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1 hour ago, caulfield12 said:
Is Mahler the new boogeyman for the Vargas trade?
Reading that article...feels like wholesale changes are NOT on the way.
Not even expecting a move on the catching front after two imported vets blew up in their faces.
One can only hope that they can figure out a way to improve the outfield and bullpen somehow.
Dude, Quero and Lee are our catchers for the next 5+ years, I don’t see why you can’t accept that
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2 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
Moncada is not being traded. He has a $5 million buyout or a $25 million option for 2025. He's getting the $5 million to go away. He will be a free agent in like 6 weeks.
I just mean in general. ‘This player is bound to produce better results in your quality organization, as his performance here was effected by our toxic environment and general incompetence”
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48 minutes ago, Lip Man 1 said:
Someone else will think getting out of the toxic environment will be all that's needed to turn him around.
I hope Getz is using that as a selling point in trade negotiations.
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1 hour ago, Kyyle23 said:
The entire White Sox fandom in unison
“Same, Hawk. Same”
You think Sox fandom agrees that as long as JR is in charge the Sox will compete??
JR must’ve paid Hawk a s%*# ton over the years for him to still throw that kind of cockamamie BS out there on his behalf
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On 9/10/2024 at 12:55 PM, southsider2k5 said:
Is this from someone who talks to Getz or is this speculation?
False dichotomy
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And he wasn’t exactly a stud last year until upon leaving the sox, either. In fact I recall him being quite shitty the first couple months of the season, which seemed largely attributable to horrible pitch calling
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14 hours ago, TaylorStSox said:
Reylo was a stud his last 3 years with the Sox. Plenty of reasons to hate the Sox without saying stupid s%*#.
A stud middle reliever when he had ace potential that was largely untapped for seven years, whereas an actual quality organization magically converted him overnight
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46 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:
This goes back to the idea of are Bannister and Katz really as good as they want us to believe? Nastrini, Iriarte, and Schuster are 3 great examples of guys who just did nothing to improve this year.
Just look at Reynaldo and Kopech
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And still no Ramos?? What the H. This is some meet the new boss same as the old boss s%*#
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Say what you will about redneck music. I contend this s%*# will sound good to any man after the better part of a dozen natural lights and a pint of peppermint schnapps. I thought I’d leave it for anyone watching the sox to enjoy:
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16 hours ago, Quin said:
Why in God's name can they not format the fucking photo correctly by now?
Or spell Miguel correctly
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So on 9/1, he struck out 8 in 3.1 on a dead arm? That’s pretty impressive
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1 hour ago, Balta1701 said:
Has anyone mentioned yet that one of the reasons why Vargas might be struggling even more, and one reason why he might be extra concerned, is that he went from an organization where he asks for help and gets "here's our 400 page textbook on this pitcher, would you like to spend 3 hours in our virtual reality simulator seeing his pitches" as a reply, to an organization where he asks for help and gets "We think this guy might throw a fastball you should be ready for that" as a reply?
I posted about this before, but going through the ‘62 Mets season made Richie Ashburn retire despite being perfectly healthy coming off a season in which he hit. 306 with a .424 OBP and only 425 hits away from 3000 at age 35. At that point, he was no HOF shoo in but 3000 would have made him one.
If that can have that kind of effect on a seasoned vet, not hard to imagine that going into this clubhouse, when Vargas was probably on some sort of cloud 9 as a young Dodger, probably did f*** his head up. Getting your feet swept out from under you like that could literally lead to a depression spell. Conversely, it was probably like getting called up to the bigs for the first time for Kopech. Hopefully Vargas can regroup in the offseason
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Dude only has 530 mlb plate appearances, many of which were fairly spread out. He has indeed looked like s%*# but his history says he has exceptional command of the strike zone, so I’m going to wait and see what he looks after another 530+ PA. It really only matters how he produces in years two through five of the sox future control anyway. Plenty of average or better mlb regulars with his kind of career arc at this point
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That 1915 A’s team was the result of Connie Mack growing himself a crop of the best talent in the game, selling it directly for cash, which he stuck directly into his own pocket, as if he were some kind of baseball rancher taking his cattle to the market Kind of makes JR seem not so bad, but at least Mack delivered multiple championships. The teams preceding it were among the best of all time. He pretty much did the same thing again twenty years later, including selling Al Simmons to the Sox, along with all the other stars he dumped for straight profit
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Point being, there’s got to be some sort of disorder akin to stockholm syndrome or battered spouse syndrome we all could be classified under at this point. There’s no other reasonable explanation
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And even though the ‘90 team was very good, it still always felt hopeless anyway because there was no way they were going to overcome the A’s and we all knew it
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2 minutes ago, Dick Allen said:
They actually started playing better the second half and rolled it over to one of the teams most enjoyable seasons in 1990.
True but I didn’t expect that coming at the time
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As a young kid back in 1983, having no reason to know any better, the Sox might as well have been the ‘27 Yankees as far as I was concerned. Even after they lost to the O’s, I still thought the Sox had the better team. The shock of 1984 as I look back now, I guess I never got over it. ‘84-89 was total misery as a Sox fan to me. ‘85 was of no consolation to me, the one year they were actually decent. And now 40 years later I’m still following these bums. It must be terminal, or require some sort of intervention
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The fact I’m sitting here thinking how the ‘89 team that caused me so much misery in my prime junior league baseball loving youth in retrospect actually wasn’t too shabby…that’s got to be something akin to stockholm syndrome, no?
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Imagine the ‘89 Sox in a league full of 2024 Sox. Guys like Daryl Boston, Scott Fletcher and Dan Pasqua would have been perennial all stars. Ozzie would be the Ozzie Smith. Baines, Calderon and Fisk would have been like Ted Williams, DiMaggio and Campanella on the same team
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1 hour ago, Highland said:
Even the 1989 Sox, a team that lost 92 and ended up last, had an 8-game winning streak. Nothing near that in 2024.
92 losses? Sounds like a pretty good team at this point
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20 hours ago, Melton1972 said:
1970 was my first year being a Sox fan. I remembered the excitement in 1971 with new players and new uniforms. Then in 1972 we finished 2nd behind the Athletics. But even the players in 1970 were better than this team. This year has been a total gut wrench.
I didn’t see the ‘70 team, but just looking at the baseball reference page I think its safe to say they’d wipe the floor with this team
The Athletic: Must Read article on Jerry Reinsdorf/White Sox
in Pale Hose Talk
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Do I really have to??