southsider2k5 Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Finally, it is over. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Thank God. I feel like they could have played 200 games and we'll still be a .500 club. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Sacamano Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Thank Christ it’s finally over. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chetkincaid Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I just hope that the bad taste of this season is gone by the time the Winter Meetings come around. I want to feel that optimism again. I hope they hire a manager that makes us all feel good about where the organization is going. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beast Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 13 minutes ago, chetkincaid said: I just hope that the bad taste of this season is gone by the time the Winter Meetings come around. I want to feel that optimism again. I hope they hire a manager that makes us all feel good about where the organization is going. I share your hopium and optimism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Beast Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 This thread is appropriate, but what games stand out as bad losses this year? - The Naylor HR game - The Diamondbacks sweep - The extra inning loss in Detroit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxjusttyped Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 hour ago, chitownsportsfan said: Thank God. I feel like they could have played 200 games and we'll still be a .500 club. All of the evidence we have suggests you're right on this 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balta1701 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 27 minutes ago, The Beast said: This thread is appropriate, but what games stand out as bad losses this year? - The Naylor HR game - The Diamondbacks sweep - The extra inning loss in Detroit First game of the year against Cleveland. Entire infield forgot how to play defense, 4 errors, should have been more, immediately turned into 8 game losing streak. ”He has two strikes, Tony!” 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnetennba Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Let us all be stricken with baseball amnesia and be freed from the memory of this wretched season. Good goddamn riddance. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kgrittenburg Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 11 minutes ago, Tnetennba said: Let us all be stricken with baseball amnesia and be freed from the memory of this wretched season. Good goddamn riddance. this is Soxtalk, replace the manager and hitting coach, and let the alternate reality begin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 17 minutes ago, Tnetennba said: Let us all be stricken with baseball amnesia and be freed from the memory of this wretched season. Good goddamn riddance. I've got 73 games on video going back to 1981. I've got two dozen games on audio going back to 1959 and I've got 12 CD's with game highlights, interviews, Sox commercials et al going back to 1953. At least I've got something to take my mind off this terrible season. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almagest Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 This is a franchise well-versed in mediocrity and disappointment, yet I can't think of a Sox team more disappointing than this one, and I've been watching since 1991. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wegner Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 2 hours ago, The Beast said: This thread is appropriate, but what games stand out as bad losses this year? - The Naylor HR game - The Diamondbacks sweep - The extra inning loss in The Engel dropped foul ball game in Baltimore. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wegner Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 I remember that I was very excited for this season, but after watching it, I'll be damned if I understand why I was so excited for this season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 A very fitting record with our so called GM. "Mired in mediocrity". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lip Man 1 Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 1 hour ago, almagest said: This is a franchise well-versed in mediocrity and disappointment, yet I can't think of a Sox team more disappointing than this one, and I've been watching since 1991. You were to young then to remember 1968, 1973 or 1984 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quin Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 2 hours ago, The Beast said: This thread is appropriate, but what games stand out as bad losses this year? - The Naylor HR game - The Diamondbacks sweep - The extra inning loss in Detroit Giolito dominating the Tigers, getting injured. Then Pollock catching the ball to end the game, but wait! It bounces out of his glove ... he caught it! Sox win! Except ... Javy Baez calls for a replay and it ... bounced off the wall. White Sox lose. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
35thstreetswarm Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 As I put my kid to bed the other night, I looked at the Anderson and Moncada fatheads on his wall, the "Southside" flag he has hung up, and all the other Sox memorabilia he has collected and just got so angry. He's a fan because of me, just as I'm a fan because of my dad. We live in just about the heaviest Cubs neighborhood imaginable (even live across the street from a Cubs WS hero from 2016) and yet he and my other sons have remained die-hard Sox fans throughout their childhoods. They suffered through a rebuild that chewed up their formative years while their friends' team celebrated, I suspect largely out of loyalty to their dad. For years they have fended off their Cub fan friends by parroting what they heard from me: just wait 'til 2021/2022/2023, that's our time. Just wait. We went to 20 games in what should have been a season of joy, all the while I could tell they were looking at me wondering "so, when's this gonna happen? I told everybody this was going to happen, dad, so what's going on?" The answer, of course, was that it was not going to happen at all, and I'm not sure it ever will. Honestly, I feel guilty for believing in this franchise and worse for inflicting my kids with this Sox fan disease. Screw this team for making that happen. Screw them especially because they had legitimate success in their grasp and arrogantly pissed it away because of a dysfunctional front office beholden to a capricious, dictatorial owner. I know it's just sports. I have plenty of thoughts on what can be done to (hopefully) turn this around. But for now I'm just stewing in anger. That is all. 3 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamTell Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 15 hours ago, The Beast said: This thread is appropriate, but what games stand out as bad losses this year? - The Naylor HR game - The Diamondbacks sweep - The extra inning loss in Detroit Engel's error against Baltimore with 2 out in the 9th, only to lose the game was the worst loss for me, mainly because it was so late in the season and led to another losing streak. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoeLessRob Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Yay! Now I can devote all my anger to the Bears! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeC Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 17 hours ago, The Beast said: This thread is appropriate, but what games stand out as bad losses this year? - The Naylor HR game - The Diamondbacks sweep - The extra inning loss in Detroit To me, the Naylor HR game. 2-for-1 special - deflated the s%*# out of us, and inflated the hell out of Cleveland. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcq Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 They tricked most of the national media as well. Nothing to see here it turned out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuban_sammiches Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 20 hours ago, The Beast said: This thread is appropriate, but what games stand out as bad losses this year? - The Naylor HR game - The Diamondbacks sweep - The extra inning loss in Detroit I think the Naylor HR game was soul crushing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuban_sammiches Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 5 hours ago, 35thstreetswarm said: As I put my kid to bed the other night, I looked at the Anderson and Moncada fatheads on his wall, the "Southside" flag he has hung up, and all the other Sox memorabilia he has collected and just got so angry. He's a fan because of me, just as I'm a fan because of my dad. We live in just about the heaviest Cubs neighborhood imaginable (even live across the street from a Cubs WS hero from 2016) and yet he and my other sons have remained die-hard Sox fans throughout their childhoods. They suffered through a rebuild that chewed up their formative years while their friends' team celebrated, I suspect largely out of loyalty to their dad. For years they have fended off their Cub fan friends by parroting what they heard from me: just wait 'til 2021/2022/2023, that's our time. Just wait. We went to 20 games in what should have been a season of joy, all the while I could tell they were looking at me wondering "so, when's this gonna happen? I told everybody this was going to happen, dad, so what's going on?" The answer, of course, was that it was not going to happen at all, and I'm not sure it ever will. Honestly, I feel guilty for believing in this franchise and worse for inflicting my kids with this Sox fan disease. Screw this team for making that happen. Screw them especially because they had legitimate success in their grasp and arrogantly pissed it away because of a dysfunctional front office beholden to a capricious, dictatorial owner. I know it's just sports. I have plenty of thoughts on what can be done to (hopefully) turn this around. But for now I'm just stewing in anger. That is all. Plot twist - your kid is 27. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy Posted October 6, 2022 Share Posted October 6, 2022 Final game of the season they couldn't wait to quit. Not having Abreu play and him taking the high road is just another middle finger to the fans. I wonder if that came from upstairs? Either way that tells you Cairo is never the guy, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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