southsideirish71

The only thing that will fix this franchise is when that guy is listed in an obit in the local papers just like Dollar Bill Wirtz. IMHO He is a horrible owner. The only thing going for me is that he isnt immortal. Eventually father time will clean up this mess and hopefully the next owner isnt this guy.

My guess is that Sizemore gets the gig fulltime in the offseason. Any sign of life, look he did great. If they still suck, well lets give him next year. JR loves his low cost first time hires. More nickels in his pocket.

JR is a new level of cheap. Tampa and Cleveland dont spend on the roster, but they invest in development, analytics, drafting and the international free agency. They take raw talented players and get the best out of them. Its not that JR doesn't spend money. He doesn't spend it anywhere. They have the smallest analytics department in the MLB. We dont have a large amateur and professional scouting organization. Its still the good old boys network there. Ancient ideas. The GMs are focused on short term returns. We let the guy we fired shortly after the draft make the first pick, he picked someone who was probably not the best player available but someone who would be able to fill the MLB roster quickly. The current GM probably picked Hagen because they figured Crochet was on his way out. Our free agency is filled with mediocre B level players that we sometimes have to overpay to be here. So if you go to Walmart and buy a 100 dollars worth of Chef Boy R Dee, yes you spent a 100 dollars but that doesnt immediately turn that Chef into a 100 dollar steak because you spent the same. Sure you have more meals, but its not a quality meal. Its just numbers. We dont have a pipeline to fill the ball club at this point. We hire low cost managers. Everyone is wasting their time looking for a replacement, Sizemore is it. JR loves his low cost first time guys. TLR is probably whispering in his ear and Getz is doing whatever TLR says is a good idea. During the "window" we spent oddly. No superstar. Just an assembly of parts, lots of relievers. The owner then imposed his will and put his buddy in charge and then closed the wallet up. Then he stripped this thing to the studs and now is going to anchor attendance before he is going to spend. Sorry you didnt spend to get a superstar to push us over the top or spend wisely the last time. We are not going to be tricked again. I can wait him out, time is on my side.

Tony did a bang up job in his last few stops building teams. Tony is a shadow of the man he used to be. And Soxfest is back./ https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/fans/soxfest

In the end, JR is not parting ways with any monies. Grifol will survive the year, probably survive the offseason ( got to have someone for fans to yell at at Soxfest ), then they can fire him around the ASB next year. Tony is most likely calling the shots.

Snickers in the background.

The real GM is JR's buddy and is Getz's sounding board. He wont get fired. The only thing that will ever happen while JR is alive is that another puppet will be put out to be the face of the team while TLR pulls the strings.

https://x.com/JohnDenton555/status/1818034898139234523 They tried to go 1-1 and the Cards raised the ante.

Feede for Edman as the first trade thoughts tells me that TLR is pulling the strings.

fWAR? Whats the mans batting average. David Eckstein never worried about his fWAR?

I am sure Tony is doing what Tony does behind the scenes. Helping GMs find new employment by listening to an old man.

The hope that JR is not immortal and that his son will sell the team to someone who isnt Voldemort.

God we cannot shake Chicago meatball fandom here. Ozzie Guillen coached and learned how to be a manager. Yes he was a smart player however he also did on the job training where he learned his craft by paying his dues and learning. Robin Ventura, a favorite of mine, didnt. He was lost. He was overwhelmed. The idea we can just take a fan favorite player and just sprinkle some vet coaches around him and poof it works is dumb. And conflating other catchers who have moved onto coaching is silly at best. Its not apples to apples. Just because you have a smart catcher doesn't make him a great coach. Players sometimes dont make the best managers. Even catchers. Taking a players passion or their personality as a competitor doesn't exactly translate to being a manager. Its not the same. Jerry is trying to feed you member-berries and hope that fan nostalgia will overwhelm your common sense. I want someone who knows how to build a program, build players and take us to winning ways. Knows how to develop from the ground up. Knows how to hire competant teachers that can build a single vision of how to play hard, smart baseball. Not just a recognizable player from your 2005 world series collector dvd because you remember the glory days. There are parts of this AJ play that will resonate with the fandom. They will eat this up. Then in a few year the same fans will want him fired and will hate him. We deserve better. Not tricks and gags to fool the fans. Hire a real manager. We were robbed of that by this owner when he decided to hire his buddy. Lets not let him off the hook with another silly move.

Pedro isn’t going anywhere while TLR is whispering in Jerry’s ear.

So we had our RF throw himself on the ground for no reason. Errors on simple plays at 2nd and 3rd. The only thing Thorpe has to remember, the people playing kick the baseball are not going to be here in the long run.

Wait choking up? You think people do this?

They don’t develop defense in the whitesox farm.

We have to find another term because the corpseball teams look like the 27 yankees compared to this group of replacement players we are rolling out there.

Are you telling me that this eyewash boxing routine he did in the offseason didnt help condition the man. I am shocked. https://fb.watch/rhV6bu1_4P/

Fletcher is a proto-typical white sox player.

Remember that the man behind the man sent Dansby Swanson the the Braves for Shelby Duncan. He and Hawk come from the same clothe of talent evaluation.

Travel Baseball has made strides in the last 15 years in the Midwest for quality of baseball. Indianapolis hosts quite a bit of very good amateur travel tournaments. The Indiana Bulls, Canes Midwest amongst a laundry list of programs that are out of that area. A lot of these teams are of a good quality and compete in the same tournaments that the powerhouse orgs do across the board. The AABC, the Cincy Flames tournament in Cincy, Kernels in Iowa, lots of great baseball outside of just playing at PG/PBR in Georgia. The only one that is completely different is Jupiter in the fall or the Area Code games. Those are basically allstar games.

The orioles fans are detached from reality.

They can hold on to their positional prospects. thats fine. They will also likely make first round exits for a while until they draft or acquire ToR pitching. This idea of we will give you junk and you will give us your cost controlled pitcher for a few years for free isnt going to work.