WestEddy

Marinaccio actually looked pretty interesting. I wonder why they're so stuck on Scholtens.

Maybe instead of going on about Reinsdorf making dumb FA signings so your kids aren't embarrassed, you should send them to therapy to learn how to deal with other children mocking their own choices. Do you demand that Chicago move it's entire self to Florida when other children mock your kids for living in a city where it drops down to negative temperatures?

Ron Marinaccio DFAed. That's a bit of a surprise.

The 2022 White Sox had an opening day payroll of $193,370,219 (7th highest), and $181,158,666 (13th highest) in 2021, as per Cots. So, the weirdness is explained away by the fact that they do spend.

Whatever. You can play the "everybody on the Sox will always suck" game, if you want. I was answering your fear that the Sox might be relying on an untested rookie to lead the staff in 26. One of those 4 pitchers is going to acquit themselves during the 25 season.

Unless they're traded, one of Cannon, Martin, Thorpe or Burke will be the go to guy, opening day, 2026.

They just picked up their interim CF in Myles Straw.

MLBTR probably has a lawyer on retainer who gives them regular advice on what they can and can't post. The article link you posted explains what you can and can't do. But you're opening SoxTalk up to legal trouble if they don't take your stuff down. The point is to stay under the radar, not push the boundaries. Disney don't play.

I'm not a mod, but a short blurb of a sentence or two is allowable under fair use. When you post multiple paragraphs from a copyrighted story, you're putting this site in legal liability. It's really no joke. That, and it makes the string really hard to follow. Also, dropping the paywall doesn't matter. It's ESPN's property. Even free, they still want the clicks.

The point it proves is that yours and Caulfield's made up narratives are not true. MLB didn't tell the As that their level of spending was embarrassing. There's an actual reason why the As are spending up.

I feel it's appropriate to say - sorry for your loss, Mark.

Right. They're spending to keep their revenue sharing. They're not spending because they've "seen the light" and now understand that bro-dudes will like them if they spend their billions to buck up these bro-dudes' manhood with sports victories.

He always seemed like the nicest guy. RIP.

I agree. I hate Ricketts on principle, but he should be basking in good will for 2016, and subsequent beatification of "Wrigleyville". And they all just hunker down and cry poor. I consider myself fairly liberal, but I completely understand a guy owning a business, and just spending what he can to get customers in the door. Spending $450M on a guy like Tucker seems performative, even if he does produce. "Look at how much I want to WIN!!!!" Just so bro-dudes can feel mighty while taking credit for other men playing baseball and winning games. But he shouldn't be worrying about $10M, or an extra year for a reliever, or whatnot.

That guy was an enigma. My lasting memory of Rios was, man on first, 2-hopper up the middle into center. Rios jogs up to the ball, and sets to hit the cut off man. He then notices the runner having rounded third, and on his way home, scoring from first on a single. Rios' shoulders just slumped, like, "no fair".

But I think the current model is to be gifted acres of prime city land to develop for free. He doesn't want to buy in a popular hood for market to develop it beyond it's inflated price.

Yeah, but that happens. We got Alex Rios like that. We wouldn't have signed a guy like him on the open market, maybe JR would balk at the price tag, or Rios would choose a team with a better image - but we grabbed him on waivers. So...gifted? We got a pitcher in a way that pitchers become available. He couldn't right the ship in NY, and they traded him. Like Keith Foulke to the As.

Then every single world series has been "gifted" to the winners through trades other teams made with them. LOL.

Life is a perpetual rebuild.

In 2012, at their nadir, the Cubs went 61-101, and they drew 2.8 million. Rickets is the worst.

Not South Sudan?

Isn't it that in all sports? I hated the Indians during the 90s. Every year, they seemed to clinch in Chicago. They traveled better than Notre Dame. Oh, I hated those fuckers, waving their AL Central Champs banners while beating the crap out of us, boasting about their 455 sellouts. After 2005, they're just pathetic. I even root for them when they're in it. Like an old man you used to be scared of, and now you bring him bagels. I hated the Steelers in the 70s, the 49ers in the 80s, the Cowboys in the 90s. And they were all great for the game. I was in Belfast around 1987. Went to some "hidden" bar, the bar tender was making fun of me for being American, while wearing a Raiders t-shirt.

I'm amazed the people who talk this way even watch sports. Are the best run NASCAR teams supposed to drive slower to make it fair?

Sure they are. But if British Soccer were 12 Leicester Cities, nobody would give a s%*#. It's Manchester United that gets people's attention going. (I guess it's Manchester City, now)