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37 minutes ago, Nokona said:

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You know? He seems to act much differently on SoxMachine. Here, when challenged on his ..."posting", he'll throw up a lot of dust about "who will be the closer on the 2030 team"? When it doesn't really matter. Rosters are fluid. You just need to provide the fluid. 

I was hoping this was about Colson being listed in the MLB Network's Top 100.

 

3 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

I was hoping this was about Colson being listed in the MLB Network's Top 100.

 

Hey, let's make it about that: https://www.mlb.com/news/top-100-mlb-players-for-2026-by-mlb-network

Colson #88. I choose to believe this is as low as he'll be on this list for several years.

Obviously no other Sox crack the list.

Cags will (probably) be fine, but the rush by some to crown him as the one that got away while calling Colson a bust is funny in retrospect

With caulfield gone, we’re finding ourselves tempted to post like caulfield. Is this Stockholm syndrome?

Is this a new psychological condition, first incubated on soxtalk.com?

Caulfield syndrome?

43 minutes ago, Eminor3rd said:

With caulfield gone, we’re finding ourselves tempted to post like caulfield. Is this Stockholm syndrome?

Is this a new psychological condition, first incubated on soxtalk.com?

Caulfield syndrome?

  Did caulfield lose a ban bet and get temporarily banned?

44 minutes ago, Eminor3rd said:

With caulfield gone, we’re finding ourselves tempted to post like caulfield. Is this Stockholm syndrome?

Is this a new psychological condition, first incubated on soxtalk.com?

Caulfield syndrome?

No worries.  Caulfield will be back on the first day of Spring Training — February 20th.  It’s just a month away.

4 minutes ago, ron883 said:

  Did caulfield lose a ban bet and get temporarily banned?

Precisely 

4 minutes ago, ron883 said:

  Did caulfield lose a ban bet and get temporarily banned?

Yes.  On Christmas.  Never forget.

 

2 minutes ago, Eminor3rd said:

Precisely 

Amazing. I never thought I'd see the day where a ban bet was enforced here. I won a few back in the day that didn't get enforced. 

Greg better think twice about betting his house on here anymore. 

8 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Yes.  On Christmas.  Never forget.

 

A Christmas miracle. Caulfield is going to have so much pent-up caulfield-ness when he returns. That will be a day of reckoning. 

I thought that ban-bets were like duels of the old days, when you just shoot into the air.
But I guess this one took the Aaron Burr approach.

18 hours ago, ron883 said:

Amazing. I never thought I'd see the day where a ban bet was enforced here. I won a few back in the day that didn't get enforced. 

Greg better think twice about betting his house on here anymore. 

This is self enforcement.  I didn’t even know it happened 😂

What was the bet?

27 minutes ago, oldsox said:

What was the bet?

That he could go more than a day without making a post that contained eleven random names that were not related, in anyway, to the topic at hand. 

Just couldn't do it....

9 hours ago, Tony said:

That he could go more than a day without making a post that contained eleven random names that were not related, in anyway, to the topic at hand. 

Just couldn't do it....

grant him an early parole.

Have enjoyed a peaceful "purgatory" after technically losing the bet with CWS.

(Munetak(i) Murakami's officially in camp with Nishida...but anyway, lurking is more fun and less time-consuming.)

That said, the board dynamics haven't changed all that dramatically...it's another version of the 80/20 rule, with just a slight change in that 80%.  And that likely won't ever be "cured" until new Sox ownership is in place and everyone in Sox Nation gets to enjoy a fresh start, or maybe even a "rebirth/renaissance," if everything breaks totally right.

 

Dear WestEddy:

Baby Metal (jpop) will not EVER be in a SuperBowl halftime show.

Aespa

Twice (also Victoria's Secret spokesmodels)

Blackpink

IVE

BabyMonster (see above) 

IU/Bae Suzy

Kpop Demon Hunters (when the second animated movie comes out...or spin off)

 

All fit the NFL's international marketing approach much more closely. 

Or simply bringing the Korean/Taiwanese/Japanese dance-pop cheerleading style to the States.

 

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

1 hour ago, caulfield12 said:

Have enjoyed a peaceful "purgatory" after technically losing the bet with CWS.

(Munetak(i) Murakami's officially in camp with Nishida...but anyway, lurking is more fun and less time-consuming.)

That said, the board dynamics haven't changed all that dramatically...it's another version of the 80/20 rule, with just a slight change in that 80%.  And that likely won't ever be "cured" until new Sox ownership is in place and everyone in Sox Nation gets to enjoy a fresh start, or maybe even a "rebirth/renaissance," if everything breaks totally right.

 

Dear WestEddy:

Baby Metal (jpop) will not EVER be in a SuperBowl halftime show.

Aespa

Twice (also Victoria's Secret spokesmodels)

Blackpink

IVE

BabyMonster (see above) 

IU/Bae Suzy

Kpop Demon Hunters (when the second animated movie comes out...or spin off)

 

All fit the NFL's international marketing approach much more closely. 

Or simply bringing the Korean/Taiwanese/Japanese dance-pop cheerleading style to the States.

 

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

Exploding like a virgin on prom night.

6 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Exploding like a virgin on prom night.

Isn’t that more of a dopamine rush than trench warfare, Maginot Line style with WestEddy and Cali?

I think RayRay has it right.  Not caring about other posters or their particular styles is probably the way to go.  That said, I think he didn’t realize he was getting a bit lazy in some of his baseball arguments that used to be 90-95% quantitative and the remainder emotion/opinion.

That said, six weeks away provides a new outlook…and the opportunity cost of following Reinsdorf-led teams is still increasing.

And, while I lost a bet when Murakami fell into their laps and Fairbanks didn’t sign for two years (although still ending up with as much as $15 million including buyouts and incentives), the White Sox overall payroll has barely moved with Robert traded.

The Sox are still down at the bottom with Cleveland and the Marlins.

They still can’t afford even a Tier C FA pitcher like Littell, Bassitt, Civale or Scherzer…let alone surrender a QO for Gallen in an upcoming draft where maximizing financial leverage is absolutely crucial to add another top NCAA outfielder in the second round.

(There’s nine names in the last set of paragraphs, so we can make it to ten and eleven with Bunny’s “Roberto (Clemente) Carolina,” which obligatorily offended some who don’t speak Spanish.)

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7 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Exploding like a virgin on prom night.

Ah yes, someone else with yellow fever.

7 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

Exploding like a virgin on prom night.

 

8 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Have enjoyed a peaceful "purgatory" after technically losing the bet with CWS.

(Munetak(i) Murakami's officially in camp with Nishida...but anyway, lurking is more fun and less time-consuming.)

That said, the board dynamics haven't changed all that dramatically...it's another version of the 80/20 rule, with just a slight change in that 80%.  And that likely won't ever be "cured" until new Sox ownership is in place and everyone in Sox Nation gets to enjoy a fresh start, or maybe even a "rebirth/renaissance," if everything breaks totally right.

 

Dear WestEddy:

Baby Metal (jpop) will not EVER be in a SuperBowl halftime show.

Aespa

Twice (also Victoria's Secret spokesmodels)

Blackpink

IVE

BabyMonster (see above) 

IU/Bae Suzy

Kpop Demon Hunters (when the second animated movie comes out...or spin off)

 

All fit the NFL's international marketing approach much more closely. 

Or simply bringing the Korean/Taiwanese/Japanese dance-pop cheerleading style to the States.

 

Thanks in advance for your time and consideration.

Don't forget Le Sserafim and Kiss of Life.  I would watch that halftime.

30 minutes ago, MikeKreevich said:

 

Don't forget Le Sserafim and Kiss of Life.  I would watch that halftime.

Thailand getting into the act this year with La Lisa and Natty.

Don’t forget New Jeans/NJZ, whatever they’re referred to now.  Korean entertainment companies still rule the roost with an iron fist.

Read somewhere that 35% of the women in Korea have gotten at least one plastic surgery before age 40.  Scary stuff.

 

For what it’s worth, Wonyoung/IVE is the most popular Korean idol in China right now.

52 minutes ago, MikeKreevich said:

Ah yes, someone else with yellow fever.

Umm…the funniest thing is I probably dated about all the world ethnicities EXCEPT Asian until I met an idealistic Chinese-American election volunteer in 2000 at age 30.

Lived/taught in Colombia and first wife was/is Russian originally, so if you know anything, it’s that women from such geographic regions pretty much are the antithesis of meek/obedient/supportive stereotypes that still persist about SE Asia until now.

I also brought a black date to Augusta National in the mid 90s and we spent the whole day counting non-white people not working at the course and we came up with all of four. Tiger Woods’ debut, in fact.

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