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oh my god this is hilarious

Nobody did better than the Eagles though, holy s%*#. They've been taking risks for years and every single one has paid off

Ryan Pace would've drafted a OT, but he would have traded Seattle for #5 and drafted Skoronski instead, because he had no patience or discipline at all.

Poles was also being cagey and made it sound like he was considering it too. My supervisor is an Eagles fan (we're at work) and he was salivating, yelled and clapped when they took him

Had to have never been on Poles's board, so he knew the Eagles wanted him bad and said hey, I already know who I'm picking and it's not Carter, might as well get a free pick

The Ravens moving on from Greg Roman and they are not fucking around now, Zay Flowers is gonna ball out in Baltimore.

I was a Jalen Carter guy and I got excited seeing him drop to 9, and was shocked to see Poles pass on him, but honestly if you'd told me last night they would be picking Darnell Wright I would have done a fist pump. I'm over that shock now, and I love the pick, dude is a beast, fills the biggest hole on the team, and they got a 4th for free because Poles was probably targeting Wright the whole time.

Shoutout to T-Mobile giving it to me for free, otherwise yeah I'd be doing that too

I think that, relative to the talent level they have on paper, they've gotta be up there

The Sox are definitely the team other teams look at on the schedule as an easy series win

This is anecdotal but there's a palpable sense of apathy on White Sox Twitter. There was so much fun and enthusiasm there while the rebuild was progressing and they appeared to be a contender until the second half of 2022. Now people barely post or reply to tweets unless it's out of obligation (they run a website, etc)

I'm a big sports fan, I was citing numbers and filling out - and winning - my dad's work pick 'em league when I was a kid, that's probably always going to be a big part of my identity. Maybe more specifically I will always be a Chicago sports fan (South side version, of course) regardless of where I live. However, the 2014 Bears season broke something in me and caused an irreversible change in my relationship with the teams and how I spend my energy - I think that's the closest I got to quitting fandom, but that's not what ended up happening, I just grew some emotional distance from them. When the Bears started showing signs of life again I came right back, but there's like a buffer there now, I don't let them get me that upset anymore. Disappointed, sure, but not angry, I'll just move on with my day. At the time we had the Thibodeau-era post-Rose injury try-hard Bulls, and that was a whole other thing that fizzled out, but once the Bulls became an embarrassing shitshow with the Butler/Wade/Rondo situation it was pretty easy to just not care, or at least more than it probably would've been in previous years. I was legitimately excited for the White Sox fully committing to the rebuild (although like others mentioned, I was not happy with the TLR hire and it dampened my enjoyment) and when they appeared to turn a corner, and now that this appears to fizzling out I think I'm more annoyed than anything. Annoyed that it feels like a chore to watch them, I have an mlb.tv subscription (shoutout to T-Mobile) but a lot of time just can't be bothered to load the app because I know there are better things I could be doing with my time. Annoyed that they can't even just tear it down and try another rebuild like the Bears are doing, we are stuck with these mid ass players. Assuming some total reversal in this team's performance isn't coming, I know I can't last to the end of the season, and probably not the All-Star break, I'm wondering if I'll even make it to Memorial Day at this rate.

I remember feeling like the Kimbrel trade was being made in response to fans complaining a move wasn't being made, and that particular move didn't make sense (we already had a closer and Madrigal was hurt at the time but, flawed player or no, what was the plan at 2B after he was gone?) even if Kimbrel didn't immediately fall off a steep cliff. I had to talk myself into being excited about that, which is something I have done a lot of as a fan of mediocre Chicago sports teams with bad management.

bruh you are just saying s%*#. come on.

I don't look at this team, what it's doing, the way the roster is constructed, etc. and have the first 5 problems I think of be Pedro.

This is dad music now, but so what, I'll own it

I have been on Soxtalk on and off since 2008 and *checks own profile* almost 20k posts, and this is an annual topic of discussion every single year. Granted, the team does in fact end up being mediocre or is trash more often than it's not, but still. Just part of being a Sox fan, I guess

I thought the screaming was very obnoxious until I realized it was DeMar's daughter. Given that the Raptors were 18/36 on FTs I was like nah let that little queen cook, and take her to Miami

I hate the play-in. I know the best argument for it is to discourage tanking (valid, actually) but I can't get behind it. The 9th and 10th place teams simply don't deserve to be there, you are already well below average, and we've had 82 games to establish that.

Last year's team was the definition of mid in any way you looked at it. You almost have to TRY to be that average. They were pulled towards .500 like a force of nature, they absolutely refused to go too far over or under so the 81-81 record at the end was the least surprising thing ever.

Ozzie's teams were fun to watch but yeah the ship sailed, and Ozzie did it to himself. I do kinda wonder sometimes how he'd approach the modern numbers-driven approach to managing now, he was more of a "feel" guy back then.

Hawk is a legend, his catchprases were and always will be an essential part of my baseball vocabulary (my wife the O's fan says "put it on the board"), and in his prime as an announcer I never cared how biased he was, I loved that s%*# and that he was openly rooting for the team like me. But like several others have said, the last few years were just painful to listen to, he'd have tantrums on the air, long periods of awkward silence, droning on about the same old stories he's been telling since I was a kid... it was time, and Benetti was ready to step up.

I can't see how it'll be so hard for Poles to find a RT when he has a top 10 pick, two 2s, and a 3rd. I'm much less worried about that than I am about finding defensive line talent. Going into FA they needed an entire defensive line, and 3-techs don't exactly grow on trees.

Roquan's a 2-gap guy, excels when you have big tackles in front of him occupying blockers and he can seek/destroy ballcarriers in space, but when they changed to a one-gap system where gap integrity was more important he was still *good* but had a ton of missed tackles and had a lot of tackles 10 yards down the field. It's odd to me, though, that Roquan didn't really get any national recognition (First team All-Pro, Pro Bowl) until *after* he was traded from the Bears, and made the Pro Bowl with mostly his time as a Bear factoring in at that point. when 2022 was easily his worst season before he got traded.