9 hours ago, chitownsportsfan said:

winning is fun and fun is winning. I know which one I'd try and do first.

I tell my players you have to enjoy the process of getting better. It's tough to practice for hours every day, often doing the small things that just aren't intrinsically fun, to get better. We try to end each session with something fun.

But in the end, I've always seen kids having fun winning and irritable when losing. It's human nature.

11 hours ago, Colome's Hat said:

I know they used extensive screeners before they bring anybody into the organization. Both them and the Rays use a metric system for personality and character traits. There are some really cool tools that these teams are now using which can essentially construct the perfect clubhouse by predicting player groupings which can predict how players will interact in a clubhouse. It's easy for some of us to roll our eyes but then you look at the Red Sox or even Cubs and it's pretty obvious that there is some unrest in the clubhouse.

So eHarmony might be better than Tinder or Grindr for long term relationships? Hmm

Today's game isn't even sold out. Bury these fuckers.

5 minutes ago, PaleAleSox said:

Today's game isn't even sold out. Bury these fuckers.

There are still some tickets available for the game. (one hour ago)

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by caulfield12

typical lazy reporting with Chicago behind Cleveland for best home field advantage

7. Guardians

"It's not an intimidating place for us," one staffer said. "Maybe that's because they typically have a lot of young players. They have good teams, but there's nothing that makes it a tough place to play. Not compared to some of the other places, certainly."

8. Rate Field, Chicago White Sox

"It's a neutral for me," one NL staffer said. "Nothing really stands out."

The growing popularity of the pope hats -- and the improvement of the White Sox, from setting the modern MLB single-season loss record in 2024 with 121 losses to making the playoffs and winning their first series since 2005 -- might start to change that.

https://www.espn.co.uk/mlb/story/_/id/50103985/mlb-2026-playoffs-ranking-home-field-advantage-yankees-padres-rays-dodgers

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by caulfield12

4 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Just remember Ramirez and Adell absolutely kill lefties…

yeah, they crushed Hagen and Kay on Saturday... (Adell was 4/4 on Ks)

Nothing but kinetic energy flowing through me today as I am so anxious and can’t stop moving thinking about this game

1 hour ago, caulfield12 said:

typical lazy reporting with Chicago behind Cleveland for best home field advantage

7. Guardians

"It's not an intimidating place for us," one staffer said. "Maybe that's because they typically have a lot of young players. They have good teams, but there's nothing that makes it a tough place to play. Not compared to some of the other places, certainly."

8. Rate Field, Chicago White Sox

"It's a neutral for me," one NL staffer said. "Nothing really stands out."

The growing popularity of the pope hats -- and the improvement of the White Sox, from setting the modern MLB single-season loss record in 2024 with 121 losses to making the playoffs and winning their first series since 2005 -- might start to change that.

https://www.espn.co.uk/mlb/story/_/id/50103985/mlb-2026-playoffs-ranking-home-field-advantage-yankees-padres-rays-dodgers

It's clear they're just asking people for their general experience at the Rate, which for the last few years has by and large been playing in front of 8,000 fans cheering on a historically bad ballclub. A packed Rate during playoffs is an entirely different animal. Ask anyone who went to game 3 in 2021 if it's an intimidating place to play - I've never been to a louder game.

Pivotal game today. Sox will need to score a lot of runs to demoralize the Guardians. I think Teel will have a good game hitting maybe even smashing a HR.

1 hour ago, PaleAleSox said:

Today's game isn't even sold out. Bury these fuckers.

Yeah Saturday's game was relatively full but did not have that ultra-hyped up playoff feeling - seemed kind of routine for a group of fans who have gotten spoiled (if you can call regular early playoff flameouts as "spoiled.") Nothing like what we're going to see in Chicago this week.