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Matt Latos, god that was a flash in the pan season for the Sox. Started what, like 20-10 and then went 20-35 or something and were out of it by July.

I was fairly buzzed and said something similar but more depressing and deleted it. In general I think I was trying to say that not even the Sox are bad enough to where they need to sign a negative WAR Moose Tacos to a camp invite. Like, he could pull a Rollins and hit 400 in spring and then go 0-28 to start the year. He's that bad and old. He hasn't had a semi useful season in 3-4 years.

this post sucked. can we have a delete?

Classic photo of those guys:

Read the fucking room JR!

Some shots from a prior age I took back in 2014.

The responses to that from Sox fans are brutal. And well deserved. Who the f*** are these guys? And why does one of them look like bootleg Zach Lavine?

Ozzie was the man, until he wasn't. It's best for everybody to keep the past in the past. We already tried with RV and TLR.

Between his baby mama drama and his on field play TA had negative swagger the last two seasons. Dude just fell off.

The dumb thing about having awful managers and teams since Ozzie left is the Ozzie revisionism. Ozzie was part and parcel of the #grinder #TWTW bullshit that infected the franchise after 2005 and remains to this day.

We're having the same general conversations on Realgm Bulls board as here. The bulls are mediocre instead of just bad, but they've been mediocre to bad going on 20 years now. Not much to get excited about given ownership seems to be the common denominator over the years of mediocrity and failure.

He's the Jim Boylen of the Sox. Great job JR! You've managed to hire two of the worst managers in the history of pro sports on both your clubs!

My hope is that it's just coach speak. But this dumb mofo came in last year promising the moon and delivered a garbage dump so yea, hard to be optimistic. If the org really thinks this guy is an above replacement level manager than the Getz era will follow the general path of the Hahn era most likely.

That is an absolutely amazing quote. It wouldn't surprise me if half of it was written by an AI prompt. Even for Merkin, that is a word salad of nothing.

You'd think a guy hired by the same folks that gave us horrendous stretches from late stage Guillen, just along for the ride RV and asleep (and drunk) at the wheel TLR would perhaps be a bit more humble. Manager of the White Sox? That's a clown gig bro.

If we're going on Swaggermetrics, we're fucking bottom tier. Hard to have swag when you stink.

No reason to chase a higher payroll as a fix to 80 wins or 75 even. Just take the year to reset. That's all we can expect from Getz in my opinion. He's not gonna rock the boat but just realizing the reality of the roster would be a good start.

@caulfield12give this man back his password. I get what you're saying, I'm just busting your chops. There are probably people on this forum that love the signing but this TWTW s%*# never works we all know that. It was a dumpster dive of a move almost like made to keep the clubhouse from having zero older latin leaders. I mean maybe it will help them, who knows. It's certainly not a move that you'd hope Getz will be making 2 years from now. If he is, we're just back in the same hell with a different GM.

Bro you coulda just said catcher ERA isn't a thing?

I'm sure JR will love the concessions drop. This season will feature a lot of short games, and also some great chances to rip the f*** out of JR and the org if things go even worse than worst case. That said, as always this time of year? I hope they get hotter than s%*#. Give me like the 2016 squad or whatever that at least flashed for 40 games before collapsing.

Does Luis Robert? We'll need a trout like 10 WAR from him just to get within shouting distance of .500. So if Robert plays 150 games, hits 290/340/550 and puts up 8 WAR he'll TWTW us to 78 wins. You know, I'd take that season if offered right now. At least we'd have someone to holler about on a nightly basis.

Good point. Is it better to lose 4-0 or 10-6? At least the 4-0 game is over under 3 hours I guess. To be fair, with this staff we might just be losing 10-0 a lot.

With the way things are now with SP innings, he could make 20 starts before they shut him down in August and pitch 80 innings. I'm fine with the plan as long as Crochet is. We have very little to lose as a team and if the player has given his blessing, go for it.

I'm slightly curious if an improved overall defense will make the losses more bearable. I doubt it, but as with all of us diehards I'm willing to give it a shot for a month or so before checking out.

Well luckily we'll be really healthy this year with all the durable guys we've got. Wait, that's not right.