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I just think they should find an injury that vaughn is suffering through for a bit. I'm skeptical Elko is good, but similar to Remillard...he's a player that isn't as stained by the stink of losing. Better than Remilliard - he's led winning teams since college (maybe not all true). Meanwhile all I can think about with Vaughn is how unbelievably dumb we are.

Greg Jones...Lotta great memories there.

I’m sorry but there is no way that is true. Is that true? I’d expect we are 10 runs at least ahead of last year

Them at 35% is great. The reinsdorf failsons and father having fifty percent is incredibly depressing. There is no “not selling but passing chairman role to ishbias”, we are just stuck with this miserable moron.

Greenberg seems to have given it tacit approval

Worst thing I’ve ever seen

The white Sox signed him (because they are idiots)

Yeah I guess though some of it is also how bad both scouting and our pd/advanced scouting/etc is together. While I think a good amount of it is luck when Brian Goodwin randomly has an .850 OPS to get you through, some of it isn't. I mean had they kept on to Kevin Pillar I would not have my little anecdote here. But it just comes across that they know they want to change but don't actually know what they are doing.

One thing that's been kind of amazing is how for like most of my baseball life there's been one kinda random plus offensive season or relevant hot streak. Thinking of getting a Elvis Andrus putting up 9 home runs and 2 wins in like 40 games. The Trayce Thompson year, Palkamania, Yerminator, Avisail Garcia in 2017, McCann. Hell, Brian Goodwin's first half of 2021. Leury 2021. That stuff is random, unsustainable, but always kinda happens. And it has just straight up not been happening since 2022. Now, of stars, of course Robert had 2023. Benintendi had a few months. But to cycle through so many marginal guys and not accidentally catch a hot streak is so wild. The year is young, maybe Meidroth is the rando. but it's been the thing that has stood out to me for how astonishingly bad we have been offensively. Like, normally even bad teams you look at and are like "hey billy butler had a decent year actually"

Sounds gross

My initial trade for outman was giolito for outman and amaya and this is a tremendous monkey paw moment now

It is comical this trend of finally getting a name on Sox fans radars the minute they become irrelevant.

Agreed, I hate when we hold this stuff up as validation as if we needed it.

calling a different team the stinker of the ALC is more impressive than like any other team winning the World Series. Venable is a god

Big earl weaver game today

Who? This team is 12 guards. I’d put Donovan in for coach of the year, personally.

Yes true.

Watched on game day…impressive blue dots indicating runs scored. good vibes, nice to see a win. Last years opening series scoring like 4 runs total really was the tone for the season. here’s to hoping we can enjoy some baseball (which yes, a reasonably bad team that has bright young spots is still enjoyable baseball)

Man the last 5 years of Paddy were as bad as wilder. Maybe worse.

Man I used to love boers and Bernstein but it moved into actively hating him about 10 years ago. The further he got from having some actual knowledge (bulls beat) the less he could offer except to pose as a smart guy sports person by quoting people he thought smart sports people liked. cant believe he let this take him down tho lmao. He and Greg Gabriel should start a podcast in hell

I think this is mine but I feel like one of Slater / Tauchman will bomb early and be dfa'd by June, but i'm gonna say Tauchman is the one that sticks and will get to 10. I think if he survives 130 games, Sosa will hit 10.

I 100% agree. Robert too. I don't really think these guys were optimizing their body for baseball.

I guess it’s just the analysis stuff is for me filled by a lot of people outside of the beat role, and better. So the beat job just felt like getting faster notice of day of injuries and post game comments, and as a fan I just don’t need that as much anymore.

Sad to lose DVS…but I wonder how much we as fans even get from beat writers. Hearing responses to day to day decisions is so monotonous now anyway. All the bigger stories go to natl writers…thinking of any times a beat writer gave us real info on how team operates. Not a big diff between Merkin and dvs in all honesty.

I still say people over index to recent events. How much of drafting Gibbs was Brad Holmes compared to Johnson? To Campbell? And if the lesson is that Johnson will push against “positional value” as a parameter, is rb the only example of that in this draft? it could easily lead the bears to taking the plunge on a DT (graham) or likely g (Campbell) but also the more popular Warren and Jeanty. I think all would be that trend, not just Jeanty. If anything, I wonder if Simmons is now trending up