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8/15/23 - White Sox over Cubs 5-3, you can put it on the board, YES!!!


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Just now, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

Good things happened tonight.  Bullpen pitched 5 shut out innings in Wrigley.

Lane Ramsey with 1st career MLB victory and Santos with the 1.2 IP hard working save.  Made it look easy 0 runs 0 hits 0 walks 3 K.

Joe Kelly What?

K Graveman Who?

 

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Cubs fans, even kids, are all "class": 

"A young fan wearing a Cubs jersey in the first rows behind the on-deck circle showed Robert a finger and not his pinky. Robert took his index finger to his lips as if to silence him."

DVS with the postgame story in the Sun-Times:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2023/8/15/23833948/spoiler-alert-struggling-white-sox-win-another-one-at-wrigley

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Just now, Snopek said:

It’s almost as if you shouldn’t spend a bajillion dollars on a bullpen

Here’s an observation that I would need to back up with more long term data. The White Sox do a good job of finding players like Santos or Middleton for the bullpen but miss a lot of high priced arms. I’d have to think of other examples of guys who don’t make a ton and travel around a bit but perform well for the White Sox. 

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2 minutes ago, The Beast said:

Here’s an observation that I would need to back up with more long term data. The White Sox do a good job of finding players like Santos or Middleton for the bullpen but miss a lot of high priced arms. I’d have to think of other examples of guys who don’t make a ton and travel around a bit but perform well for the White Sox. 

Joakim Soria, Alex Colome, Evan Marshall, Matt Foster, Codi Heuer, Anthony Swarzak and Tommy Kahnle come to mind. 

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5 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

Cubs fans, even kids, are all "class": 

"A young fan wearing a Cubs jersey in the first rows behind the on-deck circle showed Robert a finger and not his pinky. Robert took his index finger to his lips as if to silence him."

DVS with the postgame story in the Sun-Times:

https://chicago.suntimes.com/white-sox/2023/8/15/23833948/spoiler-alert-struggling-white-sox-win-another-one-at-wrigley

So honestly, after 2016, I found it a lot harder to hate the Cubs. Probably because I told my dad that he could talk about anything when we went to his brother's for Hanukkah except baseball. Everyone but he and his brothers adhered to this.

Don't get me wrong. I still dislike them and won't ever root for them, but now they're probably behind the Twins and Guardians.

But for some reason this notion that the Cubs live rent-free in Sox fans' heads and Cubs fans "never" think about it - dear lord what a crock of s%*#. I basically stopped talking to a friend from college because 80% of his messages to me post-Kimbrel trade were "BOY YOUR TEAM SURE SUCKS NOW" and he shares just as much Sox misery-porn as he does good things for the Cubs. Like, there's more to life than relishing in another fanbases misery.

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3 hours ago, The Beast said:

Here’s an observation that I would need to back up with more long term data. The White Sox do a good job of finding players like Santos or Middleton for the bullpen but miss a lot of high priced arms. I’d have to think of other examples of guys who don’t make a ton and travel around a bit but perform well for the White Sox. 

Good bullpens are organic. They come together naturally from guys that don't do well starting, guys with good stuff that doesn't extrapolate, young guys finding their stride, and veterans looking for a fresh atmosphere. When you try to force it with big money I feel like it always backfires. Also closer by committee NEVER works and that's what Pedro decided on back in spring training so....

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2 hours ago, TheBooneLoganEra said:

Good bullpens are organic. They come together naturally from guys that don't do well starting, guys with good stuff that doesn't extrapolate, young guys finding their stride, and veterans looking for a fresh atmosphere. When you try to force it with big money I feel like it always backfires. Also closer by committee NEVER works and that's what Pedro decided on back in spring training so....

Never is a long time. 

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8 hours ago, Quin said:

So honestly, after 2016, I found it a lot harder to hate the Cubs. Probably because I told my dad that he could talk about anything when we went to his brother's for Hanukkah except baseball. Everyone but he and his brothers adhered to this.

Don't get me wrong. I still dislike them and won't ever root for them, but now they're probably behind the Twins and Guardians.

But for some reason this notion that the Cubs live rent-free in Sox fans' heads and Cubs fans "never" think about it - dear lord what a crock of s%*#. I basically stopped talking to a friend from college because 80% of his messages to me post-Kimbrel trade were "BOY YOUR TEAM SURE SUCKS NOW" and he shares just as much Sox misery-porn as he does good things for the Cubs. Like, there's more to life than relishing in another fanbases misery.

What it boils down to in an argument with Cubs fans is that in our lifetimes, each of us has only seen one World Series win. The difference is that the Sox went 11-1 in their postseason run, while the Cubs needed some luck. 

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