Balta1701

From the leader of the Anti-Hahn crew, it’s not fair to evaluate Eder’s performance right now. He just came back from TJS and another body injury in June, he has a long way to go to get physically back to wherever he was pre injury. For now just be content with the fact that he’s pitching at all and that Hahn hasn’t yet called him up to save his bullpen like he did with Fulmer, Crochet, and Kopech. Next year will be more appropriate to evaluate him based on performance, and he will probably be called up to the bullpen in May so we will be able to see him in person then.

This is covered specifically under the management bulletpoints.

I will write the rest with detailed examples and market surveys if actually paid to do so. Wouldn’t take that long tbh.

The independent consultant’s report. Numerous issues were identified throughout the organization where they do not meet the standards of best practices for either businesses in general or for baseball specifically. Major themes are outlined below. At the ownership level: Quality ownership in sports trends to bring in people based on previous success and evaluate bases on results. This does not happen in Chicago. Ownership interferes inappropriately with baseball operations, including but not limited to the choices of players, coaches, and managers. Ownership imposes restrictions on management that hurt the teams performance beyond financial limitations. Important mechanisms for improvement such as the international market and player development are neglected because ownership has decided arbitrarily that they have other priorities. Ownership has an unhealthy focus on short term profits at the expense of organization stability and growth. Opportunities to grown the business are ignored if they cost money. Ownership has developed an unhealthy insularity and allowed a “yes men” culture to flourish. No criticism is allowed from inside the organization, and voices from outside the organization with alternate opinions are ignored as though they are personal attacks regardless of their experience. This relates to ownerships interference in the team operation as criticism of those decisions is justifiable, but ownership treats that criticism as personal attacks rather than opinions about operations. Ownership has failed to maintain a professional attitude with management and are too familiar with them to enable evaluations and accountability. This affects all levels of the business. At the management level: Management has underperformed the market by any objective measurement. This has damaged the business long term and wasted huge financial resources. Management is key to the “yes men” culture and takes full advantage of it. Statements that need to be made to ownership are not made if they would make ownership feel bad, so important facts are treated as though they do not exist so as to avoid upsetting ownership. Hiring and promotions are most commonly made based on support for management rather than quality. Family members and friends are commonly employed and promoted. This creates an environment where accountability is rare as people are judged for long term loyalty and praise for management rather than accomplishments. Employees who could develop their careers based on their skills leave for employers who will evaluate them fairly. This also eliminates any way ownership could receive an independent review of management strategy and performance. Management has become insular and opposed to any new concepts in the business. Choices made by competitors are judged as the wrong way to do things because they are different, rather than evaluated based on their performance. A lack of professionalism is tolerated at all levels. At lower levels: Cliques are tolerated and encouraged. This has led to a culture of groupthink. The organization is dramatically understaffed. Overwork is rampant, leading to mistakes that could be easily caught. This is negatively affecting customer experience. The understaffing is affecting baseball performance as other teams are more successful at baseball aspects such as player development and performance. This is also raising costs as well - short term cost cutting in this part of the business is failing to produce lower overall costs. The staff is generally underpaid, this has led to abnormally high levels of turnover and the loss of high performing employees. This has also produced a negative customer experience. Full detailed report will be made available when the $125,000 consulting fee is paid in full.

He’s on the mound, coming back from TJS and another injury, and Hahn hasn’t yet called him up to save the bullpen. That’s literally all you can reasonably ask for right now. Give him the full offseason to work and build strength and then evaluate when he’s called up to save the bullpen next May.

https://x.com/cst_soxvan/status/1693398682564190672?s=46&t=IHGvMKQvXHaTI5ypbpIKjg he was out with some stomach issues.

If they brought in a consultant it would probably be LaRussa.

There is no way Rick Hahn’s draft and international signing production is average.

So if this was leaked to Nightengale, that means KW or Reinsdorf right? And while I will leave the other jokes to y’all - why exactly didn’t they do these in June, prior to the draft and trade deadline?

If the Chicago Bears built a 120,000 seat stadium in Arlington they would still sell it out every game for the rest of my life.

That was a drill the whole team was doing including the coaches.

For Milwaukee it seems like the baseball stadiums have been the largest available venues. That is already not the case in Chicago, and I doubt even that paid for the roof on its own. https://www.jsonline.com/story/life/green-sheet/2023/06/06/milwaukees-most-attended-concerts-from-elton-john-to-pink-floyd/70290428007/

Normally I’d agree, but these guys have been so bad and shown no progress the whole year, to the point that I can’t be in the least angry if they aren’t playing.

How many concert tours want a baseball stadium sized venue in the winter? And they’re not after the kind of facility you can find at any of the other concert venues that already hold 20 or 30k? Not enough to pay for a retractable roof. You need larger than a basketball stadium but not large enough for a football stadium. Especially if the Bears build the kind of facility they should.

Bah, there’s 81 games at that park a year and often a spring training game or an exhibition. The cost of a roof is an extra hundred million, several hundred million if you want it to open. There is no good reason for a Chicago baseball team to pay for that. Attendance in April will never be great because it’s the school year. You always get one or two rotten days, but you get that almost everywhere.

I see no reason why the White Sox need a dome in the current climate state. I see every plausible reason why the Bears should do precisely that.

I would love it if the White Sox were a money making organization to him. He is clearly willing to make less money if the team is run a certain way.

Just in general, it is somewhat surprising that the beat reporters haven’t written anything in the offseason about moves towards either a new park or a major renovation. If we can see it’s about time to talk about it then so can they, there is an expiring lease and the dates are known. My guess is that this would have happened unless the team itself wanted no articles about that to appear.

https://x.com/hgomez27/status/1691267599168929792?s=46&t=IHGvMKQvXHaTI5ypbpIKjg Theyve broken embeds for me, this is Hector Gomez saying that there is good reason to think that Wander Franco never plays in the MLB again, and that the main reason is another “woman” (girl?), not the one on social media who started this.

You can honestly say if they won this game your heart would be content and call this a successful season deserving of 4 more years for Hahn and Grifol?

We kept Bummer specifically because we need him to compete next year.

They’re 6.5 games behind Detroit.

More people commented about Kenyon Middleton’s day care than an actual well played win yesterday with a big time HR.

And that might well have been the difference in competing for Something hugely important, right?