Balta1701

Like regardless of what you think of the way the abuse case was handled, he's generally thought of as an asshole around the whole league. Back in June I was listening to Houston sports radio at night and they were talking about pitchers who could be available at the deadline, one of them brought up Clevinger, the other guy asked where he wound up this year, the first guy said the White Sox, the second guy said some version of "serves him right, dirtbag." I laughed.

There's a good chance he outlasts Chris Getz.

Mike Clevinger was brought back by choice and paid a premium over what any other team would pay for the pleasure of it.

If you read this, it’s clear that JR thinks things went bad because Tony isn’t managing any more.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/41416529/mlb-2024-chicago-white-sox-121-losses-all-record-worst-team-history-moments

Just think about how bad the Angels are for playing him, and what it says that the white sox are currently 27 games worse.

They seemed to make it clear they were moving Ramos to the OF.

That s***s loud

Vaughn is in his first arb year this year and is making $3.25 million. He was healthy this year so even though he stank, a reasonable arb raise puts him to like $4.5 or $5 million. He’s no longer cheap.

Do we still do this?

Pillar scoring the winning run in another shutout would really be a chef’s kiss finish.

Collusion.

I don't think it's an accident that guys like Eloy Jimenez developed into guys who hit weak ground balls on the time when they're playing for the white sox. Regardless of how much they're staying in shape, they're being told to hit the ball on the ground, so they do exactly that and everyone is stunned when it turns them into terrible hitters.

Naw, if I tried to drive home drunk, and told the cop who caught me that I was super important and should be let off, the cop would laugh at me and hopefully arrest me. I would then have fewer sycophants writing articles about how DUI is a crime for little people.

Name a White Sox reliever this season who doesn’t. (Ok fine Kopech, name one more.)

Don’t pretend this is by chance. This is the result of the bad coaching and bad training techniques when applied to the modern game.

What is it if you feel a very rich person feels spite or contempt for you and you watch things implode around him? Schadenfreude?

This is Chris Getz. I will be surprised if they don’t bring in a veteran catcher who plays the game the right way.

Yes, and you replied to me saying "negotiating for years will make the threat of moving real." You know, exactly what happened with the A's?

If MLB were to allow the White Sox to move, they'd almost certainly make sure to maintain the rights to putting a second team in that media market as part of the approval process, so that no small set of teams could block expansion there. Expansion might never happen, but MLB would definitely take steps to retain those rights.

Huh?

This article…contains no offseason preview?

4 teams within 2 games of each other, for 2 wild card spots with 6 to play? And Florida, Washington, and Chicago (AL) are up for a series with 3 of those teams? Only way this doesn’t come down to next Sunday is if someone gets unexpectedly swept, like the Rays taking out the Tigers first. Each of these teams has to think 4-2 or 5-1 is necessary to make the WC.