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Fantastic hire. Great work, Men.

Nice win for Chris Getz. Maybe the stuff about internal conflict on the hire was overblown, either way, good for him. He turned down the Mets and Steve Cohen, so I wonder how Getz sold him on this opportunity. Maybe he’s intrigued by having an opportunity to build something from the ground up

^This tells me it was a terrible move. The team is screwed.

I will not be spending $300 a year to watch three bad teams. Pass

No, I have no faith at all in them making the right hire. This is the same organization whose owner hired his 80 year old buddy to make up for a mistake from 30+ years ago when they were entering their contention window. That's not a serious organization.

This is one of the very few decisions the Sox have made over the past five years that doesn’t seem like the wrong move the moment it is announced.

I don't think anyone knows anything. Just wait for them to announce Willie Harris.

It is going to be Nevin. We can all feel it. Rather have Sizemore, nothing has changed.

It would take an awful lot to go right just to sniff the .500 mark in my opinion. Just not realistic with this organization.

Eh, I’d still take Chicago summers over Miami summers

Love the hire. Princeton grad, great resume as he worked his way up the ladder, played in the bigs. If he isn’t good, at least there were no obvious red flags going in. Maybe he can will the Sox to 59 wins? Or is that an impossible dream?

Given the situation, this is as good of a hire as Getz could have made. Hopefully they find a little bit of talent to give him to see what he can do.

Also when is the last time Merkin broke news?

Looked at his player page. His #1 similar player is Daryl Boston. Had to laugh. I like the hire, but what’s it really mean in the long run under a Reinsdorf ownership? Good luck, Will.

Very cool, remember watching him play basketball at Princeton. I’m just going to pretend that Theo is buying the team from JR, and this was his call.

I mean this is a big win, I’m so curious about what he said to him. No idea if it works out

I’m not mad at this.

Venable the hire

Aren't there any Royals guys in the mix to continue the 100 loss Royals envy.

I agree. Anyone but Nevins. Which means I think I know who they're hiring.

Sure, except without Manfred ball rules fucking us. Getting 1,1 immediately injects like 10 projected WAR into our system, at min. That's exactly what we need. It's hard for even 'tard clubs to screw that up.

I’ll provide my contribution to this thread, finally… “Jerry is open to selling…” Yea, my ass he is.

s%*# might change in consistency and tone but s%*# is always still s%*#. There’s an actual analogy in there somewhere relative to the Chicago White Flops.

Funny that a franchise that is almost as bad as the Sox is considering 2 of the 3 same hires, but the one they’re not considering is the clear worst choice and the one we all know the Sox will pick.

It was obviously a generalization of a game that was not meant to be taken as fact.

They did stuff we would roast our front office for but they got lucky and it worked out.

It’s a ruse to keep Grady’s price tag down. They want to offer him no more than $2/hour more than the $15 he was making last year.

Yet they could probably hit for more power.

Hiring Nevin would just be another awful mistake. Sox should offer Venable whatever to get him here, but we know Jerry won't do that. Which leaves Grady. Familiarity with the team, cheapest option, I think this will likely happen with Grady coming back.

He added a lot of fuel to the fire in the last 24 hours with what he said postgame and on Monday, along with what others said. Not only did he take no accountability for really anything, but he now has players coming out in the media actively questioning his coaching decisions. Then Jaylon Johnson went on The Score yesterday and said this: Now that's also on the players, but it doesn't reflect well on the coaching staff either, and you add on the absolute unforgivable mistakes Flus made on Sunday...the vibe TOTALLY shifted.

Buzz kill if Nevin gets hired. I survived the 2024 White Sox, I guess I could get through 1 year or a 1 1/2 years of Nevin until he is canned.

id rather have showalter than nevin

Launching an app at that price with interest in the team so low is something. It makes the decision to not give them money even easier.

I won't be watching the Sox on TV next season. I refuse to listen to those two fools in the broadcast booth.

Sorry. I didn’t in intend to include the political ad at the top of the Austin News piece.

If you do anything other than look at websites/apps on your phone than I would not recommend it.

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I think it's because Chris Getz was a bad deputy, was hired because apparently it was a "shortcut" to the next good Sox team and that his stated goal of a better pitching and defense led team led to a league worst defense, an absolutely awful staff outside Crochet, and oh yea 121 losses. If that guy was named billy bean or dombrowski he'd be getting questioned. But when you are Chris Getz, with his track record? Any real org would have never hired him in the first place!

Congrats on bringing the org into a 21st century chart. That means absolutely jack squat. That's like saying the pilot fixed the problem with the landing gear when the plane is about to crash at 500mph into the pacific ocean. Just to expand on this there are numerous necessary conditions to field a good team, they are, in no real order: 1) good scouting 2) good drafting 3) good FA signings 4) good coaching, MLB and MILB Now, analytics and inter org communication are probably necessary for those things, but they are certainly not sufficient. The single most important position is to install a GM who hires and runs a great org. There isn't a single data point we have in the last 10 years that JR is capable of doing that.

You get historically bad by signing a bunch of guys that can’t hit under the guise of speed and defense and then…you still are among the worst defensive teams in the league and the base running looks like a circus. Then you sign guys like Mike Clevinger while giving away others at the deadline for near nothing.

We also heard from board insiders how one of the big changes that was going to make 2024 successful was that they were putting the "Baseball people back in charge". The first things we heard last year from Getz was about how they needed to bunt more, which is exactly what 80 year old "baseball people" have been doing with the White Sox for years. These moves led to 121 losses. Are they getting "baseball people" back in charge of the data analyses offices too? Because if so, I have no reason to expect that this will be any better than Shelley Duncan.

Can't get fooled again. Nothing will change until the owner does.

Right? They overhauled the front office and gave us 121 losses.

Why is it encouraging? We haven’t seen anyone who has replaced these folks, we don’t even know if some of them are being replaced, there could easily be downsizing happening in scouting departments that were already too small. This is the 4th analytics overhaul in the White Sox organization in 5 years. I’m sure this overhaul will get it right!

Ready for work Mr LaRussa!

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I’m also not your buddy.

It was a dump of money. Big deal. He saved Jerry some money that he won’t spend later. Golf claps for Getz!