JoeC

Hahn was at least paper-qualified to be hired as a GM.

Those words are the most relatable words that sum up my feelings for this organization in its entirety.

The leadership position JR needs to fill MUST be filled by someone with more credibility than JR in order to be successful. JR will make sure that never happens.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/08/white-sox-release-billy-hamilton.html The purge has begun!!! </sarc>

Until a ballpark food item reports it, I won't believe it.

How much do you wanna bet TLR will be involved somehow now?

Really shocked KW went, too... unless he was retiring anyway.

Somehow this didn't age well, thankfully

I'm wondering if this has been in the works for awhile now, but they decided that public opinion can't be any worse... so why the f*** not?

or to have the season ticket owners be doing the interviews.

Can we trick Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenny into thinking the Sox are a lower-tier American baseball team?

Dammit, I can’t get the image thing working on iphone…. I fixed it

Live shot of the meeting

To a point. There is value in helping a vet rebuild value for a half a season and flipping him for a prospect, especially if you don't have viable long term solutions already

Well, still deserves a win thread

10-5 over the Rox.

Blackmon for the cycle? He’s got the hard 2 out of the way.

I’m watching the game for some reason. is there a reason they aren’t showing the score or any other on-screen graphics? Is this kind of like how they stop putting up scores in little league games when they’re super lopsided?

MLB free game of the day. a nice discount bin game apparently.

I hereby once again request for the mods to add a “crying because I know it’s really possible” reaction.

I would only take this seriously if they brought in a proper baseball exec (like an Epstein) and that new exec would be doing the interviewing. This could be a genuine effort, but I’m also still waiting for Elisha Cuthbert to return my email from 15 years ago to ask her out.

Hey guys, I'm starting to get the feeling this team isn't as good as we were promised they'd be. What do you think?

The one saving grace with GRF is that, since it started as a blank slate, it's one of the only ballparks that has consistently improved with its age. That speaks more to the starting point than anything else, but you get the idea....

Probably some combination of both. Gotta have the right combination of analytics and scouting to identify holes in their games that are contributing to a performance deficiency, and those holes have to be fixable. In other words, you have to have analytics and scouting to filter out the chicken s%*# from the rest of the chicken. Then you have to have the culture that allows (or forces) the players to buy in to the message and makes them open to fixing the hole in their game. You can't teach players to give a s%*#, but you can make them want to give a s%*# by having a good culture.

Awesome news!