Rusty

Cleveland scored TWO runs on INFIELD singles TWICE today. The White Sox are basically a Little League team.

I can’t imagine how bad it sucks to be a ticket sales rep. Season tickets are going to go down by probably 35% next season.

I really hope Cleveland pours it on and scores 18-20 today

They seriously shouldn’t win a game the rest of the season. Not only is it the worst roster ever assembled in league history but the players and coaching staff are completely checked out. That combination won’t win many Major League Baseball games.

Luis Robert is either: completely un coachable completely checked out not being given any feedback from the hitting staff bad at baseball i really can’t imagine it’s the first or last. The fact the GM can’t bother to pronounce his name correctly when he got MVP votes last season seems pretty telling to me.

Why the f*** is Vargas playing 3b every day while Ramos is DH? I hate this organization so much

The lineups have been puzzling but I assume the rest of MLB knows it’s not him making those decisions. To your point, the entire 26 man roster has maybe 4 or 5 MLB caliber players on it. You can’t really do much with that. They commonly field a batting order that doesn’t have a single guy hitting over .250 and last night had 4 hitters below a .600 ops, another 4 below .700 and the highest and final player… .704. That combined with a bunch of minor league pitchers; you aren’t going to win a lot of Major League Baseball games. Pedro was a doofus but even in his defense, this really is the most horribly constructed team in baseball history. With no real immediate and impactful help on the horizon from the minor leagues, the only way to fix the team quickly is to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at free agents which…the Sox have not done a singular time in franchise history so…its gonna take a while to dig out of this hole. It’s also a major problem when your GM is getting fleeced in trades on the return for the few marketable pieces the team does have.

Im a little too old to understand all the ChatGPT/AI stuff but I mean…what happens when you just ask it “who should be the next manager of the Chicago White Sox”? I certainly trust Siri or Alexa way more than Getz, TLR, and JR.

Or a timeline. Super awesome process.

Also Royals almost certainly make the playoffs so he wants to be “respectful” before asking permission to interview their current staff.

Dont forget who the Director of Player Development and Assistant GM was during that timeframe. Dude has literally failed upwards.

Here is the link to the full session if you care to watch. Theres so many concerning answers in here which terrify me but the one that really caught me, as a business professional, is when one of the media members asked a question related to how much Getz talks about “processes.” It made me wonder…for a guy that’s supposed to be the single baseball decision maker for a multi-billion dollar organization, what actual formal training and education does he have? The guy has a bachelors degree in “Sports Management” and most of us know what that major means in real life…aka nothing. Has he ever done a Lean/Six Sigma certification? Has he ever done a PMP course? Has he ever done advanced training beyond a 300 level semester long college course in Organizational Behavior? Agile Methodology ? Human Resources Development? I am pretty confident the answer to all of the above is no. His only qualification is that he played the sport, has a largely meaningless undergrad degree, and on the job training in two organizations; one of which largely underperforms competitively and the other which may be the most dysfunctional franchise in professional sports. My head almost exploded when he kept saying process, rebuild, blah, blah, blah then the actual words came out of his mouth, “there is no timeline.” Like what in the actual f***? That phrase would give a rookie project manager night terrors, let alone the General Manager of a 2.1 billion dollar organization with hundreds of employees and thousands of stakeholders going through a massive structural rebuild. It’s actually stunning, even for this team. The entire interview is wild.

I would Keep any high ceiling prospect as far away from the current environment as possible. Of course it will be no better for the foreseeable future but I dont see the benefit of having a couple struggling MiLB players in the clubhouse for a team about to set the all time loss record in front of near zero fans, with a largely incompetent coaching staff, a highly unqualified GM, possibly the worst owner in professional sports.

Seattle is a better situation by almost any metric. Stanton is a much better owner than JR. Dipoto and Hollander are far more favorable than the Sox “single decision maker” Chris Getz and the corpse of TLR. The Mariners have given out a contract over $100m, hell Julio is almost 3x their largest contract. Their average attendance in a smaller market is over 10k higher than the White Sox. They have actually made FA acquisitions like Nelson Cruz, Robinson Cano, Ichiro Suzuki. It’s a ridiculously better spot for any GM offered the job. We can also mention that Washington has no state income tax which is a pretty big deal for someone making a few million dollars when compared to Illinois. Chicago is a better city, that’s about it. However, Seattle is a pretty good urban city as well.

Cant wait until the Dodgers are able to turn Kopech into a decent back of the rotation guy. This little nugget from the article was pretty good too. “DeJong has been fabulous since leaving the White Sox, hitting six home runs and driving in 15 runs”

He’ll be lucky to be in one of the other professional leagues in 2 years like KBO, Japan, DR, etc. More likely he’ll be playing Independent League 3 years from now. Could probably get in a few years for the Slammers.

This is part of the thing that terrifies me. The team will not be sold until Jerry passes. Jerry seems fairly lucid and is decent health for an 88 year old man. Affluent people have far more access to advanced health care and resources. He could easily make it to 100 and we’ve got over a decade more of this s%*#.

Which is extra-ordinarily disappointing for a rising guy like Sizemore. I’m sure other franchises know how dysfunctional the Sox are but this can’t be helping his future career prospects. I don’t know why he, or almost any other candidate with legitimate long term career aspirations would take a job with the Sox.

I know that there are severe roster limitations and who knows what he’s being told from the executive offices but some of Sizemores decisions seemingly make zero sense.

I’ve gotta do one more. I simply can’t help myself….

They love playing short. A starting pitcher that you won’t let go 4+ innings when the season has been over for 3 months is completely silly.

This is pretty awesome. Believe he would have the highest OPS on the 26 man roster.

This is insanity. It’s a 2 billion dollar franchise. $15m is nothing, they gave away three MLB players for a guy that is below replacement level in nearly every metric while charging fans $50 for parking, not paying rent on a state facility, and attempting to threaten taxpayers with re-location if politicians don’t give them a billion dollars for a new stadium.

They cannot move the team. It’s not even a remotely credible threat and all the politicians are smart enough to know it.

Remember when Hahn was basically in tears during the presser after he was forced to hire TLR? Getz is a worse hire than that. That’s quite the low bar to get under. A hire so bad that the guy was crying in public and…Getz is worse.