I like this lady mor and more after that clip.

7 hours ago, Chick Mercedes said:

Your what hurts?

Compare him to 2 years ago.

5 hours ago, Falstaff said:

I like this lady mor and more after that clip.

PCA has posted his response:

Four sellouts a year thanks Cubs!

So happy for Quero! And once again we see a team where, if certain guys aren't able to perform on a given day the way they'd hoped, other guys step up and carry the day. That's a good dynamic for sure!

21st Century Norman Rockwell painting.

Edited May 18May 18 by 77 Hitmen

38 minutes ago, pcintelligence said:

Four sellouts a year thanks Cubs!

This is actually sadder than it is a flex.

15 hours ago, Snopek said:

Hot take: Both Quero’s celebration and all of PCA’s antics are great.

Baseball is better when players are showing personality and having fun.

Well, Pete Crow-Armstrong IS a total d-bag. But, I do have to admit there are moments like this that re-energize the crosstown series and end up living in Sox lore. Just like Barrett punching AJ or the Wrigley fans throwing garbage on the field after AJ's 9th inning HR. That is good for the game as I think the crosstown series can grow stale.

As we learned when other players rallied to TA's defense over his bat flips, MLB should be encouraging players showing emotion and celebrating as long as it doesn't cross the line to taunting the other team. That being said, I don't know if players who have a reputation for showboating should be so thin skinned that they have to call a heckling fan (reportedly) a f***ing b***h.

White Sox fWar Leaders. Surprise Surprise !

I forgot if it was Zips or another projection system that projected Chase Meidroth to lead the team in fWar but theyre all pretty much the same so it could have been most or all of them. So if you put a lot of faith in those things that certainly didnt bode well for the upcoming 2026 season.

Now there was also the actual 2025 win total (60) and the Pythagorean win total (70) .

So on one hand you think if Chase Meidroth is the position player War leader there's probably not much hope of the Sox being much better than they were in 2025 .But that Py win total said they played like a 70 win team.

So as a fan you look at how they performed the 2nd half of the seadon, then say no way Meidroth is the Sox War leader. They have Colson Montgomery. They have a Japanese superstar coming in.

Once again models projected some regression for Colson and the skeptics trashed Murakami so much he ended up signing with the Sox , a near impossibility until it actually happened.

Of course there were other things like playoff odds and percentages , power rankings, win total projections that, at most, predicted modest improvement that might avoid 100 losses . The safe bet was the usual tripe about record losses and a 4th consecutive 100 loss season.

You were a sheep if you believed White Sox propaganda. You were a mindless drone trusting an organization that had proved unworthy. You were incapable of independent thought and if you were you'd come to the same conclusion as most of baseball that the Sox were going nowhere in 2026.

The funny or ironic thing is if everyone is following all these projection models and predicting doom who exactly is the mindless drone, the one predicting what everyone is predicting or the one going against popular opinion ? Maybe Murakami can hit HRs . Maybe Colson Montgomery won't regress. Maybe the other young players who showed promise like Teel, Shane Smith, Quero, Baldwin could continue on the paths the took in 2025. There was also. plenty of talent in the minors edging closer to the big leagues especially in the starting pitching like Schultz , Smith and McDougal.

Well Teel, Baldwin and Mike Vasil all suffered injuries .Shane Smith and Edgar Quero regressed badly.

That's a substantial list of good young players hurt or not performing .Surely the season was doomed especially after a 1-5 start to the season.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the depths of baseball hell. All the projection models and experts have been WRONG so far.

Here are the current fWar leaders among White Sox position players.

Colson Montgomery 2.1

Miguel Vargas 1.9

Munetaka Murakami 1.5

Tristan Peters .8 ( what ?)

Chase Meidroth .7

It turns out that Chase Meidroth is still playing at a pace that the projecton models predicted. Except Colson Montgomery , Murakami and Vargas are doing extremely well. And it turns out the Tristan Peters , a guy they picked up for cash considerations or a PTBNL can outperform the injured (surprise !) Luis Robert Jr . who has a .2 fWar.

Thank goodness baseball can still throw some nasty curveballs to the experts projection models ,oddsmakers and opinionated jags every so often . I'd be remiss if I didnt mention Davis Martin's extraordinary pitching so far. Have a nice day.

Edited May 18May 18 by Lukakke Appling
Took out the chain link fence

29 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

21st Century Norman Rockwell painting.

[Sad trombone]

29 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

21st Century Norman Rockwell painting.

Man, Roger Bossard has that field looking pristine

12 minutes ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

You were a sheep if you believed White Sox propaganda. You were a mindless drone trusting an organization that had proved unworthy. You were incapable of independent thought and if you were you'd come to the same conclusion as most of baseball that the Sox were going nowhere in 2026.

#ReleaseTheVotes

Friendly reminder whenever the White Sox have a walk off winner that Eloy Jimenez never had one.

Someone needs to build a meme with the bullpen girl, the Pope and sad panda PCA

Edited May 18May 18 by Harry Chappas

31 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

21st Century Norman Rockwell painting.

Hang it in the Louvre

15 minutes ago, Lukakke Appling said:

Someone more skilled than I needs to crop out Suzuki and make pouty PCA a reaction.

9 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

Hang it in the Louvre

Maybe someone with good photoshop skills can paste it over this classic painting.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/art/2026/02/10/art-institute-chicago-norman-rockwell-cubs-painting

Edited May 18May 18 by 77 Hitmen

16 minutes ago, Harry Chappas said:

Friendly reminder whenever the White Sox have a walk off winner that Eloy Jimenez never had one.

Someone needs to build a meme with the bullpen girl, the Pope and sad panda PCA

He peaked with his spring training grand slam against the Cubs.

9 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

Maybe someone with good photoshop skills can paste it over this classic painting.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/art/2026/02/10/art-institute-chicago-norman-rockwell-cubs-painting

Not perfect but from chat gpt

Edited May 18May 18 by DoUEvenShift

https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/sports/cubs-pete-crow-armstrong-has-heated-vulgar-exchange-with-female-fan/

The Crosstown Classic was heating up with the weather this weekend.

Cubs stud outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong told a female fan “You suck my f–king d–k b****” in a shocking scene Sunday after she seemingly told him “you suck” in the fifth inning.

Crow-Armstrong later defended his comments after the 9-8 road loss in 10 innings at Rate Field.

Edited May 18May 18 by caulfield12

6 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/sports/cubs-pete-crow-armstrong-has-heated-vulgar-exchange-with-female-fan/

The Crosstown Classic was heating up with the weather this weekend.

Cubs stud outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong told a female fan “You suck my f–king d–k b****” in a shocking scene Sunday after she seemingly told him “you suck” in the fifth inning.

Crow-Armstrong later defended his comments after the 9-8 road loss in 10 innings at Rate Field.

Might be a boomer take but i have no problem with PCA giving it back. They were heckling him the whole game and even admitted to planning it:

"“Our goal the entire time we planned this was we knew PCA was in center field and we’re like, ‘We’re going to heckle him at some point,'”

The lady wasn't even offended by it. Just a bunch of white knights on the internet

There's already a Harry Potter night July 29th. Someone should tell brooks to add a wand giveaway

10 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

There's already a Harry Potter night July 29th. Someone should tell brooks to add a wand giveaway

He'll do wand night on Star Wars night knowing him.

I did the same thing as @DoUEvenShift did, but just had the photo adapted into the style of Rockwell first.

Edited May 18May 18 by h. jones