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  1. 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)
  2. bukie
    Any endpoint looks bad. They had a 3-22 July, and have followed it up with a 4-19 August thus far.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. bukie
    I'm not entirely sure increasing the number of ways Velus Jones can drop the ball is very exciting.
  10. bukie
    My all time favorite Cub is Kerry Wood. Dude pitched the greatest game ever, and also homered in the 2003 NLCS game 7.
  11. bukie
    White Sox are now 1-21 since the All Star break, with their only win against the A's.
  12. bukie
    Which made Swansons effort doubly huge because she saw Smith going towards it and called her to get away from the play.
  13. bukie
    Today's highlight photo:
  14. bukie
    That's the best I've felt about a meaningless Bears win in a long time.
  15. bukie
    Today's highlight photo:
  16. bukie
    Sure, now you start handing out tips.
  17. bukie
    The White Sox should now turn to a veteran coach, someone who's been there before and knows the ins and outs of the franchise. Someone like Tony LaRussa.
  18. bukie
    This might be my favorite photo of Katie Ledecky's Olympic accomplishment today:
  19. bukie
    US Olympic soccer advances to the quarterfinals to play Morocco, while group winner France plays Argentina. Egypt beat Spain earlier today to win that group, so the US ends up on Spain's half of the bracket. Final 8 look to be 2 UEFA (France, Spain), 2 CONMEBOL (Argentina, Paraguay), 2 CAF (Egypt, Morocco), one AFC (Japan) and one CONCACAF (USA)
  20. bukie
    Sloan goes 55th to Seattle.
  21. bukie
    Still no prep arms drafted yet, seems like teams are very gunshy this year.
  22. bukie
    Every year I watch the draft on TV and every year I get annoyed when the announcing team questions a top 10 pick based on the current status of the franchises major league team. This year "Does it make sense for the Pirates to draft a prep player when their roster is so close to competing for a playoff spot?"
  23. bukie
    I believe the logical term is "regression to the mean"
  24. bukie
    I think a lot of it has to do with his inability to ever lose graciously, always dragging out matches with injury timeouts and wasting time when things weren't going his way. Especially earlier in his career before he was winning 90% of the time, he had a penchant for quitting matches he was losing instead of finishing them out.
  25. bukie
    As disappointing as this tournament has been for USMNT fans, I do admit it's always funny to see Panama get throttled when their CONCACAFing horsefeathers doesn't work against a quality opponent.
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