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I don't know the timeline for when someone said Guillen would be interviewing and when Guillen denied it. But The podcast had only been listened to less than 100 times when I listened to it this morning. The podcast was released early today. Maybe things changed but I doubt Garfien would say it if it wasn't true since he did the post game shows with Guillen and they are "friends".

Real easy . Listen to the Garfien podcast with Jenks and Toby Hall. Somewhere a little after 13 min mark. Garfien said Ozzie interviewed with Hahn, Getz and Haber on Monday.

That was a good podcast. Pioneer League was basically full of UDFA guys. Jenks and Hall were the team's only coaches . So you're playing guys who basically didnt go in the 1st 20 rounds of the draft and having your players coach the bases. As far as the we're ready quote goes. Toby Hall said that. Jenks was more diplomatic saying managing Grand Junction could be a stepping stone to eventually get to the big leagues . They don't even know if they have the job this year . Ownership change.

He was interviewed on Monday Oct. 24th.

Nice win over a very good Panthers team. More than likely not a playoff team but that's a step up from what I was going to be the most dismal season ever. It still could be but the payers seem to have bought into Richardson's leadership. 1st time in almost 40 years the Hawks have won their 1st 3 home games of the season.

This could've been posted at just about any time in Sox history and been accurate.

Good info there. SO much better than tweets from know nothings.

Roquan heckuva game too.

Totally unexpected offensive showing on the road. 200+ yards rushing. Now 33-14 !

Obviously not much interest in the Blackhawks right now. However, I like their Coach Luke Richardson. Seems like they got much faster. Domi and Athanasiou are playing well. The PK has 4 shorthanded goals already which is 2 more than all of last year. They are forechecking well. It may well turn out to be the high point of the season being a game over .500 now but they've been an enjoyable watch so far.

Nice play by Fields to get that pass under the arms of the blitzer for the easy TD. Refs being generous. Fields shouldn't have taken such a hard hit after the throw. Just because he runs a lot doesnt mean he can get smashed when in the pocket . Woo hoo Bears get a turnover !

I'm surprised there's so much interest in who the next manager is. The window is gone and they are building a wall in it's place.

You piggybacked my post about brownies ! You're a piggybacker ! Foodies are the tweeters with food as their name like...umm yay ! I can't think of one. I'm good with that !

Wake me up when the World Series is over. All this isn't even yawn worthy.

Brownies anyone ? Tasty and great for manipulating your mind.

Might as well live in the real world. Revolutionizing pitching isn't happening. Best you can hope for is a lot of quality starts (6 or greater IP while giving up 3 or less runs.) 10 playoff teams were the top 10 teams in quality starts. #11 ? The Sox. 1 less QS than the Dodgers and Yankees. The Astros had the most (94) or 58% of their games. There were only 37 Complete Games in all of baseball this year. That's 30 teams X 162 games (4860). .0076% which is quite a bit below 1%. 22 of 30 teams had 1 or 0 CG games.

Being left handed helps. Plus he's got the Piazza like swing where just barreling it up on his natural swing sends it out to any field. That bomb he hit to left field was just a sweetly balanced swing on a pitch a couple inches off the outside corner.

And since I was talking out of my ass based on what I saw from him this season I will back it up now that my eye test was extremely accurate. Checking statcast info Robert's 1st pitch swing % was 49% , highest on the team. His normal swing % is 61.5 % so thats of all the pitches he sees he swings 61.5% of the time ! and that leads to this. Guess who on the Sox gets the least amount of meatballs to hit ? It's Luis Robert whose Meatball % is 5.6%. Yes there is a statcast thing called Meatball % ! If anyone needs to lay off of pitches it's Robert and he couldn't even TRY to do it when he was hurt which was the perfect time to do it. Just terrible terrible coaching or Robert just not listening.

He was an automatic out anyway . What did he go while he was playing injured 1 for 30 or something ? Work the count , and maybe u actually get a walk to help that way with your speed or maybe the pitcher grooves one. He does not have to swing at the 1st strike he get's because he can't tell the difference between balls and strikes good enough. But he does recognize hangers pretty good.

That'ss besides the point. As long as you are in there playing make the best of it and use it as a learning process. I'd be telling him look I know you're hurt and it hurts to swing. Look at the 1st 2 pitches .Look at the spin , the release point. They're supposed to know the pitchers' strengths and weaknesses and have a plan against them. He should know already how he is going to be pitched. It's up to him to learn to make pitchers throw him strikes and if they don't then take the bloody walk. Learning opportunity misused by a dumb player or dumb coaches not telling him what he should be doing .

Well that's about the stupidest approach possible. He's a free swinger as it is so why even bother throwing him a strike ever ? That's how pitchers approach him. He swings at the 1st pitch a LOT . 1st rule of baseball: you become a much better hitter when you get ahead in the count and a much worse hitter when you get behind.Why swing to make contact if swinging at all is painful . You need to look at more pitches any way to eventually reach your full potential so what better time to look at more pitches than when it hurts to swing the bat ?

That's the problem with most of the core. They aren't worth what they are starting to get paid until they start playing more games and living up to the hype. Robert may never be the runner and fielder he once was due to the major injury and constant injuries since. The odd thing about him playing hurt and 1 handed was that he didn't even bother looking at more pitches. You would think that he and his coaches MIGHT suggest that now would be a good time to work on your plate discipline since you are having a hard time swinging the bat and look for pitches to drive. Nope he just went up there hacking. Your walk rate shouldn't be trending down when you swing 1 handed. The pitchers pitch him the same, a ton of stuff off the plate,sliders away, curves and sinkers down, fastballs/cutters in. He just refused to stop swinging at it all. Sox need to think about him playing a corner and if they look for any LH OF, expand the search to include CF.

I don't think we know what we saw. We're not privy to any offers Hahn got or why it took so long. Maybe he had 4 or 5 teams he was talking to and went with what he thought was the best deal which usually for him is an old guy.

To be fair how do you know they even attempted to get a younger player? Maybe Hahn thought Pollock was better than any young player(s) he could get.

That hammer of his is nasty ! One of the best in baseball.