JoeC

Hey - that's a positive! At least, maybe!

Yes. JR is smart enough to understand he only needs to pay for 1 "yes" man. No need to pay 2 people to say "yes" to him separately.

As open as ever.

Assuming they are still the White Sox, yes.

I wonder if the offense is energized by the Clevinger DFA. "If you play well, it might not be too late yet to get out of this place!"

Maybe. At least we all know they’ll suck, so there won’t be any disappointment to deal with.

For the Angels, they realized they're hosed, so they're trying to dump salary to get under the Luxury Tax threshold. If they can get under that threshold, their compensation for losing Ohtani as a FA will go from a post-4th pick to a post-2nd pick. I believe someone else posted that info here earlier in the thread (or in the Gio / Lopez thread), so give credit there if the above information is accurate.

Huh. It's almost as if there should be some teams that players play on before they get to the big leagues. On those teams, you can have players learn (and be taught) how to baseball. Maybe our new GM / head of Baseball Ops can bring something like that to life.

The existence of David Wells?

Works for RF and 2B. Why not GM?

Been a Sox fan since the '84 season when my dad took me to a game when I was less than 2 months old. My first-ever gift was a Sox mini bat given to me by a relative. This move would make me reconsider my allegiance. Logically, I want to bail. Emotionally, I know I can't.

Exactly.

Only if Fred McGriff is manager

No, but it's on my list for one of these next times I head over there. (I haven't been back for work since COVID, but had been going to Nagoya 3~4 times a year for a decade or so)

Well crap. #statistics

2008 was a great memory. If I had requested PTO a half day sooner, I would have been at the Saturday game in Tampa. My friend had an extra ticket that he said was saved for me (for free) if I could get down there. The only catch was that I was in Nagoya at the time. By the time my PTO was approved, the flights I was hoping for had shot up in price.

We're on pace for a series split after 1 full inning. #statistics

I was hoping that it would be a President of Baseball Ops who would then have the autonomy to hire (or not hire) a GM and construct the front office however they see fit.

AJ hit the nail on the head. we “hit” on the high end guys… and by “hit,” I mean they turned into mostly-at-least-average big leaguers. when’s the last time we took a late round pick and turned him into something?

Sure there are bad ways to apply things like dress codes, but if it's a part of getting the team to buy into a greater culture (not as a way to force submission), it's something that has been used a long time. In the case of the Yankees, in not sure if it is a Steinbrenner- initiated rule or not, but i know for a fact that Steinbrenner was pretty heavily influenced by his military school education, which probably didn't get in the way of instituting or reinforcing the facial hair policy.

It’s one part if you have a wholistic philosophy that any dress code is congruent with. Not saying i agree or that it works - just stating that these are the reasons that people put these types of dress codes and rules into place.

It’s a part of culture. appearance is one manifestation of culture.

Yeah, forgot that for a hot second.

I view it as a “Hahn sucked, but let’s not let that cloud the fact that the rest of the organization sucks just as bad.”

Put the Sox in any other division and they have 90+losses already easily.