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Bro the mopes you're yelling at have been living and dying with this franchise for decades. We know what the Sox' median season is. We know what the spreadsheets say. Like, focus on some positives sure (even I have) but just don't yell at people not blowing sunshine and rainbows before the season even starts.

Comrade, I've been online for awhile. See, I didn't name myself after the first White Sox team I was ever aware of like you did. I have been called a Ron Schueler lover, a KW stan, a Rick Hahn fanboi, and now that I have a Getz obsession. I'm a White Sox fan. I don't follow them to shorten my life by decades like you do. I just follow them. I don't try to make people feel like sh*t for being positive. That's malarkey. I'm not really aware of this type of fanhood. You like a team, so you attack everybody who thinks players on that team will do well? Even when they have track records of doing well? I thought you were factually based. Sounds like you are too emotional to follow this sport. I don't think you've ever done anything patiently.

I had season tickets for 30 years. I hope they win every game they play. Last year when they hired Pedro, I was fired up. He seemed perfect. Turns out the guy was a fraud. He is awful. Then JR finally comes to his senses and fires Hahn and KW. He doesn’t search for a perfect replacement, he hired Getz because he said Getz knew the organization and he couldn’t waste a year. I liked his first trade. It’s somewhere on this site if you don’t believe it, but after that, and until the Cease trade, which again, I thought was pretty good, I gave a B grade, all he acquired was and is crap. This will be a wasted year. They are terrible. Not even trying. Call me a whiner. I consider myself an educated consumer. I was sold a bill of goods. I won’t be fooled again. The organization is full of bullshitters, and it starts at the top.

I’m sorry, the card says Moops.

Why do they have to be “whiners”? Does anyone call you a “stupidly over-optimistic homer”? I get the impression that @Lip Man 1 is a long lifetime Sox fan who has lived through Jerry’s entire awful reign and longer. The same owner who has done nothing with the Bulls since Jordan left because it’s a money maker. Perhaps you should listen and learn from your elders. But do what you want.

Can I take the under on July? Once most of Getz’s acquisitions are DFA candidates by July that he keeps hyping up as having promise, he won’t be posting much at all.

Am I the only 1 that still can’t get over how horribly the Oscar Colas situation has gone? In 1 calendar year we went from having a top 100 prospect who was too good to leave in the minors, to signing scraps late in spring to play over him. Was Colas that immature/unprofessional? Just seems like Getz and crew made it apparent that Colas was never going to get a shot at the RF job from the beginning. And I’m not saying Colas has really earned anything, but with the state of this organization doesn’t it make sense to just give him a shot to bounce back?

@Dick Allenis not a guy that has a history of puffing up the Sox. For some reason, that seams to be your reason to exist here. Like just calm down a bit it's only March 23rd. By July, there's like an 80% chance we're 10 under and your account will be deactivated. If we're not? Well, crow then. There's only so many strawmen people can knock down in the meantime.

For good reason. Haven’t you been going on and on for weeks about the Sox giving Pillar $3M? Now they release him and that’s an issue too?

You take spring training way too seriously. I hope Nastrini is good pitcher, but chances are he won’t be all that good in the major leagues in 2024. Command isn’t the greatest.

Shouldn’t White Sox hitters be taking advantage or does this only happen to White Sox pitchers? At so,e point, and now, in spring training, I understand why you don’t want to, you’re going to have to realize they aren’t as good as most teams. And that they suck.

There's a webcast: https://www.mlb.com/video/cws-sea-spring-training-webcast-91983

That was my favorite part... ranting about someone who had already been released.

Sox wasted a lot of at bats with Moose and Pillar.

“Paul DeJong sampled a Bong” sounds like the start of a Humpty Dumpty style poem

My earliest personal memories of the Sox go back to 1960 when I was five years old. This season will be my 64th as a fan and Sox historian. I hope to outlive current ownership and see better days for this franchise.

It’s pretty frustrating we kept the same 101 loss manager and hire an unqualified yes man to not “waste a year” and they are in fact, wasting this year anyways. Like wtf.

Gotta love how the only way to “save” a JR-owned team is by trading their best players, rather than resigning them. JR is an embarrassment to competition. It’s too bad he didn’t just stick to real estate. Having an owner that just wants to make money rather than win is the worse possible scenario as a fan.

Great. He has 27 games at AA with an ERA over 4, 4 games at AAA last year also with an ERA over 4. Send him to AAA and call him up when he starts impressing. Thanks for agreeing, entire career makes it obvious.

That’s the title of my debut rap album. Out next Friday.

This should be the takeaway.

There is no reason to move Colas right now. He could literally spend the next 2 seasons in Charlotte before the Sox HAVE to make a decision on him in ST 2026. He’s an extremely talented guy - let’s see what happens before just cutting him loose or trading him for pennies on the dollar. There are all sorts of personalities across baseball. To say Colas shouldn’t be allowed in the Charlotte clubhouse is pretty over the top imo.

Stop trying to make me hate Caitlin Clark

Paul DeJong sampled a bong. Paul DeJong sampled all game long. All Pedro's coaching and all Jerry spent, couldn't make Paul DeJong FAST again.

Well, Dejong is NOT going to embarrass the White Sox and us fans by . . . . Repeatedly get suspended by the league Act like a bad ass then get knocked on his butt in a fight Slap a teammate be disliked by his teammates to the point that no one cheers when it's announced he make the all-star team make us watch and wait as an opponent checks and overturns a double play because he missed stepping on 2nd base . . again have countless errors repeatedly get picked off base Dejong is not going to be Tim - building my brand means more than wins - Anderson. For that reason alone, I expect the Sox to be better, maybe only slightly better, but better. But they will be significantly easier to watch.

Sox would have to take on the 3/$19M he is owed. No one is claiming that.

They absolutely should give him a chance to earn his spot back at some point. But I have no issue making him earn it. He was dreadful in 2023 and obviously didn’t earn any respect from the coaching staff or FO.

DeJong is making like double the minimum. If he’s a 1 WAR player, that’s probably a win. Dallas, on the other hand, got paid.

I complained enough about selling off Cease at a discount already, I will not complain about them avoiding paying Pillar and Moustakas $5 million or Clevinger anything. Those would be like Maldonado, bad signings and wasted money to make us feel Royal, it would do nothing to help the Sox in either the short or long term.

Or saying it another way. Whether drafting rookies or veterans why would you want a later pick? I don't want to go fourth in the draft, let's go lower after everyone else picks, then we'll take whoever they don't want. We're not that good at development that we can take other team's rejects, develope them, and beat those teams. One thing I'm certain of after fifty years or following this organization, for every time we actually "fix'd 'em" (Loaiza) there are dozens and dozens that really did suck so bad no one else would sign them.

I'd probably throw Mendick out in RF before Eloy.

As CinC of the “the Sox can’t develop anyone because their front office are idiots” club, I’d like to note that “this guy failed to develop because he didn’t get enough at bats in spring training” isnt a thing. I was worried that having so many guys in camp would mean dumb moves like Pillar and Moustakas staying with the team would happen by default because of veteranyness.. Clearly this didn’t happen, so another minor correct decision here for Getz.

Just a general comment on these types of assumptions that we all make. Without information not available to the public we don't know that's true. We don't know if a team made an offer that was rejected. Just looking at what guys signed for with another team doesn't automatically mean they would have played for just any team at that price. I still believe shopping with more options available is better than waiting until the shelves are mostly bare. Especially considering that we generally believe every other team is better at player evaluation. We're going to wait until they all take their pick and somehow believe we're going to do better with the rejects?

Really, you only expect the Sox to win between 40 to 50 games? Is this hyperbole? I am optimistic and hope and expect about 72 wins, but I know 60 wins (even a few less) is a possiblity. But you think only 45 wins, really? What happened?

DeJong is not the key to the season, he's one of the keys to the season. If DeJong and everybody else stays healthy this team will win alot of games. I realize I'm one of the few who feel this way but that's how I feel.

The pitching from the guys expected to make the 26 has actually been pretty good this spring. Of course it was an open tryout so there were going to be guys who stood out in small sample sizes. We all know that performance with relief pitching can vary greatly from game to game especially with guys who have trouble throwing strikes. However it does suck being reduced to thinking the Sox pitching won't be as bad as I thought because of ST numbers. Leasure seems legitimately talented. Unsure about the rest of them until they can throw strikes consistently.

Beating 10fWAR isn't exactly a tall order. You might as well use a random number generator on guys like Soroka or Fedde. They very well could be bad, but we spent a lot of money on pitching last year to be bad. Spending nothing and beating 10fWAR would actually be somewhat of an accomplishment.

Straw checks all of Getz boxes of strong defender, no bat.

Dude, everyone knows you are going to disappear from posting once your Getz obsession GETZ destroyed by the true talent level of the scrubs that your favorite GM acquired. I will sit by patiently and see how you respond…

Brett Phillips is both able to back up CF and a former Royal, so him making the roster does make sense.

Chicago White Sox - bringing you yesterday’s mediocrity… tomorrow.

If I “sampled a bong” no one would be happy… so there.

JR will hear about this and order a bill to be sent.

The bong line might be the funniest fucking thing I've read about the Sox since Getz took the reins

Doing everything they can to not see Gavin Sheets in the OF or on this roster. I love it.

That's Pedroball baby!

All these dude's flat-out competing and they're still adding on March 22

You're thinking of Caulfield