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I wonder what the look on JR’s grandchildren’s faces is when they open up what they think is an IPad and it’s some knockoff.

Perhaps...I’m quickly losing faith in Jerry, not that I had much to begin with.

I tailored it to match your style

Glad that one is done.

If this is where we’re at I sure wish we could have made the Lynn trade without Dunning because damn if our depth doesn’t look as garbage.

We’re all in a group chat together. Brian and others give Dayton a hard time because they think he’s Not Cishek. It’s just a joke.

You complain about everyone using small sample size for his bad base running and defense, but you conveniently don’t use it for his hitting.

This site has been shopping Madrigal. Why I don't know. The White Sox have not.

Mike Leake would be an absolute abomination of a signing. He is literally one of the worst starters when it comes to Statcast numbers and basically strikes no one out. How anyone would prefer him over Richards is mind boggling to me.

To be fair, Jerry is hamstrung a bit. What with the moratorium on trading bonus pool money for buyout relief.

Thats what she said

Just start a thread for every player in MLB and your bound to be right at some point

All in means putting all your chips in. Dunning is not all the chips ffs

F all of you for not giving Katz and Cease love. You all are gonna eat crow

I agree and I’m not expecting anything crazy like Bauer, but going into next season with little to no depth and a league average payroll is ridiculous.

we aare going to be stuck with god damn adam wainwright because this team won't shell out a contract over 100mil for aa premium talent like bauer, aren't we? Same shit, different year. We were playing low payroll for so long and were told the money would be spent... that's half bullshit and half true... the half true part is its spent poorly consistently throwing money down the drain.

And about as likely as winning the Mega Millions.

I may be a short sighted wet blanket, but Wainwright may be about right. Our owner has made it pretty clear through the years that he doesnt pay for starting pitching. Not the market rate. Trading a Jared Kelley is not to my liking because we are not a normal org. We can only get star power at that position if we get it on a first contract. We just dont engage labor on this point, and never will. It's even pulling teeth to extend our own best guys, and when we gave Danks his money then it burned us. We're only fine with it when it's like Buerhle who was willing to take team-friendly deals his whole way (but even then, we couldnt fend off the Marlins at the end when he decided to get paid) My one issue with Waino is what if LaRussa puts him into a playoff game because of EXPERIENCE instead of a SP who has had a better year to that point.

We are talking minor leagues so Pods started out his minor league career 48 for 68. About the same. It amazes me how some players get so much rope but some like Madrigal who was drafted only 2 1/2 years ago gets none, and he is supposed to be a finished product. But he sucks so much other teams won’t notice and will give you something good for him. And then Tommy LaStella can come in because a decent faction of Soxtalk has a ex Cub fetish and he will be way better. And it will only cost $7 million more and that is nothing to Sox ownership.

This is a perfect signing for this team.

How could you?

No we just sat through a pile of crap and mediocrity for years we want more

Welcome to Soxtalk!

Smh Ragah. Madrigal is neither. His speed, baserunning, defense, and baseball IQ were so overrated. If he wasn't an overachieving, little "grinder", he wouldn't be so overrated in those departments.

Jerry is going to waste this window isn’t he. This year it will be COVID, next year it will be the CBA. JFC, I’m turning into Jack Parkman.

Hell no, you can’t go into the season relying on Lopez. That’s how you get into a situation where Drew Anderson is starting a game for you a month into the season. Sox currently are nowhere close to having the depth they’re going to need for a 162 game season.

The Angels aren’t giving up any decent pitchers.

You get back to work and make a damned trade.

Get back to me when Richards actually throws more than 80 innings in a season. 37 year old Adam Wainwright did it. 28 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 29 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 30 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 31 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. 32 year old Garrett Richards didn’t do it. But we should pencil 33 year old Garrett Richards in for a season. No that makes perfect sense.

In most countries of the world, those companies would be nationalized... at least until the crisis had passed. But you wouldn't find more than 10-15% of the Congress in favor of such a radical approach that values citizens' lives over corporations and the profit incentive. People Are ‘Faking It’ To Get Vaccine Priority, So Just Yeet Me Off The Planet https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/people-faking-vaccine-priority-just-010026098.html

Cruz just gives me flashbacks of every other DH "solution" we've trotted out there, and I get worried.

Public health is inherently political and requires strong political action from our government.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/texas-school-district-proposed-diversity-100050047.html Here’s a Texas-sized example that is the quintessential argument that’s dividing our country today (race relations)...as an educator there, I’m sure you can appreciate the “both sides” aspect of it. The fact that the Cornish family after all that time still didn’t feel welcome tells one that we still have a long ways to go, and it didn’t get any easier the last 4-5 years. In the end, “liberals hate America” is the other side of the coin just as as labeling everyone on the other side a wanna-be Charlottesville Proud Boy rightfully rankles the majority of conservatives. It’s the same argument Vietnam War protesters heard, or The Dixie Chicks. If you don’t love your country in the same way I do, feel free to leave. We can easily retreat back to these general arguments about legacy, diversity, cancel culture, identity politics and patriotism, but then we’re simply skirting the issue.

Tex, the bolded is garbage. I suspect you know it is garbage. But it's something a "liberal" on the Tucker Carlson show would say. Liberals all hate America guys! More to the point, if there were a "things you like about America" thread, I suspect people in this thread would have plenty of positive things to say. But this is a COVID thread, dude. And we haven't been doing great in that arena. Hopefully with an administration in place who wants to tackle this crisis, there will be more positive news in this thread and you can stop complaining about this thread not being sunshine and roses.

If you go on baseball savant guess who Wainwright's #1 comp is for 2020.........you guessed it, 2019 Gio Gonzalez.

It’s come to this.

So I cannot read this story in full but it includes this.

If only we could run the government like a business and create more competition...!!! Well, we created a monopoly, or, at the very least, an oligopoly. War-time footing requires government intervention, and aspirational leadership, not bean counters from accounting who don’t want to be troubled to work on weekends. It’s ironic, because those community health pharmacies in WV adopted localized solutions, since they already had or maintain longterm relationships with their nursing homes and don’t want to jeopardize them...and they actually know and care about those residents, they’re not just numbers on a spreadsheet. In the end, the supposed “trust” in the vaccine those brand-names companies were supposed to create is destabilizing the system, because their performance has been so inept. If they hadn’t guaranteed those contracts...well, you only have to go back to the Theranos case to see how greed/profit is the primary driver for corporate pharmacies.

We have done this before, though: https://magazine.uc.edu/issues/0408/on_campus.html But unfortunately most of our public institutions have been increasingly hollowed out since at least the 80's. A slight majority of vaccines are still sitting on shelves in freezers right now. Check the "% supply used" map. Things do seem to be picking up slowly, though. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/

Why did we ever start allowing international travel after it was initially shut down?

It became political because the scientifically sensible course of action in combating the virus would have a negative impact on the stock market and the President's entire view of his own self worth and his re-election chances were based on the performance of the markets.

It shouldn't be political. I get Affordable Care act and the political aspect of that - but coronavirus should never have been as political as it was made to be. And the politicans should have all been big boys & girls as it related to that (even if the president was unable to - the rest of them should have been able to). Period - no excuse.

I'll just make it clear - we are in a pandemic - there is zero excuse for this to not be a 7 day a week 24/7 type of thing. Period. If I could get my vaccine at 3 AM - I would get my vaccine.

No, you specifically said "We have a mostly honest government, imagine third world countries where corruption is the norm" and you got called out for it, and I believe quite fairly. You then compounded it by saying "But I don't think Nigeria or Nicaragua are doing better" - when in fact, they are. Nigeria has 147 deaths, Nicaragua 168. If the US had the same number of deaths per capita, we'd have under 10,000.

Literally the most American thing I can think of is looking to improve upon what we already have. If that is now "Liberal" thinking, well that explains why I left the Republican Party. All of the sudden it is being labeled as un-American to try to improve this country, as if you have to fall into line with conventional thinking, or get out. This country used to welcome people looking to improve it, and the lives of people in it. But now you can't out of fear you might make your political party, or its leader, look bad. As if party has become more important than country. It's sad. To be clear, the American response to COVID is 100% embarassing. If not the worst in the world, when you factor in the resources and ability we have in this country, it should be considered the worst in the world. The fact that the percentage of deaths we have versus our percentage of world population very clearly shows this failure.

Yesterday 123 people died of COVID in Illinois, as it opens up more and more regions despite the new strain. On the other hand, I used Grubhub, a company started in Chicago, to deliver wings. So, I don't know, I guess it's actually a great day.

I was hoping you were trolling instead of something this reductionist. Criticizing the US governmental response to the coronavirus should not need to be paired with a compliment of general US governance. It is actually a good thing that US citizens should expect the best from their government, and not stare failure in the face and say "well, on the other hand I enjoy my local creek". Vietnam is one of the most beautiful countries in the world with wonderful food, incredibly generous people and great street fashion. Its governmental response to COVID was genuinely extraordinary. Would I rather be a Vietnamese citizen instead of an American? No. Would I rather the Vietnam government instead of the US government? No. Nobody here would. And nobody in this thread for months felt a need to bring in these statements because it really isn't relevant or necessary to couch criticism of the government's COVID with perspective that not everything ever is also bad. That is until you showed up with this argument. So let us all welcome tex775.