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  1. bukie
    He knew he had a free shot.
  2. bukie
    Only in this thread.
  3. bukie
    Hey look, other teams can let free rushers up the middle sometimes too.
  4. bukie
    Free rusher up the middle continues to be a problem for this offensive line.
  5. bukie
    The White Sox have won 5 series this season, none since the ASB.
  6. bukie
    So the Bears won and covered the spread, as expected.
  7. bukie
    PCA beats the play at 2nd on a routine DP ball to SS, leads to 2 runs.
  8. bukie
    They could still win tiebreakers against the Dodgers and Phillies...
  9. bukie
    Fun fact, the Cubs are now more than 40 games better than the White Sox this season.
  10. bukie
    They're going to stop playing the White Sox very soon.
  11. bukie
    The Cubs just won 8 of 10 and gained at least one game on every team ahead of them in the standings. The Braves lost yesterday. The scoreboard watching doesn't matter unless the Cubs keep winning, and as long as they do they gain a half game on the league every day.
  12. bukie
    The White Sox are 31-49 in games in which they've held a lead. (and thus have played 54 games in which they haven't had a lead of any kind)
  13. bukie
    Any endpoint looks bad. They had a 3-22 July, and have followed it up with a 4-19 August thus far.
  14. bukie
    After this team started 0-3 last year and looked nowhere close to being competitive at any point during them, they finished 7-7 and should have been 10-4, having blown double digit 4th quarter leads 3 times (led 28-7 against Denver, led 26-14 in Detroit, led 17-7 in Cleveland), and the only game that was non-competitive was against the Chargers (lost 30-13). They beat Detroit, won in Minnesota, destroyed a Falcons team that needed that win to win their division. Their weighted DVOA was 11th in the league, emphasizing their second half was good enough to be a playoff quality team, even with a bottom 10 offense. They spent the offseason retooling that offense, adding a QB, 2 WRs and a RB, and I'm optimistic that can finally push them into the top half of teams offensively for the first time in nearly 20 years. So yes, I'm optimistic about the team's chances this year.
  15. bukie
    At least over the next 3 weeks, we'll have a good idea whether or not these Bears are capable of winning the AFC South.
  16. bukie
    The White Sox offense this year has been historically bad. As a team, they have accrued a team batting fWAR of -5.7. Of the entire roster of players that has batted at least once this year, only Yoan Moncada has a positive fWAR (in 44 total PAs). Everyone else has provided a net negative relative to an average MLB replacement player. Of all teams tracked on Fangraphs since the dawn of the divisional era (1962), the White Sox have the 3rd worst batting fWAR among all teams, ahead of only the 1977 Braves (-6.6) and the 1979 A's (-9.7). Their pitching has been bad but not historically terrible, at a 7.6 fWAR, good for 26th in MLB (ahead of MIA, COL, TOR and LAA). So, overall, the team has been worth a net of 1.9 fWAR overall.
  17. bukie
    They need to finish 25-6 to avoid setting a franchise record for losses in a season. They need to finish 12-19 to avoid setting a modern (post-1900) major league record for losses in a season.
  18. bukie
    On the other hand, the Baltimore Ravens spent like 8 years blowing everyone out in every preseason game and they had some good seasons in that stretch.
  19. bukie
    With the expansion and the near guarantee of a cushy group (the top 9 teams will all be seeded in other groups, so they could potentially end with an Italy/Germany/Uruguay type if all the top teams qualify) With home cup advantage and this pool of players supposedly being their best ever, anything less than a QF should be seen as a disappointment unless they play, like, Argentina or Spain or something in the R16.
  20. bukie
    I'm not entirely sure increasing the number of ways Velus Jones can drop the ball is very exciting.
  21. bukie
    My all time favorite Cub is Kerry Wood. Dude pitched the greatest game ever, and also homered in the 2003 NLCS game 7.
  22. bukie
    White Sox are now 1-21 since the All Star break, with their only win against the A's.
  23. bukie
    Which made Swansons effort doubly huge because she saw Smith going towards it and called her to get away from the play.
  24. bukie
    Today's highlight photo:
  25. bukie
    That's the best I've felt about a meaningless Bears win in a long time.
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