12 hours ago12 hr 2 hours ago, Bananarchy said:I know we're supposed to kumbaya this s%*#, but this fucking sucks and I'm not interested.No, you are apparently supposed to play the helpless victim.
12 hours ago12 hr Unfortunately I won't be able to think about this season without remembering the last 3 games of the ALDS. Maybe in time I will but I doubt it
12 hours ago12 hr 20 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:The only good thing about that drive is that you are not longer in Cleveland.I will say 99 percent of the people there were super cool to us. Had a lot of people come up to us and just talk about baseball and had a few buy us a beer. One jackass got into my face when we were just walking back to our hotel after the game but you get those idiots everywhere.
11 hours ago11 hr 55 minutes ago, Rowand44 said:I will say 99 percent of the people there were super cool to us. Had a lot of people come up to us and just talk about baseball and had a few buy us a beer. One jackass got into my face when we were just walking back to our hotel after the game but you get those idiots everywhere.Honestly, Cleveland is a great place to see a game.
11 hours ago11 hr 1 minute ago, southsider2k5 said:Honestly, Cleveland is a great place to see a game.the old Cleveland Memorial Stadium...aka Mistake by the Lake, was probably THE worst place to watch a baseball game in the late 80sor Three Rivers Stadium
11 hours ago11 hr In the end we just didn’t have the horses to get the job done. We knew this wasn’t a great team as there were just too many holes, no power in the outfield with Braden being called up too early, losing Austin Hays at the beginning of the year hurt, he was a seasoned pro with a decent bat who played very good defense. The starting pitching was always suspect but the relievers did a great job in the second half. We never had a decent back up catcher and with Teel out most of the year we had a lousy catching situation. Enough has been said and written about Venable so I won’t say anything more. Because of these shortcomings I always expected some kind of letdown but to their credit they hung in there until the last 3 games, all in all it was a fun year from a team that I expected to win 75 games tops so in that respect it was a pretty successful season.
9 hours ago9 hr 5 hours ago, WestEddy said:The '77 South Side Hit Men was such a crazy great summer. I was 13, and it was the first time in my Sox-rooting life (2nd, really after 1972) that it felt like I was watching a real baseball team. I'm surprised every time I look it up to find they finished in 3rd place, 12 games out. The electricity of that summer always feels like they finished closer to the top, in retrospect. The final 3 games will be a blip. Hopefully, drowned out by greater successes.This reminds me, whatever happened to our e-friend South Side Hit Men? Was re-signing Clevinger really the straw that broke the camel’s back?
9 hours ago9 hr Fan season. Had to turn game off last night for middle innings as it was bumming me out seeing it unfold, tuned back in to see some more bad ABs in the 8th and 9th. Ultimately the team just didn't have enough. I don't think they really choked so much as ran out of gas. None of these guys had played 160+ games in a season into October. It was a great experience and now players know what it will take when they resume off season workouts in a month or two.Turning the page to Bulls hoops locally. Should be another good season for Illini and it's a house money season for UM Hoops after the natty. See how the Bears do but I'm not much of any NFL fan. UM football looks back in the wilderness, oh well. Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by chitownsportsfan
4 hours ago4 hr 5 hours ago, nrockway said:This reminds me, whatever happened to our e-friend South Side Hit Men? Was re-signing Clevinger really the straw that broke the camel’s back?He was posting over at SoxMachine. I think it was a bit rough and tumble here, and he also said something about quitting posting at some point. He pulls together those incredibly long lists, and that stuff can take an hour and a half right out of your morning.
2 hours ago2 hr 21 hours ago, Paulie4Pres said:Vargas, Antonacci, Peters, Meidroth. Everyone else can go. Maybe you keep Grichuk around.Love that they are burning $24M on Castillo to be a DFA candidate next season, too.I'd give Braden more of a chance to improve. He wasn't even called up until June. Too early to give up on him.What do you think about trying to keep Mune after 2027?
2 hours ago2 hr 9 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:Honestly, Cleveland is a great place to see a game.It's a stadium with full 360 access also. Pretty uncommon to have so much access with a cheap seat. It's a solid stadium
2 hours ago2 hr 5 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:I'd give Braden more of a chance to improve. He wasn't even called up until June. Too early to give up on him.What do you think about trying to keep Mune after 2027?All for trying to keep Mune. Agree with you on Braden. Need's to put a bit of muscle on and rework his swing.
1 hour ago1 hr 34 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:I'd give Braden more of a chance to improve. He wasn't even called up until June. Too early to give up on him.What do you think about trying to keep Mune after 2027?Mune has next season to prove he's a legit MLB 1st baseman. His inability to hit a fucking fastball the latter half of this season is unbelievably concerning.
1 hour ago1 hr if Braden can get his wRC+ against LHP from 17 to ~80-100 he will be OK. Lots of work for him in the offseason to improve his RH swing.
1 hour ago1 hr 31 minutes ago, reiks12 said:if Braden can get his wRC+ against LHP from 17 to ~80-100 he will be OK. Lots of work for him in the offseason to improve his RH swing.I wouldn't even consider him a switch hitter at this point. He's not an MLB hitter from the right.
1 hour ago1 hr 1 hour ago, 77 Hitmen said:I'd give Braden more of a chance to improve. He wasn't even called up until June. Too early to give up on him.What do you think about trying to keep Mune after 2027?If you asked that question before June 1, I would have answered 'of course...'But now?Honestly I don't know what I'd do or what the Sox should do.And remember it takes two to make a deal, any other offers he gets will play a major factor in his decision.
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