft looks like after Week 6. Tyler Warren leads all TE's in yards with (370) and AVERAGES more yards a game than Loveland has total on the year (54 total yards vs. 61.7 yards per game for Warren.) Doesn't mean Loveland won't be a good player, but spending that kind of capital on a player that isn't making an immediate impact is criminal. Through Week 6, Luther Burden is averaging 25% of snap counts. Ozzy Trapilo got 0 snaps in offensively vs. Washington. Shemar Turner is averaging 30% of defensive snaps over the last three weeks, after not playing early in the year. How do you spend that much draft currency filling up a roster that went 5-12 last season, and there seemingly is no room for these guys to play? It boggles the mind.

Didn't see this until now. What I meant by that is the advanced offense metrics that have shown his scheme is working, guys are getting open. Caleb has been up and down in actually putting it all together, but we knew this would take time. At the end of the day, Johnson is the head coach of the offense. Dennis Allen is the head coach of the defense. So I'm judging Ben on the offense, as well as his in-game decision making. Which by his own admission, hasn't been perfect, but no coach is. I look at the Monday night game. Think the Bears got the ball back with like 3:20 left to go in the game. They not only got themselves in good field position to kick the field goal, but managed the drive perfectly to be able to call their final timeout with 3 seconds on the clock, giving Washington no chance to come back on the field. That's not easy to do, and we've been witness to it way too many times ourselves with coaches that don't have a feel for the game, get overwhelmed by the moment, and the last few minutes end up being a clusterfuck. For the first time in a long time, I just don't have any reservations about the coaching staff of the Bears. Feels like they are in good hands, which isn't always easy to find.

Honestly he's been everything we asked for. Understand there are ups and downs but based on what my eyes tell me, plus the advanced analytics, he's been great.

Feel like there are more layers to this. As a stand alone, I think Darnell Wright is a pretty good player. On the flip side...you mentioned the "week before' referring to the Raiders game. In the first half, it was Braxton Jones as LT and Theo Benedet at RT. If I recall, around halftime, they swapped Braxton out, put Benedet at LT and put Ozzy in at RT, and things seemed to get a lot better. Poles also drafted Ozzy in the 2nd round of this year. And one of two things happened. 1. They quickly discovered he can't play LT which means you spent a second rounder on a guy that can only play RT, a position you filled with a Top 10 selection in the 2023 draft or 2. They quickly discovered he is just bad at NFL football, in which case it was just a terrible selection with a second round pick. Acquiring good talent in the draft is a positive. But the pieces you acquire have to somewhat function together, and Poles had made things really complicated with the tackle position and unless Ozzy can suddenly learn how to play LT at a high level, don't see how they walk away from that situation with a positive result.

I can go either way, but think there is a difference in acquiring a one year rental vs. a guy that can be with you for 2-3 years. If it's the latter, I'm fine making that move now, and we've seen them attempt to do it before (Claypool, Sweat) Additionally, thus far the track record for Poles with OL/DL linemen has been absolute s%*#, so not sure how much confidence I have in the draft route. They need help BAD on the DL, and as soon as possible. The Broncos have 30 sacks on the year. The Bears have 8.

If they are somehow able to acquire a guy that can truly impact that side of the ball up front....team looks much different. They have shown they can generate takeaways, and have been doing it with NO pass rush to speak of. You start putting real pressure on the QB and things will look even better. I know the offense has been somewhat up and down but I think they will continue to improve. A real pass rush makes this team pretty good honestly, not a SB contender but someone I wouldn't want to play in the playoffs.

If they win on Sunday, I think they’ll get aggressive in trying to get a pass rusher in here. Because they aren’t going anywhere with the lack of pressure they are currently generating. But the DB’s are solid, even without the best player on the team in JJ, they desperately need “that guy” to be a game wrecker up front.

They don’t come close to winning this game under Flus, that’s the 2nd W this year that you can see the coaching had a lot to do with it

That’s a really tough way for the Cubs to go out. Steal the manager, pay him a ton of money and the Brewers are still better than you, by a decent margin. Pushed a lot of chips in for Tucker and not sure they even want him back, but his market will be super interesting. Will be a really interesting offseason for the Cubs, because they need a decent bit more to be considered a WS Contender

And when you can find where I said that, where you literally put it in quotes, please show me, because I’d love to see it. What I can actually quote is you saying “Milwaukee was better all season.” which isn’t a true statement in any way shape or form. Andrew Vaughn made a very significant impact in his arrival to the Brewers. It literally can’t be argued. I mean, I suppose it can, but we would call that person an idiot, and point and laugh at them. I, nor did others, say it was THE reason the Brewers won the division. Andrew Vaughn did not do that alone, and it’s a very good organization. But very simple numbers will show the sizable impact he had on their season, once he arrived in Wisconsin. But acting like the Brewers led the division wire to wire and the Cubs posed no threat is asinine, and not rooted in any sort of reality of what transpired in the NL Central.

It’s weird to be so confident in something objectively false, I mean there is simply no way to spin it. Andrew Vaughn was traded to the Brewers on June 13th, 2025. The Brewers were 38-33. The Cubs were 42-28. On July 13th, the Brewers were 56-40, they went 18-7 during that stretch. Over July, Vaughn slashed 365/426/731. Additionally, on June 13th, the Cubs were 2nd in baseball with a +104 run differential. The Brewers were 12th at +22. On July 13th the Brewers were 4th in baseball at +74, only behind the Tigers, Yankees and…Cubs, who led the league at +116 on July 13 So not only did Andrew Vaughn make a tremendously important impact for the Brewers, the Cubs were a better team than the Brewers in basically the entire 1st half.

It also is just totally different than when we grew up, and doesn't really matter if you're 40 years old today, or 70. Today, you could be living in Chicago as a 16 year old but have just as much access to the Padres as you do the White Sox. Doesn't really matter where you live. And as we've seen with other sports, kids are attracted to the stars, not always the team. I think it's less about being "born" into a fandom and more about watching what excites you, and that's certainly not happening on the South Side. Defalco has talked about this on ESPN 1000 before, his 13 year old, who plays baseball...they went to the Sox-Reds series specifically to see Elly, because his son likes watching him. And in 2025, it's just as easy to access Reds highlights as it is to see White Sox highlights, even if you live in Chicago. Different world.

Anecdotal, but I think most kids are watching clips on YouTube or Instagram, I really have a hard time believing most 16 year olds are watching a full game, just don't think the attention span is there. That's what I've heard/seen when it comes to that demo

Then stop whining about the “negativity” of the message board. If you couldn’t care less, then stop caring. Bro

And I would like to see better balance in the White Sox record over the last three years. 162-324 “balanced” enough for you? Because it isn’t for me.

What’s hilarious about this is you’re probably a little upset that I slapped you down pretty good yesterday after you made the claim that “There's a constant tone of negativity on this board and it's typically misguided/not rooted in anything factual.” Yet today, when I stated how sad the discussion is around the future of the Sox based on factual information about the last decade plus of the franchise, all you can do is make a joke(??) about…someone suffering from depression? Yikes

It’s hard to fathom how dumb MLB is. The last three days, during the week, there have been playoff games on during the day. Tonight, a Friday night, there are virtually no sports on and certainly not anything that would be better than Postseason Baseball. And the schedule is empty