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It's easier for football/soccer fans to remain invested because relegation is a genius system. Even when your club is down, there's a still a tangible goal. It keeps fans interested and ensures nearly all matches matter. With that said, MLB teams don't move often and the chances that the Sox actually move are slim to none. Even when the Sox are terrible, they remain profitable due to outstanding branding, a world class city and a loyal, albeit bitter fan base. We're not the Cubs, but we're also not the A's.

Of all pro athletes, baseball players tend to be the least educated as they're routinely drafted directly from high school. Lack of education correlates directly with conservativism, so it makes sense that baseball players would tend to lean conservative.

It's super disappointing to hear that people didn't support Liam upon his return. That goes beyond baseball.

There's no evidence that either Anderson or Moncada were assholes. You just don't like them.

Too big, too fast, too good

The communal benefits have nothing to do with a tangible ROI. Sports owe you nothing and your loyalty to a specific entity owes you nothing. By nature, following sports and expecting a return is objectively irrational and stupid.

Being a sports fan is irrational and shouldn't be examined the way consumer brand loyalty is examined. There's no inherent ROI in being a sports fan. Sports fans are 45 year old men that pay $12 for a beer while wearing a $300 jersey with another man's name on the back, as if they're LARP'ing. It's an 8 year old kid balling over a loss that has literally no impact on their real life and whose outcome is completely beyond their control. Sports are stupid. As such, any expectation of a return is stupid.

It's what a purge looks like.

Baseball Reference

Jake Burger - .5 WAR Andrew Vaughn - .4 WAR

He's a .5 WAR player.

1.35 WHIP over his last 7 games. 5k/5bb.

Kopech is already turning back into the real Kopech in LA. Burger is, at the very best, a .750 ops DH. They're both pretty much trash.

Vaughn also started off putrid. He's probably a 1 WAR player when all is said and done. I'm just not as mad you guys. Every single bad thing that could have happened to this franchise actually happened. It's extraordinary. As trash as this organization is, it's crazy that Cease and Lopez were the only parts that actually worked out. Gio, Robert, Moncada, Eloy, Kopech and several other all turned into trash.

It seems like Vaughn and Benintendi have had really good second halves, but were just so bad that who cares.

This organization is impossible to "ball fondle." Hold on, why is "ball fondling" bad?

It doesn't seem like a toxic team or anything. They're just very under talented. That's why I don't really get the vitriol. The team seems like it's full of good guys that aren't very good at baseball. It's not the type of team that we should keep kids away from because the players are toxic. They're more like a team full of Crash David's than Nick Swisher's.

His bat is good enough to get him DH reps on Lee's catching days. He has plus power for a catcher and a plus, plus k:BB ratio.

I don't see the issue. If healthy, he's as ready as he's going to get. Getting a to travel with the big league club is an experience few players will ever get, even if it's on the worst team in history.

The main thing I'll remember from this year is that WhiteSox2023 found a way to post 6000 times in a year the site hit an all time low in traffic. That's seriously the craziest stat of the season.

Bummer had a 6.79 era over 54 innings when he was traded. Wtf were people expecting?

Unprofessional? It's baseball. It's not serious. They're making light of a shitty situation. I'm sure it made the 28 people who actually read Sox Twitter laugh.

So are the people sending those Tweets. They're joking.

Have a sense of humor.

So little is really understood about fitness, health and conditioning, that I don't think there's a whole lot to take from this. For years, the Sox were an extreme outlier in staying healthy and in the last few years have reverted to the mean. A good example of how little is understood about strength and conditioning is the philosophy of the US and Russian weightlifting programs. The Eastern Bloc programs were all about lots of heavy lifting, heavy reps, no diversity in exercises and little recovery time. The US programs were heavy weights, low reps, tons of diversity and tons of recovery. They were polar opposite programs and had very similar results over time. Neither philosophy was right.