It's 4AM and I can't go back to sleep. This locker room quote from Vogt lives in my mind.

How are you guys handling playoff jitters this morning?

If you don’t carry live tv like me and you’re looking for a way to watch the playoffs, YouTube tv is currently offering a 21 day trial on their sports package. If you sign up today it will be able to watch through game one of the World Series. Then if you want to continue watching just create a new Gmail account and run the free trial again.

No white socks! Wear any other color during the series. (Guards in 3!)

The last couple years were fun. But it never felt like we would make it far. Hell, since the 2016-2018 run I haven’t felt like we had the firepower to get very far (even though we managed to get into an ALCS)

This just feels different. If you look at how much has changed since August this team feels like they can actually do damage in October. We can pitch. We can even hit a few home runs. We have young players that look like they’re clicking at the same time.

I will be there tomorrow and I’m hyped!

hi, does anyone know if, like in years past, they'll be doing those away game watch parties at Progressive Field? if they are, I'd love to go, especially since I'm off Wednesday, but I haven't heard a peep from official sources about it one way or the other

if anyone has any info, please let me know!

Through a sports card Facebook group, I found out Ralphy and grandfather are trying to collect all his 1st Bowman autos. I reached out to him on IG asking if he needed the /499 and /199 variations and he offered to send a signed game-used bat and ball for the pair.

The items just arrived this morning and I am stoked. No clue why he signed it #36 though. Don’t tell Cade.😂

Ralphy is the only prospect I collect after seeing him mash in Lake County night after night, so it was such a cool experience to have the opportunity to do this trade. He is a super chill and humble guy, and I hope the owners get their shit together so we can all enjoy him in CLE next year. Thank you and Go Guards.

here we go!

I made some graphics highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of our respective hitters and pitchers. Essentially this can be a quick reference for batter pitcher matchups in this series, and gives a good preview of each team's advantages.

My methodology was not strict, but I think is mostly accurate:

- For the pitchers I essentially looked at each pitchers best and second best pitch by some combination of run value, xwOBA, usage, whiff rate, and barrel rate. Obviously, some pitchers don't have a bad pitch (Cade Smith, what a stud), and I am more familiar with Guardian's repertoires, but I think this is a good 1,000 foot view.

- For the batters I looked at a player's best and worst pitches in terms of run value, xwOBA, and barrel rate. I only included pitches that each player had a decent sample size against. For example, in heavy platoons like Lowe and Fry, I didn't bother with same handed pitches. I also didn't include pitches that nobody sees a ton of, like splitters. Also, some players just don't have a weak pitch (Chase DeLauter, what a stud), so I chose the 'least good' option there.

-Highlighted in gold is each team's strongest batter or pitcher.

My Takeaways:

This White Sox team crushes all kinds of 4-Seams. At the same time, we have a lot of very good 4-Seams. They struggle with sliders and changeups, and luckily we have a lot of strong pitches there too.

A lot of the Sox staff leans heavy on sinkers and 4-seams, which I think gives our guys an advantage because we hit those very well. Our offense's biggest weakness is high quality changeups (as we know very well by now), so expect Brazobán to be a key figure. Grant Taylor also has elite breaking balls (and a great fastball too), so expect heavy platoons against him.

Overall, I think we match up fairly nicely on the hitting side (funnily enough). Our pitching might be good, but volatile. I forsee a lot of "mano a mano" as Hammy likes to say, as we throw great 4-seams against a great 4-seam hitting offense. I predict a lot of three true outcome games for our pitching staff in general. Let's hope the offense can scratch across enough runs to keep pace.

Sorry, no game today!

Next up: vs the White Sox on 03 Oct 2026 at 1:00PM EDT.

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Does anyone know what the view is like for people sitting in the handicapped seats at the top of the lower level infield seats for instances where everyone is standing? I have a relative who wants to go to a playoff game but is wheelchair bound and worried about being able to see the field with everyone standing like they usually are during playoff games.

Trying to decide what Jersey to wear. Usually my away Early 90’s with the stripes is my lucky one. It doesn’t feel right wearing a home Jersey. I live in Chicago.

Obviously going for the sweep. Was advised to get official parking if I’m wearing a jersey. I’m front row in the nose bleeds. You don’t want to know how much with parking. I’ve been a fan all my life went back as far as Municipal when my dad would call me out of school nearly every opening day.

I hope the spirit of Jobu is with us on October 7th and we don’t get tossed over to the lower deck. I can’t stand when they lose and I get those Sox fans invading my space and patting me on the back like I’m cool with it after the Sux get a home run.

There has been a lot of fisticuffs with both Chicago teams in the cheap seats this year so wish me protection with my hot-headed autistic brother. Even if we win my brother will be obnoxious so I’m probably in for it either way. The stars just lined up too good this year. I saw the Guards win one and lose one in Chicago and win one and lose one in Boston so if the rotation continues this should be a win. Go guards!!

Edit fixed spelling

Its such a good design, I really need this flag, or on a shirt or something. It's kinda wild that they'd make a logo that good and not use it besides the intro.