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    White Sox vs. Deerfield Pharmaceuticals - 5/13, 6:40 PM (PPD to DH 5/14 3:40 first pitch)

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    Pedro Grifol, who seems a lot more comfortable in his second year as the South Side skipper, has been talking up his vision for how he wants his team to play for months. He gave it a name early on in spring training, instructing his players to “play F.A.S.T.”, it’s an acronym that stands for fearless, aggressive, selfless and technically sound.  So we put a DH in RF who's none of the above.

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    Chasing Records — 120 losses secured!

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    BTW.......Earlier in December 2021, the A's had submitted a bid to acquire the Tropicana site and redevelop it into a ballpark prior to the Bally's acquisition. MLB, in reaction to the A's interest in Nevada, decided to remove a relocation fee for the team in the event that they move to Las Vegas.

    Never say never, when it comes to the Sox relocating based on an expansion or relocating fee.

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    12 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

    It's been stated actually by many others especially the part about the expansion fees which I completely forgot about.

    But feel free to keep sounding the siren of doom for the franchise. ? That is certainly your right.

    Here's the bottom line, it's really simply, the day JR no longer owns the franchise things IMMEDIATELY get better, it is hard to imagine ANY ownership group which gets the team doing worse. And my personal opinion based on what I've been told is that the odds are a corporation will own the Sox next and not a single entity because of how much they'll have to pay. 

    I hope your right, I really do!  Thanks for the inside information.

     

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    1 hour ago, Lip Man 1 said:

    They aren't going anywhere. Not yesterday, not today and not tomorrow. ? You can put THAT on the board.  

    The reasons have been stated time and time again but in case you missed it, MLB isn't going to move a club out of the 3rd biggest market in the country for a much smaller one PLUS the expansion fee generated by giving the Nashville franchise to Dave Stewart and minority ownership not only makes MLB look good but the fee is going to be millions and millions (maybe even a billion) of dollars into the pockets of the other owners.

    They aren't going to turn that down to make JR happy. Not for a second. 

    Yes, I've heard the reasons from you over and over, but time will tell, you certainly can't predict the future.  If you believe you can, let me know the winning lottery numbers tomorrow.  

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    10 minutes ago, T R U said:

    I agree, I don't believe him at all that he cares about truly winning and the Getz in house hiring just proved to me that it's still the same s%*# different year.

    However, I do believe that no one likes to be embarrassed so the quicker this team craters out and Pedro is fired and eventually we move on from Getz by JR's hand or the next one the better this franchise will be.

    I really don't like my favorite baseball team being trash. Nobody here should be campaigning to keep guys like Fedde and Crochet and Robert so we can get a handful of extra wins out of a miserable season. The goal should be sustained success and cashing in on these guys now is how you get the chance to reach that goal.

    JR had plenty of opportunity to feel embarrassed over the the last 35 years and not much has changed with the way he runs the Sox.  If they crater and the fans stay away (like I have last year and this year) after dropping my 20 game plan then JR will just use that as his excuse to move the team.  Just like he's going to use an excuse when the state doesn't pony up for a new stadium.  He's clawing his way out of the city so he can move to Nashville, and as Hawk would say "you can put it on the board"

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    17 minutes ago, Snopek said:

    You forgot the third option of doing whatever the hell you want to do as a fan, but thanks for sharing your rules.

    They weren't rules and I also mentioned boycotting the stadium and JR, but I'll stand by my statement that I don't want them to end up with the worst record in MLB history.  It makes no sense since it's not going to get JR to change his ways, that won't happen until he's no longer the owner.  But if you want more misery just so you can complain about it on Sox Talk than have it your way.  I hope you don't enjoy yourself too much because the last 4 games against the division leading Cleveland was fun to watch until Sunday.

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    9 minutes ago, T R U said:

    Were fans of arguably the worst franchise in MLB history all things considered. Been around since 1901 and have made the playoffs 11 times. I am OK with them losing to such an embarrassing point it forces changes to be made.

    We just saw this happen last season when the front office guys with seemingly lifetime contracts were finally let go because of the 100 loss campaign. You think they were getting fired if this team was 81-81? No shot.

    KW was retiring anyway and if he let KW go JR had to let Hahn go, it was just a PR move to get JR some attention so he could pretend like he really cares about winning.  If he really cared he wouldn't have hired a GM and manager with zero experience.  Remember when he said hiring Getz was the fastest way to turn this around....well how did that work out for us?

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    13 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:

    If you are going to suck you may as well suck historically in my opinion. Maybe total complete embarrassment is the only way short of new ownership to get anything to significantly change.

    It may not do a damn bit of good but winning 60-65-70 games isn't going to do squat either is it?

    Let's agree to disagree then.

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    11 hours ago, wegner said:

    I heard that home run he hit the other day was not on a bad pitch...dude is just a crazy good hitter. Len and DJ said during this one that there was no way the Sox were gonna let him beat them late in a close game today or tomorrow.

    It's about time they learned to pitch around him 6 years later after getting burned game after game after game............

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    5-11 game 6:10 CDT start. Maldonado Line gets the start. Puke.

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    9 hours ago, 4OCS said:

    His arm isn’t exactly Moncada-esque either. But he seems to have way better pitch recognition than most of our recent “stars”

    Post game show was talking about how Ramos was practicing sidearming his throws (like Moncada) instead of always throwing over the top.  Shows the kid listens to instruction and wants to improve.  He will only get better the more time he get's at 3B.  Chuck brought up wether the Sox will keep him on the MLB roster when Moncada comes up and Pods said a decision will have to be made sooner when Mendicks ready.  Ozzie brushed that off saying "If we're worrying  about when Mendick will come back we're in trouble".  Gotta love Ozzie!

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