Trying to decide if it's worth my time to watch a single game this year.

They should win at least 80. I was tempted to make them a WC team in my predictions but I wanted to be conservative.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

I’m thinking 75 wins.

Of course you should watch, you are going to have the AL CY winner going every 5 days

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

This thing could go off the rails in a hurry but it will be fun to watch Timmy's breakout.

Jesus another thread on what the Sox will do?

Low end will be 75 wins. High end will be 82.

No they won't lose 100 games.

Yes watch the fucking games.

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Zero chance they lose 100

They could get a few things falling into place and end up winning 85, imo.

Hopefully he can but it's doubtful.

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White Sox should have somewhere around 75-80 wins. Not even close to a 100 loss team. This question shows how little you've paid attention to this point.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

keyser baiting Frank is awesome

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

They will lose 150!

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fixed

It is the worst rotation in baseball, so they can easily lose 95-97 games. Does anyone think Carlos Prior will actually pitch this year? I hear he's throwing awesome towel drills!

It's not baiting, it's him being stupid. He's loved Anderson for a long time and cannot criticize a player he likes. Of the flip side, if its a player he doesn't like he can never offer them praise. Whatever organization he works for must be pretty sorry to employ a scout who does this.

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110 losses, easy.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

not the worst. could improve easily by cutting shields and kicking fulmer to BP

Oh I completely agree he is stupid, but at this point I think there is a part of him that does this just to get under your skin

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I think of three things before I fall asleep at night. My dog, My wife, and Keyser Soze.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Does he even work for a baseball organization? I thought he was just some wannabe scout.

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I have the Sox down for 70-73 wins.

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No way.

They have individual players worth watching, that's enough for me. Re-upped the MLB.tv single team package for them.

This team loses 90 games, not 100

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Most assuredly not.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Hot start.

Frank, you have the tongue of a poet. Reminds me of this brief but powerful poem by a woman with a shitty last name:

Triad
BY Adelaid Crapsey

These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow. . the hour
Before the dawn. . the mouth of one
Just dead.

To keep up with the poetry motif and in honor of Holy Thursday, here are two poems by Blake:


Holy Thursday (from Songs of Innocence)

Twas on a Holy Thursday their innocent faces clean,
The children walking two & two in red & blue & green.
Grey-headed beadles walkd before with wands as white as snow,
Till into the high dome of Pauls they like Thames waters flow.

O what a multitude they seem'd these flowers of London town,
Seated in companies they sit with radiance all their own.
The hum of multitudes was there but multitudes of lambs,
Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands.

Now like a mighty wind they raise to heaven the voice of song,
Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of Heaven among.
Beneath them sit the aged men wise guardians of the poor,
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.


Holy Thursday (from Songs of Experience)

Is this a holy thing to see
In a rich and fruitful land,
Babes reduced to misery
Fed with cold and usurous hand?

Is that trembling cry a song?
Can it be a song of joy?
And so many children poor?
It is a land of poverty!

And their sun does never shine.
And their fields are bleak & bare.
And their ways are fill’d with thorns.
It is eternal winter there.

For where-e’er the sun does shine,
And where-e’er the rain does fall:
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.

Also known as a Furious Styles.

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Not likely. At the trading deadline they are still more likely to be sellers and any chance at a win total greater than 75 will go away at that point. About 72 wins sounds right to me.

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Go Cubs!!!!

If Chris Volstad, who they called up today, is given 30 starts, then yes they will lose 100.

This guy is brutal.